Check this out!

Hi, all!

Hop over to Stash Manicure - I'm guest blogging there today!  And if you've never been there before, take a look around - it's a great blog to read, with lots of fab ideas for how to deal with your fabric stash!!

Later!

Sarah

PS - be sure to check out the five days of giveways over at Hollyhock Quilts' new blog!  She's giving away lots of fabric!!


And don't miss Lucky Duck Dreams' giveaway - it's a good one!!

Make-A-List Monday #15!

Hi, all!


Wow!  Do  you all love fall as much as I do?  The weather here has been fabulous - crisp, cool mornings, sunshine, invigorating breezes, gently warm afternoons.  It's time to drag out the sweaters!  Fall always puts me in the mood to sew - probably because I can sense Christmas racing up!  Fall also means giveaways - have you checked out the Fall Into Fall Quilt Bloggers Giveaway?  Over 140 bloggers and 8 on-line stores are participating, including me! You can check out my giveaway here, then be sure to check out the other blogs!  There's some really neat stuff being given away out there!  You can enter the giveaways anytime between now and the 15th of October - winners will be announced on the 16th.


So now, let's see how I did on last week's list....


1.  Finish the binding on the sudoku quilt.  Done!  This quilt is already in the hands of its new owner - a lovely lady who is having some serious medical issues.  

2.  Pull fabrics for a boy's quilt for my friend Marsha.  Done!  Marsha's picked them up, along with a pattern for Crazy Quilt Mom's Fair and Square Quilt.  I think this one is going to work up really easy - it may become a new quilt ministry regular!


3.  Make a princess dress for my granddaughter for Halloween and an upcoming princess party!  Done!  And the princess had a blast at the party!  Now the trick is to get her to quit wearing it all the time!




4.  Make two baby quilts for my friend Kathy.  Done!  Just in the nick of time, too - she left with the senior high students for a mission trip to New Orleans on Friday - but she had these to take with her!

5.  Finish piecing the Welcome Home flimsy.  The delivery date of this quilt got pushed back to the 24th of October, so I put it on the back burner this week to put a few other projects ahead of it.  


6.  Cut the pieces for the birthday quilt (OK, hope springs eternal and all that rot, but maybe I can actually get to it this week!  You aren't going to believe this - I not only cut out the pieces for this quilt, but I finished it!  This one goes in the mail today for my niece's birthday - which was Saturday - so at least she'll have it within a week of her birthday!  Woohoo!!

Don't you love that owl?  It's from
Cloud 9 Fabrics'  Hoot! Tote pattern

All right, time to get off the "thrill of victory" bandwagon and get back to work.  What's on tap for this week?


1.  Finish designing and cut out another ministry quilt.  This one needs to be modern and whimsical - a bit of a stretch for me, but we'll see how it goes!  I've got the fabrics pulled and an idea in my head for what to do with the design.


2.  Finish the flimsy for Welcome Home.


3.  Start the back for Welcome Home.




Lilli is out of school for the next two weeks, so I have no toddler-less days for two weeks - except for Fridays - which may put a crimp in my sewing time.  When I try to sew now with Lilli around, she wants to sit in my lap and help push the fabric through the sewing machine!  But she is helpful in designing - she likes to move the fabric around and try it out in different places on the design.  Only one problem - if she likes a fabric she tends to take it away and put it in her fabric box!  So we'll see how the sewing goes....


Remember to check out the great giveaways out there - starting with mine!  


What are you working on this week?


Later!


Sarah


PS - I'll be linking up to QuiltStory's Fabric Tuesday - be sure to go check out all the neat things people have done with fabric this week!!!

Friday Finishes and Fall Into Fall! Bloggers Giveaway!!

Congratulations to the Winners!

Stitch & Flip - Jessica from NJ

Frayed Edge Fun - Monica from TX

Quilting For People .... - Marcia from the US

Traditional Two Block Quilts - Mary from NE

Hand-Stitched Boxes - Melinda from GA

Thanks to all who participated!  I'll be having more giveaways soon (one by the end of this month!) so be sure to come back by often.  I can't wait to get to know all of you better!

Hi, all!

It's Friday, it's October, and it's a giveaway!!  I've joined up with the Fall Into Fall Quilt Bloggers Giveaway, which is a fabulous giveaway going on at lots and lots of blogs today!!  Be sure (after you read this post and enter my giveaway!) to go check out the others!!

First of all, the info about the giveaway - - - - I'm going to give away five great books, and I think this time we'll spread around the goodies and have five winners!  So without further ado, here is the line-up....  (You can read more about each book by clicking on the name of the book, which is linked to Amazon...)

Book #1:  Stitch 'n Flip Quilts, by Valori Wells.  

Book #2:  Frayed-Edge Fun, by Evelyn Sloppy.

Book #3:  Quilting for People Who Still Don't Have Time to Quilt, by Marti Michell

Book #4:  Traditional Two Block Quilts, by Sally Saulmon

And finally, for those of you who might want to try out something a little different, 

Book #5:  Hand-Stitched Boxes, by Meg Evans

All of these books are from my bookshelf, and are in excellent condition except for #3, Quilting for People Who Still Don't Have Time To Quilt, which has the size of each quilt written in the table of contents (sorry about that!)  They have been languishing on my bookshelf and really deserve a good home where they will be loved and worn out, since they are each excellent books!  I just don't have time to pick and choose my patterns at the moment. So you benefit!!

Here's how you enter:

1.  Leave a comment!  Which of these books really rings your bells and gets your creative juices in a tizzy?


2.  Become a follower and leave a separate comment saying you have, or leave a separate comment letting me know you already are one!


3.  Blog about this giveaway on your blog, and leave a separate comment with the link to where you blogged about it!


4.  And finally, because generosity has its rewards, if you've made a fabric donation to our quilt ministry, please leave a separate comment saying so for one additional entry!

So - - - you can leave up to 

four separate comments for this giveaway!!  

Four chances to win!! Woohoo!!  

Random.org will be the one picking the winners. Maybe this time I can figure out how to get her picture on the blog!!

Entries will close no earlier than 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 14th, Central Standard Time.  Winners will be posted on this blogpost on Friday, October 15th and announced on my regular blogpost that day also!   You have a few days to enter, so get to it! 

And now, for my Friday finishes!  This week I seem to have excelled in finishing things that others started - - - first of all, here's a lovely sudoku quilt pieced by my friend Pam.  I finished what she had started for the back, then quilted and bound it.  It's found a new home with a lady in our church with medical problems.

Don't you just love my little photographer's assistant?

I also bound this lovely appliqued quilt for fellow ministry-quilter Marsha, and it has gone to its new home with a lady who had surgery this week....

I bound this sweet flannel baby boy's quilt which was pieced and quilted by someone in our Wednesday night sewing group.  It is on its way to Texas to a brand new baby boy whose parents are connected to our church....

And I finished piecing, quilted and bound this beautiful baby girl's flannel quilt, also started by someone in our Wednesday night sewing group.  It is on its way to New Orleans with our senior high mission group.  This is their sixth trip, I think, to New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.  The quilt is going to a family they have been working with since they started going there, who are celebrating the birth of a new baby girl!

That's not all I've done this week, but I think it's enough for this post!  It feels really good to get some stuff finished!  I'm going to link up to Amy's Sew & Tell Friday and Andrea's Lush Friday - be sure to check them out and see what everyone's been up to this week!  

And don't forget to enter the giveaway here, then bop on over to the Fall Into Fall blog and see all the other great places having giveaways!  It looks like there's over 150 bloggers and on-line stores participating - that makes good odds that you might win something!!!  Good luck!!!

Later!

Sarah


PS - My friend Vickie at Spun Sugar Quilts is celebrating her 600th blogpost with a fabulous giveaway!  Be sure to go over there and check it out!!!


And check out the giveaway at the Crazy Quilt Girl Fabric Shop!  She's got a wicked crazy selection of fabrics at great prices!!