An Afternoon Out and About

 My KY-quilting friend, Carolyn, and I started our Labor Day Weekend with a field trip to the Murray Sewing Center.

Murray is a few miles down the road from Paducah.  We decided to take the trip because this nice store is closing....that's right...another one bites the dust!!  Brenda Freemen, the owner,  is retiring...mostly.*  (Retirement must be in the air.)

Carolyn and I decided to hit the road and see what we could score.

I am well past the age of buying fabric simply because I like it...now, there must be a reason to buy it.  With that in mind,
I resurrected my blocks from the Pat Sloan's Summer Soiree BOM.  HERE

It seems like these blocks have been around forever, but this BOM is only 3 years old! 
Hardly even qualifies as a UFO!!

 

The Blocks on my design wall in the KY studio.

You may recall I pulled these out a few months back to practice my new QAYG** method  HERE. But that all stalled...frankly,
I was not sure what I wanted to do with the blocks so back in the cubby they went to cure for a few more months.

Nothing like a trip to the quilt shop...really, any quilt shop...to get the creative juices flowing.  Carolyn gave me some good ideas and now I'm ready to tackle these blocks and get them assembled into a quilt!!

Procured a batch of fat quarters and a bundle of tone-on-tone fat quarters to use as sashing. 
This will be my September project.

I'm kind of excited...half-way tempted to play hooky from church this morning and stay home to sew...

* Brenda will still be active at quilt shows and such.  She says she "...must touch fabric..."
**Quilt As You Go