A GiveAway~

Hey y'all~

The Quilted Pig is having a Japanese Fabric GiveAway~ Hurry!~ It ends tonight! :-)



And are you looking for a little blogging fun? Bejeweled Quilts by Barb is having a Round Robin Giveaway. Read all about it on her blog~ :-)

And thanks to my friend Mary for the great giveaway's!! :-) This is just the thing to beat the winter blues! ;-)

Back to Sewing!~

Whoohoo! Seems like forever since I had a good sewing session! Life does have a way of doing that! ;-) I have so many things to do, or rather, that I want to do that I need to get busy! Yesterday I worked on my lantern blocks and they are finished and ready for swapping! :-)) I'm not sure how I'll put the quilt together yet, but I am sure it will be claimed (probably by DD) before it is finished! The oriental prints are so rich and vibrant! Working with the black wasn't fun~ especially trying to sew when there wasn't any sunlight~ I neeeed natural light! Yes, I have one of those energy saving, natural light lamps, but nothing beats true sunshine! :-)

You can click the photo's for a larger lookee ~~I hope! :-))

Next up is the next step in the Bears in the Farmhouse Quilt-Along~~ I can't wait to get to them! So until next time~~

Happy stitchin'!! :-)

A Week! Eek!

Wow I can't believe its been a week since I posted!! :-o The time just flew! I have not been doing anything too exciting~ certainly nothing blogworthy! So just to check in and let y'all know I'm still here ;-), I'll show you a photo of a quilt I did a few years ago. It was a Debbie Caffrey mystery in Traditional Quiltworks magazine~~remember that magazine? It's been gone for a few years now. :-( It called for a certain number of FQ's. So my Mom and I each purchased half yards of fabric and traded half of our FQ's. :-) That was fun! Then we both followed along with the parts of the mystery and the next summer when we saw each other, we had our quilt tops together. It was kinda funny how we paired our fabrics when making the stars~ sometimes we used the exact fabrics, and sometimes not. The border was not part of the mystery. I saw it in another magazine and decided to use up my scraps to make it. When my Mom saw mine, she did hers the same way. :-) She hand-quilted it for me and I did some machine quilting for her on another project. ;-) The binding was the very ends of the scraps! :-) This is the quilt that was on our bed all winter. :-)

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!! :-)

Finishing the Weekend Quiltathon~

I worked on the HST's for Judy L.'s 'Bears in the Farmhouse Quilt-Along' on Sunday and this morning I needed to finish pressing them up. A few still have their papers attached, but they will come out tonight while I'm in my easy chair. :-) I was all smug thinking, 'yay those HST's are finished!' Until I looked a little closer at the pattern~ one of the borders is all HST's too! :-o I have a real love/hate relationship with those little buggers! :-/ Love the look, hate all the squaring up... although with the Triangulations, there really isn't any squaring up to them, just paper rippin'.

Then I finished up a couple oriental lanterns for that swap~

Now I just need to do a few more of the paper-pieced blocks and the swap will be ready for mid-March. :-) If I do them tomorrow, then the rest of the week I can go back to finishing some of my table toppers! ;-)

*click the photo's for a bit larger view~ ;-)

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'! ;-)

Quiltathon Weekend~

It's quiltathon weekend and I am sneaking in a bit of sewing every chance I can find! :-) I am working on my Quilt-Along project. :-) Making HST's using Triangulations. The papers make 1 dozen at a time! Since I have 2 projects that both use the same size HST's, I'm making a few more while I'm at it. Tomorrow night will find me removing papers. ;-)

And for those of you who are facing snow and cold temps~ here is a peek at Spring at my house. :-) Click for a larger view~ I didn't want to make them so large that you'd think I was rubbing it in! lol :-)

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!!

Storing Floss~

I have been embroidering all my life~ well, off and on. ;-) My DGM taught me and the first thing I did was sew my piece onto my jeans! Oh how I hated to have all those stitches snipped out!! :-o I think I finished the dishtowel I was working on, but didn't pick up that floss again for years! Then, when I was first married, my friend got me hooked on cross-stitching. I stitched and stitched! I still have a few things from that time~ esp Christmas ornaments--we did those by the dozens. :-) I stored my floss in these little ribbon rolls~ and it worked quite well, so I didn't see a need to change. My friend encouraged me to switch to the bins and wind my floss on the little 'spools', but I stuck with my rolls. It wasn't until one of our moves when a roll went missing that I thought again about the bin, but by then cross-stitching had taken a definite backseat to quilting. ;-) Well the other day when I went to get a few more skeins of floss for the Willowberry BOM, what hopped into my cart but the little plastic box! :-o I've been winding my floss on the 'spools' at night~ it goes pretty fast. When I mentioned to my friend that I was finally converting to a little box, she said 'oh, I have 4 of those~ I really like them!' 4??! :-) Here I thought I was making such progress with one! LOL

My friend gave me this project organizer as a gift when we stitched non-stop. It was great for cross-stitching~ a pocket for my book and hoop, the large clip for the floss to hook onto the rings, the see thru pocket for needles and what-nots and a scissors place. But now I've converted it to my embroidery organizer. The big clip works great for the little spool thingy's. ;-) I love it!

So how do you store floss? Now that I'm finally switching to the boxes, did I miss something? Is there an new & improved way? :-) Not that I'll switch again for a long time~ LOL :-)

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'! :-)

Stitching~

I am caught up with my Willowberry BOM~ yahoo! (see the link in my sidebar) This is January and February. Man, there were a lot of lazy daisy stitches in there! :-o I didn't have all the floss colors, so I just winged it. :-) Then I went shopping over the weekend~ and now I have colors! :-) How do you store your floss? I'll tell you about my system tomorrow~

Now I am off to work on the February Bunny Hill BOM~ it'll take me a while because the pieces aren't even prepped yet. :-o

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!! :-)