I am doing a bit of catch up and thought I would share with you! With your support, my next new project is The Umbrella from Laundry Basket Quilts. I ran into one of the problems where when you buy a kit and then don't get to the project until a couple of years later...there isn't enough background fabric. But you know what...I don't stress. Life is too short to waste any emotion when you have a stash that will fill in the gap. When this happens to you, just pick out a similar fabric and cut several pieces so you can mix it in without anyone knowing you have added another fabric. Once I cut my fabric I lay it all out to test the distribution.

Once I am happy with the distribution, I take a photo with my phone so I can reference it as I piece it together. I sew an entire row before moving on to the next row and then I sew those two rows together before I sew the next row...and so on.

I also check the instructions on the pattern...the blocks are supposed to rotate, but I noticed on the pattern that there were two areas where they didn't rotate the blocks, which would mean you would have to match up seams. Can you see it???...well...no one is the boss of me.

  

I reorganized that area and didn't feel the least bit guilty. Next will come the fun part...so stay tuned in a future post!

While taking a walk break around town, I discovered a little fabric store. It seems lately that you hear more about quilt shops closing than opening. So, I was tickled to see this little shop tucked in one corner of Sisters. I recognized Lee from a previous shop she owned called Little Buckaroo that she had to close because of a family illness. But, now she is ready to give it a go again! Sprinkle Can Quilts is not your typical quilt shop. I am guessing it has only a couple hundred bolts of fabrics and most of those are novelties. The real gift of this shop is the consignment program. You can sell your quilts or fabric craft items...like The American Girl Doll clothes! Enjoy the slide show of this niche in Sisters.