Sunday Stash on Monday! Plus 9 Patch

Here is my Sunday Stash.
Wow Right? I love this fabric... I have no idea what it is or how old it is but I love it!
I call it Funky May Flowers

I am loving the Daily Nine Patch. I joined last week so I was a week behind.
I did 16 this week so I think I am caught up. It's easy, fun, and I hope I don't get too behind...
after I get done with my project I am taking a couple of days off - no sewing or quilting. Then after that, I am going to do some quilting. I will have to sit down and make my 9patches during this break ...but it should be fun.

Willy Nilly is also doing some blocks with Charm fabric.. One of the many blogs I visited(I can't remember which one- i suck) did some rules for her blocks and I have noticed others have "rules" that they are working by also. So here's mine:
1. Modern Fabric in the 5 location
2.30's repo or vintage, maybe some solid, in the 4 location
3. Lighter spring tones to prevail (that brown and blue on the right are both going out or to a different project)
4. I think I will use gray background.
5. I think I am going to limit my use of red, even tho I love it. I may use it as cornerstones or something when I put it together.

Some of the blocks I made don't conform but that is how I want to focus this project in the future.. we'll see how it goes...
These are my favorites:

So far...
Stay tuned I have a binding tutorial coming. ... I've got the pics done but it's quick posts until I turn my project in...

Quilter's Rock!

Getting Back to the Fun!

Jacquie won the Q-tools! Hurray and its in the mail!
Marsha got a couple of Fat Quarters from Batik Textiles!
and Michele got some Japanese charms and a pen.. hmm that sounds lame but they are cute!
That was my first give-away and it seems like I should have figured out that I need to post a lovely picture and story of give away and then people will comment. duh!
So after the holiday I will totally do another one, I need to learn how to blog it right! Practice.

I worked on my HST quilt top but I have lost all enthusiasm for it. I want to make another of this type! A 9Patch-Snowball!

This one I made for passage a couple of years ago and it was one of my first long arm attempts.
I made a couple actually, this one with a white background and finished edge points, this black one:

I didn't do the edge and I think it was much less interesting. I did another (no pic) that was calico background and I liked it a lot.

Heres one I did for my DH, this picture is cute but in real life it's lacking something. I think making the background a mid tone and using everything in the 9P/SBs was a mistake.
So I want to try this again...
I really should be quilting, but I am still not feeling it. Lately, I have been feeling that I have totally gotten lost in the "business" of quilting. I really like the "service" of quilting and only started the "business" to help me pay for the "service" part, now I feel like I spend so much less time on the "service" part. So I am refocusing! Service anyone?