Really great days

While I don't have any sewing progress to show, its been a great few days!

Friday was the first day that the sun came out since...well, I'm not sure when. Park Ranger Boyfriend came to visit this weekend and we were lazy bums all weekend. Lots of watching Community, eating everything (CRAB RAVIOLI!!!), and general shenanigans.

Saturday morning I found out that I won the $50 gift certificate to The Quilting Lodge via the giveaway at SewBittersweet Designs! I was in SHOCK! And very excited! I picked out these fabrics from the Botanica collection from Timeless Treasures (plus a little bit of the olive green marble) as my "prize":

Thank you to Vicki at The Quilting Lodge for sponsoring this giveaway!

I got the email today that I am one of the five finalists for the "Bed Quilt" category for the Blogger's Quilt Festival! I was in even more shock! So thanks to EVERYONE for voting for me during the nomination round! And now if you want to vote my quilt all the way to the top (of the bed quilt category, that is) go here and vote for your favorite in each category!

Hopefully I'll have some actual sewing progress later in the week!

Its... November?

It's Fresh Sewing Day at Lily's Quilts and I decided to join in today after a few months' hiatus!

October has been spent working on finishing the projects on my 100 Day Hustle List!

1. Small Scrappy Flying Geese in a Circle

2. Finished Iced Stars Wall hanging

3. Baby Quilt for Little Tod

4. Argyle Quilt in progress

5. Finished Christmas Tree Skirt to gift

6. October/November Nubees blocks

In other news, the nomination phase of the Bloggers' Quilt Festival has started! Get your list of favorites and vote, vote, vote! (Mine is #164!!!) Vote for the viewers' choice here, and for the categories here!

Happy November 1st!

Little Tod's Baby Quilt

This weekend I finished and delivered the baby quilt to its recipient and then got to hold him for a few hours!

I backed this with mint green flannel and used a fluffy batting and then tied the quilt. It is very snuggly.

Here is the quilt:

And here is me with the sweetest little bundle of joy!

I love other people's babies.

Rain, rain, go away

I've officially battened down the hatches here at my apartment in preparation for the impending hurricane. I never thought that in my two years in living in central Pennsylvania I would have experienced BOTH an earthquake and a hurricane. Campus canceled all classes after 1 PM today and subsequently all of the graduate students have trickled home. I stopped at the grocery store on the way home to pick up some supplies and it was NUTS! I am thankful more now than ever that I have a gas stove.

This weekend, I finally put the hanging sleeve on my snowflake quilt. I hung it up in my dining room even though its ever so slightly wintry looking.

I also have been working on another (yes, another!) scrap project making the lovely flying geese in a circle blocks. I reduced the size of my blocks so the end up at 7 inches. And they use up a lot of the white scraps that I have.

Here's hoping that my power stays on long enough that I can get some sewing done today!

Blogger's Quilt Festival: Twist of Lime

Hello to everyone visiting from the Blogger's Quilt Festival! I'm Alison and I'm a PhD candidate in chemistry by day, and a fabric addict 24-7. I started sewing when I was in elementary school and quilting has become my go-to "therapy" since I started grad school in 2010.

While this quilt has been finished for a month or so, I couldn't resist sharing it again because I love it so much. The color choices are a little bit out of my normal "box" and I was nervous to go in such a bold direction, but I couldn't be happier!

I collected lime green, black, and white fabrics for almost a year and a half before I started cutting for this project because I had such a hard time finding a pattern that I liked. The pattern for this one is from the March 2012 Michigan-Ohio Shop Hop quilt designed by The Quilt Patch in Tecumseh, Michigan.

All of my fabrics are prints: black on white, white on black, green with black and white. My favorite print in this quilt is the green trees fabric from the City Centre Line by Robert Kaufman. While the blocks are simple to put together, the contrast of the alternating courthouse steps and star blocks ends up so beautiful!

I also put together my first pieced and artsy back for this quilt due to the plethora of fabric still left from this project.

Thank you so much for visiting and don't forget to go check out all of the other quilts entered in the Blogger's Quilt Festival!

Update 11/5/12: Thank you to everyone for nominating me in the "Bed Quilt" category! I was so honored surprised to make it into the top 5! Go here to vote for the finalists!

Quilt Stats
Approximately 72 by 84 inches (twin)
Special Techniques: strip piecing, stack-cut-switch piecing for stars, pieced backing
Quilted: Professional
Pattern: By The Quilt Patch in Tecumseh, Michigan (MI-OH March shop hop quilt pattern)
Categories: Bed Quilt, Professionally Quilted
Entry #164