Quilters Corner

This weekend, we went to Grand Junction.  As always, I found the first opportunity to head to Quilters' Corner, one of my absolute favorite quilt shops (www.quilterscornergj.com for anyone interested).  This is the same place that I got the gingerbread table topper from.  The staff is always friendly and helpful and the ideas are always plentiful.

And, as always, I came home dreaming of quilts.  I fell in love with two different quilt projects, although I wound up not buying the kits.  The first is a lap quilt of a variety of minkee fabrics.  They have a good selection of minkee (although, not in the colors I was hoping for on the bolt), and a fantastic array of quilt kits.  Red, black, & white. Pink & brown.  Lime green & brown.  And on and on.  The second project I fell in love with was a block of the month quilt.  It has the look and feel of a Baltimore quilt, but with wool felt on flannel.  I loved the way the flowers looked with the wool felt.  While I didn't break down and buy the kit, I did buy some wool felt to play with.

I also bought some fat quarters (I found some batiks that will work really well for backgrounds of cards) and a booklet of patterns ("Motif" by Jeri Kelly) that I fell in love with.  Motif has 14 designs in a 12"x16" size.  I first noticed the elk that I know will wind up in at least one wall hanging, and then noticed the snowman, pumpkin, star, and dragonfly patterns that are also begging to be done.

So, now it is back to the Christmas cards while I dream of working with wool felt and following the patterns (or knowing me, modifying the patterns) from the booklet.