The Kona Solids Have Landed!

All but one of the Kona solids (eggplant/plum) I ordered for Bottled Rainbows Quilt Along were waiting on the doorstep for me yesterday afternoon when I got home from work...

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So beautiful... I have to agree with Crystal of Sonnet of the Moon that the tangerine is really HUNTER ORANGE... or traffic-cone orange.  It IS bright... but who cares? 

I spread out all the solids on the bed and then started playing with my bottled rainbow scraps...  

I'm leaving after work today to drive to Greensboro for a work-related conference on Friday.  Due to the State budget crisis, which I'm sure is not unique to NC, a conference in Greensboro is deemed "close enough" to drive there and back in one day... so no funds  provided for hotel rooms the night before.  However, I'm driving up tonight because someone is smoking something weird to think that I can:

• get up at 0-dark-hundred, 
• drive two hours to downtown Greensboro, 
• find the parking deck, 
• then find the conference center before 8:30, 
• sit through a day-long conference,
• be reasonably alert at said conference,
  
• make it outta town during rush hour traffic, 
• drive two hours home...  
• and make it back here safely.

This way I can get a good night's rest and not worry so much about being late.

And on Saturday... I can play with fabric!

Raw Edge Machine Appliqué

Now that I have TWO of the Bible BOM, the pressure is on to get these blocks done before #3 arrives at the end of March.

 

Last night, while doing an online search for tutorials to help this new appliqué-er with her first project, I came across Alex Anderson on Simply Quilts....

...who discussed machine appliqué with Sue Nickels who demonstrated her technique for raw-edge machine appliqué….

…and the second video showing how Ms Nickels chooses thread and how to use a buttonhole stitch to sew the fused appliqué onto the block.

 Now...

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In other news:  Pleasant Home is giving away an AccuQuilt GO! Baby.   Don't bother signing up because I am sure to win...   *lol*

Uh oh...

...wasn't it just last week that I got Block #1 of the Bible BOM in the mail?   The same one that's sitting on the bedside table where I was studying all the instructions? 

Well, Block #2 and the sashing arrived in yesterday's mail...

 

Is someone trying to tell me something?  Does this mean that the third block will arrive in a week or two?  At least, it's less than three weeks to spring break... might have a chance to catch up then...

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In the meantime, Happy March, everyone!