~Thimbles~

One of my friends on the HGTV forum is having a no-sew thimble block swap using the pattern from Sindy Rodenmayer's FatCat Patterns (with Sindy's permission, of course ;-) ). We are using oriental prints. After she swaps the blocks, we can finish the edges of all our blocks ourselves~ I like that because then I won't have a mix of buttonhole stitch and blanket stitch or whatever. I'm not sure what I should do for the edges yet~what would you do? We used raw edge fusible applique and everyone was supposed to cut out the 'window' in the thimble. I used a lot of different orientals because not very many swappers signed up. I'm looking forward to a cute little thimble wall hanging for my sewing room. ;-) It's going to go right above my thimble collection. :-)) Although I'm not very handy at using a thimble, I sure do love them! LOL Do you have a sewing related collection? (besides fabric & patterns) LOL :-)) I'd love to hear about it!

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!

Look at What I Won! :-))

A while back I posted about some blogland giveaway's and one of them was for a cool bunch of scraps & a pattern at Sheree's Alchemy. Sheree has the coolest blog, so if you didn't enter the giveaway, go look at it now. Look at her portfolio~ doesn't she make just the cutest children's clothes?! And this summer she is teaching sewing classes to children~ how fun! She has such a joy and zest for sewing!

I feel quite lucky to have won my second ever giveaway!! :-)) Look at all these fun prints!! I know my DD is going to go nuts when she sees them! The pattern for the bags is soooo cute! (sorry, I got so excited snapping the photo that I didn't check it until I was resizing it, and it got a bit washed out. :-/ )

Someone, pinch me and bring me back to earth! :-))) LOL I'm not quite sure what I'll make first, but I know there are going to be some cute bags coming from these pieces. ;-)

Thank you so much Sheree!! :-))

Design Wall Monday & Other Stuff ~

Good morning! I had a wonderful weekend! I went to the Sisters, Oregon Outdoor Quilt Show! :-)) Aaaannd Fabric Depot! What fun! If you look at the quilt show link, they have a link to photo's of all the quilts that were for sale. So many lovely quilts! :-))) I wore that big grin all day! LOL

And Fabric Depot is a huge store! It is dizzying! Good thing I don't live close to it as it would be too tempting to spend every day there! LOL :-) I didn't purchase much, I was too overwhelmed. But I did find another lovely leaf print! So today's design wall once again has the northwind blocks. ;-) {I promise you won't see it again next week! LOL} I went with the brighter gold for the inner border as it seemed to look better with the gold blocks around the edges, but now, which leaf print would you choose?? Left or right? I love them both, but I am definitely leaning more toward one than the other. I wonder if you would choose the same one? :-)

I'm off to finish up my jewel box blocks~ I may have photo's later today or tomorrow. ;-)

Have a great day and until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!!

Working Wednesday~

..or maybe it should say 'What I Am Up To Wednesday'. ;-)

I decided to give the northwind blocks a rest. Thank you for all your border votes! I've narrowed it down to the lower two golds~ I'm moving them around the quilt to see if either clashes with any of the outer blocks, then that one would be out. If not, I'll just close my eyes and choose one! LOL :-)

In the meantime~ I finished block 7 of Verandah Views last night. I left off the tail part that was below the post on purpose, because I thought my bird was cute without having such a long tail. Just pretend his tail is hidden behind the wood. LOL ;-)

And I'm back to working on Triangulations. :-) This time they are for the Jewel Box Blocks swap I am doing on HGTV. I have 2 sets finished and this last one to go~ I just love making HST's with Triangulations! And I love the rotating mat for trimming them! When I do these, I trim off half of the little 'rabbit ear' ends while I'm trimming up the blocks~ I trim the outer triangles off, them when I have a center square left, I nip off those double ends. The rest I'll take when I'm relaxing tonight and snip off and then finger press them all open. They will be ready to join the 4 patches I will do this afternoon. I love a plan! LOL! :-))

What are you working on today? If you leave me a comment, I'll come over and see~ ;-)

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'! ...and no rippin'!! :-)))

Design Wall Monday~ Choices!

I hope y'all had a happy weekend!

My design wall (read floor) has the Northwind top on it once again~ are you tired of it yet?

Today's choices are border options~ :-) I have a bunch of HST's the same size as the ones in the blocks, but I'm thinking that would make the border way too busy with the leaf print fabric, so I'll save those for another day. ;-) Since this is already a 72 x 90 top, I was thinking along the lines of a smaller inner gold border and then maybe a 5 inch (?) leaf border.... or are the leaves too much too? Ahhh! This is why I have so many tops without borders! :-o Please tell me your ideas!~~

1. Should I go with the more muted top (in the photo) gold?

2. The center gold that has green in it?

3. The brighter bottom gold?

Hopefully this week will be a bit on the quiet side and I will be able to get the borders on. ;-) Which would mean new project photo's next week!! :-))

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'! :-)

More Giveaways~

How about a Christmas in July giveaway? Barb has some very cute things and I love red/white! Go check it out! :-)

And here's one more from I'm Just A Guy Who Quilts~ seriously, patriotics, 30's and more fabulous prizes! Here's a peek~

Have fun and have a happy day! :-)

The Center is Together!

Whoohoo! :-) And not a minute too soon! Now I need to clean up my little disaster and prepare for the weekend. ;-)

Pinning was definitely the way to go with this one, even if it did take a lot of time. I probably shouldn't tell you, but even with pinning, I had to rip a few times! :-o Does that mean I'm a bad pinner? LOL :-)) I don't sew over pins, so a few times, things moved just enough to make me rip and try again when I'd pull out the pin too early~ impatient me! :-)

Now to figure out borders~ after the weekend. ;-)

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!! :-) And have a happy weekend too!! :)