Finds

Thought you might like to see what I purchased yesterday at the quilt expo. The quilts were magnificent and I don't know that I will ever have that skill level, but they certainly are inspiring. Celia went to a lecture on art quilting and wanted to hit the booth with the hand dyed fabrics and I thought they were also beautiful:

I don't know if the picture does it justice, but do you see the color gradation from light to dark. I'm thinking a Bargello wall hanging, wouldn't that be pretty? I've always wanted to do one, now here's my chance. I don't want to mess them up because they were kind of pricey.
Then there is a vendor that is always at these quilt shows with paper pieced patterns. I taught myself how to paper piece and really enjoyed it. Now that I know the right way to do it, I probably will enjoy it even more. So I thought with the scraps from the above mentioned project, I could to this:

As I said earlier, I did English paper piecing for the Grandmother's Flower Garden, and then found a vendor with all kinds of template papers. One of my goals is to make a Dresden Plate, but didn't want to invest in starting it if I didn't like it. Well, they seem to understand how quilters may take a huge project on and find out it is way beyond what they are interested in or what their skill level is, so they have these little packets of samples for sale. What a great idea!!!
One of my many catch up projects is a summer quilt for our king sized bed which will be a block sampler. I have 12 or 14 blocks, but to cover our bed, I need 35. I have patterns for many new blocks, but would like to incorporate all different techniques.
Otherwise, I bought my lunch, paid for parking, a cup of coffee, and helped with gas. That was all I bought all day. When she sends it to me, I will show you the charity blocks that Deb and I made, Celia took the picture.
Have a great rest of the day.
By the way, I am not posting in the middle of the night. I think that the blog base site is in a very different time zone. I wrote this morning's at 6:30 or 7 am, but it said I did it at 4:30 am. Trust me, not at that time, folks.