FEBRUARY GIVEAWAY

Yesterday I mentioned about my jewellery pouch fiasco and how I now have more than I need of these cuties!!

So I thought you might like a GIVEAWAY!!

Whatcha think about that?

Leave a comment for chance #1

Blog or tweet for chance #2

Become a follower for chance #3

Leave me some L-O-V-E and win a gift for yourself or give the pouch to someone special.

Draw date will be February 13th sometime through the day!

The Week of February 5th and an invitation?

Everyone has those weeks when things just won't mesh, right?

This week was mine! Oh Boy!!

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Believe it or not but this is suppose to be a travelling jewellery pouch!
Yeah, a little on the large side me thinks!!

So I turned it inside out and found a jelly bean container that is clear and fits in just perfect. Now I've got a place to put sewing supplies.

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I've been trying to get the measurements figured out for the proper finished size of a jewellery pouch. Well the first attempt rendered a very mini size.
There are 5 compartments in this mini.

 All well and fine but too easy to misplace during travel I thought or if you had larger pieces to store.

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Back to the drawing board and with some refiguring and
voila!

All in all everything turned out OK with these and I even have a few extras!
I think this could call for a...


stop back tomorrow!!


I know, I'm a tease.

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On another note I was in contact with the

 NEW HOPE DOG RESCUE
in SASKATOON, SK

 and Karen is wanting to collaborate on a raffle
 to help them obtain a new home base.

 

Have a great day!

Pillow Talk

I wanted to make something for my boys yesterday and came up with these ~

This is for my "Dino-mite" kiddo

can you see the skeletons?

and

This is for my "Free Spirit" kiddo

animals and blue are his passion!

Have a wonderful day

Waiting

IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY

********More snow and cold { I hope not } or warmth and spring on its way? **********

This is another set of blocks that's been waiting in the wings to be finished.

By "waiting in the wings" I mean folded in a bag in a box.

Yes, my head is downcast in shame.

Unfortunately I had one jelly roll { a win } and am now finding that it's not going to be big enough so I'll incorporate some other fabrics for sashing, I think.

For now it may just end up back in the box.

While I'm on the topic of "waiting" and Lord knows we all do enough of it.

 Take a moment, maybe while you're "waiting" and please send your prayers and positive energy to the folks in Australia that are now bracing for another disaster.

 If you've been checking your blogs you're seeing the monstorous storm heading their way. It's just terrifying to see the images.

For those of you in the eastern Canada and our neighbors to the south stay safe in the midst of yet another winter storm. This one looks to be real nasty.

The weather seems to be going crazy along with the goings on in the world.

I think Mother Nature is really pissed.

Fin....finally

 

It's finally come full circle, and it's only taken me a year and a half to get it there!

This is my binding all stitched together and waiting to be pressed.

May I digress here a moment...

Way back when, before I started my own blog, I needed a helping hand for free motion quilting.

I started to hunt around on the internet and eventually googled fmq,

low and behold but who should pop up but non other than...

Amandajean

This gal's tutorials absolutely rock and this is where I found out how to bind quilts the painless way!

I highly recommend a visit, you'll be going back for more time and again.

 

So here it is! My first finished quilt of 2011!   

Complete with label.

Do you label your quilts?

Last but not least,

here is a stack of dog coats for "Bullet's Buddies" ready to go.

I may just list a couple either on my blog {if I can figure out a payment method}.

I think the one on top is so funky and it's quilted too!

Hope you have a fabulous day...

My Secret Weapon...

I've had this Hour Glass quilt top waiting patiently for its turn to be quilted and finished.

So because I'm not feeling up to par and nothing was going my way with a little project I have in the works, I decided to pull this baby out and see if progress could be made.

First things first though...

meet my Secret Weapon against slippage and  fighting with quilt tops while attempting to Free Motion! 

This is high tech stuff here and  very budget friendly.

Good old or rather a new pair of  inexpensive   { cheap } rubber gloves.

These suckers are great and certainly help get the job done much faster.

Now all I need to do is make my binding and sew.

An excellent project tonight,

depending on how I'm feeling that is!

Queensland Flood Relief Auction Winner.......

Congratulations goes out to  canterburywillow!!  You had the winning bid!!

                                                                       THANK YOU

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