Blog Hop Party and Givaway!!

Michele Foster has organized a Blog Hop Party to celebrate the 5th birthday of The Quilting Gallery!! 

You’re invited to help us celebrate and most of all to have some FUN!

The Blog Hop Party lasts from December 9th through December 15th. 
So, what am I giving away? 

This fun messenger bag made from Moda’s Charlevoix collection. 

You can read about how I made it HERE!!

This givaway is only for followers of my blog, so please leave me a comment verifying that you ARE a follower,

then leave a comment telling me about your favorite Christmas gift as a child!

This will REALLLLY tell you my age…but this was a favorite gift that Santa brought me when I was little…

The very first Barbie!!
Make sure you click the Blog Hop Party link above and visit the other blogs offering wonderful givaways during the Hop!!

Oh, and Yogi says to remember to check back here the night of December 15th after 9:00pm to see if you are the lucky winner!

More Christmas Gifts Done!

This month is entirely reserved for making Christmas gifts for family and friends!

We had bee on Saturday at my dear friend Linda’s house!  And although it was December 1st, it was actually our November bee, as we could not find a Saturday in November when we all could get together…

Wellll… I totally forgot that fact and freaked out and spent last week making my dear bee friends their Christmas gifts!!

I saw this adorable pattern in a catalog and ordered it just to make for them!!

I did change one little part, though.

There was a tiny pocket on the back in the middle which seemed sorta silly as it was too small to really be of any use.

And as I pictured my friends keeping Hootie on their ironing boards, I felt they needed a place to throw their bits and pieces of thread there…

So I changed the size and shape and location of the back pocket.  I made it look more like a tail! 

And gave it dimension so it would stay open to collect those thread pieces.

Sooooooo????  You like?

Are you frantically sewing gifts, too??

Small Quilties for November

I made some small tabletop quilties to use in November with my scarecrow and Thanksgiving decorations.

They’ve already been packed away with all my other November decorations,

as I buy my tree and begin to get my house ready for Christmas on the day after Thanksgiving every year.

My house is now all decorated and ready for Christmas!  But that “reveal” will be another post to come!!

Oh, and you might not recognize my Schnibble of the Month for November…

which is not actually a “Schnibble” at all, but is a “Little Bite” named “Drop”!

I did change it up a bit…  I added some small squares between the tiny blocks…

and I love the way it turned out!!

What did you do this past weekend besides eat turkey?