Happy Mother's Day

I hope everyone had a Happy Mother's Day.  My daughter and I walked over the Brooklyn Bridge!
It was a very cool windy day....we both have about 4 layers of clothes on trying to keep warm :0).
 

National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden

I just loved this sculpture........how many of us can remember using this style eraser?
"This sculpture presents a giant falling eraser that has just alighted, the bristles of the brush turned upward in a graceful, dynamic gesture."  (part of the written description) .

Happy Mother's Day :0)

Another Bonnie Hunter Pattern

Bonnie Hunter calls this pattern " Jarred takes a wife", but I may call it something else.  I started with a plaid shirt as inspiration and cut all the center squares with that fabric......the rest is all from scraps and stash.
The purple I used between the blocks was purchased on a shopping trip when I was pregnant with my daughter.......she'll be 30 in Jan. !  I wonder if I'll ever use all my stash up?

Debby is having a giveaway

http://higheredhands.blogspot.com/

Debby is giving away a copy of her book.
It's a great teaching yourself how to quilt tool.....by hand, home machine or longarm!


Happy sewing and good luck :0)

Another finish

Okay, so Jack turned 60 on the 4th of July 2009.......but he'll still get it while he's 60!

Another great giveaway

http://daisyquilts.blogspot.com/

these are giveaways of original patterns!  So clever!
Happy sewing and good luck.

Paper piecing challenge round three

I'm making this for my granddaughter Lily....first round has her name, then second round has two cats like she has at home and some hearts to show how much I love her.  Round three has the year making this quilt, a house with her house numbers, two pinwheels to play with, and a little girl with ginger hair ...just like her :0).
Next round will have lots of lilies......for my little Lily.

Book giveaway

http://quiltingprofessor.blogspot.com/2010/04/book-giveaway.html

Oh don't you love a chance to win a book?
Click on over and enter to win!
Good Luck and Happy sewing

Another QOV

Here is another completed QOV ( quilts of valor...made for wounded soldiers)  for donation made with matching presentation case.
Debby Brown and I have made about 8 of these together.  A small thanks to those that serve and suffer for our freedom.

Blocks for Bumblebeans

http://bumblebeans.blogspot.com/p/block-gather.html
Victoria is making quilts from house blocks........here are 4 blocks I made to send along.
If you can help.... go to her site and find the particulars on this donation effort.

Happy sewing

Spring!

Its 38 degrees and the wind is howling, the rain pouring down as hard as I can remember but the snow is gone!  The bulbs are pushing up, the forsythia is blooming and the trees getting ready to leaf out....this is Spring in Pokeytown :0).  I'm just back from 6 days away at the AQS Lancaster quilt show....where I spent way too much money.  I got to work on my wool crazy block too.

Amish influence

                

I think this will be fun quilted by hand with black thread.
I hope everyone is enjoy the first days of Spring by being outside, I am and my yard is getting a good clean up!  Happy Sewing :0)

Friday night sewing with Heidi :0)

Jammies on.....machine running.......making progress.......pictures tomorrow :0)

I finished this top today.  It is from the group challenge by Lazy Gal quilting Tonya :0).
http://lazygallibamish2010.blogspot.com/
It got bigger than I planned so I think I will have Debby Brown quilt it with her trusty longarm
and I'll make a smaller something Amish and hand quilt it.

Another great giveaway

http://cvquiltworks.blogspot.com/
Okay I love the selvedges craze don't you?
Here is chance to win a book about it!

I have been doing some sewing but mostly yard clean up.
After several storms with down tree limbs and branches everywhere its been taking a while to get
it all picked up.

Happy sewing

Banaghaisge: Blogaversary Give-away

Banaghaisge: Blogaversary Give-away

Wow its a blogaversary give away!

wool crazy

                               Okay, I have discovered I just love working with wool........be careful or this bug might bite you!

Pony for Lily

                                I'm going to visit my granddaughter so I just had to make her a new stuffed toy :0)

               the snow is melting .......this is a week after our snowstorm.  I am so ready for Spring!

Broken branches, more snow and no power

                             We had a slight break in the snow so we cleared out the driveway and took some pictures.
                             We had a huge branch come down near the road, and some in the back.

                              Luckily nothing hit the house.  We have the generator running for a while to warm things up.  How many weeks until Spring?

Oh the weather outside is frightful.....

 I tried to get this guy to help me shovel but he just smiled and would not budge!
It's a good day to stay in and sew :0).

A Tisket a Tasket

I finally finished piecing this top!  2009 BOM designed and given for free on the web by Anne Sutton of
Bunny Hill Designs.  I think it is so cute and was really fun to do.  Each month I would download the block pattern and make a kit of  wool pieces I wanted to applique onto a cotton square, that way I could take it with me where ever I traveled.  The layout is adapted from a pattern from the book " Patchwork Picnic" by Suzette Halferty and Nancy J. Martin.
Now its on to Debby Brown to quilt it for me :0).

Happy Valentine's Day

The beginning of my wool crazy embroidery......I had to start with a heart in honor of St. Valentine's Day.

Wool crazy take two

                               The top picture is my second attempt at laying out the foundation, done by hand it lies nice and smooth........my first try was done by machine and was bunchy and lumpy.  Not a good surface for embroidery and applique.  I chalk this up to the learning process.  Snowy day here so maybe I'll get some
sewing done today.

"A tisket a tasket."..BOM finishes

                               I finished making my Anne Sutton designed blocks from Bunny Hill Designs.
Now all I have to do is put them together so I can start her new free BOM for 2010....." Snowbound"
All snowpeople......adorable.  12 months of embroidery with great directions.. free online :0).

Wool crazy quilts

                               I joined an online group that is making a wool crazy quilt, this is something I have never done before.  I am looking forward to learning a new skill and making something beautiful.  I started off with
the book, a template for laying out the back ground wool and a package of wool scraps to get me started.
These were purchased from www.primitivegatherings.us.  Wish me luck :0).  

Ho Ho Ho

                                 I saw a picture of this little quilt and just had to copy it......it is just
                                two nine patch blocks, but done it bright colors....like turquoise and red
                                ( yes I'm still on that kick) it is very graphic.  Now I can't decide if it is
                                done or needs another border...Santa faces? A border of wonky house
                                like Tonya's? A border of wonky letters spelling out Christmas greetings?
                                I think I'll put back up on my design wall and see if it speaks to me :0)....
                                Let me know if you have any ideas!

snowman

                                Happy snow day!  I went out to shovel the driveway and the snow is
                               just perfect for making a snowman......I had to do it!

Round robin round #2

                                I like paper piecing for small projects and this one is going to stay fairly small.
                                Its beginning to look very valentiney.......cute though right?

Another Alzheimers quilt

                                          I made two of these little quilts to donate for auction to the
                                          AAQI........this is the front and back of "Lime Synapse".
                                          Ami Simms is the quilter who developed this charity as a
                                          way to honor her Mom by helping others.

Happy Birthday Aaron

                               Happy 34th Birthday Aaron 1-24-2010 !

Scrap happy

                                          Let's follow the scrap trail.......first I made "Carolina Christmas" 
                                          ( Bonnie K. Hunter's mystery) 
                                          then I made a spiderweb quilt ( a QOV) from the scraps of that quilt........then 
                                          from those scraps leftover from the spider web I made "Which Way", a donation
                                          quilt for Alzheimers ( AAQI).  FUN :0)

Inspiration from the Moda Bake Shop

I made this little quilt after seeing this one on the Moda bake shop site,
 http://www.modabakeshop.com/2009/09/1800s-vintage-quilt-by-sheryl-johnson.html
but also because I had a bunch of 9 patches made that I wanted to use......then I decided to add the autographed blocks that I needed to use in a quilt project.  So it all came together this week when I finished binding it!  Didn't Debby Brown do a fabulous job quilting this  little treasure?  I almost hate to give it to my friend Anna........but I will :0)

Another great giveaway

Suzanne’s Great Big Giveaway (and sale)

A big giveaway and sale over at Suzanne's :0)

Go for it :0)

Spider web is now a QOV

        I added some crumb blocks and a small inner and outer border of  bright red.....
Now its ready to be quilted and donated  to "Quilts of Valor".

Spider web with selvedges

                                Just a little fun experimenting with selvedges.  I have been sewing selvedges
                                onto used dryer sheets and I decided to use them on this project.  It will make a
                                cute baby quilt or maybe a QOV depending on the size it becomes.  Cute but
                                way too time consuming using my method.  ( Bonnie K. Hunter has a better method
                                on her web site) You can see many scraps from my recent  "Carolina Christmas"                                  finish I made over the holidays plus many  donated scraps from Debby.

Happy Birthday Noel

                                           Noel  is 29 today!  I made this "Little Quilt" ( by Mary Ellen Von Holt,
                                           Sylvia Johnson and Alice Berg) for her when
                                           she was 10 year old.  I was so proud of myself, I pieced
                                           and quilted it by hand, even adding little bows and buttons.
                                           It is a 28.5 inch square.

Start of a round robin

                                I started this today since it looks like it will be a nice slow paced
                                quilt along.  Its  "Yours Truly round robin" done on the Carol Doak
                                paper piecing Yahoo group.  A new round will be added by me when
                                Carol post the next installment and the first assignment was easy.....
                                start the center with any Carol Doak design block or blocks.
                                So far so good :0)

Baby doll bunting from Moda bake shop

                               I made this last night for Lily for Valentine's Day....I hope her little doll
                              will be very cozy inside.  You can make one too just check out the pattern
                              at the Moda Bake shop.

Happy New Year

I'm cleaning my sewing room!
I know there is a large desk in here somewhere.............

Carolina Christmas

                                I finished my Carolina Christmas top today by adding the borders and
                                and ironing all those seams!  It is a big quilt so I am only showing 1/4 of it.
                                Happy New Year!

Nat is having a giveaway......check it out!

http://notjustnat.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-year-blogiversary.html

Its Nat's blogiversary!  You should see what she is giving away.......and the drawing is on my Birthday!

Good luck :0)