Mosaics and other linky things

Pat Durbin, who makes those great mosaic quilts like the one above, has a book out: Mosaic Picture Quilts: Turn Favorite Photos into Stunning Quilts. I haven't had a chance to check the book out in person yet, but if she can show how she does her quilts, then it sounds like a great idea to me.




Also, here's Martingale's new release page - several of those sound interesting!


Upcoming quilt shows (I always wish I could go to more of these, but my travel budget is limited, and I think what with the trip to Vegas it's pretty much gone for a while.)


There's another Fab Shop Hop going on, which is a good thing - except they send out these weekly newsletters that annoy me. "Don't you just hate it when a friend tells you the ending to a movie you haven't seen yet?" they say. Yeah, like telling where the bunny is is the same as spoiling a book or a movie! It's enough to make me want to post a list of bunny locations. (Don't worry, I won't. I may be rebellious, but I'm also lazy.)

Ypsilanti quilt shop

Quilting Season is the name of the shop.

quilt shop & silo
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Fabric purchases

Here's the fabric I bought at the quilt store in Ypsilanti (which was cute - I might put up a picture). They had a lot of sale fabric for $4 a yard and you only had to buy half a yard - the three fabrics on the bottom row that are not batiks (so, the two paisleys and the dragonflies) were all sale fabrics. The batiks were also all on sale for 25% off, too.

That was a nice store, but it didn't have nearly as much fabric as the other one we went to, which was in Ann Arbor. I was feeling too broke to really indulge myself there, but I sure could have. I bought about a yard and a half of fabric, total, which is fairly restrained by my standards.

So since I was off work today, I washed all my fabric. I had a good bit of other fabric that needed washing - the last time I washed fabric I only ran one load and I had a bunch of indigoes that I didn't want to chance putting in with anything too light. I had enough today to run two pretty full loads, one light and one dark, and I have been folding fabric for a good while now.

fabric I bought
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

Off for the weekend

I'm leaving early in the morning to fly to Michigan to see KarenD. We are going to work on a top secret project. (It's a gift, naturally, so I won't be able to talk about it until after the gift-giving. Hopefully it won't be too long.) Should be a fun weekend. I won't be back until fairly late on Monday, so unless I manage to post from there, don't expect to hear from me until Tuesday or so. I posted a couple more quilts from Dallas for you to enjoy in the meantime!