Am I the Last to Know?

I have been enlightened to the awesome funkiness of fabric selveges. Am I the last quilter on the planet to have seen the book Quilts from the Selvage Edge by Karen Griska?

After reading her blog and checking out the projects therein, I ran to my sewing room garbage can, only to remember that moment of neatness I had this weekend when I emptied it. Grrr. It's out at the curb waiting for tomorrow's pickup, but I'm already in my pj's for the night...

The only thing left to do was to begin harvesting selvages from my stash. These are just the ones that were easy to grab and cut. I can't believe I've been throwing them away all this time!

I'm going to use this tutorial to make a zippered bag.

I'm sew easily distracted. Too bad that blog name is already taken...

Halfway to Liberated

This is the latest quilting project currently on my design wall. I don't usually work with colors this bright, but I'm not sure why! I am having a great time with this. I just bought Collaborative Quilting by Gwen Marston and Freddy Moran and have been playing around with some of their methods, especially Gwen's idea of "liberated quilting." It's not coming naturally yet, so I think I'm only halfway to liberated.

First Posting

A new year and a new blog! I can't imagine why anyone would want to read what I have to say, but then again, I read lots of blogs every day and I'm sure glad that my favorite bloggers didn't let that niggling idea stop them. I have lots to learn, like how to post a picture and make a banner, so bear with me.

Here is something pretty exciting (egg-citing) that's going on around the manor lately:

Eggs!!! We have six hens and a rooster. We found our first egg just before Christmas and received our first double-yolker on Dec. 25. Today is the first day we have gotten an egg from each of them (although one of them came without a shell!) It's been really fun trying to figure out who is giving us which egg.

Hmmm...maybe that picture thing isn't going to be so difficult after all?