I'm BAA--AACK! :-)

Anyone out there?  :-o

I know it has been almost a month! And I just got home the night before last! But I had a blast!!  I was at the Circle of Friends retreat in Branson, MO. We had 66 retreater's and a very fun weekend.  Its going to take me a long time to recover! LOL

Remember all the secret sewing I have been doing all year?  We were working on row robin quilts. Back in April we started making our center rows and passing them around. I did 2 lap quilt rows and one wall hanging. So every month to 6 weeks, I had three to work on~ and I had to keep them secret so the owner's would be surprised at retreat. I was blown away by all the creativity on all the quilts!  I'll show you mine today~ and if you'd like to see more go to this blog and scroll down a bit. :-)  I think I have photo's of all of them too. :-)

This was my wall hanging. I did the center black cat row and plan to add some crystals for their eyes after I have it finished. The person who made the row with the eyes told me they glow in the dark! Too fun! :-)

Mine is in the center ;-)

 I love the wintery one to the right of mine! And the one to the left is going in the owner's fishing cottage on a lake. Very cool!

This is one of my lap size quilts. I made the Christmas trees and gifts in the center row~

Blogger won't let me put a space between the photo's today, so the bottom shot is of my second lap quilt. I  made the house row and asked everyone to keep it to an autumn theme.  I love them both! **you can click on the photo's to make them larger** ;-)

Mine is on the left, my friend's with a chicken theme is on the right. 

Love the autumn rows!

I have much to do yet, unpacking and organizing. But I'll be back with more photo's soon!!

Have a happy Friday!!

Catch-Up Post~

I have so many unrelated things to post about that I thought I'd just do one catch-up post. :-)

Thimbleberries Sew Day....

...was yesterday and joining me sewing were Kim of Kim Sherrod Studio, and Karen at Briarside Lane. Please be sure to visit them and cheer them on. :-)

I continued to work on my log cabin blocks for the Double Duty quilt in 'Miss Rosie's Spice of Life Quilts'.  I am so happy to report that I am nearly finished with the little buggars! LOL :-)  I ran out of strips and had to cut about 20 more last night. I will sew them on today and next month I can start putting it together! :-)

I can't show you a photo of the blocks on my design wall, because this quilt is filling it now...

and I need to get it together. :-) My friend Lindsay and I led a block of the month program on HGTV Quilter's message board last year, and this is my 'Stars in the Barn Door' top~ partially sewn together. ;-) The star blocks all came from Quilter's Cache, but we did re-size some of them into a 6 inch block for the center of the barn door block.  My plan is to put a border of HST's around the top once I get it all together.

Row Robin sewing

I also need to work on one more row robin~

Last night I finally was struck with inspiration, and although I won't be able to show you what I add to this top (I know the owner of this row visits my blog) ;-) , I will be able to show you all the completed row tops in the fall.  :-)


Gifties~

Remember all the 'secret sewing' I was doing before Christmas?  These scarves were part of it. I made them for family and a few friends. They are layers of flannel that are sewn together and then cut into chenille... after a washing and drying they fluff out so nice and are so warm!  These are the last two for my kiddo's. :-)

I am off to sew on something! LOL I do have a few choices, don't I?  I'm going to finish up the log cabin blocks first~ ;-)

Until next time~
Happy stitchin'!!

Keeping Busy~

I'm sorry it has taken me so long to get back!  Thank you for all your wonderful comments on my angels and Santa.  They were both fun to do and really put me in the Christmas spirit! :-)

So what is keeping me so busy now?  Well, along with all the holiday general stuff, I've got 3 row robins to work on and get in the mail by January 7th.  I am doing these with the ladies on the HGTV quilters message board and dare not show photo's because we aren't suppose to reveal them until September 2012.  I did show you the three rows I sent off~ HERE is one of them.  Hmmm, I didn't find the other two. Maybe I didn't show you? This one~

Or that one?  They are off on their adventure~ having rows added all over the US.  :-)

This is one I received to work on~  last night I started. And I can't show it. :-(  Don't worry, next September I'll have loads of photo's for you! :-)

Today I am tea dying~  I'll let you know how it turns out. ;-)

And remember these two sticheries from here~

Last night I finished the stitching.  The one on the left, I printed a reverse image on the back with my printer, instead of tracing the design.  It worked great. I used only black ink and I have run a sample piece through the washing machine and the ink did not bleed or run.  The one on the right I used Transfer Ease. I still need to rinse it out, and then I'll let you know how it worked.  My question for you is this~~ would you make little wall hangings or small pillows with them?  I always get to this point and then can't decide how to finish them!  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!~ and no, I am not letting them leave my house, LOL :-)
Both stitching patterns are free at Red Brolly~ I love that site! ;-)

That's all for today~ back to check on my muslin.
Have a great day!
And happy stitchin'!