Blogger's Quilt Festival 2010

Oh yeah! Its that time of year and Amy (button in my sidebar) has really worked hard for this fun festival! Check out all the gorgeous quilts~ be prepared to be blown away! :-)

I could not decide which quilt to show and finally decided on this one. Unfortunately, blogger wants to tip the finished photo's, so this one is right before I quilted it. I'll show you quilted too, but you'll have to tip your head. LOL

The pattern is from Judy Laquidara. She did a Quilt Along and her pattern was called 'Bears in the Farmhouse'. I renamed my quilt Bears in the Forest because I quilted it with all over pine trees. It is my youngest DS's quilt. Its special because he helped choose the fabrics. I think he did an awesome job!

I hope you enjoy the rest of the festival!

Thimbleberries Sew Day

I got the binding on! LOL If I would have bothered to stop and measure like Needled Mom suggested, I could have saved myself that little hiccup. ;-)  Next time I will know better! ;-)

Then I was going to work on the bag I have had cut out for a couple months, but this project called.... :-)  Sorry~ blogger tipped it. :-/

It is some of the blocks from the 2006 Thimbleberries Club quilt. My friend started them and decided she would never finish them, so I inherited them. :-) She had the 8 large blocks all bordered and then a few blocks that were used on the back of the original quilt. She had extra of the black border fabric but none of the light. I found a FQ of it in my stash (love my stash!) so I think I was meant to finish this one. I think I'm going to just border the remaining blocks and find something else for sashing and sew it together. The faux stitcheries in the blocks are supposed to represent the months, but since she didn't finish the club (the shop ran out of kits! :-o ), we don't have the last 4 months. So I'm just going to double up some of the blocks and scatter them in.  I think it will work ok....

Karen is working on something golden today. :-)
And Deb at Cucaroo is binding a Thimbleberries quilt.  I can hardly wait to see it! :-)
Thanks ladies for joining in the sew day!

Until next time~

Happy Stitchin'!

Thimbleberries Sew Day!

Yay! Are you sewing? Please let me know~ ;-)

Karen at Briarside Lane is sewing. :-)  Whoohoo!

Bridget B is not~ it is her 57th anniversary! Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad! :-))

I thought I'd get right to work on my table runner. I cut 3 strips for binding, because I thought that would be plenty~ as you can see, I should have read the pattern. I am not good at 'guesstimating'! LOL 'Sew' back to work I go!

Happy stitchin'! I'll be back with an up-date later. :-)

Thimbleberries Sew Day~ tomorrow!

Can you believe it is the end of the month already?!  I cannot. The days are flying by too fast! And I'm not fast enough! LOL  Tomorrow is our next Thimbleberries Sew Day, where we either use Thimbleberries fabrics in our project, or a Thimbleberries pattern with any fabric we choose... or you can do both.  I like choices!  I'm not sure if Barb is sewing, but I know Karen will be, and I think Bridget B will be too. Won't you join us?

I am going to be working on this bag that I've had cut out since last month. :-o  And putting the binding on this table runner that I quilted a while back. I'm bad about getting bindings on after I get things quilted. I'm trying to get caught up. ;-)

So what are you going to work on? Please let me know so I can come by and visit!
 Until tomorrow~ Happy stitchin!

Sewing Along~

I've started working on Christmas gifts and projects and also on finishing a few things. :-) I love to have more than one thing going at a time~ no time to get bored! LOL

I tested mitten making when a friend on HGTV found this video~ Mitten Making  ~recycling sweaters into mittens. I don't think I felted the sweater enough (I was too excited to get sewing) ;-) They are little big~ I also forgot to look for a sweater with ribbing for the mitten cuff. I'm going to adjust the pattern a bit and try again. I love wearing mittens when trying to clear the side walks, scraping ice off the car window etc. :-)

The newest issue of Quiltmaker magazine (page 64) has this table topper pattern in it. They did it up in summer colors, but I immediately thought 'Christmas'! I'm not sure if this will be a Secret Santa gift, or if I will make something else. :-)

And finally I got this large quilt top together. :-) It is 'Imagine' from Carrie's book Schnibbles Times Two.  I cannot remember the name of the layer cake. :-o Do you know?  I no longer have a big hall for laying out tops, so this is half of it. I am hoping to go quilting in November. ;-)

That's all the news from here~ I hope you are having a great weekend!
Until next time~
 Happy Stitchin'!

Busy ~ Busy

Happy Wednesday!
I've been sewing!  I think a new house needs a new Christmas decoration, so got this card holder from one of Nancy Halvorsen's books ready to quilt. :-)

I need to say thank you to a few quilty friends~ Joanne at Splitting Stitches had a 'decorate her studio wall' contest a while back and we sent her quilted blocks. I was the lucky winner in her drawing and she was very generous! The cup has a little cat ornament kit in it, and I almost have it together. I'd never had chocolate covered Peeps and they were yummy! Thank you Joanne! :-)

This group of FQ's was a sponsored giveaway by Rosebud Quilter on Amy's blog before she changed to Amy's Creative Side... It may have taken them a while to find me, but I loved the surprise mail!  Thank you Michelle and Amy. I know exactly what to do with these, I just need to shop a little for a border fabric. :-)

I hope you are having a great day!
Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!!

Design Wall Monday~

I'm baa-aaack! :-)
It feels like I've been gone forever, although the computer was back and running last night. ;-)

First things first~ my Fall Into Fall Giveaway is now closed and I have emailed the winner. When I hear back from her, I'll come back and announce it here. Thank you to everyone who played along and to all my new followers! Please come back often! I'll be having another giveaway soon. :-))
Update: My winner is Deborah and we have been in contact. Congratulations Deborah!
 
I managed to get both table runners that I cut out last week, put together. The pattern was a little card and was called Maple Mambo~

To see lots of design wall inspiration, head on over to Judy L's Patchwork Times. 

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