Mark Lipinski Visit

I've been quiet the past few days because I've been dealing with an overflowing toilet in my apartment. It turned into this big ordeal because it ended up being the central line in my building... ugg I hate plumbing issues.  

This morning a local quilt shop won a competition to have Mark Lipinski visit and personally introduce his new line of fabric.  Emma's Quilt Cupboard in Franklin, MA created an adorable display using his previous line of fabrics.  Here are some pictures of their display.

Mark started, in his notoriously humorous way, talking about how he designed his line of fabrics based off of his collection of Polish pottery.  He made them in two colorways, the traditional blue and green colors of polish pottery and a black, red, and white line.

 To introduce the line to us, he made everyone close their eyes even though I'm sure a lot of people already saw the line online like I did.  He then pulled in the fabric in a red wagon.

Here I am with Mark getting my "banned" copy of his magazine signed.  

What a fun day.  After the event I went into Boston to watch my sister dive at her conference championships.  She won the 1 meter diving event last night and is currently in 1st going into tomorrow's 3 meter finals while celebrating her 22nd birthday today.  I'll be spending my day tomorrow watching her in the final two diving sessions in the predicted snow.  More on my quilting endeavors shortly.

Binding "Boxes of Roses"

Yesterday my husband and I went cross country skiing with my aunt KK.  After, we swung by a quilt store so I could try to find a fabric to bind the "box of roses" quilt.  Here we are taking a break from skiing.

Here are the goodies that I ended up getting.  The upper right fabric is for the binding.  It was in the 30% off rack!  I just loved the black and white fabric too!  I thought it would go so well with the white bright-dotted fabric that I got the other day that I showed you.  And the other fat quarter I just had to have and threw it into my pile as I was checking out.  You know what that's like.

So today I decided to put the binding on the quilt.  I prepared the binding and began to sew it onto the quilt when Bentley decided to join me.  When I say join me, I mean he decided to lie on top of the quilt.  I just had to get up and take a picture.  

He eventually got bored and decided to play with a spool of thread that he found (he somehow finds every spool of thread I have if it's not in something or hidden.  

I'm hand sewing the binding to the back right now.  I hope to have it done in the next day or two.  Yay, yay, yay!

Went Shopping

So I swung by my local quilt store on my way home from work looking for a good binding for the "Box of Roses" quilt.  No luck finding a binding for it, but I did come home with some goodies.  

Bentley really wanted to see what I brought home.  He loves quilting with me and was excited to see what goodies I came home with.  Here they are!

Don't you just LOVE that fabric in the bottom of the picture?  That was in the "just arrived" shelf and I had to have it.  Here are the coordinating fabrics that I got to go with it. 

The green one actually goes well with it even though I got it to see if it would go with the "Happy Hour" quilt, knowing that it would go with this one or another one because it is so versatile.  

I also LOVE the white fabric with the dotted lines on it.  I ended up getting 3 yards of it because I love it so much.  YAY!

Time to make dinner and do some laundry.  I'll probably do some quilting a little later on too.