Save expired coupons for military members

Hate it when you discover you have expired coupons??? Well don't throw them away just yet!! Take a look at this article, it tells how military families can use them and gives the address on where to mail them to! :)

Love from Indiana!

Are you a Fabricologist??

I saw this posted on a friends' facebook and had to laugh.... sadly I may have spent as much or more on becoming a "Fabricologist" over the years as I did on getting my Bachelor's Degree. EEEk!  Shhh! Don't tell hubby I said that though!

I will say that I'm not as bad as I once was... the year we moved to Texas and Nora was only 1 year old, I use to load her up once a week to drive out of town to go to Hancocks.  About a year later they bankrupted and closed down... not b/c I didn't do my best to support them though!  Since then I don't shop for stash fabrics any longer. Just for projects that I'm working on.

What about you?  Are you familiar with JudyL's weekly fabric reports?? I've read them in the past and followed along but never participated. Not that I'm considering it now, b/c while we are in this rental home I really don't feel like a real quilter b/c my sewing room isn't all set up like I want it.  But perhaps after we find a home to buy and I do get set up, then I'll jump in.

Hope all of you are enjoying the new year!  I think it's gonna be a busy one for our family as we look to buy a home this year.

Love from Indiana!

Did you do EQ's Block of the Month Project??

EQ's Block of the Month Project is nearly over for the year, and I just barely got started!  If you are like me, you have been saving the patterns each month... only I've not been like me and have forgotten to save them each month!

So in hopes to help maybe someone else who's forgotten to download them - I don't think it's too late.  I've done some searching and found them and posting links here.

January

 Click here to download the EQ7 project for January.

February

 Click here to download the EQ7 project for February.

March

 Click here to download the EQ7 project for March.

April

 Click here to download the EQ7 project for April.

May

Click here to download the EQ7 project for May.

June

Click here to download the EQ7 project for June.

July

 Click here to download the EQ7 project for July.

August

 Click here to download the EQ7 project for August.

September

 Click here to download the EQ7 project for September.

October

Click here to download the EQ7 project for October.

November

 Click here to download the EQ7 project for November

December

 Click here to download the EQ7 project for December


I had such good intentions when I started this project last year. Really!  I am lucky that I did think to keep all of the matching FQs that I wanted to use for these all together and pack them up together. So perhaps there is hope still!  At least with this post, I'll have it all in one safe spot for pulling up the paper piecing patterns.

EQ just shared a post on their blog HERE that they are giving block makers until March 1st to play with the 12 BOMs and come up with a final setting either in EQ draft or finished quilt for their Final Quilt Prize!!

Submit a photo of your finished EQ BOM quilt (or quilt top). We will display the quilts here on the blog. Then the EQ team will choose one favorite to take home the grand prize! We must receive your entries by March, 1, 2012, 9 am, EST.

They have already shared 3 layout ideas for the blocks. Click on over and check it out.


Love from Indiana!