And the winners are…

3 Comments / Giveaway, Ole Frog Eyes / By Melissa Dunworth

I wish I could give everyone a free subscription to Ole Frog Eyes just so you could all experience first hand what a great tool it is, but alas, 2 is the limit this go round. For those who are not lucky enough to be winners, I hope you will all spend the $2.50 and give it a go, it really is worth every penny having a virtual design wall!

Congratulations to…

Lisa Cox: who shared the giveaway on Facebook – thanks for spreading the word Lisa!

and

Tiffany: who said “I like the idea of auditioning colors and sashing. I am not a big sashing person, but it would be super nice if I could see it visually with sashing, and then maybe I’d use it more often!”

I hope you both enjoy playing around with it. I will send your email addresses over to Snoodles and she will be contacting you soon!

I hope you all have a great weekend. I am still under the weather with this cold 🙁 but hopefully will be feeling better soon!!!

And The Answer Is…

8 Comments / Hand Quilting / By Melissa Dunworth

Hand Quilting!

This is a relatively small project – a 22″ x 22″ wall hanging. It is a mother’s day gift for my mom and I wanted to make it extra special for her by putting in that little bit of extra effort. I will let you all know how it goes. I am thinking of putting butterflies in the 4 cream colored squares and after that I have no other ideas. Do you have any suggestions for me? I would love to hear them!

Don’t forget to day is the last day to enter to win a trial of Ole Frog Eyes! You have until 9 pm tonight!

I hope you all have a great weekend. I seem to have come down with an icky little end of winter cold, so I will be resting as much as Anne will let me!

Let’s Play A Game

27 Comments / superior threads / By Melissa Dunworth

I went shopping! I have a project I will be starting next week – I will be doing something I’ve only done it once before – so there is a definite learning curve involved for me.

Ok, what will I be working on?!?

Sew Happy Quilt Progress

11 Comments / quilt along, SewHappyGeek / By Melissa Dunworth

Ok, so I know I just blogged about Sew Happy Quilt last week but I just finished my last block yesterday!!! I am sew excited! There were several things I had never done before and I wanted to tackle when I signed up for SewHappyGeek’s QAL and I am happy to say, with this last block, I have conquered them all.

Making a Dresden Plate has been something I have been wanting to do for a long time and Jenna’s tutorial made it so simple!

Jenna is having a little giveaway for those of us participating in the QAL, we have to have our quilt tops finished by March 18th – that’s next Friday. I need to get my rear in gear! This afternoon, while Anne napped, I got the Dresden Plate made and I started playing on Ole Frog Eyes until I got the layout I wanted. What do you think?

The outer border will be a medium gray – I am loving Northcott solids and I have a beautiful one that matches the lighter shade of gray in the Rendezvous fabric. I am going to sash it in white and use red for the cornerstones. Tomorrow Anne and I will head to our LQS to get a yard of white and a fat quarter of the red. Hopefully I can get this together in time!

Are you quilting along with Jenna? I have had so much fun with this QAL and so glad that I stuck with it the whole time!

And don’t forget to enter to win a subscription of Ole Frog Eyes – I’m telling you – it is totally worth the $2.50 a month!

Weekend Update and other stuff…

8 Comments / Charity, quilt blocks, quilts / By Melissa Dunworth

This weekend my parents flew in for a quick visit. They had a couple of reasons to visit: they wanted to come to an appointment with Anne and I, Sew Expo was this weekend and my hubby’s birthday was on Saturday. We had a very full weekend.

Starting with Friday, our appointment went off without a hitch, in fact (and I know I’m being cryptic, sorry), it was the best appointment we have had for this particular issue in a year and worthy of celebration.

Saturday my mom and I spent the whole day together. We sent to Sew Expo and well…what to say. I had a really good time, but mostly because I was with my mom. I really enjoyed going to the Superior Threads booth and meeting the whole team. I also met a fellow blogger, Jenny, from Sew Kind of Wonderful and bought her new tool the Quick Curve Ruler. Believe it or not…the only other things I bought were some clover binding clips and 2 fat quarters. I had a budget of $100 and spent $20 (my mom split the cost of the clips). That night we went out for a lovely dinner for my hubby.

On Sunday I got quilty after my parents left for the airport.

I got the quilting done on my Sister-In-Law’s baby gift

This quilt is called Zig Zag Zoom, I bought it as a kit 3 years ago and I am finally finishing it up. I bought the kit from Always Quilting Online – which is a store where I grew up in San Mateo, CA.

Here is a close-up of the quilting. I did straight line quilting using my 1/4″ foot.

Hoping to get the binding on it before Friday so I can link up to Quilter in The Gap’s Friday Finish party.

Today I made the blocks for Trust Circle of Do.Good Stitches.

This month we were given the tutorial from SewMamaSew Modern Block of the Month for January. We were asked to use white as a base color and then bold solids. What do you think?

Over at Quilting Gallery (run by the wonderful Michele), Pat Sloan is hosting the Learning Center and last week Pat asked me if I could write a short piece answering the question “What is a Pieced Quilt?” Today’s post is all about Quilting Types and Styles – and you can read what I came up with!

There is lots of time left to enter to win a free subscription to Ole Frog Eyes, go check out my review and enter to win!

Holy Buckets Batman, I was long winded today! What are you up to? Any finishes on your horizon?

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Hand Quilting!