I have so much more I want to share from my trip but as I was looking through the hundreds of shots that I took… again…. I found a whole group of wonderful architectural pics of the one of my new favorite strolling neighborhoods of London-  Chelsea. A wonderful area filled with charming buildings and wonderful shops. Could have spent an entire weekend just there! Today, architecture.  Tomorrow, a few of the places I visited while strolling around.< Talk to you soon…

Cheerio friends! Hola Amigas! Hey there! Having just returned from a business trip to London and Madrid, I am still a bit jet lagged and a little confused as to which language I am supposed to be speaking. I think the best moments were when I started speaking Polish in the middle of teaching a quilt class in Spanish and the moment when I arrived at my great aunt's home [she speaks Polish & English and a host of other languages but certainly not Spanish] & greeted her in a traditional Spanish greeting! Let's just say…

Oh yeah… as someone just pointed out to me this morning…. one of the munchkins has been in a full leg cast all month! I guess that has added to the general Figueroa festivities just a bit!   Thank goodness its our middle offspring… the most mellow of the group! If you know us personally, feel free to chuckle again about the events surrounding that break! Talk to you later…

  A LITTLE BLOGGY BREAK…. Just in case you are the one person who hasn't noticed, who hasn't emailed me to see if I am still alive, who hasn't called to see if all is well, who hasn't been wondering if perhaps Market was just too much for us this year… I have been taking a little break from technology lately- no blogging, no tweeting, no flickering, barely even been online at all it seems. I think I have missed all the Market wrap ups this time around.  I…

The following swatches show all the fabrics used in ‘A Girl in Paris’.  To view the sku numbers click on the swatches to enlarge. Please note that many Fig Tree & co. fabric collections contain these colors and are interchangeable.    Alternate letters for Block 9  (enlarge by 400…