Jo's Country Junction

Jo's Country Junction

Quilting

Stash Report

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**I posted new auction items that you can bid on in Saturday morning’s post.  If you’re interested, find the post here.**

I hit up the thrift store looking for goodies.  I haven’t been sewing a lot but I can’t help still looking for fabric.  My philosophy is that if I don’t ever get it sewn, that’s okay.  It will go on to a charity group and it will get sewn.  I’ve already talked to my family and when I pass, anything left that they don’t want should sell or send it on to charity.  I had fun just hunting it down even if I never do get to sewing it.

This day was a pretty good day.  One place where I thrift marks the bigger pieces of fabric but the smaller pieces are not marked and cost 50 cents.

What I was happiest to find….THIS!  Do you know what it is???  Cross stitch fabric!  There’s about a yard and a half and it was only $1.  I would hate to know how much that would have cost had I gotten it at a store!

My next favorite find…BATIKS…50 cents each.


Here are the bigger chunks of fabric….. [Read more…] about Stash Report

String Challenge

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I didn’t have much time for sewing but I had some.  If you’re been following along you know that I’ve been doing strings on the treadle for Daylilies.  Being I only had two-ish hours to sew I decided to head up to the sewing room and pull Tulip Fields.  With the String Challenge I have three quilts left to completely from the book…Pineapple Crazy needs to be quilted.  Daylilies needs the string blocks and Tulip Fields is cut out but that’s it.

Here’s how I last left it….

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I’m so happy with myself that I left a good note inside.

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Only problem…ugh.  I couldn’t find the book with the pattern.  I don’t know where I put it.  I didn’t want to waste all my time looking for it.  Well I remembered that some triangles had to go one direction and the other triangles the other direction…so I went on the internet, typed in “Tulip Fields Bonnie Hunter” then went to images and I saw this… [Read more…] about String Challenge

Stash Report

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So I was at the thrift store and went to the fabric section…this is what I saw!  Oh boy.

There were TOTES of fabric bundles.

Close up the bundles looked like this.

Hmmm….do I really need more fabric?  I’ll never find cheaper fabric really.  It was $3 per bunch.

I dug some more and then almost laughed right out loud in the store.  This was a package of fabric that was there….read what is written on it!!!  It says my name right on the package….”JO”.

After digging through the fabric I looked at other things….Here’s a Singer 503.  Tempting and pretty….  $35.  The tag says runs but I never know what that means.

So any guesses on what came home with me?  This…. [Read more…] about Stash Report

String Challenge and More

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I’ve been missing my sewing machine.  There has been so much to do around here and catch up on that I haven’t touched it in ages.

I got Hubby’s pants patched but that doesn’t count as sewing…right??

Thankfully it was only one pair.

I had a blog reader say that she was so happy that I had “stopped cleaning and reorganizing”.   Remember that kick I was in about Aprilish time.  The reader had been trying to keep up with me cleaning as I was cleaning and organizing.

Well I really never got out of the kick.  I got side tracked and couldn’t but now I am back at again.  I can’t wait to show you all the things I’ve been up to.  That’s the main thing that’s been keeping me from sewing but it is oh-so worth it.

Absolutely no string quilting was done.  To do that I have to pull out the treadle and I’ve not had a big amount of time to commit to it.  So it’s not really worth it to pull it all out if I can’t work on it for a couple hours.

I did get a little quilting related stuff done.  I have been working on getting Bricks in the Barnyard sewn together as a top.  Well I realized once the top is finished I need to do the border.  Well I didn’t have the borders cut out so…I decided to try to cut it out over nap time.  My childcare kiddos are now independent enough that I can do something like cut out a quilt while they are napping.  AH…I’ve been waiting for the babies to get old enough to sleep all the way through nap time.

I cut and cut as quick as I could over nap time but one little one was up early so she could go potty and then it was close enough to wake up time that I let her stay up with me.  She’s the sweetest little girl.  She took the piles of cut pieces moving them from here to there.  It was precious.  She loved it.  I was happy to get to spend some one on one time with me.

After her “help” my pieces were a little wrinkled but that’s okay.   They are all cut out….one more step closer.

Find me here next week. I’m hoping a little string challenge stuff happens.

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