Charlie Brown Christmas Tree, Market giveaway (entry 42)

Hi everyone, short but sweet this week as I’m planning the baby shower for Diane and baby Zach. Yes the quilt top is finished, back is cut out and ready to be basted and quilted, can’t wait for next week so I can finally reveal it.

Here’s a little something I whipped up for one of my friends. I’ve improvised on the embroidery tree and french nots, what do you think, doesn’t it twinkle?

I also saw this great giveaway I thought I would pass on it’s from a Blog called Sew Take a Hike isn’t that too funny?

Another Blog giveaway (and this is a weekly one) from Michelle at Quilting Bloggers

Friday Give-Aways from the Quilting Gallery

Working on some stuff and ideas for Christmas, pin cushions, napkins, going-green bags for grocery shopping, aprons, magic bags, and a few more things up my sleeve 🙂 Any ideas from you that you love to make at Christmas that you would like to pass on as I need some inspiration..

Have a great weekend Ladies, Valerie

Around the Net: UFO Challenge (entry 41)

My Around the Net post for this week is all about UFOs. Jacquie from Tallgrass Prairie Studio Blog has an excellent challenge for everyone called, Joy in the New Year. It’s a place where you can list (I entered in 5) projects that you want to for sure complete over the next year.

Mine are all at various stages and my list may increase as the year unfolds, or a new pattern comes out that I would love to do, or someone shows me a quilt that is a MUST do lol, so many reasons to have many projects on the go:

Quilt for Zach – picture to soon come, after Sat, no more secrets I promise

Quilt for Baby Girl (not sure who to give it to as of yet), I have about 5 blocks cut out and ready for appliqueing to background fabric, all fabric is washed and ready to go.

Cotton Theory Quilt – so close to being complete and the best part is this technique is a quilt as you go, so once I finish sewing the blocks together it is finished…

nicely packed away until I have time…

close up of the block, decorative stitch across the center, french seams around each border at least once…

Freebie 15 (2008-2009) – just working on final border 

Apple Core Quilt (hand-pieced) – small table runner with homespuns

(just the top is done so far)

My Home or Yours BOM Quilt (almost done each block) I forgot to add this one to my list over at Tallgrass…Jacquie can I add one more to the list 🙂 You have seen quite a few of these individual blocks as I’ve completed them throughout the year, I think I have 4 blocks to finish and then time to sew together, layer, quilt, & hang!! Yay!

 Until next time, have a great day.

Review: The Friday Night Knitting Club (entry 40)

Hi Everyone, today I thought I would review a book called “The Friday Night Knitting Club” I know it isn’t quilting per se but this book applies to so many quilting relatable ideas, friendships, clubs, families and many more things that bring quilters together.

I’m thoroughly enjoying the sisterhood throughout the book. It brings you into each perspective lady’s life, the Mom who owns the store, her daughter (who loves to bake for the club), the reporter who doesn’t knit but loves to be with the ladies, the rich friend who wants everything and who willingly pays for it, the helper at the store that doesn’t need to work but can’t stay away and has a secret liking for the gentleman who owns the deli downstairs, the ex-boyfriend who is coming back into his daughter’s life after 10+ years and so on…

I’m just about 1/3rd of the way and I’m now familiar with the backgrounds of each character’s life, when they were married, when they had kids, got divorced, fell in love…again. I’m loving it. It’s a pretty good read, if anyone has read it and would be interested in “blogging” together about this book as a sort of on-line book club that would be great as it’s so nice to share in a “good read” with likeminded individuals 🙂

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I couldn’t resist sharing the latest photos of Tig, I had moved over to the love-seat to do some un-sewing and Tig hopped up on my machine and starting watching her “TV”.

Maybe she gets a better view from here lol.

She looks pretty comfortable, you would think I was gone for hours but it only took her a couple of minutes to get into this position…now only if I could get her to do some sewing 🙂 

Apparently, I was gone far too long (only long enough to un-sew a few seams and take plenty of photos of her) as she became bored and tired 🙂

Until next time…have a great day!

Valerie