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Monday, April 8, 2013

Weekend Sewing

I did not accomplish as much this past weekend as I had planned~ but I did get myself ready for my retreat. :-) My machine is cleaned, oiled and ready to sew! And I have more projects than I can possibly sew~ but that gives me options! ;-)

Yesterday I put together this little Three Zipper Pouch. I found the tutorial on A Quilter's Table. The instructions were wonderful~ a fun and easy way to spend a bit o'time sewing. :-) I know it is an older tutorial, but I just got around to it! I'm a turtle~ slow and steady. LOL If you make one, please let me know! I have plans to make a couple more; I love the idea of three separate pockets! And if you have zipper anxiety~ no worries! You can do this! :-)

Until next week~ little bloggy break ;-) ~ happy stitchin'!!

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Sewing BOM's

I am following a couple BOM's this year and trying hard to stay caught up! :-)

This is my April block for the HGTV BOM that I am co-hosting. It is called 'Housewife' and is from Quilter's Cache.

This is the March block for the Kansas City Star BOM called 'Rubies, Diamonds, Garnets Too'. The blocks come out in the third Sunday of the month House and Home section, so I have a few weeks before April's block. :-) I am using up my scraps of red and whites for this one.

This is Country Thread's BOM for 2013. It comes out the beginning of every month on their blog "Chicken Scratch" I am not happy with my smaller block and am contemplating a re-do. The light has too big of grey splotches in it and they blend too much with the blue. I'm doing it in all my CW scraps, so I didn't have many choices for grey.

And this block isn't a BOM. :-) In my upcoming retreat pack there were 2 squares of fabric and they asked us to make a block. The squares they sent are the small printed musical notes in black on white and white on black. This will go into a block raffle. Although I made a block for the raffle, but I won't put my name in, I just like to contribute. ;-)

I hope you are having fun with your BOM's too!
Have a happy weekend!

Sunday, March 31, 2013

CTTY

Happy Easter! We had a wonderful day~ I hope you did too!

I'm sliding in on the tail of Christmas Through the Year, although my project has been done for a bit. Can it really be the end of March!!??

I made this little quilt for the Stitch Me Up blog hop, but it is going in my Christmas box. :-) I had big plans to get a few other things done this month, but they are still in pieces! :-o Maybe you will see them next month. ;-)

Be sure to stop by and visit Kim @ Lily Patch Quilts to see everyone's projects this month. ;-)

Have a happy week!!

Thursday, March 28, 2013

A Bit O'Fun!

I'm still in my St Patty's Day after-glow I guess. LOL Thinking up blog titles is hard for me! How about you? Do you have a hard time finding a title you haven't used before? I always think along the same lines. ;-)

Anyway~ I did have a little fun this week. :-) A sweet friend sent me one of the sacks that holds the sunflower seeds she purchases for her birds. I wish I had taken a photo before I cut into it~ it was huge!~ but I was so excited to get started! LOL I made my self a tote bag. ~~

I love red cardinals!! So I accented the bag with red. ;-)

I made double handles~ long ones for my shoulder and shorter ones for hand carrying. I have another bag with handles like this and I just love it! It is big enough to hold one of those plastic 12 inch square block satchels. Which works out perfectly for me, for hauling my projects to retreat and back. ;-)

Since I had a piece leftover, I also made pockets for the inside. It was a lot of fun playing with the seed sack. :-)

I hope you've had some fun sewing this week too. Now it is back to cutting for me~
Have a happy!!

And don't forget~
The Stitch Me Up Blog hop is still hopping along with a lot of great stitched projects~~

THURSDAY MARCH 28th

Enjoy!!!

Monday, March 25, 2013

Stitch. Stitch. Stitch...

The Stitch Me Up Blog Hop continues this week~

Here are today's bloggers~

MONDAY MARCH 25th

Beverly @That Other Blog

Betty@That Other Blog

Stitches to Sprinkles

Stitch Duchess' Crazy and Sane Quilting World

Bejeweled Quilts by Barb

Little Pieces of My Life

Creating My Comforts

To see the complete list for the week, go to Jane's blog~ HERE

enjoy!

Saturday, March 23, 2013

FNSI

Last night was Friday Night Sew In sponsored by Heidi @ Handmade by Heidi . While technically I didn't sew, I did cut. :-) And cut, and cut....

Let me explain~ I am going to a sewing retreat next month. They do offer classes, but usually I take my own projects and keep my nose to my sewing machine. This year I decided to take a couple classes. :-) One of the classes uses 'bricks' or 3.5 x 6.5 rectangles in the pattern. So I got all my bricks cut last night for that project. Yup~ 156 of those babies. I'm using up all my Kaffe scraps, so cutting was tedious, but it is done. Yay! I have a few more projects I want to get cut out before I go, so that will happen next week.

Before I go, I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who stopped by and commented on my Stitch Me Up project. I got a record number of comments for me. Thank you so much!! The blog hop will continue on Monday and I'll be back to give you the schedule.

Have a happy weekend!!

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Stitch Me Up!~ Friday

Today is my day in the Stitch Me Up Blog Hop and I am so excited to be here!

If you are new to my blog~ welcome! And if you are a follower~ thank you so much for coming back!! :-)

Before I show you my project, I would like to thank Jane @ Jane's Fabrics and Quilts for being the hostess behind this swap. She did a fantastic job!

And also, Thank you Mdm Samm for thinking up these fun hops, finding sponsors to delight us and designers to entertain us. For this hop Mdm Samm found 3 embroidery designers who generously shared their talents and designs with us.

Debbie at Busy as Can Be

Cyndi @ Stitch, Stitch, Stitch

And Madame Samm herself drew up some designs for us!

We also have a wonderful sponsor in Colonial Needle. ~ thank you!

I chose to embroider one of Madame Samm's designs. When I saw this cute little girl, I immediately thought of 30's fabrics. So I set out stitching and sewing, sewing and quilting. :-)

I loved dressing her up a bit. And now~

I've got a doll quilt~ all ready for the holidays. :-)

If you are one of my followers, you will see my big reveal! This was how I used the giant ric-rac I made in previous posts~ to bind my little quilt. :-) It is 3-D on the front and back.

I used a peach colored thread for her face and legs, and I'm afraid it doesn't photograph very well. :-/ She is all there! :-)

Please be sure to visit the other bloggers who are hopping with me today!

Keri@That Other Blog

Heather@That Other Blog