Aren't Friends the BEST?

I am sorry that I missed WIPs With Friends on Wednesday.

  I took the day off work. I was so sick! 

 I think I slept all but 4 hours of the day yesterday.  

I am better today, (read with cold dope on board) but wowsa did this cold knock me for a loop!!! 

 I hope to be back at it next week and I hope you will have stuff to share too.

I was showing a friend the Ghastlies fabric and I think I told you all I asked on IG if anyone could share the one wee peacock with me.  

One of my friends sent me an entire FQ!!!  Woo Hoo look at that bird!!!  

Can't wait to cut into this one!

I also met up with my friend Jackie one morning and she gave me this amazing Halloween fabric to use as I can in my Hallowedding quilt!  

She also brought me some Cat Nap scraps.  This is probably one of my all time favorite lines. 

 It is no longer in production.  It was by Lizzy House.  

Those cats...swoon!!!

Thank you so much my dear sweet friend!

I have begun collecting navy and indigo fabrics for the Ocean Waves QAL quilt too. 

 I'm not sure which ones will make the final cut but it's a good start.  

I am unsure if you have heard of Lularoe clothing but I am HOOKED!

They have the softest leggings ever.

I bought a Christmas pair (it has bunnies on it) 

and this dress (called a Carly) to wear with them.

(Sorry I look like such a goof ball.  I didn't know she was taking a pic of all of me!)

Closer up of the leggings.  So comfortable!  

My husband asked if everything had to be worn with leggings and I said YES! 

 I hardly ever wear jeans anymore now.  If you are not familiar you should be!

I am off to Shipshewana for the last visit of the season today with my hubby and his sister.

I will report back, most likely on Monday so have a great weekend everyone!!

~XOP~

McCall's Guest Blogger, A Giveaway and My Winners

Today, I am a guest blogger over at the McCalls blog. 

 You can find my post right here.  

There is a giveaway over there too.  

You need to leave a comment on their blog (hopefully easier than the other website was).

  They will choose three winners on March 31 to win a copy of the Cozy Calendar by Lori Holt. 

I am talking about the making of my Polka Dot Playground quilt. 

 I hope you will pop over to their blog and leave a comment!

The winners of the McCall's Quick Quilts magazine are:

KaHolly and Ioleen!!  Congratulations ladies.  

Please email me your mailing address so I can put this is the mail to you!

The winners of the Cozy Calendar are Judy in Michigan and Sophie.  

Congratulations ladies! 

 Please send me your mailing address so I may forward it to the FQS.

They will be sending it directly to you.

I am off to a quilt retreat with those DAM girls (Detroit Area Modern Quilt Guild).

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

Remember to stay off Instagram on Friday in protest.

They are trying to show you posts to your feed based on a algorithms 

rather than in chronological order.  

This is what Face book does and it drives me crazy.  

They show what your friends post based on what they think you want to see.

So avoid Instagram on Friday

See the #silentsewin

Sew on Friday and use the above hashtag to post all about what you did, 

but on Saturday rather than on Friday.

~XOP~

My Weekend and The Great Fabric Destash

I had a pretty good weekend.  

We went to Grand Rapids to see my dad and sister, as we usually do. 

 We stopped at Aunt Betty's for breakfast as we usually do.  

They had chocolate mousse birthday cake. 

 NICE!  

The drive was poor due to snow and ice, as usual. 

 We ran around as usual.  

We took my dad out and had a nice time. 

 NICE!  

We took him to Meijer for groceries and sundires and he learned how to drive the cart. 

 NICE!

GO DAD GO!!

Then we went out for an early dinner at the Crooked Goose. 

If you have the chance to eat there you totally should.

My hubby's was my favorite.

Fried bologna sandwich

It had coleslaw and Mrs. Dog's mustard, so amazingly yummy!

 It was really good food and my dad even ate most of his dinner!! 

 NICE!!

Brought him back to his apartment and visited for a bit then 

off to Cabela's for hubby while I met up with an Instagram friend to trade some fabric. 

Hi wwwwindylou!!! 

We met on Instagram through another friend Kritta22 (Hi Kritta!!) 

Windy and I met up at Bigby.  

Realized we have fabric and cats in common (I have 4 and she has 8)!!  

We are trading again in the very near future too.  

Love making new friends. 

 We are thinking about planning a quilt retreat/meet up for some IG friends.  

We are in MI so if you are interested please let me or Windy know!  

(Isn't she so cute??)

I made hubby stop at Field's Fabrics too before we got to dad's and 

picked up some fabric for my friend Robin and some of this cool ostrich print for me.

I also picked up some Detroit sports fabric for a quilt for my DD's BFF, 

Andy who is serving right now.  

He is an Appache helicopter pilot and asked for a quilt featuring 

all the professional sports teams of Detroit. 

I managed to find the Pistons and the Lions but the Tigers and Red Wings were eluding me.  

No licensed fabric for those teams. 

 I did find some scrubs with Tiger fabric on them for a reasonable price so bought those to cut up.

Now I need to search for some Red Wings.  

If you have a source please hook me up!

Did you participate in #thegreatfabricdestash this past week? 

 It was super crazy but awesome.  

The UK quilters just did one and the Aussies are going to do one too.  

There is also a new IG #ISOfabric.  

If you are In Search Of (ISO) you can put what you are ISO in that # and 

LOTS of people will be able to see it and maybe help you out. 

 Loving IG.  

I wasn't so sure at first but it is a lot of fun!!

OK more later.  

I hope you had a great weekend too.  

(I managed to sneak in a little sewing in between the laundry and grocery shopping on Sunday too)

~XOP~