Black/White RR Block

This is a photo of the Black/White block that I have completed for Rita in the rr that we are in together over on CQI. We each finish a complete block for each person in the group. I enjoyed working on her block very much and hope she likes what I have created for her.

This is a list of what I did on her block.

1. gathered flowers in vintage trim patch
2. lace heart with beads patch
3. lace work in fly stitch
4. paisley with doodle patch
5. herringbone stitch with detached chain and french knots
6. knotted herringbone
7. glass butterfly with beaded flowers patch
8. zig zag chain stitch seam
9. doodle patch
10. silver butterfly above knotted herringbone

This was fun to do and I have enjoyed myself greatly.

Happy Stitching Everyone!

Wendy

My ATG RR Block is Home!

I just finished a RR over on CQI and my block is now home. Thought I would post a few pics of it. It is absolutely gorgeous. The ladies Ati, Gerry K, Lisa and Meg who worked on the block did an excellent job. I am so pleased with it. Now to finish the other five in the set and I can get my wall hanging up.This is the close up of the whole block. The rest are closeups of each area on the block. Enjoy!


I am so glad that my block is home and now I can hopefully get the wallhanging finished very soon. Again thank you ladies who worked on my block to make it so gorgeous!

Wendy

Flower Fairy Blocks

I finally was able to upload my pics of my "Flower Fairy" blocks for the new round robin that I am in on CQI group. These blocks will measure 6x6 when completed, I always make mine a little bigger so they can shrink with embellishments and still give me a 6inch block when done. In this rr there are six of us in the group. We send out six blocks and each person then completely embellishes the block they choose. The last block comes back to me and I will finish it. I have three more that I will be embellishing while these are gone. My wall hanging will have a total of nine blocks when finished. I am looking forward to working on the other blocks in this rr. This is going to be so much fun. This is a pic of all of them so far. I have also uploaded singles of each one.
This is block 1

This is block 2

This is block 3
This is block 4
This is block 5

And this is block 6 and he is the only boy fairy in this group.
I think they are all so cute and will make a lovely little wall hanging when finished. Thats all for today. Happy Stitching everyone.

Wendy

Happy Fourth of July and the Winner Is!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone I hope you are having a wonderful, safe and fun 4th of July as we are in in the south. Happy Birthday America! I just love to celebrate the freedom that we have in our beloved country. We truly have a lot to be thankful for as we celebrate what we normally take for granted. I am so thankful to be an American, and to all those men and women who serve our country sometimes paying the ultimate sacrifice with their lives, I say a heartfelt thank you! Thank you to my dad who served his country as a young man. Thank you God for giving us a wonderful free country in which to live our lives as we choose.

Happy Fourth of July America!

Now on to what I know everyone wants to know.............the winner of my blogversary of course! OK I took all the names and put the amount of times for entry by each name. Then I totaled them all as I went to each name and placed a number beside each name. Then I took the total count and put it in a random generator and came up with the winners........yes I said winners. I decided that since we are also celebrating our countries freedom today that I would do a second draw for a smaller surprise gift. So are you ready?????????? Okay the lucky winner is.............................................................................................................................................. are you sure you want to know? Just kidding, the winner of the art quilt is Micki her numbers were 498 thru 524 and the generated number was 510. So congrats Micki on your win. Email me privately with snail mail and I will get your mini quilt out to you asap. Now ready for the next winners name...........get ready here it comes................give a big hand to Kerry of kerrykatiekakes as she is the second winner, her numbers were 114 thru 174 and her winning number was 130. Kerry please email me with your snail mail and I will get your surprise out in the mail asap. Congrats to both ladies who won and thank you to all ladies who left a comment and signed up to follow. I will be having future draws so be on the lookout for them. And as always, Happy Stitching,

Wendy

A Note About My Blogversary Drawing

Hi everyone, I have decided to extend the drawing for my blogsversary until Friday afternoon at 5pm central time. I will draw the name and post it at that time. Good luck to all those who have signed up and if you have been sitting on the fence, you now how until Friday July 3rd to leave your comment.

Wendy

A Small ArtQuilt

Just thought I would post a pic of a small artquilt that I am working on. The main work is finished now all I need to do is the embellishments on this one and put the backing and binding on. I am very pleased so far with the turnout of this little quilt. I will definately be making more of these. And of course as you can see it is made out of batiks which are my favorite! Now to go digging around for the embellishments. Here are a couple of pics before the embellishments are in place.This pic is a little bit darker and shows the browns a little better. The colors are really deep and vibrant.

So far I really like how it is shaping up. Of course it will be much better with the embellishments! We spent the day with our middle daughter Bliss who turned 19 on Saturday. We went to a chinese restruant to eat and then to the movies. We had a lovely time and I will be doing her desert when she decides what she wants. All in all it was a great weekend. We did hit the thrift stores, and I found a wonderful peacock to add to my growing collection. Ok I don't know what bloggers problem is, but it will not let me put my photo of the peacock down here where it goes. So will leave it up top for now and move it later on.

Finally I was able to move this peacock pic down here where he belongs!

Wendy

Another Mini Quilt Swap

Quilting Gallery is hosting another mini quilt swap. This one is themed "Good Ol Summertime" and I have joined in on the fun again. I had so much fun with the last swap that I could not resist. Besides that it does not take long to make a mini quilt and is so much fun and rewarding as well. So if your interested and want to swap a great little quilty, then go on over and sign up. You can click the icon on my sidebar or in this post and let the fun begin. I promise you will have fun, meet new people and recieve a wonderful little quilt for your wall or studio sewing room if you join us in the fun. Who knows you might even end up my quilt.

Updating Some

I have finished my work on Karrin H's block in the Birds/Bee's RR on CQI and thought I would post the work. I really enjoyed working on her block. She had a cute frog silkie for the center of the block and we were each to take inspiration from that. If I am not wrong the silkie is from Wind and the Willows. Do you remember that book from childhood? It was one of my favorites. Anyhow, here is the work I did and now her block is on to the next person in the rr.

This is the whole block after my work has been added to Karrin's block. I did the lower right corner of the block.

Next we have a closeup of the lace lily pad with a frog charm I don't know why the pic is so blurry. Anyhow, you can't see them but there is purple flower clusters beneath the lily pad.
Next we have the lime green dragonfly. I think he turned out pretty good. Remember frogs love to eat the dragonflies, but hopefully this one will survive and make friends with the frogs!
Next is a closeup of a purple dragonfly made entirely out of beads. This is the first time I have made dragonflies and I think they turned out pretty good if I do say so myself. Again I don't know why the pic is blurry.

Here is the pic of the Knotted Herringbone stitch with beading that I completed. Here is a list of what all I added to Karrin's block. I hope she likes what I have added.

(1) Feather stitch with detached chain in 2 DMC blues

(2) Knotted Herringbone stitch with lime green DMC thread and the knotted part is coral DMC thread with chech beads also added.

(3) Lime green dragonfly

(4) Purple beaded dragonfly

(5) Lime green french knots on blue patch

(6) Silk ribbon vine with purple french knot flowers on long seam. ( I made these to look like the vine that you see on the river banks here in the summer)

(7) French knot cluster flowers with silk ribbon and DMC purple

(8) Green lace lily pad with frog charm

Here is the final pic of the whole section of my work on Karrin's block.

OK everyone don't forget to leave a contact on the post about my blogversary to be able to enter the drawing. You have until midnight(central time) June 30th to enter. Remember that your comment must be made on the post about the blogversary below. Good luck to those who have entered so far! Happy Stitching Everyone,

Its Here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My "Spring Bloom" mini quilt is here!!!!! Can you see me doing the happpppppppppy dance!!!!! I am so pleased and blown away by this quilt. It is so gorgeous! I had seen this quilt on Beena's blog and thought I would like to have that quilt to hang on my wall. I had no idea that she was my swap partner for the Spring Bloom swap! I had been communicating with her about another one of her quilts never guessing she was my secret partner. You need to go over to her site here: http://bbsquilts.blogspot.com/ and take a long break to look at all her quilts and goodies. I was blown away, she is an exceptional artist as well as quilt maker. You will see what I mean when you visit her site. Such inspiration and eye candy! Anyhow, here is my quilt. Thank you so much Beena, I love it. This is the whole quilt:Now for some closeup shots. The pics really do not do true justice to this little quilt. Wish you could all see it up close and personal, but since you cannot you will just have to take my word for it. It is gorgeous, what more can I say.

Look at the work on the dragonfly itself, truly wonderful.
Some of the quilting:

Of course anyone who knows me also knows my love of all Batik fabrics. Beena has incorporated them into the quilt also. Check out the backing of this quilt, it is wonderful!

And another look a little more closely:
I am just beside myself with happiness over this quilt. Can you guess how happy I am!!!!! Very Happy! I could just go on and on about it. Again thank you Beena for the wonderful quilt that is a reflection of your artistic muse. I cannot wait to see what else you do in the coming months. Happy Stitching,

Some Updates

Today has been a busy day for me but I do have some updates to post. First is the swip=slow work in progress. Remember my redwork peacock wall hanging, well I have finally finished the all the flowers except for the small one at the very bottom and I am now working on the tail of the peacock again. Now remember that I only work on this when I take my mom to the Dr. for her heart checkups. This past week she had to go and have her defibralator checked to make sure the battery was still good and it was. Anyhow, I am slowly getting this done and wanted to post a pic of it. I will be so glad to finish this so I can hang it up in the peacock room! I am thinking a gold leaf frame would really be pretty for him.

Next is pics of what I sent my swap partner for the July 4th swap that I was in. I am so pleased with how everything turned out. I hope my partner likes what I sent her. First is this little mini quilt. It could be used as a candle mat or hung on the wall if she likes for the holiday.

Here is a pic of the back also, the fabric looks like fireworks which I just love and is also in keeping with the holiday we are celebrating. I love these little mini quilts they are quick, easy and go together really fast.

Next is a group pic of all I sent her. I took a red apron and appliqued stars with the same fabric as the backing on the quilty. There is a liberty angel and some pot holders as well. Anyhow, they are on their way to a new home for the fourth! As always this was a fun swap and I always like swapping over at Heidi's blog. She is a great hostess. You can find her here: http://foxglovesfabricandfolly.blogspot.com/ go check her out sometime she has a nice site.
Well that is it for me tonight I will be back tomorrow with more updates and some fun stuff. I hope to have the art quilt for my giveaway finished by Monday and will post a pic as soon as I do finish it. Happy Stitching,

My Blogversary Is In 15 Days!

My blogsversary is in 15 days and I will be having a give-a-way at that time. It will be a mini quilt and when it is completed I will post a pic of it here. Now, if you want to be entered into the drawing here is what you need to do. If you do not have a blog you must leave an email addy so I can get in touch with you if you win. I will be checking out each of your blogs as you leave comments so I can enter your entries. Lets have some fun!!!!!!!

1. First you need to post a comment on this post only and you get your name put in 1 time.

2. If you post about my giveaway on your blog and come back here to let me know you will get 25 more chances to win.

3. If you become a follower of my blog you will get another 25 chances to win.

Now all those chances add up to a total of 51 chances so the first 10 people who do all three will get another 10 chances added for a total of 61 chances to win.

So let the party begin and help me to celebrate!

"Spring Blooms" Mini Quilt is Finished

My "Spring Blooms" mini quilt is finally finished with binding and label in place. Now to wrap it and send it along to its new owner. I hope my swap partner likes this little quilt. I have enjoyed making it and it was hard to give up. I am very happy with the results and plan to make myself one with different blooms on it in the next week or so. Here is a pic of my little quilt before I mail it out on today.Also my first PIF is almost ready and I should be able to mail it out by Friday. I will not be able to post pics until it reaches its new home, but will when Jane G. receives it. I have also finished my box for the "Vintage Fourth of July" swap and it will be mailing out on Friday also. Again I will have to post pics after my partner receives her parcel. I will also be mailing out Ati's block from the Anything Goes DYB RR as it is now finished and ready to go back home to Ati. I know she will like her block when she has seen it. The ladies have done some really nice work on her block. I have enjoyed working on it myself. I will post pics later of my section of the block. Happy Stitching,

Vintage Fourth of July Swap Box Has Arrived

My swap box from the Vintage Fourth of July Swap is here! My swap partner does not have a blog, but she has sent me some great things. She made me the cutest penny rug and a wool door hanger for the fourth. She also made me a little purse that is a great size to stick in your pocket without having to take a bigger purse. It holds money, licence and credit cards. I used it at our annual block party on Friday. She also made framed art for the 4th. I love each and every thing she put in the box. Thank you so much Lynn I have already put them on display on my entryway table.Next is a wip that I am working on for the Mini Quilt Swap over on Quilters Blogging site, you can get there from a link on my sidebar. Anyhow, this is the first ever quilty swap for this group. I have been working on this top and now all I have to do is sew it together and put the sandwich together and quilt it. I hope my partner will like it. Of course I can't say who it is going to because it is a secret.
Well that's it for today's update. Now to get back to the sewing room and do some stitching. Onward to another evening of stitching and sewing and playing with fabric. I also need to finish my pin cushion and post pics of it. Will do that when I post final pics of the quilty.
Happy Stitching,

New Crazy Blocks Ready for RR

Finally I am able to post pics of my black and white blocks for the new rr I am in over at CQI. The theme for this RR is Black/White. There are six of us total. We send out six blocks and each person in the rotation does one complete block and then sends them to the next person. My blocks are working their way to Italy even now. I just have not had time to post pics. These six are out of a set of 16 blocks that will be making up a wall hanging for my bedroom. There is also a 24"x24" square for the center block that will be octagon in shape. I have a drawing of the wall hanging that I need to make a pic of and post of what it will look like when finished. I am excited about this rr as these colors are some of my favorites. I just love black and white together. Anyhow, here is a pic of the six blocks that I have sent out in this rr.I am so in love with these blocks! Anyhow, I finally received my next block in the ATG Traditional RR and this is the last block in the round. This block belongs to Ati and when I finish working on it, it will be going across the sea to its home. I took a before pic this time to better see the direction I would go in doing my part. So here is the pic of Ati's block before I work on it. And I will give updates as I do the work. This is a pic of the section I will be completing for Ati.
Well, that's all for today. Hope everyone has a good week of stitching. I know I will. I have three projects that are finishing up and will mail out tomorrow. Will post them when I finish up. Happy Stitching,

Dropping in to say hi

Just a short note to say hi and that I will be back later with some pics of projects that I have been working on. Blogger won't let me add pics at the moment so will try later with a good update. Have a good Saturday.
Wendy

A Great Find!

Just had to post my great find of the week. I went to the local thrift store and found this beauty! And it works, sews like a dream. This little baby hums and stitches ever so fast! Nice neat tiny stitches. But the best thing about this is the cost, only $6.88, what a bargain. This is the third one I have found at the same store, and yes I bought each of them and they all work! I now have a total of eight machines one of which is an embroidery machine. And I do have my eye on a treadle machine that will be coming to live with me soon, also in working order. Anyhow, now to clean up the machine and she can join the others in my sewing room.Another great find and this one was for free! A friend of my aunts has a little shop that she sells vintage items and bric brac in gave me this 50's sewing box. The box still had some sewing items in it. How cute is this sewing box, I like the poodle on the top. My mom said she could remember these from when she was growing up. The color is a very light pink, I don't know why the photo did not show the true color.The velvet inside is faded but other than that the whole thing is in wonderful shape. No holes or bad spots on the case at all. I have also knitted some more on my shawl that I am making, so I am making progress on that as well. I have also knitted a couple more of my dishcloths that I have been making. Will post pics soon of those. But for now, here is my knitting project. I am so used to crochet being so much faster that it is hard not to have already completed this project or maybe I am just a very slow knitter. Anyhow, I just love the way the colors fall in project. This will be really nice when finished and I will be offering it on my Artfire site when completed.

I am also making pin cushions for the site as well as a few more offerings and will be posting about them soon. Well I have lots to do on today so I will get back to work. Have a good and relaxing weekend and will post again soon.

Happy Stitching Everyone,

A Little Updating

Wow! This month is already over and to me it went by really fast. This has been a really hectic couple of months for me and I am so ready for things to slow down to normal again. Anyhow, I do have some updates and things I want to post about.

A couple of months ago I signed up for a PIF from Mai in the Netherlands and today it arrived! I absolutely love what she made and sent to me. She is a bag maker and she made me the most lovely bag. She also sent along scissors with a name charm and yoyo charm, a small pin cushion and of course a lovely chocolate bar. Thank you Mai I absolutely love what you made me! I am working on the first of my three and will have it ready in a week or so. I will post updates soon about that. Now, here are some pics of my wonderful gifties. I forgot to mention the two rose pins that she made also in the pincushion.

Next is my pics of Gerry K's RR block for the ATG rr that I am in. This RR is on its last month and I have already started working on the last block in the RR. The last block I am working on is Ati's and then it will go on to her. I will post pics of it later. But in the meantime here is Gerry K's block after my work.
Some closeups of my work too!
I decided to do two spiders instead of the usual one. Hope Gerry don't mind.

Giveaway Time!

Chris Wheeler over at http://welovequilting.com/blog/2009/05/may-give-a-way/comment-page-2/#comment-1018 After you have left a comment browse around and have a look see at all she has to offer. Her and her husband have some quilts for sell as well on her site. A very lovely yo yo quilt that reminds me of one that my grandmother made about 30yrs ago before she went to be with the Lord. I am sure you will enjoy looking around her site.
Happy Stitching,

Today's Ramblings

Well I hope that blogger will let me get this posted with all the pics today. For some reason it has not been letting me post or view blogs on blogger. Anyhow, I will try once again. I have been busy working on some projects and of course Mothers Day has come and gone for another year! I hope everyone had a wonderful mothers day, I know I did. I cooked for my mom and spent the day with her and gave her a gift from all of us. It was a very nice day spent with mom. My two younger kids decided to take and pool their money and have portraits of them together made for me for Mothers Day! I was so surprised by what they did. They bought a really nice package and they are just wonderful. It has been a while since we had portraits made and this was the best gift ever! Then on top of all that my wonderful husband gave me EQ6 for my mothers day gift from him!!!!! He spoils me so! I have been wanting this program for over a year now and he just up and surprised me with it this past weekend. I can't wait to start using it. This is another little project that I am working on as it is still not quiet finished as of yet, but I did want to post a little pic of what I have been working on. Or I should say playing with new techniques. This little quiltlet is an experiment in shadow trapunto and has been a challenge for me to finish. I ran out of thread and then could not find anymore, therefore, I am adding dimensional rosettes at the top left corner. Since this is just a sample I am working on it does not matter that I had to use a different shade of thread to finish. It will stay here in my sewing room with me. I will be trying this technique on a larger scale in the future, maybe an 12x12 as this one is much smaller at 6x6. I have noted how much thread it takes and will not run out the next time. Especially if I use variegated thread. I like the way this technique turned out. I also made some post cards with this technique but cannot show photos until their new owners receive them in the mail. I will post pics of them as soon as I can.I have also started another shawl for my new store on artfire. I am knitting this one and am learning that it takes longer to knit a project than to crochet a project. If I was crocheting this shawl I would be halfway finished with it. But, I will keep steady at it and hopefully have it finished soon. I will give my artfire addy as soon as I have enough things to sell put up on site. Anyhow here is the progress of the shawl so far. I just love the colors, they remind me of soft heathery colors. And of course I am using my favorite thread from Lion Brand Yarns, Homespun. The colors are just luscious!That is my small update for now, I hope your week is going well. Mine is busy as usual and I do have a new toy to play with as soon as I load it onto the computer. Hopefully I will have time to do that sometime this week.
Happy Stitching,

A Giveaway from "Daisy Quilts"

Robyn over at "Daisy Quilts" is having a May giveaway. Her drawing is open to anyone with a blog and the winner will be drawn on June 8th, 2009. So you still have time to go over and leave a comment. The button for this drawing is on my sidebar and will take you to the correct post. Go ahead and have some fun.

Happy Stitching