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I have mentioned the Pink Chalk Fabrics Solids Club before, and sad to say they discontinued the club (they do still have bundles available if you are interested!). However, they started up a new club which I joined as soon as it became available! The new club is called Charming Solids and I love it. This is another monthly club that consists of two charm packs and six extra wide fat eighths – in this case, an extra wide fat eighth is 10 x 22 inches.

When I went to grab the links I discovered they are sold out of memberships, sorry!

Here is February: Good Fortune by Kate Spain and the coordinating solids are perfect!

I have no idea what I am going to make with these fabrics. Maybe a quick baby blanket? I have a few quilt patterns that use charm packs, and you can never go wrong with a simple block quilt. I do have a few small projects I want to make for friends or family such as mug rugs and coasters. I am drawn to mini quilts and recently, finally, tried doing paper pieced hexagons so these charms will be put to good use I know.

I found a Strip Tease Quilt over at Always Expect Moore that she just posted over the weekend. Great idea! I love the idea to challenge yourself to use the fabric each month. I know I would end up with a huge stash of charms and extra wide fat eighths. I know this because I just went through my fabric over the weekend while I organized things and yep, found a lot of stuff.

What are your ideas for this fabric? Oh what about a reusable grocery bag! I can always use another tote.

A couple of weeks ago I would have said that if you walked into the house you would instantly know what the secret projects we’ve been working on are and that amazingly enough my husband didn’t realize. Well call me naive because he finally confessed that he’s known all along! He didn’t know how big the project was (I did tell him after he said what he knew) and he promised not to tell anyone else.

So for the updates! K is almost done with hers – two more small steps and she’s finished. L is almost done with hers, she will be done soon though. I’m just about done with one I am making and not nearly as close to being done with another. C came by last week and we made one while she was here and she’s making another at her own house. I have been taking pictures along the way and will share them once we are finished!

We even had my Mom and K’s Mom in on the fun! We figured out who is getting what but still aren’t sure when the giving will happen. For sure it will be by the time I leave, which is coming up very soon.

In other craft news, Shannon and I took a quilt class a couple of weeks ago! It was called Flowing Ribbons and even though I messed up a section of my material, I still really like the pattern. I love the fabrics I picked out! I still need to sew together strips to make another piece of fabric but that will be later – after the secret projects and finished, but really more like after I’m settled somewhere.

Here are some pictures:

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This is my quilt. The class teacher had many design boards (pieces of fleece) hung up so each of us could lay our fabric out to see what it would end up looking like. I had more pieces up but they kept falling down. I took a picture because the point of the class was to learn how to sew the curves! So I wanted to make sure I remembered how I wanted it to look (a great tip I am going to remember from now on – take pictures!). This is a project I am either going to make sure it with me while we are traveling (more on that soon!) or have it in a box to be delivered to the house vs the storage unit.

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Here is Shannon working on a curve with her awesome Janome machine!

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