Sewing Time With My Sister

Over Labor Day weekend I traveled to my sister (in laws) house to spend time with her.

She and I have been crafters for many years.  We go to 2 local retreats together every year now.  I love spending time with her!  

On Friday we went on our own private shop hop.  I try to do this with her at least once a year.  We went to my favorite, Keans, and Yards of Fabric then on to  Country Stitches. 

At Country Stitches they had this amazing Minky Peacock panel.  I didn't buy it but it was amazing.  I may need to go back and pick it up.  I need to see if my daughter would even want something made out of it before I spend the money for it.

I loved this beach quilt!  I also refrained from purchasing this pattern but I really loved it.  I think it was a BOM .

If you know me you know how much I love Halloween.  I loved this kit called Flying School.  Now it combined my love of Halloween, quilting and the fact that I married a pilot into one kit.  The roller skates were part of the kit as was the hair, but I just didn't want to spend the money.  It is adorable though and if you need one I am sure you can give them a call.

After we stopped at Cornwall's Turkeyville for a great turkey lunch!  We had hoped to go to Marshall but they closed at 2 as did the next shop.  That was a bummer since their website said they were open until 5!  We found one more shop to visit out in the middle of nowhere though, LOL.  I think it was in Leroy.  It was called Quilt 'N Go.  I was plesantly surprised by this shop!

This barn was in the back of the shop.

The shop didn't look like much from the outside but it was a really nice little shop!  Very bright and cheerful with LOTS of current lines of fabric!  

I think next time we do this we will begin with the shops in the Marshall area and then progress to the Mason/Lansing shops.  

We went back to her house and just hung out and sewed some.  The next day though we got right to sewing.  I brought the baby quilt I needed to bind and got the binding sewn on to it.  I brought my Changing Station pattern and "stuff" to make that but didn't have one of the things I needed.  Then I brought another baby quilt to work on and cut one of the HST wrong.  That's it, I was out of things to make!  I had cut out a bear quilt for her and I at our July retreat so I just sewed that for her!

I managed to get the bear quilt all finished for her.  We picked up some of the bear Minky from JAF that I had previously purchased for mine (if I ever get to that).  The quilt is Big Sky by Annie Brady.  This is the Minky for the back.  So stinkin cute!

I have been doing a lot of Keto cooking lately and will have a post about that soon too.

What are you guys working on right now?

~XOP~