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There is still time to vote for your favorite project in the Valentine’s Day Showcase – head on over and vote! You can vote for more than one project – so spread the love where you feel the need 🙂

I thought I would give you a sneak peak at some of the things I have been working on – each has a tutorial coming soon!

Have you heard of the Home Sweet Home QAL going on over at Kim’s Crafty Apple? Kim asked me via twitter back in January if I would like to be a designer for her QAL and I said “yes, of course!” About a week ago panic set in, I had NO IDEA what I was going to make for my block. I seriously considered doing a tree house block – but I just couldn’t settle on a design. What do you think? Do you like this block? I see 3 more similar blocks being made and a wall hanging being created!

This is going to be a wall hanging for my mom. I made this using the Tri-Recs ruler (review coming next week!) and I honestly just started cutting and sewing without any real plan in mind. I am calling this “Guiding Star” because for so long, my mom has been just that in my life. The only time I have gone more than a day without talking to her has been when she goes traveling overseas with my dad (and we usually end up web camming whenever she does!). What do you think? Will she like it?

I joined the 3×6 Bee on Flickr this quarter and I said I would be open to any type of hive. I ended up in the paper piecing hive (hives immediately set in!!!). I have been wanting to improve my paper piecing (I’ve only done 4 blocks previously) and now I had no choice! I picked a block from the Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Blocks and drew it up in EQ7. I love how it turned out – it almost looks 3-dimensional.  I will have a tutorial up complete with cutting and sewing templates in the next couple of weeks.

What have you been up to? Did you get any sewing done over the long weekend?

Today I am off to the doctor to follow-up on some ongoing issues, so I won’t be around too much in the morning and later today the fridge repair company is coming back for the 4th time in an attempt to fix my ice maker! At this rate I hope to have ice by summer!

 

Time to get your vote on!

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The last time I checked before turning in for the night – there were 50 entries into the Valentine’s Day Showcase After Party! I am blown away and amazed by all the talented out there in the blogging world! I continue to be inspired by each and every one of you every day and that is what keeps me blogging.

So now it is time to get your vote on! There are 3 prizes up for grabs:

1st Place is a $75.00 Gift Certificate to Fat Quarter Shop!

2nd Prize is a $25.00 Gift Certificate to Contemporary Cloth!

3rd Prize is as prize pack from Sassy Packs!

As an added bonus – Mr. Random Number generator is going to select a 4th winner for a special prize from yours truly. I will announce the prize on Friday, February 24th when all the winners are announced!  Voting will run through Thursday, February 23rd, 9 pm Pacific Time.

I am so excited and I cannot wait to see who you all pick…I’m not voting because there is no way I could possibly pick!

So spread the word and tell your friends, family and loved ones to come over and vote for you!!!  Voting is on the original Linky Party Post.

Good luck!

 

Happy President’s Day

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Today is President’s Day – how are you spending it? We are spending it as a family – my hubs has the day off, which is always a treat.  A few errands need to be run, but otherwise we will just be hanging out (most likely in jammies).

I thought I would show you what sewed up for Valentine’s Day.

It is a little doll pillow for Anne – she only has  a couple of dolls, but her giraffe and monkey seem to be really enjoying it!

Today is the last day to enter into the Valentine’s Day Showcase After Party. As of last night there were 44 fabulous entries! I am so blown away by the work that has been shared. You are all so inspiring to me! If you haven’t already make sure you vote.

Let me remind you of the wonderful prizes.

1st Place is a $75.00 Gift Certificate to Fat Quarter Shop!

2nd Prize is a $25.00 Gift Certificate to Contemporary Cloth!

3rd Prize is as prize pack from Sassy Packs!

You know you want a chance to win one of these – so LINK UP!

Busy Little Bee

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The past couple of weeks I have been a busy little bee – literally. I thought I would share with you some of the bee blocks I have been working on.

For the Trust Circle of Do.Good Stitches I made two wonky star blocks

Here is a link to the tutorial I used

Next up I made up my blocks for Sew. Bee. Blissful

This is the Starflower Block from Jennifer at Ellison Lane Quilts

Finally I signed up for the 4×5 Bee on Flickr. I had to make 5 blocks for my hive mates. The purple and gray one is my test block and the colors I requested from my bee mates. This is a sawtooth star block – I didn’t use a tutorial – if you would like me to do one – let me know!

I am still working on blocks for the 3×6 Bee – also on Flickr. I am working on a paper pieced star for that bee (my hive is all paper pieced blocks).  I am also doing an asterisk block for Quilting for Kids – hosted by So Sarah Sews.

QuiltingforKidsWhat have you been working on? If you have been busy with Valentine’s Day projects – I want to see them!!! Link up to the Valentine’s Day Linky Party – there are some great prizes to be won!

Swooning

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Hi everyone! I hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day and that you are all submitting a project into the Valentine’s Day Showcase! There are some great projects already up and some wonderful prizes up for grabs.

I have been busy sewing away the last 2 weeks…well really only the last week – the first week of February I was under the weather and just didn’t feel much like sewing. It was as though all my creative energy was sucked out of me by the cold – well…I’m back and in full force!

With a few of my twitter pals: Jenna (@SewHappyGeek), Bonnie (beeclef), Shanna (h2ogirl76) and about 800 other bloggers I have started to Swoon!

swoon-along buttonI decided to do only one block per month – I need a goal that I can easily accomplish – so here are my first two blocks. I am using Half Moon Modern – which I bought from the incomparable Julie from Intrepid Thread.

What do you think?!? I am really loving them so far. I have 7 more to make – I should hopefully finish all my blocks by the end of September if I stick to my schedule. Are you Swooning too?  Here is a link to the pattern if you are interested in joining in on the fun!

Don’t forget to link up your Valentine’s Day projects!

Oh yeah, and while we didn’t do too much to celebrate yesterday – Anne became a baker! She baked brownies for her daddy (with a little help from me)!

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