When In Shanghai…

I've been in Asia for work since the last post and am not leaving until later this week. So obviously during the weekend I searched for a quilt shop to buy fabric, because I don’t own nearly enough. I wasn't having much luck finding a quilting shop, but I was able to find a fabric market. The fabric market was this huge mall of tailors who would make clothing to order. A large majority of shops also had different types of silk, cashmere, wool, and linens on display for people to pick from for their garments or to purchase the fabric, but no quilting cottons. I didn't end up buying anything while I was there, but I did find a stall that had my name up in lights! The suits and dresses below were items that they display advertising their tailoring services.

I eventually found a quilt shop, but their hours were during the day Monday through Friday. I won't be able to visit due to my work schedule so it looks like no fabric purchases for me this trip.

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Since I did not bring my sewing machine on this trip, I came armed with lots of handwork projects. The first one I finished on the plane ride over was the binding on my Farm Girl Cake Block mini quilt for my sister. Her birthday was in March, but I figured since I wouldn't see her until later this month I'm technically not late! This has been updated on my Completed Quilts page.

I also brought the applique for my Modern Quilt Guild Fabric Challenge sponsored by Riley Blake. The challenge is to use the Creative Rockstar line of fabric with any Confetti Solids to create something quilted. I wanted to create a piece that encourages my inner sewing rockstar and to hang it over my machine in my sewing room. The devil horn hand symbol is commonly used at rock concerts to rock on. So the design is modeled with that in mind, but with "Sew On" as the saying.

Now to get it quilted and finished after I get home at the end of the week, then submitted before the April 30th deadline!

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My life prior to quilting included cross stitching little figures on hard plastic so I can create some magnets. I created 6 of the 8 Mario Kart sprites for my husband finishing the last one in August of 2016. Since then, most of the times I've travelled my cross stitching box went with me. It's taken me months to get where Donkey Kong is almost finished! I just now realized I'm missing a color of thread in my traveling box so it'll need to be finished later. Only one more left to go!

At one point I thought cross stitching was fun so I purchased the 2015 and 2016 cross stitch along by Clouds Factory. Cross stitching is so tedious! I bought the kits thinking that I'd actually have time and enjoy making them, but I have not started them nor do I have plans to get to them in the near future. Funny enough, I tend to do this with quilt kits! Purchase and hoard them, but never actually create the final product.

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4/18-4/25 Weekly Goal:
Available time for quilting:
Friday PM and Saturday AM (other time for hand work projects)

Projects I want to work on:
MQG Fabric Challenge
Quilter's Planner Block
Windswept
Cross Stitch

Goals for the Projects:
MQG Fabric Challenge: Finish the quilt!
Quilters Planner Block: Finish this week's block and next week's block
Windswept: Work on applique of the Dresden pieces
Cross Stitch: Start on Koopa, the last Mario Kart sprite

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