What I didn’t tell you about our trip

 I fell off the wagon …

The fabric-buying wagon, that is. When I had a few minutes to spare the day before we left Nashville, I mentioned visiting a shop in Murfreesboro. I checked their website the day before and found this adorable panel:

I bought two of them and also purchased a couple of fabrics (a Christmas green grunge and a black and white fabric that could pass for snow flakes). These will make great Christmas quilts that can hang in a doorway (and one will possibly stay here at our home on top of the ridge).

Christmas panel and fabrics I picked up on the trip

While in Pensacola Beach, I went to A&E Fabrics in Pensacola proper for a specific search. I recently purchased a quilt pattern—Four Corners Quilts and Runner in Two Colors by Sue Beevers. The pattern includes instructions for a lap quilt and a table runner. The fabrics in the lap quilt spoke to me—the designer used the Stonehenge line from Northcott which I have been smitten with since they arrived on the scene. This pattern is 10 years old, and while the specific SKU numbers mentioned in the pattern are no longer around, I hunted for fabric colors that were close enough, and found two of the browns. I then went shopping on Etsy where I found the remaining fabrics. I also picked up a red that I think will work great with the Christmas panels I picked up in Tennessee.

Stonehenge fabrics for the Four Corners lap quilt

So, I’m probably adding these projects to this year’s hope-to-complete list. I don’t think it’s an impossible goal, but I know I am already spending more time learning how to digitize my edge-to-edge quilting designs, resurrecting the Stitch & B!tch group, and generally spending more time with friends. I haven’t sewn a stitch or cut any fabric since we returned. I do believe we will be traveling less this year, but trips to Katrina’s are planned and I’m taking quilts to be quilted on her new longarm, so that’s a win. 

One of the quilts I will probably take to Katrina's is the Girl Gang DIY Sampler, but only for basting. Hubs thinks I need to go up and there and just quilt it, but I'm still committed to doing the edge-to-edge on my Lumi.

Girl Gang DIY Sampler completely unquilted

I’ll be back in my sewing room soon because I want Antelope Canyon to achieve flimsy status by April 30. Katrina will be here for a sewing weekend in a couple of weeks and I plan on handing off this one to her. In the meantime, go make!