Shopping with Jenn, and other fun stuff.

It's occurred to me that I haven't posted much about quilt projects lately. Most of what I've been working on has been for other people (bee blocks) or super secret (revealed on Saturday) or totally top secret, (to be revealed much later.)

But, I do have a few things to show you...

A few weeks ago I met my friend Jenn for a day of fabric shopping in Amish Country, near Lancaster PA. The town is named Intercourse. Go ahead. Giggle. Get it out of your system. I expected to find a lot of civil war repro stuff (which I did) but they also had bolts and bolts of modern lines. Tons of Moda. And, the prices were great! Here's my loot:

If that wasn't enough to make me giddy (close to 15 yards worth), Jenn also gave me a pile of scraps and some figgy pudding yardage, just 'cause she's awesome! I had to dig into the scraps. This is now a pillow top for Katie Cakes (maybe a Christmas present.)

Still more scraps made their way into coffee cozies and a Farmer's Wife Block. Still others worked their way into my super secret project (stay tuned for Saturday!)

 I still have quite a bit left. But, had to put them away to get to some other projects.

And now to my bee blocks. These are from my 3 x 6 bee-mates. I think I have about 30 "black and white with a splash of bright" blocks now. Plenty for a quilt top. A good project for 2012!

And these are the blocks from my 4 x 5 modern bee. This is my first round, so just the starting point for quilt later next year.

Surely I've done some other things. They may still be in the cave. Or, maybe I just need to sew more!