Quilter’s Blog Hop & Givaway!

Come join us for a fun spring Quilter’s Blog Hop & Givaway!  The list of bloggers participating in the Blog Hop Party and their links will be made available HERE Saturday morning, March 17th, shortly after midnight, Eastern time, so be sure to go there and use the list to go to each blog and enter their individual givaways!!

So, what am I giving away for the Quilter’s Blog Hop?

Two awesome quilting books!!  I will ship internationally, so please DO enter my givaway!

How you say??? 

Become a follower, then leave me a comment telling me that you are a follower and what your favorite spring ritual is…

making Irish soda Bread? planting bulbs?  dying eggs?  drinking green beer on St. Paddy’s Day?  strolling amongst the cherry blossoms?

watching robins building their nests?   flying a kite?  making a big bouquet of pussy willows?

 

Yogi and I can’t wait to hear your Spring favs!! 

Check back to see if you won on Saturday, March 24th!!  

Good Luck!!

Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show

Right before I got sick, my bee friends and I hit the road for a day trip to the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

The show was wonderful but the vendors were great! 

I do so love seeing new products and gadgets at these shows because often you can see them demonstrated by the company themselves.

The variety of fabric and designs is so very inspiring to me. 

It just makes me want to get in the sewing room and sew, sew, sew!!

I was a good girl and did not really buy too much… a few patterns,

marking pens, a few yards of fabric and a small quilt rack!

If you were going to a show, what would you be looking for??

Sick and Tired…

Yes, that’s me right now!   I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. 

I’ve caught a bug from my dear husband, so you can imagine what the past 10 days have been like here in our home… 

We’ve both been to doctors and been diagnosed with bronchitis and put on antibiotics…which has really not seemed to help us out at all.  Constant fever, wracking croupy cough…hurting chest….upset stomach and diarrhea… super  yucky stuff.

Finally, last night I slept for 6 hours straight, thank you Nyquil!  So, maybe I am on the mend.  That would be good, as I missed three days of work this week…and lots of good sewing time in the evenings.

I was super disappointed that I was so ill on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,that I was unable to finish up my entry into the Moda Sliced Contest.

I was making a Bee Bag from some Stitch in Color charm packs.

It was looking so bright and fun and cute!

I’ve not been back in the sewing room since Sunday….sigh…

Yogi is feeling blue, too.  He must be so sick of all the loud coughing…

and yet, he stays always close by my chair… 

my sweet Little Man!!

Hope you all are well and busy sewing on something super fun!!  Want to share with me so I can enjoy your sewing vicariously?

My Four Squared Debut Today!

I am so excited!  Today my “Four Squared” quilt is posted over at the Moda Bake Shop!  Woo hoo!

It was such a fun quilt to make using a jelly roll, charm pack and a bit of yardage! 

It’s the same design is this one in totally different colors! Chartreuse!!

So, do me a HUGE favor and go over and see it on the Moda Bake Shop and leave a nice comment there for them…

Then PLEASE come back over here and let me and Yogi know what you reallllly think of it, OK???

Accuquilt Blogger and Sew Inspiring!

Today my tiny sewing room is posted HERE on Amber’s “A Little Bit Biased” blog for her “Sew Inspiring” view of folks’ sewing rooms. It was fun to share my organizing tips and tricks for quilting supplies and stash of fabric.

Tomorrow on the Accuquilt website, I am spotlighted as a blogger using my GO!  Woo hoo!  If you have already signed up on their website to get their newsletters, my article will be arriving in your email soon!

If you haven’t signed up, go HERE and scroll down to this section on the left side and enter your email address and click the subscribe button!!

Although I just got my sewing machine back from being in the repair shop for OVER TWO WEEKS, I did finish my Moda Bake Shop project and posted it on their blog, ready for them to publish!

Here’s a sneak peek!!

Waddaudink???  It will be posted on the MBS tomorrow!!  Check it out!

So, what fun sewing did you do this past long holiday weekend??

Sweet Mrs. Pickles!

I received a lovely email today from my bloggy friend, Mrs. Pickles!  She has very kindly honored me with this sweet blog award!!

The rules for the award are as follows-

1. Thank the person who gave it to you!

2. Put the button on your blog.

3. List the award rules.

4. List seven random things about yourself.

5. Bestow the award to 15 bloggers.

6. Inform them with a comment on their blogs!

YIKES!  It was really hard to think of seven random things to share…but here goes…

1. I’m the youngest of four sisters!  We are all 4 years apart in age!!

2. My favorite color is periwinkle blue!!

3. I graduated magna cum laude from Florida State University.

4. I love period piece movies ands shows like Sense and Sensibility and Downton Abbey.

5. I was an exchange student for a year in Braunschweig, Germany when I was 17.

6. I become more claustrophobic the older I get!

7. I love all things vampire!!

And now I have to select 15 blogs to bestow this award on…  so here goes in no particular order!!  Make sure you check out these amazing blogs!!

1. http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/

2. http://www.aquiltinglife.com/

3. http://arianescrafts.blogspot.com/ 

4. http://quilttaffy.blogspot.com/ 

5. http://maria-lifeontheblock.blogspot.com/

6. http://cottoncharmquilts.typepad.com/charmingchatter/

7. http://pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/

8. http://cottagecozy.blogspot.com/

9. http://cutiepinwheel.blogspot.com/

10. http://dianew-dianesmusings.blogspot.com/

11. http://www.createdbycj.com/

12. http://greenfairyquilts.blogspot.com/

13. http://thehappyzombie.com/blog/ 

14. http://sewcalgal.blogspot.com/

15. http://lavieenrosie.typepad.com/lavieenrosie/

Yogi says Congrats, girls!  Now it’s your turn!!

Missing My Baby…

My Bernina Artista 640E… my baby… sniff sniff… is in the quilt shop for repair and adjusting… sigh  I am really missing her!!   

Thank goodness, I have my old Bernina Virtuosa 160 to pull out of the closet and set up in my sewing table!  The clear insert doesn’t fit too well, but I’m making do!

So, I was able to finally quilt my Schnibbles quilt for January- “Full House”yesterday.

I made it from Kate Spain’s beautiful collection- “Good Fortune”. Love the pastels with pops of red orange!  Yowsza!!

I free-motion quilted it with meandering leaves.

I used a pretty hydrangea print from my stash for thebacking and a pretty swirly green fabric for the binding.

YAY!  Am so happy to get the first Schnibbles project for the new year completed before the last day of the month!!  Whew!!   

I can’t wait to find out what comes next!! 

SOOOO, what did you sew on this weekend??