More flowers?

Remember how I told you that we were going to have a "Staff Sew Day" for a few hours on Sunday? Well, we were working on the blocks for the Tri-County Quilt Merchants Association event "A Garden Stroll". There are 13 shops participating. You can see the list at www.quilttour.com

Each of the 13 shops designed a 12" block with a "floral" theme. All of the shops get to make a quilt using all 13 block patterns - a unique quilt from each one of us! Those are the blocks we were working on. I can't show you the other shops' blocks just yet, but this is the start of our block.

On March 26-29 from 9 am to 7 pm, you can grab some of your quilting/sewing buddies and visit the stores to take a look at each of our creations. Every one of us will be giving away the pattern for our own block, plus having other fun stuff. I'll put the rest of our block up when it's done - actually, the plan is to have four of our blocks in the quilt we are making, so stay tuned for the rest of them. I'll try and add them as I finish (that was my assignment from the staff!) So far, so good on the "master plan" for our quilt...hope it all comes together as planned!

In between working on these blocks, we did unpack some fabric today. We re-ordered more of the fun"Spill the Beans" coffee fabric from Clothworks - the one our Tie One On apron is made from, plus the squares that we made the coasters out of. And, from Alexander Henry, we received a bolt of the "hunky" firefighters, and they really are!

Did you see the sun and blue sky for a bit today? It was wonderful, wasn't it? The fabulous people who wash the outside of my windows at the shop came this morning, so it was even more glorious!

Guess that's about all the latest from Fab-Etc. More news soon!