Quilt at Auction

Several months ago I bought a flannel fabric quilt kit knowing that our church was having an auction to raise money for summer camps.  When did I start the quilt?  Monday.  When did I finish? Today. Saturday. Crazy!  I should have asked for the week off.  Who am I kidding?  I'm a public school teacher.  We never take days off!

Back to the quilt.  I love the colors and the supreme softness of the flannel. I quilted it by machine and did the binding by machine as well.

Here is my husband holding it up while I am telling him not to let me see his feet or fingers.

The only real problem I had with the quilt, besides putting myself under such a time constraint, is that the gray hounds-tooth flannel stretched when pressed or stitched.  I trimmed it down but some stretchiness still sneaked through to the final project.  See how the point didn't match at all on this corner?

  

Even though we are into spring,  I thought it a bit ironic that I was taking a photo of a flannel quilt with snow in the background.  

"What was the final auction price?" you may be wondering. My friend Malia bought it for $100.  Thank you, Malia.

Do you remember the sunflower cake from my last post?  It went for $25.

I purchased a few things myself at auction.  My daughter bid (and I paid) on a garden weeding service thinking that she wouldn't have to do it.  It was only two hours worth so she was a little disappointed.  I also purchased this beautiful coconut cake.  Can you believe a 13 year old decorated this?  The flowers are marshmallows.  It is lovely.

The auction was successful!  Have fun at summer camp.  And take a quilt.  It's going to be cold!

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Sunflower Cake

I'm taking this cake to be auctioned off at youth camp fund raiser tonight.  I got this super easy idea from a Taste of Home cookbook, and I made some "design changes", for lack of a better description.

  
All you need to do to make this cake is:
     1. Make a cake mix, any flavor, in two round pans.  
     2.  Frost the cake with homemade or store purchased frosting.
     3.  To make the petals, place snack cakes around the edges from 1 and 1/2 boxes of Little Debbie's Tulip Snack Cakes.
     4.  To make the seeds, place chocolate chips in the center.

Done.  And you have an extra round cake to nibble on. 

I'll let you know how much it goes for!

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Shabby Apple Giveaway Winner

We have a winner to the Shabby Apple Giveaway!

Congratulations to Erika!

I used a random number generator and Erika, who posted comment #22, was the winner.  Sorry I don't know how to do a screen shot of the number generator.  Anyone want to give me a tutorial?

I will be contacting you soon via email as will Shabby Apple.  

Shabby Apple Giveaway

Ladies and the small handful of gentlemen who read my blog, Shabby Apple has generously donated a fifteen dollar gift certificate to one of my lucky readers!  Yes! have you ever seen their luscious clothing?  Here is a peek of a few of my favorites.

 

Shabby Apple specializes in modest woman's clothing.  Some of their gorgeous offerings have a lovely retro appeal.  My daughter wore one of their casual dresses as a bridesmaid dress a couple of years ago.  It was darling.

Here is how you can win some beautiful clothing.  Click on "modest clothing" and look around.  Then come back and leave comment.  I will use a random number generator to pick the winner.  When you comment, please also consider following my blog.  If you comment and don't have a blog, or are a no-reply blogger, please leave an email so I can contact you.  

Tell your daughters, mothers, sisters, and friends to drop by and join the giveaway!

Once a winner is picked I will contact Shabby Apple and they will send you a gift certificate. This giveaway is open until Friday, March 22nd at 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time.  I am so sorry, but this is only open to U.S. residents.  

Click on "modest clothes"  for beautiful, some trendy, some retro, all gorgeous, fabulous clothes.  

Good Luck

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I Found a New Quilt Shop! And Antiques. And Art. And Cacti.

It was a blizzard as we hit Scipio on our way to a softball tournament in St. George, UT.  My daughter was already there, playing in the pouring rain.  Unfortunately, due to the horrible driving conditions, we missed the last game of the evening.  They won, by the way.  We won't talk about the other games they played that day.


Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, the games were cancelled the next day even though it was clear because the fields were a muddy mess.  That freed us up to be tourists and do a little shopping!

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When we are in St. George, we love to drive out to Coyote Gulch Art Village in the community of Kayenta. On our way there, however, we had to drive through Santa Clara.  And lo and behold, what did  I notice?  A quilt shop I had never been in.  And yes, I made the whole family stop and go in with me.  I bribed them since the sign said they had old fashioned candy.  The Clover Patch Quilt Shop was a wonderful find! All the fabrics were $7.99 a yard.  I never can find fabric under $10.99 these days so I was thrilled.  I restrained myself fairly well, but I did buy 4 1/2 yards.  

These cute fabrics are for my daughter. They are called Geeky Chic from Riley Blake designs.  The glasses fabric has a slight flaw in that some of the bottoms of the glasses are not complete.  I don't think you will notice it when it is sewn into a skirt.  

The bicycle fabric is for me.  It is from Henry Glass Fabrics.  I'm going to make a skirt.  You don't think that is to young for a super hip forty-something do you?

The Clover Patch also does online sales so if you stop by and buy something tell them I that I sent you from this blog.  I'm not getting a cutback or anything, but maybe in the future.....

A few storefronts down the road from the quilt shop is a wonderful antique shop called Elegance N Rust.  My whole family loved this store.  We browsed for a long time.  I bought this silver plated butter dish.  All it needs is a little polish.  Why something so fancy?  I seem to break all my butter dishes, it's a curse of some kind, but this, I cannot break!

We finally made it to Coyote Gulch and looked at all the beautiful art galleries and shops.  We thought this bicycle bottle carrier from Away From the North was pretty spiffy.  

I love the windmills and the sculptures and the cacti that one finds in this area.  Enjoy these photos from Coyote Gulch Art Community. 

 Windmills

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February Blocks of the Month

Does having a finished part of a work-in-progress make it a finish? I think so. I'm linking this with Finish It Up Friday.

Here are my February blocks for Pile O' Fabrics Skill Builder Block of the Month Series.

I actually don't like the yellow block.  I think it is too pale.  But I am not doing it over.  This is a skill builder.  Live and learn.

This it the Western Block of the Month from Quilt's Etc. 

I would never have picked that green, but I quite like it with the cowboy fabric.  

Care to see how I quilted the blocks from last month?

I have this excellent new marking pencil that I will review in another post.  You can see the lines on the black block.

I'm quite excited about the "quilt as you go" aspect of these blocks. I bought a new book, One Line at a Time, Encore by Charlotte Warr Anderson.

This book has some amazing quilting ideas that will go well with each individual block.  I'll let you know how it goes.

Don't forget to enter my Shabby Apple giveaway ending on March 22!