GIVEAWAY WINNER

I really appreciate all the great suggestions I received in the giveaway. I still haven't made up my mind. I guess I'm being too picky. I have been mixing and matching some of the suggestions and have come up with some variations. I'm better with numbers than words.

 

Anyway.......... I used the random number generator to pick the winner of these 2.5" strips.

 

The number was......

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Number 12 

 

Michele Tsaid...

How about 'Above Average Stitcher' or 'Maggie's Sew & Stitch' or 'Stitch Details'?
I follow your blog via Bloglovin' - thanks for the chance to win those strips... I see lots of pretty colours :-)

 

 

I woul like to thank everyone for taking the time to stop by and comment.

Sassy Cats

I received this pattern for Sassy Cats the other day and couldn't wait to get started.

It's a reverseable wall hanging with 9 different sassy cats.

 

Here is the 1st one -- 8 more to go. Plus the borders of course.

The black will be the front.

I'll post the pics as I get them done.

I need to have it done in 2 weeks.

 

Don't forget my GIVEAWAY ends Friday

 

 

Lady Bug Finished

I finally finished the ladybug quilt. I took it out of the frame a month ago and haven't had time to put the binding on.

Now it's done.

I love it when I finish one and I can stand back and see how it turned out.

I usually stress over all the mishaps as I'm quilting but I didn't have any with this one.

 

Don't forget to enter my GIVEWAY it ends Friday.

 

GIVEAWAY

I have been so busy lately I haven't had a chance to blog.

So this is a two-fold GIVEAWAY.

I have been using my GO cutter to cut up some scraps and I have around 90 2.5" strips that I will giveaway using the random number generator. next Friday 10-11-13.

All you need to do to enter is comment with a name for a new business. My mind is a total blank. I will be quilting, sewing and doing embroidery. You don't have to follow or be a follower (it would be nice).

I have been reading up on it and I need something with a positive spin to it and Average Quilter isn't as positive as I would like. Although I do feel like it fits me.

 

Anyway just leave me a suggestion and I will draw a winner next Friday using the random number generator.

Thanks

 

 

Take The Test: How Well Do You See Color?

I was on Facebook the other day and saw this test. I thought it would be fun to put it out there for you to see.

'It is generally believed that around 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men may have some degree of color blindness. When you consider the importance color plays in the products we buy, our aesthetic tastes, and the design decisions we make when we decorate, it's quite intriguing to consider that many of us may not perceive colors in the same way.

X-Rite, a company that specializes in the technology and science of color (and who also owns the popular color system Pantone) offers a really interesting tool to test your "color IQ" online.'

I would love to know what everyone got. My score was 16 which surprised me. I figured it would be alot higher.

 

 

Our new Toy

 

We made it back from Ft. Worth with our new embroidery machine on Friday.

We had to get someone to help get it out of the truck and now it is setting in my living room. I will have to do some re-arranging before I can move it into the sewing room.

After we got it unloaded and set up I had to thread it and test it.

I got the tensions right and we did a trial run with the clown. Which turned out perfect good (except for the colors)

 

Then Saturday I did most of these and my husband finished them up when he got home from work.

Last time I made this set of dino's which took a week on my domestic machine.

Needless to say I love my new machine.

 

Anyone interested in a Janome MC11000SE??

 

Rolling Waves progress

I thought I would show my progress. This is how I decided to quilt it.

Now I have 2 weeks to get it done. I was hoping to have it done by this weekend.

 

But my husband and I are leaving for Ft. Worth this afternoon to pick up our new toy.

Of course this means I will need to sell my Janome but I think it will be worth it.

 

 

 

Rolling Waves

 

I am so thrilled  with myself - I cut out and pieced this in 5 days. Not bad considering my limited time.

I now have it in the frame waiting on my mind to click and let me know how to quilt it.

I did the border last night and was thinking about an edge to edge pattern. That would surely be the easiest option but I would love to do something to make it pop.

 

I would love to get it completed this week.

I guess I better get busy after work today.

 

I got the pattern from McCalls Quilting  More Fast, Easy bed Quilt Patterns ebook. It's called Rolling Waves and was designed by Jane Koelker.

 

 

Collecting Hexies

I ended up catching a cold last week and wasn't able to get much work done.

But I did manage to get my hexes sorted. I have twice this many in white.

I've been working on them off and on for awhile.

I still can't make up my mind how I want to put them together yet. I will need to decide something soon so I can re-use the templates.

 

 

 

Elaine's Quilt

It's been awhile.

I've actually been very busy but not with anything I can show here.

I have cut out about 5 quilts and have a few more that I would like to get to.

 

I have a good friend (who is 84) that put this quilt together and I finally got it quilted.

 

 She has never used a rotary cutter before so I cut the strips then cut the strips into pieces so she just dealt with piecing.

So when I was trimming the quilt for the binding I almost took off my finger - I think it went to the bone. My daughter used 2 butterflies so I wouldn't have to get stitches.