Went Shopping Today

I've been house bound for the last couple of days and I guess I could blame part of it on the weather but if the truth be known, I just wanted to get some projects done and others started...so the snow was my excuse.

Last night I spent time preparing and cutting my background fabric into the 12 blocks that are required for the Bunny Hill Designs BOM that started this month. While I was doing that, I decided that if I was doing one for me, why not make another at the same time for my best friend Lucie? Although we are great friends, our tastes in colors, styles and decorating are very different. Lucie's tastes tend to be more modern while mine lean...no, never mind lean...ARE country/primitive. Well, I had the fabrics for mine but didn't have much of the froo-froo stuff in my stash to choose from. So, to make a loooooong story short, I kinda twisted my DH's arm a little and he drove me (and the dogs) to my favorite quilt shop called The Running Stitch a short 65 miles away. Tooooooo many dollars later, here's some of what I purchased...




a charm pack of Moda's new Gypsy Rose line by Joanna Figueroa of Fig Tree Quilts and some Mettler fine embroidery cotton thread for the applique stitching. This is the thread that the gal who I took the back basting applique class from recommended, so my collection has started. I'll probably add a few more colors each time I go til I have them all.


I also bit the bullet and purchased...



a light box. This has been on my "need to get" list for some time now as tracing applique patterns on my patio door at night just doesn't work. I also purchased some background fabric for Lucie's quilt so my plans for this evening are to get hers cut out in order to be able to work on both simultaneously.

On the way back from the "big city", we took the dogs for a long walk on a nature trail that we frequent and stopped for lunch. All in all, we had a nice day...my DH, me and the fur babies.