DrEAMi! Linky #1

 Welcome to the very first DrEAMi! linky party and my very first time hosting a linky. 

For a detailed explanation of a DrEAMi! click here.  Just like darling Brandy in the video above, who becomes blind to her surroundings, extraneous noises and objects when tracking the elusive squirrel, we, as quilters have experienced that blinders on, nothing else matters, get-your-own-meals, I-gotta-SEW-this-and-sew-it-NOW feeling.  That brilliant bauble of a quilt project, glittery gem of an idea, and, (cue Metallica) "Nothing Else Matters" until it's done.

My frst DrEAMi! (oh yeah, I've had more than one this month, heaven help me, no wonder my family's quilts are always late) was the Modern Trees Christmas quilt you see in that intro post using the Henry Glass Fabrics I won.

My second DrEAMi! happened when I created my first house block for the RSC2017 and promised a tutorial.  Well, I had no photos of that purple house, so what's a girl to do but make another block for the tutorial, (you can find the PDF pattern here), using her favourite colour, buh-LOO!!  These are leftovers from the Meadow Mystery quilt.
Updated to add: I had no idea (note this was posted Jan. 28) that these would be February colours for Angela's RSC2017!  So I was actually ahead of the curve for the first time since I joined her challenge in 2015 LOL!!

I knew right away I wanted to turn this one into a new cushion cover for my new sewing room.
I set it aside.  But it called to me.  It wouldn't take long to quilt up...

I couldn't focus on anything else until it was done....

Sweet Naala... This is not on my Q1FAL list, totally not planned for this quarter, just scurried up in front of my nose and flicked its bushy tail at me.  But I couldn't be happier that I followed my nose and let myself get diverted!

I started with the spirals in the sky separated by wiggly lines, an Angela Walters design I saw online and saved a photo of (and now cannot find where I saved it ugh!), moved onto the gingerbread-type roof scallops, and it just got a-hold of me...

The back before it becomes a cushion cover and this gets hidden! I did write my name and details on the lines across the bottom

...until it was done:

I bound it with the turquoise I used in the star centre. Why I brought that down here and none of the navy outside of half a dozen under 5" scraps I do not know, but turquoise is part of this Northcott line and I snagged a bit of it thinking I might work it into the Meadow Mystery, maybe as binding.

Artisan Spirit Painter's Passion is the name of this line - isn't it sumptuous?

I did an envelope back, not quite like Amanda Jean's at Crazy Mom Quilts, but very similar. I hand-stitched the binding down, my favourite way to finish off a binding.
Here it is off the cushion so you can see it in its entirety.  The top and bottom kind of get hidden by the fat belly of the cushion!

Yep I had fun: the grass (can you spot my initials?!) dot to dot, bricks, the heart, the clapboard, windows...makes me smile!

A trio of cushions in my house right now, two from last year and now this one:

Seems to be a colour trend, no?! If you take a look at my Craftsy pattern store page, you may notice a similar trend!  Incidentally I didn't buy one of the pillow forms for these covers; I simply recovered existing ones I no longer liked or wanted to change up!

Quilt Stats:
Pattern:  Original Design: House Block Tutorial
Size: 19.5" square
Fabric:  scraps and leftovers except for the binding
Batting: Pellon Nature's Touch 100% cotton
Quilted: on my Bernina
Threads:  pieced with Gütermann, quilted with Gütermann, Essential cotton variegated "Ocean Jewels", Sulky rayon 40 wt 942 2209 and 942 1177

So!
What has got you diverted this past month?  Have you 'become the squirrel'?!  I'd love it if you'd share it with us! Remember that a DrEAMi! does not have to be a finished project, but it must be an unplanned something that has had you dropping everything just to sew, sew, sew...

The DrEAMi! will remain open for one week.
Linking up with:
Cooking Up Quilts
soscrappy

An InLinkz Link-up

Bad to the Bone - scratch that: Pleasure-Seeking Sewer!

Confession: I am a fabric-o-holic.  I am. I am.  And I do not make apologies for it; it feeds my soul, makes my body hum with anticipation and excitement and possibilites.  Hence the change in my title.

I went to JoAnn's today to buy duck canvas for a spring bag I'm going to make, and, well, just to look around...a 50% off fabric for VIP customers was burning a hole in my Frenchy bag (see? I use it ALL the time, get lots of compliments on it, and well, a girl can never have too many bags).

I realized last Fall that my stash supply of grey is abysmal.  As is my stash supply of teal and aqua.  And solids.  So I've been slowly but surely rectifying that over the past few months.  Here is my loot for today:

Eeek!  Just looking at the picture makes me happy.  So, the lime and turquoise Moroccan style one in the top at the 11 o'clock position is for a Seaglass quilt that I've yet to buy the pattern for, but I intend to, as it's SO awesome.

The run of fat quarters and one 1/2 yard piece is JoAnn's contribution to my lack of greys; I think I did pretty good with the value run, as well as the value for money, ha ha.  Fat quarters were on sale for $1.39 each.  I am in love with Katie Clark Blakesley's "Spiced Chai" quilt in the book Vintage Quilt Revival, so these might end up there.  Who am I kidding?  I am in love with just about every quilt in that book!  And those two teal ones might go into the seaglass quilt, or into a Bento Box quilt for which I've been collecting stuff for a year.

Above the teal are 3 packs of jewellery stuff, 2 pairs of danglies, and a pack of 4 earring adaptors.  I've never bought anything like this before, but I was so drawn to these, both colour-wise (I'm clearly in a blue and green phase) that I had to get them.  For under $5, for all 3 packets, I was sold.  I even thought of attaching these to a zipper on one of my make-up bags as a bit of bling.

Finally, you see the cream fabric that I'd hoped to use my 50% off regular-priced fabric coupon.  At the checkout, I found out that if the fabric is on sale, as it was in this case, for 30% off, they are not allowed to charge me the full price and then input the 50% off coupon.  Bummer.   Still, it was ony $7 for the yard, decent, and I "feel" it in the charm quilt...I know, I know, I have fabric in Kingsville in mind for this quilt, but my roses (oops, spoiler alert) I want to incorporate need to be 2 or 3 layers, so I will need more than one cream.  This also might work in my Self Round Robin.

Total cost?  $31.97
Pleasure factor?  Immeasurable

I was just reading while I soaked in the tub tonight in Cyndi Lee's book May I Be Happy, about the importance Dr. Christiane Northrup (love her, have had her book, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom for years, now I see I need to get The Wisdom of Menopause) puts on pleasure.  Cyndi writes, "She has dedicated the second part of her life to helping women learn about everything that 'can go right' in their bodies and her number-one recommendation is pleasure." p. 150

Yay!  I am on track!