Organization fun

I've been busy sorting and organizing my fabric and strangely enough really enjoying it. I did one tub in January and loved the way it looked so the last couple of weeks I do some every few days. I will take some pictures and show you soon.

I am making sure all my bigger pieces of fabric(.5m or more) are washed as I seem to have developed allergic reaction to unwashed fabrics; this may not be new but I was blaming it on other things and it has become apparent it is the fabric. It is not a serious thing I just get slightly stuffed up and a headache so might as well avoid that.

It is so neat to revisit your fabric and remember what you have; as it is washed I am folding it all the same size and placing it in my rubber maid tubs so I can see all the different fabrics I have; sorted by color. Anything smaller than 1/2 m I am sorting into a fat quarter container and cutting the rest up for my scrap system(aka Bonnie Hunter of Quiltville.com).

Happiness thought for today:

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown

Since I have been a few weeks I thought we all deserved another one:

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles

Spring??????

Ok, so I rushed it posting spring photos.....Here is what we woke up to this morning:

A taste of Spring

Spring is on the way. Here are some pictures of the flowers in my yard poking their heads up and a few are blooming. Hope you enjoy:

Bailey had to have her picture as well..........

mini iris

primula, crocus, hellebora(christmas rose) and lots on dafffodils and tulips getting started.

Happiness Quote for the day:

~ Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have. ~ Anon

Liebster Blog Award

I got a Liebster Award from Cathy at cathytomm.blogspot.com. Cathy is my niece, thanks Cathy for thinking of me. I am to pass this award on to three blogs I like and they should not have more than 300 followers. This way we can promote some good blogs that are lesser known.

I have tried to pass this award on without success so I have told Cathy to present it to someone else. Meanwhile please check out Cathy's blog - she is a long armer and fibre artist/quilt designer with some very interesting posts. And she does great snow-dying among other dying techniques.

Please check it out and leave a comment---we all love comments.

Update on my mystery

So I'm working on my mystery I showed you yesterday. I have added borders to the sides with the four patches that were already made and I'm adding a small blue border to sides only to make it wider. I have decided to then add borders of the dark small cat squares with pieced blocks in the corners so we'll see if it all works.

Happy thought of the day:

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. ~Frederick Keonig

I really like this one as I think we all need be grateful for all we are blessed with :)

My own mystery

In digging out UFO's I have found this project, I love these Funky Cats......but I can't remember what I had planned if I had a plan???

The centre right now is 53" x 28" so i know I want to go wider for sure. I think a lap quilt for me is what I wanted.

I found a stack of twosie's which I have made into 4 patches, there are 25 of these but now to the drawing board as I'm not sure what I'm doing next.

Here is a picture of what I have, there is a lot of fabric so I can go quite a bit bigger.

I am open to any suggestions.

RRCB mystery

Finally downloaded pictures off my camera so here is a few blocks of my mystery quilt; I am loving it so far but it has a ways to go.

I have totally fallen love with string blocks-I'm making dark ones now when I should be finishing these.