this week

I'm so excited that this is the week of Thanksgiving here in the States! It's definitely one of my favorite holidays. I've been doing some gift sewing and some pleasure sewing.

This is another little zipper pouch I've made for a friend's birthday (just like the others I made a while back).
Front:

Back:


And after having a stack of fabrics set aside to make a quilt for us for forever, I finally decided on a wonky crosses pattern.

I fell totally in love with the Circa 60 campers and trees fabrics and have been saving them for a while. The overall color scheme I'm going with is inspired by this quilt on Flickr. I've been having so much fun making these blocks (I used Oh Fransson's tutorial to get started).

One last thing I wanted to mention. Jacqueline asked what pattern I used for the plus quilt in the mosaic in my previous post. I actually used my own pattern and measurements but Jeni has written up an awesome tutorial on how to make your own plus quilt. It's really just simple squares laid out in a plus pattern, what I'd call a lot of bang for your buck!

I hope everyone has a wonderful week! There are so many things I am thankful for and you, dear readers, are definitely one of them! I truly appreciate every comment. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Happy Wednesday to everyone! I'm feeling chatty today. :) I had a random thought pop into my head today when I was making lunch. I started thinking about all my favorite Hugh Grant movies. Him and his British accent are so cute! My absolute favorites are, in no particular order, About A Boy, Music and Lyrics, Bridget Jones' Diary, Two Weeks Notice and Love Actually. It must be because it's a cloudy, cool day and that makes me want to watch movies (even though I rarely do). Also, with the holidays coming I like to plan some serious downtime. What are your favorite cozy up-downtime-happy feeling romantic comedies?

Hey look! I've been knitting!
After seeing Sarah's Avery I knew this was the project to get my knitting mojo back on track. I'm thoroughly enjoying it. The Tweed Katmandu Aran isn't the best at showing off the stitches but whatevs, it was what I had in my stash that I knew wouldn't scratch my neck too bad and the color will go with everything (I'd say it's a very dark charcoal gray with flecks of blue).

Also, I thought I'd share a mosaic of all the different quilts I've made over the past 2 months to prepare for the Etsy craft show.

This isn't actually everything but most of it. You can see bigger pics of each on Flickr.

whew!

I can breath again! Etsy Denton Handmade Harvest where I had my own booth selling my quilts was yesterday and now it's over! I'm really happy with how it went but for two months I sewed sewed like a crazy person to get ready for it and now I need a break.

I didn't sell a ton of stuff which I expected but I definitely did well enough and I'm pretty happy with how it went. Actually, I sold a little bit of everything: a couple of baby quilts, one lap quilt, several table runners and mini quilts and even a few patterns. The great thing about it is now I can list everything else in my Etsy shop where I know it will sell.
Of course, my hubby woke up that morning with a kidney stone so that added a bit of extra stress I hadn't counted on! Luckily it all worked out and there were plenty of family members to take care of him, help me set up and take care of Jack. My hubby has been doing fine but you know how those things go, not very fun!
I really hope to be back to weekly-ish blogging soon. Now that my shop is full (well, once I list it all) I feel like I can take a break and relax and focus on the upcoming holidays which I am so excited about!
In fact, after I post this I am going to go download Avery and start knitting it tonight!