A finish...and another giveaway...

Lucky Bettina won the Tammy Bag Sewing Kit 

and she choose this red one...one of my favorites...I love red and polka dots,

it seems Bettina does too.

Another Tammy Bag Sewing Kit giveaway 

on Saturday June 11

GIVEAWAY CLOSED

This will be the last one...probably till Christmas.

The winner can pick their favorite from 

#1

#2

#3

I finished a second #3 bag in the car last weekend

when we were returning from Canada.

One side has a divided pocket 

and other side has the cutest embroidery design

by Anni Downs.

It is from her book called The Simple Life.

All comments left on my June 3rd posting and on this posting

will be entered in the giveaway. 

The winner will be HAS BEEN notified by email sometime on June 12th.

In your comment tell me which one is your favorite...#1, 2, or 3.

If you left me a comment before June 1st

your names are still in the bag from the first giveaway.

I'm linking with crazy mom quilts...Amanada Jean's Finish it Up Friday

if I hurry I can still make the party.

Good Luck everyone

 and 

Happy Stitching

My June goal for OMG and the winner

of the Tammy Bag Sewing Kit is Bettina.
I have sent her an email.

A big

to everyone for all your sweet comments and entering my giveaway.
Life has been pretty hectic and I would like to say it will slow down
but I'm thinking it is going to be busy right through October.

I will be drawing another winner next Saturday June 11th.
for another Tammy Bag sewing kit.
If you commented on my blog in May your name is still in the 'bag'.
Comment before June 11th and you get your name in again. 

May was a very busy month, 

we sold our house

and then spent the next three weekends 
looking for a house to call home.

We looked at a lot of resale homes and finally decided we would have one built.

Our house in Michigan closes July 15 and

we will be heading 'home' to Canada.

The house will not be finished until the end of  September.

We will be living in the small town of Wellesley...population 11,000.

It's a rural area about a 15 minute drive to Waterloo.

It will be wonderful to finally be close to family.

I'm excited and would like to fast forward to October.

Lots to do before then...I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

Our subdivision is having it's annual garage sale Friday and Saturday.

We will be participating for the first time...we have lots that we don't need or want...
...lots of bargains...it sure is a lot of work!!
Trust me I would rather be sewing.

My time will be limited for sewing from now till we move.
but I am going to start stitching a chenille quilt with lacrosse fabric.
I'll be using orange, royal blue, lime green, and light blue flannel.

I'm still at the basting stage but hope to have the basting finished this weekend
and have the quilt stitched and bound by the end of June. 
This will be my June goal for OMG.

I'm joining the June Goal Setting party with
Heidi at Red Letter Quilts - OMG

Tammy Bag Sewing Kit giveaway and OMG finish

I've had a lot of time to stitch in the car this month as we travelled to

Canada house hunting.

I'm happy to say I finished my One Monthly Goal for May

and I was able to make another Tammy Bag Sewing Kit exactly the same.

It matches the tote I finished in April.

No, I didn't make another tote....just the sewing kit.

Some day I will make another one, the smaller size.

I will pick the winner June 1st from the comments left on my 

previous post and from comments posted on June 1 from this posting.

Pick your favorite #1, #2, #3 from my previous post or

if #4, the black and white one from this posting

is your new favorite.  It is my new favorite.  

I'm joining the May finishing party with
Heidi at Red Letter Quilts - OMG

May goal setting for OMG and a Giveaway

My goal for May is to finish a Tammy Bag Sewing Kit
using fabrics that match this tote.

I'll be using this embroidery design on the front of the Tammy bag.

The outside of Tammy bag will match the fabric on the bottom of the tote.

The thread catcher will be the pink polka dot fabric.

The outside of the needle keeper 

will be the black and white print on the bottom of the bag.

The inside will be the

white, black and the touch of pink fabric used for the body of the bag.

The wool will be either pink or white.

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OK now for the giveaway....

It has been quite awhile since I've had one.

I have a few Tammy Bag sewing kits made.

The kit includes the Tammy Bag, 
the collapsible thread catcher
and a scalloped needle keeper.

#1 with a divided outside pockets on the front and back

#2 has a divided pocket on both the front and back

or #3 with a divided pocket on the back only

Leave me one comment telling me...

1. where you live now, 
2.  which Tammy Bag sewing kit is your favorite
 #1, 2 or 3.
3.  if you joined the May goal setting linky party with
 Heidi at Red Letter Quilts
...include your linky number for a second chance to win 
the Tammy Bag sewing kit. 

Each time I make a new Tammy Bag I seem to have a new favorite.
I'm pretty sure my new favorite will be the one I make 
for my OMG for May.

I will pick a winner at the end of May.

I'm joining the linky party with
Heidi at Red Letter Quilts - OMG
#70

I was featured at Rag Tag Stitchin' and a Giveaway

Thank you sooo much, Michelle, 

for sharing my quilty creations on your blog.

I am thrilled...you made my heart sing!!

I love your designs and I am always thinking 

of different projects to make with them.  

(If you are a follower of my blog 

you may have seen these pictures in past posts...sorry for the repeats.)

   

Michelle Ridgway is an Australian designer.

She draws some pretty awesome embroidery designs.

Please stop by her blog at...Rag-tag Stitchin' and say Hi!!

(she is on vacation now but I know she would love it if you left her a comment) 

Michelle has some free designs on her side bar and

patterns for sale on her blog too.

I have used many of her designs to make tea towels.

I enlarged this sweet angel and it was perfect for a tea towel.

The design is one of her free one's!! 

...I am always working on a few more tea towels...

they make the cutest little gifts.

Michelle's patterns are now available for sale in the USA.

My friend Corinna has 14 of Michelle's patterns/booklets

in her shop at Crazy Quilt Girl Fabric Shop.

Hop on over and see some of Michelle's patterns/booklets.

The tea towels are also available at Crazy Quilt Girl Fabric Shop.

I used the Aunt Martha's Vintage brand.

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Now...I think it is time for a giveaway...

July 14, 2010 I started my blog...it seems like so long ago.

It has been awhile since I've had a give away

...so for my blogiversary you will have

a chance to win one of Michelle's alphabet booklets.

...Baby Alphabet

...Alphabet Noel

or

...Sewing Alphabet

Please leave a comment on this posting and let me know 

where you live and which alphabet booklet you would like to win

...all 3 alphabet booklets are full of cuteness!!

I must have a way of contacting you...so make sure I have your email address.

Giveaway ends Friday August 1.  

BTW...it is 5 months to Christmas Eve.

Giveaway ending at midnight...

...hop on over to the Moda Bake Shop and take a peek at my Honeysweet Pinwheel quilt.  It is a pretty easy recipe, I'm hoping you will give it a try.  I am working on another variation, it will be my third twist on the same quilt.  I am excited about it and hope I have it finished before Christmas...it will include some embroidery.  Be sure to come back and leave a comment on my previous posting for a chance to win 2 charm packs of Fairy Tale Friends and 3/4 yard Bella Red or Bella Bettys Teal for binding and inner border.  If you are the winner and you have left a comment on the Moda Bake Shop posting...there will be a surprise added to the giveaway.  Good luck!!

What have you been working on?

I'm working on Tammy bags with Hello Kitty fabric for the grandgirls...

Redwork...for Bird Brain Designs Redwork Challenge...come on join the challenge with me...

and my UFO table runner for the 'A Lovely Year of Finishes 2013', I still have to finish that.

I'm beginning to stress.  I'll be back tomorrow with the winner...have a wonderful evening!!

Happy stitching

I'm baking at the Moda Bake Shop today...

...if you are visiting here for the first time and have come from the Moda Bake Shop, welcome to my blog.  If you are a regular follower...welcome and thank you for visiting again.  

It is always fun when you are playing with fabric...and precuts are definitely fun to play with.  In May 2012 I was participating in a quilt-a-long using half square triangles made with 5" charm squares...I had all the hst's made, even had them all trimmed, laid them out on the floor, fully intending to follow along with the quilt-a-long group.  I struggled with this quilt and just wasn't happy with the fabric choices for this quilt-a-long, I picked up the blocks and put them in a pizza box...another UFO was born...out of sight, out of mind.  I abandoned the quilt-a-long June 2012...:o(

This past summer I decided I had to start finishing some of my ufo's, my stack of pizza boxes was getting too tall...out of control.  I had finished a few ufo's and then decided it was time to work on the Fairy Tale Friend hst's...I took all the hst blocks, laid them out on the floor and moved them around many, many times and finally decided on a totally different arrangement from the quilt-a-long.  I like the fabrics with this arrangement so much better.  I had to make a few more hst's from the quilt-a-long requirements...no problem, I still had some charms to work with.  

I bought some of the red pinwheel fabric from Moda's mama said SEW by Sweetwater.  I thought the fabric was perfect...I struggled with the back too and changed my mind and ended with this...

The quilt measures approximately 52" x 52". I used 2 charm packs of Moda's Fairy Tale Friends designed by Sandy Klop for American Jane and 2 charm packs of porcelain #9900-182.  The back is a Bella solid...called Bettys Teal #9900-126, I added some of the the extra charms and a remnant of Moda's Pezzy by Sandy Klop.  It all matched perfect and I love how it all came together...another ufo finished!!

If you would like to make this quilt...Crazyquiltgirl Fabric Shop has the Fairy Tale Friends charm packs and the Honeysweet charm packs that I used on the quilt featured on the Moda Bake Shop.  Corinna also has the Buttermilk Basin Halloween pattern in stock.  It was one of my Wicked Blog Hop projects and that was fun to make too.

Now...if you checked out my quilt on the Moda Bake Shop and stayed with me here you deserve a chance at a giveaway!

2 charm packs of Fairy Tale Friends

3/4 yard of Bella Red or Bella Bettys Teal

...you choose the inner border and binding color

Here's the rules...it's simple...no hoops to jump, I promise.

• one comment please, duplicates will be deleted before I use Random.org to pick the winner
• please visit my posting on the Moda Bake Shop
• come back and leave me a comment.  I will pick the winner from the comments on this posting on November 25.  That is one month before Christmas...I know I will be sewing to the bitter end...are you still sewing for Christmas??

Edited...I'm linking up to crazy mom quilts, Finish it up Friday.

Good luck everyone

This giveaway is now closed

  Happy stitching

Here we go again....

...Friday we froze peaches...enough to make 4 peach crisps this winter

 and another patch of pasta sauce.

My canning pot is huge...18 quart size

it's filled with chopped tomatoes...red and yellow ones

sweet onions

celery

orange peppers

shredded zucchini

fresh parsley

garlic chives

and fresh basil

everything mixed and cooking for 1/2 hour...

simmering for 3 hours...

looking good...I pureed it a bit,  not too much

and simmered it for another few hours.

From start to finish...about 8 hours

and 10 jars of sauce to eat this winter.

My friend Christa came over for dinner and a Friday night of sewing.

We had pasta with some of the pasta sauce mixed with ground beef

and a garden salad for dinner

with peach cobbler dessert...it was sooo good!!

Sorry...no picture, I know I should have taken a picture before we ate...

I'm sure no one wants to see a picture of my leftovers.

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...a reminder of my

September giveaway.

 I have another hand embroidered designs by Michelle Ridgway to giveaway.

I will pick the winner September 30th from all comments on my 

blog postings from the month of September.

I'm hoping this will make me post more...

...sorry I know I have been very quiet in blogland.

The more postings you comment on in September ...

the more chances you have to win. 

One comment per posting per person.

till next time and 

happy stitching

The HO HO HO Blog Hop and a giveaway...

It's my day in the Ho Ho Ho Blog Hop

hosted by Carol at Just Let Me Quilt and Mdm Samm at Sew We Quilt.

THANK YOU ladies ...you are the best!!

Let's get today's HO HO HO parade of Christmas projects started...

be prepared to be inspired... 

August 9

Moose Stash Quilting

Cathy’s Chatter

Darlington Delights

Life in the Scrapatch

Quilt n Queen***this is me***

Forget-Me-Not Stitches

Quilted Delights

AnnieOak Designs

Sew Peace to Peace

Wips & Tuts

Just Keep Swimming

Sew We Quilt

My HO HO HO projects were made using
Michelle Ridgway's Rag-Tag Stitchin' embroidery designs.
The fabrics I used are Lynette Anderson's by Lecien.  
I used a combination of Scandinavian Christmas and Christmas Fun.
Lynette's new Christmas line is called Candy Cane Angel and I luv it too.
It's coming soon to Crazyquiltgirl Fabric Shop.  You can find Christmas Fun
at Crazyquiltgirl Fabric Shop now.

I think this tote bag is as cute as can be.... 

The pattern is O' Christmas Tree Tote Bag and

the embroidery thread is Presencia 8 wt color no. 1906 

The next project is using Michelle's Skates for Hire pattern.  

Instead of making the pillow like her pattern

I made a message board...and I luv it.

You can find my tutorial on making a message board on the Moda Bake Shop.

...I do have a snowman hanger some where...I just can not put my hands on it.

As you can see...I just couldn't stop embroidering...

here is a peek of more stitcheries ready to make into more projects.

The fabric for the embroidery background are Moda Muslin Mates,

Falling Snow Muslin and Snowflakes Muslin 

and a closeup of Mr Meltin' the Mitten Mender using Aurifil 12 wt #2735

and Mr. Meltin' stitched in red using Aurifil 12 wt no. 2260 

Skates for Hire is stitched with Aurifil 12 wt color no 2260.  

I stitched 3 of Skates for Hire blocks...I just couldn't stop.

The three blocks on the back of the park bench are also from Rag-Tag Stitchin'.

Michelle made it into a wall hanging, with the blocks stacked on top of each other.

I am making a table runner with the blocks side by side.  

The picture is minus the outer boarder....the good news

the outer borders are on now...it's quilting time.

I used 2 strands of Valdani color no. M43 for the table runner.

I'm also working on 2 tea towels...they are traced and partially stitched.

I used the free pattern found on Michelle's blog.

It's called Winter Mate, a free download on her sidebar.

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If you are still reading my blog, you have made it to the giveaway.

One comment please...

I really don't want to part with my pattern...

my friend Karen brought it all the way for Australia for me.....

so, I'll do the embroidery...

and you can make your own project....pillow, tote, message board???

Tell me what you would make if you won one of the embroidered blocks...

 Mr Meltin' the Mitten Mender or Skates for Hire.  

Tell me which embroidery block you would  like.  

I would love it if you followed me...it is not necessary to win but I would love it if you did.

If you are a follower please tell me how you follow me

...just curious...by GFC, email, Bloglovin, Feedly?

I will pick 2 winners on Friday August 16th. 

Make sure I have your email address so I can contact you. 

This giveaway is now closed.

till next time...happy stitching