Minnesota All-Stars

Thank you to all who left a comment attempting to wow me with your pattern naming expertise. After fretting, chewing off all my fingernails, twirling my hair around my finger, staring off into space, and even loosing a little sleep over naming this quilt, I've taken the advice of a very wise reader.

Annette said...

How about Minnesota's All Stars?

I'm a baseball fan, too, can you tell?

I say, Annette, that's a wonderful name...I'm a baseball fan too! Go Twins!
So, Heerrrrrreeeeee's.......

Minnesota All-Stars!

Patterns are available at the shop now and Annette, I will deliver your bundle 5 fats to the store today for you to pick up. They will be at the check out station in the "rain-check" drawer. Please pick them up before September 1st. Oh yeah, Annette, who knows....I may even stick a pattern in there too...wink, wink.

Well, I'll be back later with more pictures of our great Minnesota projects.

~K

Quilters....Start your engines!

The great MN Shop Hop is about to begin!

Gas up the family truckster and get ready to put the

pedal to the metal!

Quilt Minnesota 2011

Friday, July 29—Sunday, August 14
Over 80 Minnesota’s Quilt Shops Participating

Grand Prize—Trip for two to beautiful Alaska

Visit the official Quilt Minnesota Website

SE Minnesota Section Shops

All In Stitches, Stewartville

Calico Hutch, Hayward

Fourth & Main Fabrics, Cannon Falls

Pine Needles Quilt Shop, Racine

Quilter’s Dream, Montgomery

Quilter’s Quarters, Spring Valley

Quilting by the Hearth, Lonsdale

Rather Bee Quilting, Lake City

The Quilting Cupboard, Rochester

Ta Da! ****you could win 5 fats****

I now know how long it takes to finish a quilt when you only have time to work on it 1 hour at a time.
So..."Here she is boys....here she is world....Miss Gypsy Rose Lee".

Sorry about the random reference to the Broadway Musical Gypsy, It has consumed my life lately. What I meant to say was..."Here it is quilters...here it is friends....my MN quilt with no name".

So...Here's where you come in. Leave comments with possible name suggestions for this quilt and you could win a bundle of 5 fat quarters from this special MN fabric line.

Things to keep in mind when thinking of names:
1) Fabric was created for the MN Shop Hop
2) Most all fabrics reflect MN in some way
3) Fussy cut MN Scenes

Hope you all think of a winner ;)
~K

I'm Making progress!

I have the star portion of all the blocks pieced! I'm very satisfied with how they turned out as well as how nicely the scenes on the focal fabric fussy cut out.

Now for the corners.....tonight??

Note: This is the prototype block...the "real" corner triangles won't have red...just green, blue and gray.

Also, all for corners won't be from the same strip set so nothing should match where corners meet.

FYI: This was a project that I was going to have completed by July 1st....

Ahhh.....life :)

New deadline: To the shop for quilting BY Monday July 11th.....

I can do it!

~K

MN Projects: Take 1

This has made it's way to my cutting tabe.

A whole stack of MN yumminess.

And just because I'm feeling a little on the generous side,

I may or may not be using blocks like this in my creation.

Hopefully I can get lots more accomplished this weekend!

~K

Big Plans Ahead!

I spent hours and hours cleaning, organizing and rearranging my sewing zone this past weekend....I actually usually really enjoy this process. For me, any cleaning is fun as long as I get to rearrange the furniture! If they put odometers on furniture, mine would have more miles than a used car. I think part of my fascination for moving things around comes from how you feel when you're done...like you have a whole new room...all ready to mess up :)

So....enough with that...I'm sure y'all really don't care about the fact that I have a serious obsession with moving my furniture. Now that I have a beautifully clean creative area, I plan to cut in to some of the 2011 Minnesota fabric and mess up this place of beauty as fast as I can. Maybe I should take a picture first to have proof of how clean it was...

I have big plans for some hopefully awesome projects. I've discovered that no matter how cool it may look on paper or in my brain, sometimes it bombs when fabric gets involved!

I'll keep you posted as things progress!

~K