Sew Day~ part 2

You know the saying 'even the best laid plans..'?  Well that was my day! ;-)  I did get a few stitches sewn on the vines in this topper.   But the majority of today was spent...

cookie making! DS aka my cookie monster wanted to make some cookies and so we teamed up and made 14 dozen! Hopefully there will be some left for him to take back to school. lol

Thanks Terry,  Lindsay,  Sharon,  and Linda for sewing with me today! :-) I am headed to my chair to work on the vines some more. :-)

Until next time~
Happy stitchin'!!

Its Thimbleberries Sew Day!

Is anyone sewing today?  It's a free-sew day, so whatever you are working on; Thimbleberries or not~ let me know so we can visit! :-)

Happy last Wednesday of 2010!!

I'll be back~~ ;-)

December Le Petite~

I wasn't sure I'd get it together~ but I sewed today!! :-) This Prairie Point Tree was designed by Cara and was a project at the Moda Bake Shop. Sinta and Sherri picked it as our December Le Petite project.

I made mine small. And purposely didn't use any holiday fabric so I could keep it up through the winter. Hopefully I will get it quilted this week yet, but just in case~ my top is done! :-) I had a couple cardinal buttons that I'll add when its quilted.

Thanks for stopping by~
Hope you have a wonderful New Year!

Next Thimbleberries Sew Day~

~is this Wednesday!  Do you have something to work on? It can be a pattern using Thimbleberries fabrics, or a Thimbleberries pattern using fabrics of your choice. Please let me know if you will be sewing so I can come and visit! :-)

I will be working on this darling wall hanging~

Patty @ momloves2quilt had a giveaway a while back and when I saw these Thimbleberries goodies I got my name in her hat! And I won! :-) Thank you so much Patty! I think it was destiny that these came to play with me as I have the book the wall hanging came from~ and I even had a marker in the spot! It was on my to-do list. :-) You've gotten me over halfway there!

I hope you all had a joyous Christmas! We sure did! Thanks for all your comments on my new 'baby'~ I haven't figured out a name yet, but I'm sure I will. ;-)

Hope I see you Wednesday!
Have a happy week!

Merry Christmas!

Thank you to all my wonderful followers and friends for a year of fun! I appreciate your visits and comments more than you could ever imagine!  My wish for each of you is happiness, health and many blessings. Merry Christmas!

Santa knew he would be really busy tonight, so he stopped by a little early to my cottage. :-)  And this is what he left!!~~

WOW! I must've been better than I thought I was! LOL  :-))

Actually, I had been dreaming of my own longarm for years, and DH was planning to surprise me~ but I didn't think it would happen until maybe next year. Yup, 30 years and he can still surprise me! :-))  I've already done a little test run on a table runner and I love it! It is going to be so wonderful to be able to quilt at home and not have to plan time to rent at the LQS. :-) I'm on cloud 9!

Until next time~
Merry Christmas!!

Snowmen and Snowflakes

Two of my favorite things! :-)

I am hosting a swap on the HGTV Quilting and Needlework message board for 10.5 inch  fabric squares. If you've never been to the message board go HERE.  You have to join/log in to see the photo's, but it is well worth your time. The ladies make amazing quilts and are a very friendly, helpful bunch. :-)

If any of my blog readers would like to join us, just let me know and I'll email the guidelines to you. :-)

Until next time~ Have a happy day!

~Royal mail~

It's here! :-) I won this book in a giveaway QuiltSue had last month. I've never received mail from the UK and wondered how long it would take to get to the western US. Wonder no more! It's here!  :-))  And sweet Sue included a few extra's!  I love the Snap Happy bag she made!  And chocolate treats! ;-))

Thank you so much Sue!
{{hugs}}

Winner!

Thank you for all your lovely comments! :-)

Hubby just drew for me before heading out~ and out of the hat~~~

He drew Quilt Hollow!!  Congratulations!!!

Thanks everyone for participating!~ I have a few more giveaways planned after the holidays!

Have a happy day!!

Goals, Completions, Celebrating!

Hi everyone! Sorry I have been a bad blogger of late~ I've been visiting, just didn't have a lot to talk about here. Well, now I have a lot to talk about! lol

I finished my Charming Girls Club goals for the past 2 months. One was to do Butter Churn~ pattern by Sherri K. Falls and the November Le Petite project.

Another goal was to corral battings and backings to rent the HQ at my LQS. And I'm happy to report I got everything quilted and bound(!) that I had hoped to do! :-) This is the BOM we did on the HGTV quilter's message board. My friend Lindsay and I picked the blocks from various internet sites and presented them to the board members to do each month. I also used EQ to downsize the 12 inch block to a 4 inch one. I made the layout in EQ7, got my blocks together and took it to quilt last week. I used an all over panto called 'Featheration' by Meredith England.  I used 80/20 batting because I wanted the crinkle look. ;-) I'm really happy with how it turned out. :-)

If you are still with me~ I had this book in my stash and as I was unpacking I realized, it has very cute and quick projects in it, but isn't really my style. If you'd like to have it, just leave me a comment telling me so. If you really, really want it, and are a follower; tell me that in a second comment. This will be a short giveaway~ I'm headed to the PO Tuesday and would get it mailed to you then. So I'll draw Monday afternoon.  Good luck!

Happy Stitchin'!

BINGO!

It's Holly Jolly Bingo time!  Oh yes!  :-))
The gals at The Quilt Shoppe are going to host this fun game again this year.

I'm excited!  Hope you join in the fun too! Click the button on my sidebar to go right to their site~~

Have a happy day!

Today~

~ you can find me here. ;-)

Have a happy day!

A Fabulous Gift for me!!

The mailman pulls up to the house and rings the bell~ DH says 'what did you order?' And I could honestly say 'huh?' ~that's my response before I know I'm totally innocent. lol  And I was! Totally innocent, I mean! :-))  My Charming Girls Secret Santa gift arrived! ~~and you know, I was so busy making the gift for my Secret Santa that I totally forgot about the part where I'd receive a gift too! :-o  And look at my wonderful gift!!

It was wrapped so beautifully!  And she made the adorable cardinal card too! How did she know I love cardinals too? :-)  AKK! So sorry blogger tipped my photo! :-/ But it really is cute from any direction. :-))

And inside I found this fantastic log cabin table topper! It fits me to a T! And speaking of T's~ it has my favorite Thimbleberries fabrics in there!! Wow! She also sent this wonderful Holy Family decoration and chocolate! Oh boy!! Does she know me or what?! lol

Thank you so much Sharon! I'll bet your grandchildren love visiting Camp Gramma! (that's Sharon's blog, and if you haven't been, you need to!)

Thanks to all of you for stopping by in the last few weeks too. Things are calming down a bit and I plan to get back to more regular blogging. Sorry I didn't get a chance to answer your comments personally, I really appreciated each of them and plan to try to keep up a bit better in the future!


Have a great night!