Birthday Sewing~

Happy Birthday Lindsay!!!

Today is my friend Lindsay's birthday and she asked me to help her celebrate by sewing for a bit~ how could I refuse?! I can't get her blog to open today, it is filled with photo bucket tags~ does anyone know how to get rid of those? I'll pass along any hints you have!

Update~ its fixed! Thanks for the tip Myra! Now y'all run over there and give her some birthday love! Thank you!! :-)



Yesterday was a lucky mail day as my Paganini pattern arrived, so guess what I will sew! :-)) I cannot find my Angler so I sat and drew lines last night~ now I'm off to sew!

Hope you are finding time to sew a seam today too!
Happy Stitchin'!

Happily H@@king!

LOL, I didn't want to attract any unwanted guests with that title! :-) I've been crocheting! :-)) Monica mentioned on her blog how much she was enjoying crocheting and I commented that I'd picked up my hook too~

I learned to crochet from my grandmother when I was in elementary school. She was an avid crocheter of afghans. She would save the little bits and bobs of leftover yarn for me. I know I made a smaller throw before this one, but I have no idea what happened to it. I also made the most outrageously colorful poncho. LOL I loved wearing it to school. I don't think I even have photo's of it, but it was loud. Then I started making granny squares. I think I was in 8th grade when I put this afghan together. It has held up very well over the years. And it is heavy! DH and I both grab for it in the evenings when watching TV, so I decided we needed another. ;-)


Well, Kim started making a granny striped blanket and gave Lucy's link. LOL I loved what they were doing, but the timing was wrong for me to start anything... until this past weekend. Then JoAnn's happened to have a pretty good yarn sale and now I'm happily hooking along! ;-)


Have a good weekend!

Goals for September and October

It is time to set some goals for the Charming Girls Quilt Club. :-)

I still have quite a few boxes to unpack and put away, so one of my goals is to work on those everyday~ but not to the point of exhaustion... and I'm going to share some time between the house and the cottage, so both can get in order. No photo's yet~ too much chaos! ;-)

I joined Sherri and Sinta Renee for another year of small projects. This is our logo for this year~
And the first small quilt is Paganini. So I hope to find the pattern and get busy on that as soon as I can.

Kelly, our Charming hostess, has set a theme for us of...
That is a topic I usually struggle with, so I'm looking forward to seeing what the other girls have to say. I can do simple things with my home machine, and I'm getting more comfortable renting from my LQS, but finding the time motivation to get quilting are two obstacles for me. ;-)

Have you ever tried fusible batting? I just love it for small things at home!~ No pins! :-)) If you follow the directions, it washes out well and for things that are going to see a lot of washings~ placemats, table runners etc~ it is a time saver for me.

That's all for now~
Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!!

Mail!

Look who came home today! Isn't she adorable? Mama Turtle is from Sinta Renee at the Pink Pincushion. I won her in Sinta's 200th post giveaway. Oops, it looks like she has a little packing material under her eye, we'll take care of that! ;-) We cared for rescued turtles when we lived in TX and this one reminds me of one of the mama's. :-) Thank you Sinta!!

I'm Baa-aack!

Well, sort of... ;-)

We are all in one house~ the move took a week and really wore me out. We had a huge fiasco with getting cable/internet~ why is it that they always tell you it will be sooo easy to transfer, when in reality, it isn't? We have a temporary cable strung across our yard until they can drill under the driveway. Yikes. But!~ I don't have to go to the library! :-)) I have lots of boxes yet to unpack, but I am taking them one box at a time and not worrying. They'll eventually get done. ;-)

I feel like I've missed months of blogging when in reality, its only been a couple weeks! Time has a way of flying by, doesn't it?Have you heard about the new year of Schnibbles now named Le Petite? Check it out on Sinta's blog. :-) It sounds like loads of fun and we have a new button~
I did complete all 12 of the projects for the past year. Unfortunately, I didn't know we'd have to post all of them in the end, so I didn't keep track of photo's very well. I know I have more of them quilted than not, but I have no idea where my flash drive is, so I pulled photo's from my blog to show the 12 months.
Here we have Sept 09 to Feb 10~ Winter White, Cindy Lou Who, Picnic, the tuffets, Madeline and Sunday Best.
And the last 6 months~ Roundabout, Tagalong, Nice Day, State Fair, Joy Luck, and Plan C. I made the large version of Plan C and hope to quilt it by the end of October... if I can rent the longarm at the LQS.

I also missed posting about my Charming Girls Club accomplishments for July and August. Hopefully I can figure out what to do in September and October and get those up. :-) Still lots of boxes to wade through, so I'm sure that is going to figure prominently! LOL

Have a happy weekend and until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!

Hey! Hey-ey!

LOL I have Train's song in my mind!
I just wanted to let y'all know about an Accuquilt GO! giveaway~ Sweet P~ Paulette was lucky enough to try one out and give one away. Hop over and enter her giveaway. I'm really hoping I can win one sometime, but if I can't~ maybe you will! Good luck!!

Karen at Sew Many Ways is giving one away too. My fingers are sooo crossed!! :-))

We are in the final moving stretch! This week everything will be packed and moved to our new home. I'll probably not have internet for a few days, so if I win the GO! be sure to email me ok? LOL I'll check email at the library. ;-)

Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!!

Ta-Da!

Ok, I know this really isn't 'ta-da' worthy to most of you, but to me it is a big deal to get my August Schnibble done. :-) This is the last month for our 'Year of Schnibbles' and I've managed to do every one in the month it was chosen, so I didn't want to fall out now. But with painting, running back and forth between houses, college shopping, (taking DS to college this week) and the packers showing up at my door on Friday, I knew my days were numbered. So I've been sewing every spare minute I could find for the past 2 weeks to get 'er done... and whew! I did it! :-)) This is the large version of Plan C from Carrie's Schnibbles Times Two book. I used Park Avenue by Moda for it. I picked the layer cakes up last month when I was retreating in Portland. :-)



Now it is time to pack up my sewing machine and stuff and take it to it's new home. I don't trust the movers with the majority of my sewing stuff, so we are taking it out ourselves. This will be my new sewing space~ yupper, the painting is finished! :-))


Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!!