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If you are coming from Craft Gossip - Welcome! I am so excited they decided to feature my quilt! :) My blog has see a huge increase in views in just a few hours, so I thought I should write a quick post. If you haven't seen it, you can see the post here.

I don't have much new to report. I have just been working on quilting my Hollow Blocks quilt. It is really heavy, so my arms get tired pretty quickly. Not to mention how hot it gets with the close to 100 degree temperatures outside! Here is what I've been looking at for the past week or so...



Also, I received my fabric, cut it up, and sent it off for the Rainbow Charm Swap at Ellison Lane Quilts.



I wasn't expecting the lines on the bottom one to be blue! That's ok, it's still pretty. Now I just have to wait for a beautiful assortment of charms to be sent back to me. It has been so much fun, I signed up for another one this morning at From the Blue Chair. The concept is similar, but this swap is going to have four parts to it. I just have to wait and see which colors I get!

DS Fabric

Hmm, what is this?

Yes, my very own Denyse Schmidt fabric! Or just a really nice place to sit according to Ziggy :)

I realize there's probably tons of pictures of this fabric out there, but I bet none of them have a cute little chinchilla sitting on top :) I drove an hour away to Beaumont, Texas to go to my nearest Joann Fabrics and was so pleased to see that they had so many of the prints! I got 7 (all of the green prints they had), and I left probably about another 7 behind (mostly the red and dark blue ones). I got them for $6.99 a yard plus an extra 10% off my total purchase. The only print they didn't have that I really wanted to get was the blue dots print.

I've also been working on free motion quilting the fabric I picked out for one of my Simplicity patterns. I'm just following the design of the print. I thought this would be a little different than the typical diagonal quilting. Plus I think I can save fabric if I'm not having to worry about keeping the quilting in all the same direction. I'm thinking that I am going to have to use different color threads because I'm not liking how the white is standing out on the orange and green.

Happy 4th of July!