Blog Hop Give Aways......Starts Today

It starts today. Lots of give aways. Isn't it exciting. Just head over to the Quilting Gallery to find out who is parpicipating. This is my first time joining but I played along some last year. 

Since spring is around the corner I thought some nice spring colours would be a nice give away. There is 3 1/4 meters and the back piece is a little over 1/2 meter. It is a piece left over from a project I was working on but still there will be lots of  enjoyment out of it.

There is also a couple of little project patterns that I found that would be fun and quick to work up. You don't have to be a follower to play but just make sure I can reach you. I hope you will join following me to see what I have been working on. I have enjoyed this blog so much this year and have learned so much. It is now a part of my day. Have a great day and have fun joining in everyone's give aways.

Blog Hop Party

The Blog Hop Party starts tomorrow and I will be joining in on the fun and  having a give away. Hope you will all be there to join in on all the great give aways. Remember to go to the Quilting Gallery tomorrow and see who is taking part and I will be posting my give away in the morning. Good luck to everyone.

Well my daughter in law Jodi was down tonight and received her birthday present. I made my mother an apron for Christmas and Jodi really liked it and wanted me to make her one.

So while I made one for her I made a smaller version also for my grand daughter Sara. They both love to bake. Jodi said she has never owned an apron before. They both also love sea glass so I got her a necklace and earrings while I was in Pureto Rico. She loved those also. Both grandchildren are down for the night and now are tucked into bed where I am also headed for soon. It has been a busy day with a lot accomplished.

WIP Wednesday

Well it has been a very productive week. I have been neglecting a few things like housework, laundry and my daily walks for working in the sewing room. It's a good thing my husband doesn't mind laundry. I had it all sorted. Later after coming back from craft afternoon with Marjorie and Connie, he had it all done. I just had to fold and put it away. Now if he would just learn to fold. Now don't press my luck.

Now for some of the things I have finished this week.

The pin cushions that Marjorie, Connie and I worked on at our last craft day.

My winter cardinal quilt that I was so happy with. My first machine quilting.

This little topper for a friends birthday.

This little St. Patrick's Day runner that turned out really well.

And the biggest job this week is getting these two shelves up and all my fabric sorted. No wonder I didn't have time for house work.  But this was a lot more fun. I am also working on a black and white quilt for my son and his wife for Christmas and still quilting that quilt I have in the frames.

This is it for me for this week although there are a few other things I am working on. I am linking up to Monika and Lee. Pop over and see what everyone else is working on. Have a great week and have fun sewing.

Weekend cleanup.

Well I spent the weekend working on sorting my material and seeing what I actually have. I solved the dilemma of the coffee pot situation. My husband went down today and added a couple more shelves. It is really coming together. It looks great.

These two shelves were added. The coffee pot is a little high but I won't have to worry about it leaking on my sewing machine. I covered the wicker dresser top to make an ironing board. It works great. The rack is a great place to hang future quilts waiting to be quilted.

I refolded the material and sorted them into different colour's. I put  the pieces of material on card board  that I will be using on the back of future projects. 

Just cleaned up the centre shelves. It is looking great.

I also worked on a couple of runners this weekend for St Patrick's Day. I was very happy with these.

I did the leave pattern again and the little hearts looks like four leaf clovers. 

Well a very productive weekend and now onto the next project. Always Something to do. Fun, fun, fun. 

My first machine quilted quilt.  I was quite scared but very happy with the results. This quilt I made a couple of years ago and it was another one sitting in my pile. Someone else on the blog machine quilted this same quilt awhile back and I then knew I had to try.

I used the walking foot to go around the tree branches which worked out well. I was going to do some machine quilting around the branches but felt it looked more natural this way. 

I decides to go with leaves on the boarder. They went really well I used to do a lot of tole painting and oil painting so painted a lot of leaves. So it made it flow quite well.

I decided where this was my first quilt I wanted to keep the boarder on the outside of the sewing machine so I added a flower pot at the corner so it would seem like a vine all around the quilt. 

So the out come of the leaves turned out really well. When the whole quilt was finished it almost looked like a hand quilted quilt at a distance. Well now that I have done this one I might just get to that pile that needs quilted. 

The Winner Is

And the winner is:

Colette McDonald27 February 2013 04:17

Great job. I decided I needed a sewing machine covers too so I kicked out part of one yesterday, but I did not have the cute little applique on the front.

If you could let me know your address I will get that in the mail.  Thanks and congratulations.