Quilt shop and Sewing Fun

Christmas day my in laws flew in from California. We were happy to see them with our last visit being a little over a year ago. We always like when they come because we end up touring the area On top of that with five kids its nice to have a few extra pair of eyes and hands to hold down the troops.

The first day that we actually spent time with them we had our little Christmas celebration and of course just time for visiting fun.

On the second day my Mother in law who is more of a fabric-a-holic than I am wanted to see about the fabric and Quilting shops in the area. We headed to a town that had two places (one is a place she actually gets emails and such from, so she was really excited about that store) that we were both wanting to check out. The first one was more of a fabric store than a quilt shop, but whats better for quilters than fabric! I got quit a lot of pieces there and was very excited to start working on my next quilt.

But before I could do that I had to finish up one that had been sadly sitting in a box for over a year as I never got a chance (or motivation) to work on it while we lives in England.

(Here is the quilt that needed finishing up)

Here it is all finished sitting on my bed

But once that one was finished up then my new fabric was fair game! I had no idea what to do with the fabric, no patterns in mind. I had looked at just doing a bunch of 10in x 10in squares but that just didnt seem to fit my personality or the fabric. What to do? What to do?..... I checked out Pintrest of course but didnt see anything I wanted to really copy, but did pin a ton for later. So I decided to just to the 10 x 10 and I started cutting away. But like I said it just didnt seem like thats what the pattern really wanted to be. So I stared at my squares and then just started cutting, and sewing and cutting and sewing...... I was shocked that I didnt have a single thing to rip or cut or any sewing machine issues. It was like the fabric wanted it and the machine. Ok ok I might be carried away but if your a sewer you know its a big deal to get a project completed and not a single issue. (like the next project where I broke 3 NEEDLES??? and I am still not sure why)

But anyways here it is......My beautiful Quilt top with the new fabric.

The cow print trim was fabric I already had, man I am glad I keep that and if you look close their is a matching cow print pillow that I made the cover for on the couch. I have now sandwiched the fabric together and started quilting but I haven't got it completely finished. I will post a pic update when its all finished. 

All Finished:

I LOVE IT!

Its not what I had in mind when I started, But that's ok because its so much better then I thought it would be.