One of the local quilt shops (I say this tongue in cheek – local means it is 80 miles away, by highway more than one and half hours) was having a huge sale this weekend. One of my friends and I got up early- I met at her house at 8:30 and we started the drive to the sale with high hopes of finding good deals. Actually though we were both disappointed when we got there. In the sale barn there was lots of fabric but nothing that jumped out at us!! So disappointed, I got a couple fat quarter bundles for gifts to secret pal from Dear Jane list and girlfriend doing the driving 
surprise for her, and then we walked over the actual store to look at all the goodies that were not on sale. I did find some fabric there, this pretty gold and pretty red will be the back drop for a Christmas Baltimore Album (this quilt pattern is designed by Connie Sue Haidle from Apple Blossom Quilts) large wall-hanging – maybe couch size quilt if I find no place to hang it when I get done — it finishes at 75 x 75 inches. Even though it was not on sale I did my part to help right the economy and forced myself to buy it
Seeing as I was out most of the day I have not been able to sit down and work on Insanity Revisited or any other quilt. Last night I did work on the Scrappy Irish chain on the large quilting frame and I will do that again tonight when I get off of the computer. So seeing as I have not quilt worked today I will share another of my mugs.
I have a love of Russian history and Russian art. It is just something I have always been interested in even though I have no ethnic background to Russia. My husband and I took a cruise up the inner channel of Alaska about 5 years or so ago and though some of you might not know -I’m sure a lot of you do – that Alaska has a strong Russian history. You can find a lot of art with Russian roots in Alaska and they normally sell some on the cruise ship as well. I found this lovely mug and ladle while on that cruise. This art form is Russian Khokhloma. Here is an article about it. This art form dates back to the 17th century. This is a Russian folk art, the pieces are meant to be decorative only. At this site you can see other items that are available for purchase. (I do not have any connection to this site, I just found it on a search to share with you).
Yesterday’s question was: When it’s time to assemble a rag quilt, its patches are positioned wrong sides together to sew seams. I have never done this quilt and I guessed wrong! The answer is True – we want the seam allowances to be visible on the front of a rag quilt. That is indeed accomplished by placing wrong sides together to sew a seam. Learn something new every day don’t we in the world of quilting.
Next question: To add fabric cornerstones (corner squares) to straight set borders, cut squares with sides that match the unfinished width of the border. TRUE or FALSE
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