Assorted Flavors

Margarita

Orange Crush

7UP

Pina Colada

Strawberry Blonde

Kiwi

Berry Blue

a few of the varieties of Jelly Belly's over 50 flavors to tempt your taste buds with bite after bite=)

Jelly Belly is about 45"x48" and full of color!!!  Noteworthy of its name!  Scraps from many quilts past all jumbled up into sweet square frames with some white Kona to make for a bold statement.  Now isn't that like a jelly bean's behavior?  Tease you with their individual sweet, sugary flavor so you keep wanting to stick your greedy little fingers back in that box/bag a second, third,4th time for a  burst of flavor! 
 Likewise,with this quilt I keep gazing at it, I see another piece of fabric that is so pretty and holds a bit of mystery in its tiny self.  Fills me with more happiness.  Fulfillment with another quilt.

With a Peach Mango Smoothie in hand (my nightly snack lately is always a very yummy smoothie of some sort which I highly recommend for any grumbling tummy around 8pm or so) I got to basting...........and

 watching the opening ceremony of the Olympics of course.

How is that for a backing?  Seems fitting to me=)  All the little colorful circles remind me of jelly bellys.  Bet you didn't guess that!!!! Of course Jelly Belly had to have some white Kona for the back too ya know.  Luckily, I had some scraps that were just the right length for the sides.  Really the white was the only thing that would do.  So once again the Kona white won;)

All this candy talk is making me hungry=P

There is also....
Peach
Bubblegum
Dr Pepper
Green Apple
Island Punch
Sour Cherry
Sunkist Lemon
Raspberry
Red Apple

 .....oh you get the picture!

Go see for yourself....here!

Sara

Relaxed Fit

As much as I don't want to admit it,  I like small pieces of fabric.

Days of browsing blogs and Flickr for quilts that use pieces bigger than 4" may become few and far in between.

You see with smaller pieces comes an urge to organize them neatly.

Sometimes I need to be in control of something!  Sue me!  If it takes a stack of cotton to do it---so BE it!

Full bobbins of pure white cotton can get this girl fired up for hours of sewing:)

The "building" part takes off in  full force;)

A movie during some sewing time never hurt me!  A Thousand Words  with seasoned actor, Eddie Murphy had me in stitches--absolutely not intentional as a pun (oops lol!).

Ah Trigger,my 7 yr old boxer and his resting place for our usual sewing night together after Ayden has gone night, night:)  5 rows pieced and 4 to go.  All done last night while discovering Law and Order reruns courtesy NBC online.  Score!

Double score when  I outdid myself by using Summerville by Lucie Summers Weave in coal for each of the 4 corners and the 2 opposite ends that are in the middle of the quilt top.  I came up with this when I decided I am not going to go get more Kona White for the 6 lousy 5 1/2" squares I was lacking.  Happens way too many times I tell ya.  Darn Kona White.  Darn it.

These will take all of your quilting dilemmas and squash them real quick if need be.  Any stress will suffice with these little jewels of decadent chocolate.  They are almost better than a new stack of pretty fabric.  Almost.

Almost better than a new color combo idea for a quilt?

Almost.


Almost better than having hubby home for good????????????????(it has been about a year ya know)

Not a chance!!!!!  But, they are QUITE easy on the taste buds:)

Enough teasing.                      Try them out here.  

See what you think.

You will be sweetly surprised.



Get to some sewing!!!!

and chocolate..............quickly;)

Sara