Sew-Cation, Day 5: Victory Speech

I’d like to thank my blog readers for their support in this triumph.

We started off the day at Mary Jo’s!!! For anyone not familiar with Mary Jo’s, imagine a fabric warehouse that holds nearly every type of fabric you can imagine – apparel, quilting, upholstery – all around $6-$8/yard. Remarkable. Amazing. Heavenly. Of course it’s in Charlotte, so what I save on fabric I spend on gas. But today it was conveniently on our way to Georgia. I spent under $100 and got enough fabric to make 3 Christmas gifts and a purse for myself! This is what I picked out for myself – I hope I find the time to make it because I think it would great for spring:

After hours and hours in the car, we finally arrived at our destination in Georgia. I was mistaken in saying we were journeying to Conyers, we are actually in Convington. We stopped by the convention center where we will be doing our pattern testing tomorrow. I can hardly contain my excitement!

After we got back to the hotel and settled in we (my mom and I) had a Jelly Roll Race! For those unfamiliar with fabric jelly rolls, they are 40 strips of 2.5”x42” pieces of fabric. For the race, we pieced the strips into one giant 2.5” wide piece of fabric, cut off 18” and set the timer. We folded the large strip in half, sewed through (cutting at the end to create two pieces) and then repeated 4 more times. The result was approximately a 60” square quilt top.

I won with 45 minutes and 49 seconds. I did mine in Good Fortune designed by Kate Spain. My mom ventured very, very far outside her comfort zone and went with kaffe fassetts! I’m so proud! She finished in 55 minutes and 41 seconds.

It was a lot of fun! It was a good prep for our class tomorrow and Friday. I think mine is a really upbeat quilt for spring. My mom is giving hers as a gift for summer.

I think I just might give mine to … hmm … someone who comments on my blog …