Purchases from Country Threads

Earlier today I showed you a bunch of photos of goodies that I saw at Country Threads…Now I’ll show you what I bought.

Remember me posting here and here about my dislike of paper piecing?  Well you’ll never believe what I bought… a pattern for paper piecing.   What was I thinking?!?!?

In my defense, look at this quilt all finished.

How could I resist?  The blocks are 3″ x 3″ and quilt finishes at 21″ x 27″.  I love it.  I don’t know if I will ever finish the quilt, but I do know I am going to try at least one log cabin block.  If I hate it really bad, I will turn the block into a pincushion.  If I hate it just a little bit, I might make another block.  If I love the block SO much that I can ignore how much I dislike the paper piecing, then I just may finish the quilt.   I still can’t believe I bought a paper piecing pattern especially after all my rants about not liking paper piecing.  I still don’t like it….but oh, I love that little quilt.  It’s a masterpiece.  I wish you could see it in person, you probably would have bought the pattern too.  It’s that darn cute.

I also bought the frame for this wool project.

I’ve had the pattern and have wanted to make it.  Remember that I keep insisting that I want to finish some wool projects.  I figured if I bought the frame, I’d be more likely to finish the project.  Here’s what that project will look like all finished.

I still love this.

I also bought some glue so I can finish up some punch needle projects I have around here.  There are two charm packs there too…

They are packaged up so nicely.   The label says,  “The Good, The Bad & the Ugly.”   Being the word “ugly” was in bold.  That means that the charm squares in the package are suppose to be ugly.  I haven’t opened the packages up yet but from what I can see they are just great.  I only picked the “ugly” packages.  The “good” packages and the “bad” packages, were more expensive.  The cheapskate in me decided to go with the “uglies” and save money.

It was a great trip to Country Threads…My goal is to have one paper pieced block done before I go back to Country Threads again (I know it’s a SMALL goal but at this point, I’d be happy if I made just one..remember it’s me and it’s paper piecing.  One is good.)…oh, I need to finish a wool project by then too.