Saturday Sewing~

Or maybe I should say 'mindless sewing'. :-)  I decided to do Bonnie Hunter's Orca Bay mystery.  ( She has a tab at the top of her blog where you will find all the info and Step 1).  When the first step turned out to be 224 QST's I did pause for a minute! LOL  But she says we are getting the worst over first, so away I went.

I don't collect 1.5 inch strips, and don't have a stash of those. Actually I don't have much of a stash of black fabrics at all~ I used them up in my last B&W quilt.  So rather than cut my remaining pieces down to 1.5 inch strips, I printed out sheets of Triangulations papers and cut rectangles.  I know a lot of quilters don't like having to remove the papers, but it is the easiest and most accurate for me. I love not having to do any squaring up when the units are 2.5 inches or less. ;-)

Today I sewed ten sheets~ which will be 120 QST's when I sew the halves together. It went really fast, and I can pull the papers when I'm sitting in my easy chair tonight. :-)  At this rate, this step is going to be done before I know it! :-)

Have a happy weekend~
And until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!!

Happy Friday!

I thought when the time changed we were supposed to gain an hour~ where did it go?  Do you find you get busier instead of having more time too?  ;-)  If you found my extra hour, would you send it back please? :-)

I've been sewing up gifts ( no peeks yet), working on getting a top together and working on F8 blocks.  I thought I'd tell you about my F8 blocks today. 18 of the ladies on the HGTV quilting board each sent a F8 of their chosen fabric to the other participants. Then we got busy making blocks for each other. :-) It has been a lot of fun!~ Seeing the different fabric pieces and trying to decide what block to make. I've made Christmas blocks, and summer blocks and 30's blocks and every thing in between. Unfortunately I didn't think to take photo's of the blocks I made for the other ladies.  :-/ BUT! I do have a photo of the blocks I have received so far.  I sent out the tan batik and asked for blocks in ocean colors (a favorite theme of some of my quilty friends on the message board ;-)  LOL)  Yes, I was copying a previous swap. :-)  Everyone knows I love stars, and I am just thrilled with the blocks I've received! :-) Aren't they beauties?

I hope you are getting in some sewing fun too!
Until next time~
Happy stitchin'!!

We Have A Winner!

 Thank you! for all your wonderful comments on my 600th post!!  I couldn't write back to each of you, but I so enjoyed reading your comments! I wish I had prizes for all of you!!  {{hugs}}


My random number generator~ in this case DH, :-) picked a number and I counted down to Shelley!  Congratulations Shelley!!  I'm not going to tell what I've added to the magazine, hopefully you like surprises. ;-)

Today is my birthday! And I have been spoiled to bits!  My sweet girlfriend made this reversible table runner for me. Love it!!  :-D

I had joined a birthday FQ swap this year and this is part of my FQ gifties~ I love batiks!

I also joined a birthday swap, and my swap partner sent all of these goodies! Wow!  I feel like a kid in a candy store!  :-)

I hope you are having a wonderful day too!  I am off to work on some secret gifts. ;-)
Until next time~
Happy stitchin'!!

Whoops! & Today is the Day!

Whoops~ I didn't make it back to report on how the Creatopia fabric adhesive worked~~ fantastic!! It was like sewing through butter, no gummed needle, no lifting of the applique, I am happy. :-)  I also cut out a few shapes with some old Sizzix dies we had for scrapbooking and put adhesive behind them~ worked beautifully. I think I am going to be looking at applique in a whole new light now. ;-)

And today is celebration day!! This is my 600th post!  Can you believe that? I sure can't!  That is one of the reason's I didn't post sooner~ I was trying to 'save' 600 until I had something you might like. :-)  Today I found this new magazine~

So for my 600th post giveaway I am going to give  this copy (sorry for the glare~ we are having a sunny day!) and I'm going to add a few surprises.  To be entered just leave me a comment~ anything at all.  I'll draw on Sunday and mail it out early next week.

I'm off to enjoy the sunshine.

Have a happy day!!

A Huge Box~~

...at my door! :-) :-) :-)

What could it be?

Whoohoo!!  A really special arrival! :-)

Thank you so much for the fabulous giveaway Amanda and Xyron for sponsoring it!!  :-) I feel so very lucky!!

Of course, you know I had to play!  :-) I put in the fabric adhesive cartridge~ it is acid free and it says it is repositionable.  Since I had most of my December banner done, I did the letters with the Creatopia. I cut out the fabric, ran it thru then cut out the letters... next time I will try it the other way, cutting out the letters first. (I love to play!)  (I did hint to hubby that I am going to need some alphabet dies~ I don't think he got it though. LOL)

It worked great, the adhesive was quite sticky, but I could reposition the letters until I got them where I wanted. The book also says it won't gum your needles for hand or machine sewing~ so today I am going to sew around them. I'll let you know how it goes. I will say this though~ the adhesive behind the letters is so soft, it is like I didn't use anything to adhere the fabrics together. I like that! :-) I don't like stiff fusible stuff, so this may be my applique dream come true!  The booklet also says anyone's dies will work in the Creatopia. I need to get a different cartridge, and then I'll slide some of my older scrapbooking dies thru and see.  I know when my DD comes home for break, she is going to love scrapbooking. ;-)  I see loads of fun in our future! :-)

I'll be back tomorrow!~ :-)

Le Petite~ The Year in Review~

Sinta and Sherri asked that we post our Le Petite projects from the past year on our blogs today.  Easier said than done since our hard drive was replaced last month, but I'll see how many I can come up with~~ Since I was in the Schnibbles group last year too, I adapted some of this years patterns to other things. ;-)

First up was Paganini a Schibble pattern from Miss Rosie's Quilt Co

Next was Butter Churn from This and That patterns

Prairie Point Christmas from the Moda Bake Shop

Mon Ami~ a Schnibble pattern, I made into placemats

Sweet Spot~ Schnibble pattern

Endless Summer ~ a Scnibble pattern I made into a little topper

Brocante~ another Schnibble pattern

Candy Bar~ Schnibble pattern

 Ric Rac ~ a Schnibble pattern I made into pillows

George ~ another Schnibbles pattern I turned into a kitchen wall hanging

Honeycomb ~ a Schnibbles pattern I made into a bag ;-)

Full House ~ we had a choice this month and I chose this Schnibbles pattern.

Hey! I found all of them!  It was a fun year!  If you'd like to join in the fun, I hear that Sinta and Sherri are going to start again in January. ;-)

Happy Halloween!!

From 'Count On It' by Nancy Halvorsen

Have a spooktacular day!!! :-)