Thank you Wendy!

Wendy of Why Knot Kwilt is such a sweetheart! If you didn't visit her to help her follower count, visit her now. I had no idea that she was going to go and nominate me! :-) But I so appreciate her gesture! If not for Mary, of Quilt Hollow, it may have taken us longer to 'discover' we are sisters! LOL :-) Thank you too, Mary!

Now I get to pass it on to twelve of you! That is the hard part! :-o


Here are the guide lines to follow when you are nominated:

1. Save the image above and post it on your own blog.
2. Pass the award on to 12 fellow bloggers.
3. Link the nominees.
4. Let nominees know they have won this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to the person from whom you received this award.


Here we go~ I so admire each of you and your blogs inspire me to
work a little more, try something a little different and have fun along the way.

Bridget B, my Mom, at Granny Quilts who taught me how to sew and keeps me grounded.

Angela of Country Scraps Quilts~ a fellow DJ'er who inspires me to keep plugging away at those blocks. Sorry I'm behind Angela, hopefully this winter I can catch up! ;-)

Brenda at Brenda's Piece ~we've been friends for a long time, but have never met; and she can get me in trouble by just mentioning a pattern. LOL Fun trouble! ;-)

Barb at Bejeweled Quilts by Barb ~she is so productive and has such a wonderful sense of humor. Her love of quilting shines thru in her blog... and we share a love of Thimbleberries! ;-)

Bonnie at NapTime News who has such a zest for quilting in spite of being such a busy mom! Her days must have more hours in them than mine. ;-)

Carol of Carol's Crafty Creations who is always sewing some cute thing that I can't help but be inspired!

Cindy of Sew Cindy who is the only blogging friend I have met in real life and we had a ball! She is also very talented, caring and fun!

Darlene of Quilting Daze because she is so supportive & kind, and generous in sharing her talents.

Karen at Briarside Lane, actually a friend from when I lived in TX, we are two peas in a pod when it comes to shopping and can really get each other in trouble. I talked her into starting a blog among other things. Oh yeah, in case you didn't know it, I'm a bit of an enabler... or so I've been told. ;-)

Kelly of Cotton Charm ~she is not only the Charming Girls Club co-leader, but she is a sweet friend! I'm so glad to have met her through blogging!

Lindsay of SavedSinnr blog~ a friend I have yet to meet who is such a loving, cheerful person. She is new to quilting but that doesn't deter her one bit. LOL :-)

Mary of Needled Mom who always has a kind word, and her blog is fun to read because she is so busy!


Gosh is that twelve already?! I have so many more I want to mention! Please don't feel bad if I didn't mention you~ twelve isn't near enough! :-/

Until next time~
Happy stitchin'!

Friends In Need~

I have a few blogging friends who need your help. They are trying to get Accuquilt (makers of the GO!) to feature their blog, but they need 100 followers. So stop by and give them some bloggy love. You can mention me or not, that is up to you. One of them even has a little 'enticement'. ;-) LOL :-))

There is Darlene at Quilting Daze~ who makes the most awesome quilts.

And Monica at Diary of a Quilt Maven who is a sweetheart and fellow Thimbleberries lover. :-)

And Wendy at Why Knot Kwilt who I recently discovered is a fellow Charming Sister and lives on my side of the country! ;-)

And thank you to my followers! I've written to Accuquilt too but didn't hear anything back. I've decided it isn't meant to be for me, but I would really appreciate you helping my friends.

Have a great day and happy stitchin'!

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'!