Thimbleblossom Giveaway..

Camille is having a giveaway....check it out. Here's my favorite of her patterns.

Quilt away weekend

Yes it was quilt-away weekend. It was difficult at best to say it was relaxing. Getting there was enough to exhaust me. My DH was gone for 6 days and returned 10 minutes before I left for weekend. I arrived there at 7:30pm thursday and sewed until 1 am! I was exhausted. Friday I was up early sewing too. Then we took a quick trip to Berlin, Ohio to Mrs. Millers in Charm. Have you been there? You should go...really...it is amazing. I only get there maybe twice a year. I found this cool japanese Kokka fabric in the sale area for $5 a yard. It seemed like a good price and I love the pandas...so yes it went right into stash as I don't have a plan for it.

I thought I was going to make a clean break besides the japanese fabric until I saw this quilt hanging up made with Fig and Plum.....It was called "Split Decision"...super easy.. and right up my alley LOL.

Needless to say I spent some $$$. I arrived back to the retreat and sewed until late in the night. I got up saturday and came immediately home. My parents arrived from Iowa to spend the weekend. Um so that meant my quilt away was cut VERY short. It was nice for the 1 day though. I didn't finish any one project. I sewed on 4 though. I tend to do that....sew on multiple and finish 4-5 at once. If I had all day saturday I'd have 5 done for sure. Anyhow I forgot my camera at Mrs. Miller's so all my pics are of the fabric I bought. I also received this cool pattern from Helen from Hugs n'Kisses I won it on her blog. It is awesome!

Since my parents were here we put up Holiday decorations and spent lots of time playing the Wii. It's been great. Now back to work tomorrow :(

More current projects....

I purchased a fat quarter pack of LakeHouse Little Lady fabrics a few months ago. I had already decided to use the Baby Fats pattern with them. As some of you may know Baby Fats uses 24 fat quarters to make 4 baby quilts. It's quite clever in that you stack your fabrics and cut in such a way that leaves very little scrap fabric. Here are the first 2 tops that I finished this weekend. I took me a bit longer than usual because I decided to completely use my fabric. The Half triangles were pieced like connector corners (Mary Ellen Hopkins way). But before I trimmed the left over triangle pieces I drew a half inch line to the right of my stitch line and stitched ALL 60 again. Then I cut down the center and folded the triangle back. I should have done a tutorial on this, I still might with the boy versions that I want to make. Anyhow, I was left with 60 3 1/2 inch half square triangles....

And this is what I made with them so far.....
Looks like Baby Fats....will give me 5 quilts instead of 4 woohooo!

A couple more projects done...

As you know I have been frantically sewing up gifts for Christmas. Sunday night I finished 2 more small projects. I used this magazine Quilts and More...there are tons of great projects in this magazine every season. Here's a view inside...

Linda Lum Debono's project color me happy inspired these crayon rolls. I used left over Kaffe fabrics from a quilt I made this summer. They are funky and fun..perfect for a 2 year old. Yep 2 year old...I'm adding washable crayons to the roll and off we'll go.
The color of the photo is slightly less than I desired...it is really much more vivid. I need a new camera (hint, hint honey) for Christmas...actually he knows. I have discussed a new camera for several months but the $ didn't seem logical to spend at the time. Maybe for Christmas..I'll be crossing my fingers.

An inside view of the crayon roll.

ANyhow....that means I have finished 17 projects total of my 34...whew only 17 to go. Not sure I'll make it LOL.

Blue Nickle Studios....

I was the winner of the Fall into Fall Giveaway from Blue Nickel Studios. With the kiddo sick I didn't get to read his blog lately. Scott was kind enough to email me and clue me into my win. I felt like a goof. I thought I had visited ALL the 40 some blogs after the giveaway. I even noticed my friend Carol won on a blog.....but I didn't see that I won doh! I'm a dork. Anyhow, LOOK at what he sent. Can you say FABULOUS? It's hard to see in the picture but I received at layer cake type roll of Pine Creek Cabin fabric from Moda...it's like a LAYER CAKE OMG...plus the Recess panel and fabrics...I could on and on... It's all wonderful Thanks Scott!!!

Squeezed it in....

Believe it or not......I ran ALL day yesterday. Started at the pediatrician with my toddler. They think she may have Whooping cough!! We got antibiotics for that. Went to the hospital for a chest x-rays. It's saturday and I've heard nothing from the doctor. So...what does that mean? I have no idea. They told me that I could take her out so I went to Jo-Ann's, Barnes and Noble, Micheals, Sam's Club, hallmark, Bath and Body, AND Walmart. I had so many errands, I got them all done so we don't have to go out this weekend. To me being home is a luxury lately. While at Sam's Club, I found a new obsession...ok it will never replace quilting/crafting but I am getting very involved in Debbie Macomber books. I have read 3 or 4 others and now I am starting on the Christmas ones. I've read 96 pages today...so far so good. I've finished 10 of my 34 projects for christmas. I can't show you more than this as they are gifts. I hope I'm not showing too much now! I have 11 more items in the works. So that means 13 I haven't even started yet! Yikes....only what 46 days til Christmas...I better get going.