I Win Again- The Traveling Stash Box

Yes, the Quilt Angel is looking after me, I have won another Blog Hop, the Traveling Stash Box, from Sharon at Vroomans Quilts. As soon as I receive the box I will give you a look see and you will have a chance to win this box for its next trip.  If you do not know about these Traveling Stash Boxes that are traveling around the States, just click on the side button and get the info.

 

It will be a busy day for me tomorrow, I have not been able to get to a Guile meeting for over 6 or 7 months because of trips, or church meeting.  So I will be happy to get there and reconnect with my fellow quilters.

 

Also one of my Guile and Bee members Debra is in town all the way from California, and a group of us will be hanging out over at Nadine's for crabs and food and a good old time, so no telling when I will get home.  So if you don't hear from me, then it was a late night.

 

Until I Blog Again

 

The Slow Quilter

 

I am a Winner

 

Yes, I am a winner of these lovely fall leaves made by Barb of Bejeweled Quilts.  These are not the exact ones I will be receiving, but I can’t wait to get them.

I have been home all day or rather working from home.  I have also been cooking for the rest of the week.  After all that, I had bags of fabric up in my bedroom that I went through.  Lord have mercy, sometime I just do not know what to do with all this fabric.  I was able to pull out more B&W dot fabric for the dots to dots blog hop, which I still have not figured out what I want to do.  I am going to try a block I have seen on YouTube and hopefully it will come out fine.

 Maureen over on her blog http://maureencracknellhandmade.blogspot.com/ is showing off some very beautiful  fabric by Riley Blake, the Willow fabric collection.  She also is doing a tutorial on this Dresden Pocket Half Apron using Riley’s fabric, along with a giveaway of fat quarter bundles.  So why not hop on over and see what is going on.

It is after 12:00 pm and I am still hopping over to see other blogs before I turn in.  So until tomorrow.

The Slow Quilter

Cobbler Sauce & Quilt Abbreviations

Now the title has nothing to do with one another.  I am looking for a sauce recipe for a blackberry cobbler.  My grandmother (bless her soul) made a sauce for her blackberry cobbler to die for.  It was a creamy sauce with sugar, milk (canned or whole), maybe flower and butter, but most definitely Brandy.  I don’t know if it call a hard sauce, sweet sauce or white sauce.  I am a city girl, I know that you country girls, that love to canned, cook and quilt must have some idea what I am looking for.  So if anyone of my followers has a recipe for a cobbler sauce please send it to me theslowquilter@gmail.com.  Just look at these cobblers, makes you mouth just water, I am just drooling by looking at them.

Now for the Quilt Abbreviations:  Last night as I was going through reading blogs I notice some bloggers use abbreviations that I guess most of you might know.  In my case I have to think about it.  Hey I am just starting to text and still did not know what ROFL (rolling on the floor laughing) was.  We all know BOM, UFO, FQ, and DH (Dear Husband) I did not now that one.  So I decided to surf the web for quilt abbreviations and here are a few that I don’t think you have ever seen.

WIWMI  - Wish It Would Make Itself

WOMBAT  - Waste of Material, Batting and Time

WWIT  - What Was I Thinking

FART  - Fabric Acquisition Road Trip

MGBTQ  - Must Get Back To Quilting

Flimsy – Finish top, not quilted or pieced top.  (I found out about this when I first started blogging and most of my quilt friends never heard of it before).

SABLE – Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy (I think we might all have this)

SUI – Shopping Under Influence (usually with a friend) 

TOAD – Trashed Objects Abandoned In Disgust

Siggies  - Squares of fabric with signatures and other info on them

Squishy – Envelopes filled with swap fabric or gifts sent/received in the mail

BITW -  Bears in the Woods, a group making the titled quilt from a book

BOB -  black on black but that could also be beige on beige

SEX  or S.E.X.  -  Stash Enhancing eXcursion, Stash Enhancing eXpedition, Stash Enhancing eXperience.  (Hay just want it.)

 TANQP -  There Are/Ain't No Quilt Police

NGFITSSITSWW  -  Never Gonna Finish It So Send It To Someone Who Will!

There are a lot more, but I JCSTC (just cannot seem to care).  So until tomorrow MQS (my quilt sisters).  Do you have any abbreviations to add to the list.

The Slow Quilter