On Saturday the mail man delivered a package to me. It was the x-bag that I won in Myra’s give-away! As if the bag was not enough, she also sent three beautiful fat quarters and a pattern for another bag. I am over the moon. She also included the sweetest little hand-made card. I feel so lucky. Myra, you are the greatest!
PS...Please excuse the not so great pictures. The glare from the flash doesn’t let you see how cute the bag pattern is. I know I should not use a flash on my pictures, but I was too lazy to go outside and take them in natural light…….

Circling Swallows

As some of you know, I won the circling swallows project on the recent ink-lingo giveaway. I got lucky again! The mailman brought it on Saturday. I started on it on Tuesday and thought I would show you my progress so far. Not all that much but quite a bit of sewing none the less. It was what I needed to get me going as I have been in a slump for a couple of weeks. I will show you further progress as it is made. Thank you again Sandy for sending me this wonderful project.

Itsy Bitsy Hexagons

I just wanted to see if I could do hexagons this small, and the answer is yes! The hexagons are .25 inches. I english paper pieced these!! After I sewed the hexagons together I appliqued it on to a 5 inch charm square. I can't decide if I want to make a picushion with it, or do three more and make an itsy, bitsy quilt.

Storm

Before

After

Amanda searching for the globe to the yard lamp amongst the fallen maple tree branches. This girl really needs to touch up her dark roots.
@#%$*!!!!!!!!!

Friday morning we had a terrible storm go through our area. It wasn’t a tornado, but they have said we had 85 mile per hour straight line winds. There are so many beautiful trees damaged and destroyed. My favorite tree on my place is, or I guess I should say was, the maple in my front yard. It was split in two and had to be cut down. It also blew over the privacy fence in the back yard and knocked some big limbs out of the trees back there. One of them fell on my car and put a hole in the windshield. I can’t park my car in the one car garage that we have, because my husband has to park his old Corvette in it! So Monday is dealing with the insurance agents. Such fun! This morning something happened that did cheer me up. I won Myra’s giveaway! She is going to make me an x-bag. How great is that???

Swine Flu Prevention

What not to do!!

Kathy sent me this pic and I thought it was funny in a gross sort of way.

Just for Fun

This was on the front of a birthday card given to my son, Daniel. It made me smile and that is a good thing, as Martha says.

Pincushion Finish

This is the finished pincushion I made with the inklingo templates. I guess I shouldn't toot my own horn, but I really like the way it turned out. I am making another one out of the same fabrics, but I don't think I will like it as well as this one.

...And the Winner Is...........

I had to wait a bit this morning before I could turn on my computer because we had some pretty severe storms come through and more are on the way. Now to get down to business…..the winner of my giveaway is Pat. Her blog is “Bits and Pieces”. Congratulations and I hope you will enjoy the little prizes. I will get them in the mail ASAP. I wish I could have given something to all of you. Keep tuned………..I may have another giveaway in the not too distant future. I have this idea…………

Post Number 100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I made it! It is hard to believe that I have made a post for this many days in a row. It is also hard to believe that I have been blogging for an entire year. I am not that great at math but if I have made 100 posts in a year that means I have averaged almost 2 posts per week. Blogging has been quite an adventure for me. Through it I have been able to get to know some really great ladies, found wonderful crafty, quilty ideas, participated in my first swap, traded a pattern for fabric, learned a lot about different countries, and in general feel that I have expanded my universe in a wonderful way. Thank you ladies, for making my blogging experience a most happy one. Tomorrow I will pick the winner in my giveaway. The winner will be notified on my blog and also by e-mail.

Post Number 99 and a Pincushion Start

Yesterday I finally downloaded the free inklingo templates and spent a lot of time figuring out how to find what I wanted to print. After doing that I had to go downstairs and find the freezer paper and pick out the fabric I wanted to use, then wash it, cut it, cut the freezer paper and then iron the fabric to the freezer paper. I then printed out the inklingo templates for the diamond shapes. That process went amazingly well. Just the right amount of ink. I then cut out 8 of them with my scissors. I had printed out 16 of them on an 8 x 10 pieces of fabric. It didn’t take all that long to sew them together and this picture is the result before pressing. Now I have to pick another fabric and repeat the process for the squares and triangles that will finish the block. I am thinking I will use a red fabric. I wonder which ink color will work best on red. Maybe yellow?

Post number 98 and a Giveaway

I was reading a few blogs this morning and found that Cathi has posted about a wonderful giveaway of some inklingo kits. If you have been to Cathi’s blog, you will know what great projects she makes with inklingo. I have wanted to try this method, and if I win one of the kits, it will make a nice trial run. Click on the logo below and it will take you to the blog where the kits are listed. TTFN........

Post Number 97 and a Pincushion

I made this pincushion last week. It is four and one half inches square. The churn dash block is a finished 3 inch square. This was a fun one to do.

Post Number 96 and More Bunnies

It appears that if I want my 100th post to be in April, I must make a post every day until the end of this month. That will be a real record breaker for me, but surely I can think of something to post about for the next few days.

This is bunny three of four.

This is the fourth and last bunny. Now to figure out how I am going to put them together.

Another Giveaway....and It is MINE!

April is my 1 year blogging anniversary month, and should be the month when I reach my 100th post. I am going to celebrate this “Double Whammy” by having a small giveaway. I think I mentioned before that I would be giving away the cottage stitchery I made some time ago. I finished it as a small (13+ inch square) mini quilt. As usual the picture is lousy. I think it looks better than this.

I am also going to include a small pincushion,
and some embroidery floss.

I don’t know if I am using the proper etiquette for a giveaway, but this is what I am doing. Most bloggers are looking for increased traffic to their blog when they do a giveaway. I am not. This time I don’t want anyone to post about this giveaway on your blog. Don’t get me wrong. It tickles me to death to have a new person comment on my blog, but this giveaway is more of a reward for the ladies that have commented on my blog with some frequency. I have appreciated your interest in my blog and feel that you are my blogging friends. Anyone that comments on my blog during the month of April is in the running. This might include a few new visitors, but I doubt there will be many of those. There are a couple of names I have included that have not commented this month, but there were good reasons why they couldn’t, so they are in the draw with one entry. You will have one entry for each comment you have made during April. I am going to use the number generator thingy to choose a winner on the first of May. As forgetful as I am I better make that “around” the first of May. LOL. For someone who doesn’t talk or type much, this post is getting rather long. The End.

Bunnies One and Two

I decided I didn’t like the button hole stitching on the first bunny I did. Here she is without it.

This is a picture of bunny two. Only two more and I will be able to put them together in a wall hanging. It would be so cool if I would actually get a hanger to hang it from, rather than folding it up and putting it on top of the other hangings waiting for me to buy a hanger. I hate going shopping for anything. Maybe I can find one online.

A Tisket A Tasket April Block

I wish I had been able to find a nicer fabric for my basket, but my stash is low on blues. I like the fabric Kathy used for hers, but I didn’t have any of that one. All in all, I am ok with this block, but it is not one of my favorites.

Veranda Views BOM Block Four

I have finished the April veranda views block. Mine are printing out a little smaller than she says they should be. I don't think it will matter if I trim them to the size she calls for. I will just have a bit more unworked area in the blocks. I thought this one was really cute. I do think I made the blooms on the tomato plant a bit to big, but it doesn't bother me enough to redo them....

Another Little Project

Kathy made one of these bunnies and when I saw hers, I wanted to do one also. I think they are so cute. I am going to make a small wallhanging for which I will make four of these. Kathy is going to make a table topper and she is going to make nine bunnies for it. We will have it ready for easter.........next year.

Another Nifty Giveaway

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A Nifty Giveaway

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