Thursday, May 9, 2013

A Little Birdie Told me.....It's Giveaway and Blog Hop time!

Congratulations to Judy1522 who won the quilt in my giveaway.  She has been notified and the quilt will be on it's way to a new home very soon.
It is time for my day of the Blog Hop!



I just love these little birds telling secrets in this vintage embroidery pattern.  How cute are they?  Super cute!
So this is what I made for the blog hop.  I wanted to embroider something, and initially I thought I would put these little birdies on the front of a pillow, but I changed my mind.  Part of the way through the stitiching, I decided they would be really sweet on a doll quilt.  So here it is!  I used some Pam Kitty Love fabric by Lakehouse and  I love it.  I still need to quilt and bind it, but it is perfect for this time of year.  So I think it will stay up for a little while.



I got the birdie pattern here at Floresita's site.  She has a lot of really wonderful vintage embroidery patterns priintable for free.  The design is my own, just something I whipped up!  Here it is closeup.

Oh wait, I nearly forgot!  I am doing a giveaway.  I am giving away a quilt...yep a quilt.

 This quilt!  Inspiration Point to be exact.  This is the quilt that adorns the cover of my Inspiration Point pattern.  The pattern can be purchased here .  But one lucky winner will get the original quilt.  It has been quilted in an allover design, one of Anne Bright's longarm designs, and the backing is form the same line of fabric.  I think it is a 3Sister's line by Moda but it's been several years so I can't remember.  One day perhaps I will write all that info down for each quilt!  In the meantime, I have plans to make a new version of it for the cover.  This one is now retiring to someone else's home.



The details: 
Leave a comment about the blog hop-tell me what you have liked about it so far or what your favorite blog has been so far.  
Share this link on your blog or whatever media you like and tell your friends.  Leave me a comment telling me you did that. 
Follow me, and leave a comment on that as well!  
For each of these things you will be entered one time.  So if you do all three you have three chances.  Yay!  Also if you already follow me tell me and it counts!

Giveaway closes on May 13th at 10PM MST.  I am heading off to Market after that so I will mail the quilt out when I get home. 

Here are the other bloggers:
Tuesday, May 7



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Monday, May 6, 2013

It's For the Birds! Blog Hop

It is time for the Sew We Quilt Blog Hop to begin tomorrow!  There are lots of bloggers participating and I am one of them!

The theme is "birds".  Anything birds.  So I decided to something fun for my day, but you will have to wait until the 10th to see it!  A little hint.....It includes embroidery.....I have really been addicted to handwork lately.  Both English Paper Piecing and hand embroidery.

Also, the much awaited quilt giveaway has come!  I decided to give away one of my quilts for this Blog hop!  So be sure and tell your friends, your bloggers, your followers and anyone else who you know because the giveaway begins on the 10th (for my blog anyway!)


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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

I'm in Quiltmaker's May/June 2013 issue!

Nana's Garden
English Paper Pieced by machine!  Great easy technique that will save you time with wonderful results.  I sewed my hexagons together with invisible monofilament thread so it wouldn't show.  The hexagons are prepped with the papers same as you would if you were to stitch them by hand.  Then you sew them, remove the paper and voila you're done!
 This magazine issue is available in my online shop if you would like to buy a copy of it.

 I just love hexagons and English Paper Piecing--just wish I had more time to stitch everything by hand!
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Friday, April 5, 2013

New (old) tutorials and free patterns up on the blog.....




This title is a bit of an oxymoron- new/old.  Well it is a long overdue blog post.  I had not realized until this afternoon how many tutorials and patterns of mine that were not linked in my FREEBIES heading.  Seemed unjust to me so I have fixed it.  There are a bunch of them in there now.  Three Moda Bake Shop projects were added, a couple of tutorials, a couple of free patterns from my fabric lines that never made it on here either.  Hope you find them fun!

Also, hoping I can get some more up on here soon!  I love offering the tutorials, just need more hours in the day!


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