Thimbleberries Sew Day~ update

Thanks for the reminder Barb!  :-o  I nearly forgot that today is our sew-day!  Are you sewing?
I'll be working on more log cabin blocks~

Be back later~~

I'm baaa-aack! :-)  I got another 20 blocks completed.  There are 104 in the quilt, so I am a little over halfway there with the log cabins.  The pattern also has a bunch of flying geese, so I am cutting those out for the next sew day.  I hope y'all had some time to sew today too.  Until next time~

Happy stitchin'!! 

Busy Work~

I finished stitching Gail Pan's 'Blessings to All' pattern a few days ago. Sorry, I should've maybe pressed it a bit before taking a pic. :-/  I need to get some wide rick rack before I can sew it into a little hanging. :-)

 And then I've been working on a few block boards~ or mini design boards. You can find a tutorial on Lori Holt's blog.  Scroll down the side til you get to the 'tutorial' drawer. ;-) I made a few little ones for small blocks, but I also made some big ones for 12 inch blocks because I joined a fat eighth swap and need to make 17 blocks from different fabrics. Everyone sends a F8 of their chosen fabric to each swapper and we add from our stash to make them a block. I thought if I used these and cut out a few at a time, it would help keep me organized. ;-)  And the pretty fabrics are from the strips I won from Debi that I told you about a little while back. :-)  I love it when the universe works with me!! LOL  If you decide to make some, check out your dollar store for the foam board. ;-)  I found it at Dollar Tree.

That's all for today~
Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!!

Winner! Winner!

...Chicken Dinner!!  :-)  Sorry, just can't say winner, winner without completing the phrase. :-) LOL

My Random Number Generator picked~~~~


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I will give your name and email addy to Joanne and she will contact you.

I'm sorry I couldn't offer all of you who need longarm quilting this deal.  Check out Joanne's blog~ Insanely Cheap Quilting.  Her regular prices are very good. ;-)

Until next time~
Happy Quilting!

My First Ever Sponsored Giveaway!!

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I am so excited to offer this great opportunity to you!!  Let me start with a little background~ I met Joanne from Splitting Stitches through blogging and have enjoyed getting to know her and 'talking quilting'. She longarm quilts for customers and has a blog dedicated to her business~ Insanely Cheap Quilting.  I love looking at all the wonderful quilts she does for her clients!  Check it out~ there is a lot of eye candy!! :-)  And if you scroll to the bottom of her blog, you can see what 'insanely cheap' means! :-)  A little while back she offered a 'half price quilting' giveaway on her blog and I was one of her lucky winners. :-) Since you know I have a cottage and my own fun longarm, I asked her if  I could do this sponsored giveaway and give the chance to have something quilted at half price to one of you~~ and she said YES!!  :-)  Whoohoo!!

So leave a comment~ and I'll draw a winner on Monday morning. :-)

Good luck!! :-)

Time Flies When Your Sewing...

....Machine is Humming!  :-)  And my baby has had a workout the past week. ;-)

I finished 18 blocks for the red/white block swap I'm hosting on a message board, and when the other's blocks started rolling in I realized I didn't have enough blocks to give everyone a good assortment back! Eeek!! Usually I have a good number of swappers, but this time there were only 11 of us... so what to do? Make more blocks! I made an additional 9 to help even out the numbers. I was so busy sewing and swapping and packing~ I totally forgot the photo!! :-o  I'll take one of my blocks soon.

Then I got to work on the Le Petite project for this month~ it was 'quilter's choice'. :-) We could choose any Scnibble pattern we wanted. Well, I had fallen in love with Full House when I first saw it on Carrie's blog.  And then she went and made more! :-)  I chose to use my charm packs of  Saltbox Harvest... I've only been holding on to them for a year! :-o  I love how it turned out!  Thanks Carrie for another fun Schnibble!!  And thanks also to Sherri and Sinta for the fun every month!

I also finished the next step in the mystery quilt along Leslie is hosting~  I played around with possible lay-outs, but I'm a bit confused by the half plain, half HST squares... any hints Leslie?? :-)

I hope you are finding some fun time for sewing too!
Until next time~

Happy stitchin'!!

Strips!! :-)

Debi from Quilting With Debi had a wonderful giveaway a couple weeks ago and I was one of the lucky ones. :-)  She had been going through some of her scraps and made up 3 boxes of 2.5 inch strips. My box arrived yesterday and I was speechless!  So many strips!! And such a wonderful array~ I know I am going to have fun playing with them!  A few are going into current in-the-works projects, but I think I need to make a jelly roll type pattern too. Thank you so much Debi!! {{hugs}}

I've been doing a lot of sewing lately, but so much of it is for gifts, so I can't show you. :-(  I did make a composition book cover for a friend's birthday recently.  I think I need to make myself one now too. LOL

I hope you are getting lots of sewing done~
until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!!

Fun!

I joined the Santa Sack Swap 2 that Carol is hosting. For September we were to make a bag for our partner and send it along with 2 gifts. Next month we send another two gifts for her to add to her sack, the same for  Nov, and then in December we send a little bigger gifties. Doesn't that sound fun?! My partner is Cyndi at Bluebird's Wing and I have had so much fun getting to her this past month!  Yesterday I received my Santa Sack and first two gifties! Could you hear me squeal?

Cyndi made this wonderful cardinal bag! I loooove cardinals! I love the grommet idea for the handles too!  And Cyndi made this on a vintage sewing machine! :-o No walking foot, no help at all when doing all that quilting~ and it is perfect. Wow!  Am I lucky or what?!

Look inside~ red!! :-))) And pockets! I think Cyndi knows me well. LOL

She also told me she made the bag that one of the gifts is in~ it is really cool! I'm sure my DD will be checking it out when she comes home next week. She loves to paper craft. ;-)

Thank you so much Cyndi!  :-) {{hugs}}

I'm sure you are wondering what I sent. Well, I made this bag from my Christmas stash and a McCall's pattern. The pattern was a little tricky, and if I ever make another, I will change a few things. ;-)  I am going to enjoy plotting and planning and filling it for Cyndi. :-))

That's all the news from here~
Hope you are having a happy and safe weekend!
Happy Stitchin'!

Still Sewing~

I decided to extend Thimbleberries sew day for one more day since I'm loving making these blocks~ and all the mess is out. LOL  ;-) I know there are some mediums and even what could be considered a dark in with the lights~ I'm trying not to be too controlling and make it more scrappy. :-)

This is what I accomplished yesterday~ a small pile of Log Cabin blocks.  I'm working on one of the quilts in Miss Rosie's Spice of Life Quilts book.  (I hope that link works)  I am trying out the new and improved blogger and I'm still finding my way around. ;-)  It is 'cleaner' and I think I will like it, its just that it takes me a bit to get used to change~ a sign of my age? :-o LOL

I'm off to work a bit. I don't anticipate much sewing time today so we'll see how it goes. ;-)
Have a happy day!