Monday, May 19, 2014

May Schnibble Done!!

I love that we had the choice this month to make the Schnibble small sized using 2 charm packs or big sized using 2 layer cakes!!
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And I loved Carrie’s name so much, that I named mine the same - “X-Rated”!!
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And what’s even more appropo is that I used two layer cakes of Moda “Bliss” that I won a while back from Carrie herself in a Schnibble drawing!!
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This quilt was super easy to cut and sew together, but I did have a problem…
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because it is laid out in rows on a design wall, then sewn one row at a time, I had no design wall or empty floor space big enough to lay it out on…
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so, I had to divide the pile of pieces into four stacks, and lay out only one quarter of the quilt at a time, then sew that quarter together, then lay out another quarter, sew it together, then join it to the first quarter.  It was a pain to do, but so worth it!  I do sooooo love this quilt!!

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I realllllly need a bigger design wall, or even a big empty floor space!! 
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But I was able to lay it out on my kitchen island to pin baste the sandwich…  so much easier on my back and knees than on the floor!!
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So, what are you sewing on this week?
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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Givaway Winner!!

A big THANK YOU to all who left such lovely comments about all the fun things you have going on this summer!!

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Yogi and I hope you all will come back to our blog often to catch up on all the sewing and quilting going on here in Haymarket!!

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So, who is the lucky winner of the random drawing??  Congrats go out to …

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So, Gene, please email me your snail mail address so I can get your layer cake and book in the mail to you!!

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I totally fell in love with these modern veggie prints by Benartex called “Toss & Serve”.

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I bought two packs of 6 1/2” squares and a bit of yardage. 

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I made 8 placemats and then used the leftover squares to make a small table mat.

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I used the exploding block method from Jenny Doan’s tutorial to make the center of the placemats.

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Then I sub-cut some squares and made smaller pinwheel blocks and added some rectangles in green from my stash.

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I used a solid green on 4 placemats and a green print that looked like celery leaves on the other 4 placemats.

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I made nine patches with a all the center squares being the solid green and sub-cut them into quarters to use the disappearing 9 patch design for the table mat.

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I really love how they turned out!!

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So bright and fun!!  And the backing yardage also goes really well with the wall color in our morning room where we eat!!

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So… what fun thing are you all doing this weekend?

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Monday, May 12, 2014

My “Sew Mama Sew” - Givaway!!

Sew Mama Sew is having her Giveaway Day!!  I am participating again, and for those of you overseas, I will ship overseas!!

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The randomly drawn winner of my giveaway will win a Moda layer cake by Brannock & Patek of their “Hemming House” collection…

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And also, the winner will get a pattern book by Anka’s Treasures called “The Sweet Life”.

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Leave a comment on this post with what you plan to do for fun this summer!  Also, this givaway is open ONLY to  my followers, so make sure you ARE a follower AND leave that info in your comment to this post, as well!!

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Yogi says “Good luck”!!  Come back here on Friday, May 16th at 9:00pm to see if you won!!  Make sure you go to Sew Mama Sew’s blog page to see all the wonderful givaways on all the awesome blogs!!

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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Happy Mother’s Day!

This is my dear Mother and me!!

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Where would we be without our AMAZING Moms?!

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I love her dearly and  hope she has a fun and lovely Mother’s Day today!!

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My boys and their girls are cooking dinner for us all today for Mother’s Day!! Soooo much better than going out to a busy restaurant!!  YAY!!

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Yogi is happy we are eating here at home, too!!

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