Follow.it

 I've talked about how Google is getting rid of Feedburner and if you follow by email.  I have a new service, Follow.it.   There is a bar on the side for you to sign up if you didn't get an email from Follow.it about the change.  I follow a number of blogs and some of them are using this service.  Fingers crossed that it all goes well.

I did a little shop hopping again with some friends.  It's so nice to get out and about to the quilt shops and be inspired.   I also went to the Omaha Quilt Guild Quilt Show.  I save bonus HST and this quilt inspired me so much!

And this one!

Such amazing talent out there!

Quilt Friends

 It's always fun to do quilty things with friends.  I did a little bit of Shop Hopping at the beginning of the month.  June 1 was the first day of the All Iowa Shop Hop (AISH)    This past weekend I went Retreating with some friends.  

And I worked on my Texas Braid for the first time in 2 years.  It's from Bonnie Hunter's book, "Adventures with Leaders & Enders".  Making the rows is time consuming.  I only completed 2 rows the first time I worked on it.  This past Retreat I completed 3.  So I have a total of 5 now.

 I did get all the pieces organized and set up to be a leader/ender, but I'm doing a bunch of chain piecing with those pieces.  I want to get this done, it's been sitting as a UFO for too long!

June Nebula Blocks

 One of the June Nebula Blocks is done.  I'm cutting out the other one today!

I love the stripes in this block, the movement it creates.  The best tip I have discovered, take it very slow when doing the cutting of the block pieces.  Correct measurements make the block go together so much smoother.  

Stash

Does anyone else feel like this about their stash? 

I was cleaning out some patterns I had cut out of old quilt magazines and I came across this pattern called Sadie's Stash by Christine Carlson.  It had been in the June/July 2011 issue of McCall's Quick Quilts.  The pattern called for 3.5 inch strips of fabrics and my drawer of precut strips was getting tight.  So I cut out the quilt.  

There's more room now in the drawer.  And I have a new leader/ender project!  Win/Win all the way around!