The Best Giraffe Quilt: Ever

My "quilty crime partner" Michelle over @ From Bolt to Beauty, decided to participate in a choose your own adventure quit for ME!  Yes, check out her posts here and here on how she "built" this beauty.

Can I just mention, that I LOVE it!  

Really, what's not to love? It has a giraffe in the middle in Basic Grey fabric! The fabric Michelle choose for the center was the perfect choice for a giraffe. The flowers do a great job mimicking spots. Then all those Basic Grey squares perfectly round out the center.

Michelle looked long and hard for the perfect giraffe pattern and this was one definitely a win! It has a mature feel, which most do not. Out of the million giraffe things I own, this is my first giraffe quilt :) 

I love this one so much, it went into my off-limits to others quilt collection.  This one is ALL mine! 

Sunday Stash

Last Saturday a group of quilty gals made our way up to Keepsake Quilting in Center Harbor, New Hampshire. It was so much fun to hang around with five others who also have just as much of a fabric obsession as I. It was awesome. After having a delicious lunch we headed to shop, and shop we did! Three hours of careful consideration I walked away this these goodies. 

This little stack of lovelies is slated for my friend who is having a baby. We yet to know if it's a boy or a girl. Clearly by the purchase, I'm hoping for a girl. Plan B is to buy more fabric. She was very specific to say IF she had a girl there would be no overly girly and pink, so I thought this was a nice peachy compromise. The line is Wildflowers designed by Alisse Courter for Camelot Fabrics.

These goodies I just got because, I wanted them in my stash. There is some Elementary, Sunnyside, Scrumptious, and Kona.

I feel a though I went a little crazy, but at the same time feel I showed much restraint!  Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend!

-Patch & Chels

They do Exist!

This weekend Lee of Freshly Pieced came to speak to our guild and some of my blogging buddies crashed the party! It was so much fun to meet the people behind some of my favorite blogs. We (the quilt bloggers community) have such an amazing and supporting online community and it was great to see these faces in person. 

Top Left: Lee @ Freshly Pieced

Top Right: Jenn @ Never Just Jennifer 

Bottom Left: Michelle @ From Bolt to Beauty

Bottom Right: Terry Ann @ Childlike Fascination 

Now I know why people get so excited to go to QuiltCon and get to see their blogging friends, it's just an amazing experience. Too bad we all didn't live closer and could go next door for afternoon tea all the time. Guess I will keep dreaming.

Michelle also brought me another little bag of scraps for me to play with!  Yes, I do have great quilting friends :) 

-Patch & Chels