The gifts from my Secret Santa SUSAN!!

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Imagine my surprise when the package arrived from Susan and I was expecting some CQ Scraps, . It took me a couple of minutes of looking at it to realize she was my Secret Santa! lol  What a delightful array of goodies.  I keep going back to the box and looking at everything.  Thank you so much Susan I love every bit of it!

Quilts for Kids

The latest quilt in quilts for Kids, at least the top that is.

This is a quilt I worked on today. It was UFO days yesterday and today, so we have to work on unfinished projects.

Quilt for a Special Person

This is a quilt for a very special someone in my life.  I hope to have it completed by next week sometime.

Isn't this gorgeous!  It was a birthday present from a very dear friend and I've tried for several years now to figure out how to NOT lose the beauty of the fabric by making a quilt.  Well, I'm going to leave it as is, have some lovely enbelishment stitches put on it and then put the binding on. I think it will be just beautiful.



Samanthas Quilt Is Coming Along

Samantha's quilt is coming along.  She's had to come over after school or after La Crosse so that hasn't given her a lot of time to work on it.  She's only got about 45 minutes worth of work left to do on it, then it'll be time to make the binding and finish it up.  yaaaay  I can't post a picture because blogger isn't cooperating with me. bummers   I'll try again later.

CQI and Patchwork Tsushin

We have all been touched in some way by the many tragedies of the recent earthquakes and tsunami in Japan. At Crazy Quilting International, I am coordinating a project with Patchwork Tsushin that is open to ALL quilters (traditional and crazy quilters). I welcome others to publish this project on their blogs or facebook pages to maximize exposure. The detailed guidelines are below. I look forward to seeing all the gorgeous work of our talented quilters!!



This project is dedicated to helping those affected by the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan. In collaboration with Patchwork Tsushin, all quilts will become a part of an exhibit in quilt shows in Japan, where money will be raised by viewing the quilts. Ultimately, these quilts may be auctioned and the proceeds given to a charity designated by Hideko Ishida, our Japanese CQ sister! We will keep everyone informed as time progresses. This project is open to the quilting community at large, you may track details on the Crazy Quilting International blog, http://crazyquiltinginternational.blogspot.com or the ICQA Facebook page http://tinyurl.com/4h3x28a .



Guidelines are as follows:



Theme: Friendship and re-building of a country

Finished block size: 8 inches

Colors: Jewel Tones

Style: traditional or crazy quilt blocks will be accepted

For traditional quilt blocks, there are no pattern restrictions. The only requirements are the size and the colors. Finished size is to be 8" (20.32 cm). Please allow a half inch for seam allowance and squaring the block. Colors are jewel tones. No restrictions to the type of fabric used.



For crazy quilt blocks:



Cut foundation at 9" (22.86 cm), piece the entire foundation.

Baste a line at 8" (20.32 cm) to stop embroidering.

Do not add beads or charms past 7 ½" (19.05 cm).

Zig zag edges to prevent edges from fraying.

Add your name and address on the back of the block.

Mark the block with “UP” to show which side is the top.

Prefer all fabrics used be “fancies” (i.e.: silk, satin, taffeta, velvet) but if you have some kimono fabrics or other oriental themed fabrics in your stash you are welcome to use them.

All beading MUST be double stitched and knotted with BEADING THREAD!!! NO exceptions!!! These items will be handled a great deal and beads, buttons, charms are among the first to begin to loosen.

Embellishments – may be done by machine or by hand.

Lace and other motifs are acceptable and must be securely attached.

Trims are acceptable and must be securely attached.

SRE is acceptable.

Tatting and crocheted motifs, etc are acceptable and must be securely attached.

Please refrain from using any reference to the rising sun as this has political connotations in Japan.



If you have any questions, at any time, please just email me or call me; Leslie pinyoncreekq@q.com. All completed projects will be mailed to me no later than June 30, 2011. Please contact me for mailing address information.



I am asking for a voluntary entry fee of $10.00 dollars for each block. These fees will be accrued and utilized (if necessary) for backing and mailing costs. It is my hope that I will be able to simply forward to either Hideko Ishida or a charity of her choosing. It is also acceptable to apply this fee to an entire group or several individuals if need be. I primarily would like blocks at this time!



Funds can be sent vis a vis check, money order (payable to ICQA) or Paypal, icqa4u@yahoo.com. Please check gift for the donation. I appreciate everyone’s participation and look forward to seeing all the fabulous creations!

My Granddaughter Samantha Learning To Quilt

Samanta came over yesterday to work on the quilting part of her quilt.  She took to the machine and the job of quilting with ease.  She's a natural.  Of course being young and more open to new things helps a lot too.  Here's a couple of pictures of her and the stars she made on her quilt.  Well, blogger won't let me put a picture in so I"ll do that later.  Have a great  Pink Saturday all.  Be sure to go by Beverlys How Sweet The Sound (won't let me do links either. I'm going to close out and come back maybe that will help.)

Quiilts for The Church Nursery

The first picture, are quilts that just need labels and the other pictures are quilts that need to be quilted yet.

All together I think there's 12 or 14 quilts here.  I have several I need to finish sewing together yet too.

Have a great day!

New Quilt going on

This is the newest addition to the quilts I have going.  This is for a very dear friends hubby that lives in the Bay Area.  I need to put a narrow border of dark green around it then maybe a 3 or 4 inch border of the fabricd the anvil is made out of.  With any luck, it'll be ready to go into the "need's quilting" stack in a couple of days. lol

Here's a picture of the block's I've been working on for a quilt for my best friends hubby.  I got all the blocks done but won't be working on it for a while, I have some other things I have to catch up on.

Quilts for the Nursery at Church

Well, I'm at work so I can't pull up any pictures to post but I can do that when I get home later.  I'm making  much needed quilts for the nursery here at church.  I've got about 14 or more ready to quilt and just finished the second one.  So hopefully this week end I'll be able to quilt several and then I can sit back and stitch the binding on when I'm here.  (In between work that is.)  When I get home today I'll try to remember to take some pictures, thinking of it and doing it are two different things.  I think about it here but when I get home I tend to forget, so I just wrote myself a little note.

I'm also on a Yahoo group that has been making hearts to swap.  What we do is, each month everyone makes one heart and then there is a name drawn to see who gets them that month.    Of course then that name is taken out of the drawing and she draws the next winner.  This month Rose Anne won the hearts so she will pick next months winner.  Pretty cool huh?  We're going to do a second round of it, so we'll all have enough to make a wall hanging or something we'd like to do with them.

Ok, it's back to work, so I've written myself a note to take pictures when I get home.

Have a great day and a great week end!

My Pink Quilt

All these years

I've been quilting and I have two quilts. No, make that three.  One is a Christmas Quilt, the other is a Halloween Quilt and the third is one made of primary color blocks when my 18 year old grandson was born.   I haven't kept any for myself.  Well, I LOVE pink and I started out making this pink quilt for myself as a comfort quilt, but it kind of kept growing and growing and growing.  Now it needs to grow two more borders,  A two inch and a three inch. lol  So I pulled some pink out of my stash and I'll try and get those on this week.  THEN  I will put it in line to quilt it.  I'm quilting a "HUGS" quilt, and then I have some children's quilts to do first, then I can do this one for my bedroom.   So we'll start the spring off with a pretty pink quilt on our bed.  Thank goodness I have an easy going sweetheart of a husband.  Have a great week everyone.

Luffa

You know, I totally forgot to post a picture of the luffa sponge after I got it cleaned etc.  I've got about 100 seeds from the one luffa.  I'm going to plant again this year and I really do hope I get more than ONE. lol

I've been using it as you can see.  I've always liked the luffa sponge so this has really been a fun experience. lol   Happy Week Everyone!

Friday Night Sew In

Friday night will be the first time I participate in the FNSI (Friday Night Sew In).  I belong to a UFO group that sew all day friday and Sat but this one is in the evening on Friday.  It should be lots of fun.  I have 6 UFO's that I can work on and with any luck will get a couple of them ready to go on the quilting frame.  Come on over and join us.   Friday Night Sew In  See you there!

Working on two quilts today

This is the HST baby quiilt.  It's larger than a baby quilt, but smaller than a comfort quilt.   A little bigger I think than a lap quilt.  It's one of two I've worked on today for the church nursery.    I'll be making them till I run out of fabric for kids, which will be quite a while.   I have another ready for borders too, it's a rail fence.  These are some I've had cut out for a while, so they're fast and easy one's so I can get them done quickly.