Forgiveness, Fun,Fiber, a Fairy and Fruit- T is for Tuesday

Not necessarily in that order!

In a moment of insanity I joined a quiltie swap.

4x4 

Two pieces of cloth with something in-between.

Truth!

I do not have a large fabric stash.

I let it all go when I moved to NC, and it has been creeping a bit ever since.

The free table at Fiber Art Alliance (FAA) meetings is an ever present danger.

When my friend Kay(92) died a few years back, I saved this bundle of tartan samples.

D. Macgillivray & Co.

Harris Tweed Manufactures

Distributors for the Hebridean Crofter Weavers.

"On request we can smoke the material in peat smoke which we think gives it a distinctive odour and personality of it's own.

We believe each yard is worth much more than we charge."

The samples became the background layer

and I quickly add a focal image.

Stamped sentiment by Quietfire Design

The die cut is Spellbinders Nested Leaves.

FAA is full of quilters and their under facings, wonder under, misty fuse etc, all of which are a mystery to me, so I was excited to find a video on the web( I forget where, if you know shout out in a comment) turning my fabrics into cutables without any fusing.

Spray starch into the fabric, turn and press with a hot iron, forcing the starch up into the fabric and repeat till your fabric is just like a piece of paper.

I put it  onto my digital cutting mat

and it cut perfectly.

The fabric is a kona cotton.

The lower cut was double cut.

The leaf is one of Suzanne Cannon's files from the Silhouette Store, can't remember if it came from the newer tree file, or the Canada Day files.

These leaves were cut from tie dyed knit tee shirt.

I bought a walking foot for my trusty Singer 500 Slant

and had my first go at free motion sewing.

I love it!

The forgiveness part, is it's not quite 4" and doing no planning and being inexperienced, I wasn't able to put on a traditional binding.

I had so much fun with this, I'm planning on reorganizing to make my sewing area more accessible .

FUN!

 Asheville Flyer for Kids

Second Birthday party.

Hats off to Stu and Tim for throwing a great one!

if you are not lucky enough to live in Asheville, you can get it online!

Of course there was cake!

Karen Donatelli cake!

There was vanilla and chocolate.

It's bad luck not to eat cake at a birthday party, so I had a small piece of both.

Way above average store bought cake.

I especially like the little crunchy bits in between the layers.

Cookies?

Don't tell me what was in it.

When you eat food outside of your comfort zone, eat it with joy.

The most harmful food you can eat is guilt!

There were giant coloring pages .

Magical Balloon Fairies

Far out Folding (that's me!)

AFK's swag

Josh Hansel World Campion Speed Stacker. Who knew?

Amber hooping

and more!

Be sure to pick up your AFK and join us next time to Dance your Diaper off!

T is for Tuesday

I bought my first ever bottle of wine.

Made in NC or organic blueberries $4.00!

I needed it for the photo shoot of the new wine stamps and

gift card holders.

I hope you are out enjoying this beautiful weather full of light and color!

Comments and Questions always welcomed!