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Tutorial – Add a Button to Your Sidebar

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This is a tutorial for those people who use WordPress as a blogging platform.  For a tutorial on adding a button to your sidebar using Blogger, check out Shanna from Fiber of All Sorts, she has you covered!

Next, go to your Dashboard and under “Appearance” Select “Widgets”

Next click on “Text – Arbitrary text or HTML” You will want to drag it over to your sidebar.

Paste the code you copied in the first step in the text box.

Next you can add a Title if you like, but it is not necessary.  Click Save and Close the box.

Go to your blog’s homepage and view your button!

Congratulations on adding a button to your sidebar!!!

Now go ahead and add ours today for A Lovely Year of Finishes!!!

 

Hexie Obsession

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I have a new obsession – and it is one that I can do in front of the TV at night without much need for brain power – which is good because at the end of the day I am seriously lacking in brain power!

Hexies! I bought 2 charm packs of Simply Color by V & Co from Quilting Lodge. Cut one of them into quarters and I started basting. The pictures that follow show about 1/2 of the squares – just over 100 hexies.

Ok, I admit it, I had a lot of fun photographing my hexies – sorry for all the pictures 🙂

Are you wondering yet what I am planning on doing with all these hexies?

When I went to The Intrepid Thread last weekend I bought some stunning Essex Linen by Kaufman. I am planning on using the hexies and the linen to make some new pillows for my bedroom. I’m sure my husband will just LOVE the girly colors – LOL.

Here are a couple designs I have been playing with:

At this point I have way more hexies than I need for my pillows but I am enjoying making them, so I might stop when I have one whole charm pack made…we’ll see!

What have you all be working on?

On Monday I am going to share with my Sewing/Quilting New Years Resolution list!

Pre-Gaming For Some Finishes!

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Happy Boxing Day Everyone!

This past weekend I had the chance to take my mom and Anne to one of my favorite fabric stores…The Intrepid Thread! I brought 2 quilt tops with me and a small collection of blocks for a 3rd top and did a little pre-gaming for our Lovely Year of Finishes that I am co-hosting with Shanna from Fiber of All Sorts.

I purchased backing material for all 3 quilts and thought I would share them with you!

These are the blocks that the wonderful ladies from the Trust Circle of Do. Good Stitches made in November and I have the happy job of sewing them into a quilt. I bought some gorgeous Kharma Baby for the backing.

This is the Purple Bee Block quilt for my mom. I bought some Pearl Bracelets by Lizzy House for the backing, my mom is in love.

This is my grandma’s Chemo Quilt. She passed before it could be made. I have been making it in her honor. I bought some of my favorite Impressions by Ty Pennington.

Julie and Mallory were wonderful in helping me pick out fabrics, I couldn’t be more grateful for the help. If you are in the Bay Area, I highly recommend heading over to The Intrepid Thread, I guarantee you won’t walk away empty handed!

Have you started pre-gaming or planning for A Lovely Year of Finishes yet?

 

A Lovely Finish

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This past year I have had a hard time actually finishing things. I have finished five good sized quilts and several wall hangings/charity quilts. I have about a million works in progress. Projects that I have started and for one reason or another stopped. When it comes to completed quilt tops my biggest, number one reason for not finishing is I can never decide how to quilt something.

In December alone though…I picked up the pace, I finished 2 quilts AND I made 5 blankets for my nieces and nephews, not bad since I am 800 miles from my sewing machine (thank goodness my mom was able to loan me hers!). Here is a link to the group quilt I helped make. Here is another link to the commission quilt I finished.  The past 2 weeks I have been sewing like crazy to finish 5 minky cuddle blankets for my nieces and nephews and I am so excited to say I have actually finished them – BEFORE Christmas!

Finishing is an important part of quilting, sewing, crafting, etc., and I was recently talking to my friend Shanna from Fiber of All Sorts about how it feels like we are always talking about what we are working on but never about things we have actually finished. Well 2013 is the year that all changes!  We have teamed up and decided to launch A Lovely Year of Finishes.

We have set a goal, 1 finish per month for the next year giving ourselves a grand total of TWELVE finishes!  AND…we are inviting you to join us!  We have lined up some awesome sponsors and will be running regular linky parties so you can show us what you are working on and a Flickr Group too! Oh wait! Did I mention there will be prizes too?

So go check out our page, grab a button and join the Flickr Group for A Year of Lovely Finishes. While you are at it, make sure you head of to Shanna’s blog to see her finishes from this month!

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Since I will not be back before Christmas, I hope everyone has a lovely holiday, filled with family and happiness.

Christmas Quilt

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I had really hoped this year that I would be finishing my Vintage Christmas Sampler which is now going on 1.5 years of being worked on, but alas, that did not happen. I do, however, have a different quilt to show you.

This is a quilt that I made for my mom 4.5 years ago for Mother’s Day. It is the first quilt I ever made for her, though I do have 2 tops currently in progress that will be hers. I followed the directions from the Log Cabin In A Day book by Eleanor Burns.

The only quilting that I did was stitch in the ditch around the borders, the rest of it was tied. I love the idea of an old fashioned tied quilt.

The reason I am showing you pictures of this quilt today is that we brought down all of our Christmas decorations this weekend and set up our tree, the quilt was in one of the boxes. Here’s a look at our tree.

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