The Greater San Antonio Quilt Guild Quilt Show

This past weekend I attended The Greater San Antonio Quilt Guild 14th biannual quilt show. I was like a kid in a candy store...wide eyed and ready to spend some money! I made a movie of all the pictures I took. I hope you enough it because I sure did. Later this week, I will upload a new demo of a new cutting tool (always looking for ways to make my quilting better). Please feel free to leave a comment of your favorite quilt from the video.

Have a creative day,
Tracy & Girls
www.3bgirlsquilts.com

What a wonderful day

I really don't like to toot my horn but today is my birthday! I wanted to spend a day of sewing and fixing some version of my favorite food which is seafood. Yesterday I came across this new show (well new for me) on Food TV. The show is called 5 Ingredient Fix. Well, this one recipe caught my eye, Beer Shrimp Boil. I decided then that this Beer Shrimp Boil will be my special dinner for today. Now, I can never do anything exactly the way your suppose to do it (it's the rebel in me), so I added some potatoes, fresh corn, snow crab legs and crawfish. And to top it off, I made the lemon and butter dipping sauce...mmm good! My mom and daughter's joined me for this feast and we ate everything!

Have a creative day,
Tracy & Girls
www.3bgirlsquilts.com

So what did you do with your summer???

I was lucky enough to have the month of July off...no work and no children! So I decided to get a handle on my scrap fabrics. I had fabric on my bed, table and in ziplock bags. I really hate throwing fabric away. If the fabric is at least 2", I use it. So this is what I came up with:

Yes that's right, potholders with ric rac. I placed these in my Etsy shop and they sold right away:-)

Then I started making some wonky log cabins (I really hate to do things the way you're suppose to). My daughter had a bunch of jeans she outgrow so I combined the two together. What do you think? Fashion forward? I got two thumbs up from both girls on the design.

Finally, I had this fat quarter of watermelon seed fabric for about ten years. School was starting soon so I thought about making a pencil holder (I looked at the prices for them in the store and they were $3.95!). This what I came up with:

The Watermelon Pencil Holder came out so great that I made it into a pattern. You can get this pattern for free by going to Grace Full Creations and signing up for free.

Have a creative day,
Tracy & Girls
www.3bgirlsquilts.com