Winner! Winner!

Nope, not a chicken dinner! ;-)

The winner from my previous post is Jocelyn from Happy Cottage Quilter!  

Congratulations!!!

What's this? You didn't know I had a giveaway?  I was doing a little experiment to see who reads my blog all the way to the end and who skims. Sorry, but I have a lot of views, but very few comments. I needed to figure out what was up. ;-)

I will be having another giveaway soon~ the sweet staff at Pineapple Fabrics sent me a little something with my next Pineapple Fabrics project. I will be back to tell you about my project tomorrow. Also, I will put all comments from my Pineapple Projects posts into a basket for that drawing. ;-)  I hope you visit and comment often. ;-) ;-)

Until tomorrow~

Happy stitchin'!

Oh! BTW, my blocks were the shabby chic bunch. :-) I plan to put them around a castle panel I have for my DGD. Aren't they pretty?!

String Block Fun!

Hi there!

What is under your needle today?  

I just finished a String Block Swap and just had to take some pix for you. :-)   

In this swap, each participant chose what color/colors they wanted their strings and what size/color for the center strip.

We had everything from college colors to patriotic to shabby chic to certain colors. I loved them all!

I cannot wait to see the quilts that come from these sets of strings! :-)

 

Can you guess which set is mine?

I will draw a name from all guesses and send the winner a little surprise in the mail. ;-)

Good luck!!

 

Have a happy day!

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!

 

Machine Embroidery....

 Good morning!

Are you a machine embroiderer?  I am so hooked! LOL I just love making things for friends, family and our home. I only wish there were more hours in a day because I also love to sew! :-)  I am often found burning the candle from both ends with my hobbies~ but I like it!!

 Yesterday I made this quick in the hoop project for my aunt. She is the last surviving relative on my Mom's side of our family. She lives in an assisted living facility and I recently learned of her love of the Twins~ not missing a game! :-)  

This design is from Designs By Juju  It is currently on sale and includes 6 different sizes, and 6 different quilting designs! More fun!!

I hope you take the time to do something fun today!

I will be back soon~

( please comment. I am planning a fun giveaway soon and the names that go in the hat, will be commenters names ;) ;) .)

Until next time~

Happy stitchin'!

Birthday Fun!

June is a big birthday month in our family.

And I love making gifts! :-)

I used my Crafter's Edge die cutting machine to personalize these pillowcases.

  I added the appliques before sewing them together. It was so easy to cut the appliques with the Crafter's Edge alphabet! 

The top one is for my DGD. I made the mistake of sending her older brother a pillowcase with the Disney Coco fabric and, at 3, she can't read and thought it was hers! (In my defense, I had no idea the fabric or movie were such a big deal! I purchased the fabric for him for a Halloween pillowcase. I didn't realize my faux pas until DS called and explained the nightly wars. LOL!)  So she needed her own.  It took me a bit longer to find more fabric, but I did!

 I don't have all the alphabet dies so I had to improvise on the 'd' for my DDIL. This is the Gaelic spelling of her name. And I just love it! :-)  

Both have now been received and I am so happy to report they were both a big hit. Yay!! :-)

I have been keeping a few more things under wraps and will be back soon to explain!

Until next time~

Happy stitchin'!

New Project and a Question~

Hi!

Today I want to share with you my newest Pineapple Fabrics project.

I used a Bella Pineapple Pack and chose 'Farm to Table' by Ann Kelle.

The free pattern I chose was 'Set Your Table~ Placemats & Table Runner'.

I thought the fabric was so cute for this project and would make a perfect picnic set. I wasn't wrong!! ;-)

The extra strips from the pack were used to make the back of the table runner. 

I did have to be a little careful as a couple of the fabrics were directional. :o

The placemats had this adorable cherry fabric included for the back.

All the fruit and vegetables have the cutest faces! The garlic is wearing glasses! :-)

 

My kit also included this Pellon Sandwich Fuse Double Sided Fusible Fleece...

 

(image from Pineapple Fabrics website)

Have you ever used this product?  I had not, but found it really easy to use with my Teflon press sheet. It adhered to the fabric great!

The pattern said quilting the table runner and placemats was optional, so my question for you is~ would you add some quilting?  I am kinda on the fence. I love the texture quilting gives to things, but with the busy fabrics, would quilting even show?  I would love to know your thoughts. :-)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Until next time~

Happy stitchin'!

Over A Month!!

Hello!

I cannot believe it has been over a month since I last checked in! BUT~ we took a nearly 4 week trip and to say wifi was scarce would be an understatement. One day I had to go to McDonald's just so I could check email!! :o 

Can you guess where we were?

Utah!

We visited most of the National Parks and had a great time! Unfortunately, we both caught colds and had to skip a little touring. But it was all good. We made it home and had time to fully recover before hubby was back to work and I was back behind my machines. :-)

This weekend, I plan to show you what this~

..lovely grouping of fabrics from Pineapple Fabrics turned into... something fun!!

Until then~

Happy stitchin'!!
 

 

Meet Rowdy~

I did a fun pattern test for Lesley @berry_birdy for this handsome rooster.  

It was a first for me~ attempting to turn Dresden plates into feathers! LOL But it turned out to be fun and I really enjoyed the test group~ we had testers from all over the world! And we each gave our rooters a name. I chose Rowdy, he is Foghorn Leghorn's nephew. ;-)

He is prancing about the farm yard. ;-)

Go check out Lesley's Etsy, the pattern will be on sale for this week only.

Until next time~

Happy stitchin'!