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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

The Winter Blues Continues with Day 2 and a Giveaway

 Wow, what a great day we had yesterday hopping
and
enjoying all the warm ideas for 
The Winter Blues.

I'm excited to see what today's bloggers have in store for us.


We are celebrating the color blue!
I invited my blogging friends to
Stitch something up with the color blue. 

Let's celebrate winter with projects in blue.

I'm excited to introduce today's line-up of bloggers.
Tuesday, January 21st


Have fun visiting each blog and making new friends.

They have worked hard to show us some new ideas, so be sure to thank them with 
a sweet comment!

Find the rest of the schedule by clicking HERE.

Follow the Pinterest Board


GIVEAWAY

One of my favorite online fabric shops is 
Fat Quarter Shop.


One of my readers will receive a 
$25.00 Gift Card to go
SHOPPING!!!

Come back every day of the hop, visit all the blog posts of the day, leave a comment, 
and
 enter the giveaway.
(I've extended the time to enter to allow for everyone to visit all the blogs)

The winner will be announced on Monday, January 27th, 2020.

a Rafflecopter giveaway


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Monday, January 20, 2020

It's Day 1 of The Winter Blues Blog Hop!

Today we begin
 The Winter Blues Blog Hop.


We are celebrating the color blue!

This is a picture from the International Quilt Festival's Sapphire Exhibit in Houston.


I was so inspired by the Sapphire Exhibit at the quilt festival in Houston with all the blues.
Some of the blues were dark, some were light.
Some were more like teal (my favorite).
They were all blue.

So, I invited my blogging friends to
Stitch something up with the color blue. 

Let's celebrate winter with projects in blue.

I'm excited to introduce today's line-up of bloggers.

Monday, January 20th


Have fun visiting each blog and making new friends.

They have worked hard to show us some new ideas, so be sure to thank them with 
a sweet comment!

Find the rest of the schedule by clicking HERE.

Follow the Pinterest Board


GIVEAWAY

One of my favorite online fabric shops is 
Fat Quarter Shop.


One of my readers will receive a 
$25.00 Gift Card to go
SHOPPING!!!

Come back every day of the hop, visit all the blog posts of the day, leave a comment, 
and
 enter the giveaway.
(I've extended the time to enter to allow for everyone to visit all the blogs)

The winner will be announced on Monday, January 27th, 2020.



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Friday, January 17, 2020

The Winter Blues - Next Week

I have the perfect solution to the winter blues -
how about a blog hop?

The Winter Blues Blog Hop
starts Monday!


I'm excited to cheer for
this awesome list of bloggers
who are ready to inspire and warm us up with their
winter blues.

Monday, January 20th


Tuesday, January 21st


Wednesday, January 22nd


Thursday, January 23rd


Friday, January 24th

Follow the Pinterest Board for all the posts.

Don't miss this fun blog hop with a little something for everyone
including a giveaway or 2...

See you on Monday!


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Saturday, January 11, 2020

Twodles Birthday Cake Tote - Project Quilting Quilting Season 11, Challenge 1

This is the first challenge of Season 11 of
Project Quilting.

I'm excited to join in this challenge, Notably Numeric.

My entry:
Twodles Birthday Cake Tote


Kim at Persimon Dreams hosts Project Quilting
and
this is the 8th year I'm participating.
Kim announces a challenge and you have one week to create something quilty.
Prizes can be won and it's a great way to meet new blogging friends.

The rules in this challenge are that the project must feature numbers, counting, or mathematics in the theme or implementation.  It must include either applique, piecing, or have 3 layers stitched together by hand or machine.


Time is never on my side, but as luck would have it, I have a 
very special birthday party
 to attend and the challenge was
 the perfect opportunity to make a tote bag for a 
sweet little 2 years old.  


The cake block pattern is one I designed for Thermoweb and the free pattern 
can be downloaded HERE.

I used
to print the patterns right on the fusible adhesive to create the cake applique.
 Just print, fuse, cut, bond, and stitch.  It's that easy.

The original applique pattern has strawberries on top of the cake, 
but to fit the theme of the challenge 
and
the birthday party (Twodles),
I made a "2" birthday cake topper with ears and a bow.
(I made the pattern a little smaller to fit an 8" quilt block)

 I made the lining two colors because I wanted black around the top, but you just can't see anything in the tote with a black lining. 
 I just put a 3" border at the top of the lining.

The tote will hold her birthday gift and she can use it as a little purse too.


Twodles Birthday Cake Tote

Project Quilting Season 11, Challenge 1 - Notably Numeric

Lizzy is 2! Happy Birthday!

Made by Carla in Dodge City, Kansas
Size: 8" x 10 " x 2"
Fusible Applique, stipple quilting on a domestic with Aurifil 50 wt thread - by me


You can see all the other challenge projects
by clicking HERE.  
This is the first year there will be no people's choice, so it's a no-pressure kind of year.
I won't have to beg for votes.
NICE!


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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Snow Globe Zipper Pouch

It's a week of winter and snow globes over on the Thermoweb blog 
and 
I'm so happy to share a fun project over there. 

I have the cutest little zipper pouches featuring 
a reverse applique snow globe tutorial to share.


.  Team HeatNBond Lite with a fabric collection like Michael Miller Fabrics' Curiosity by Sandra Clemons to make sweet little fabric snow globes. 



 They make sweet gifts for a snow globe collector or anyone.


All the details and the free pattern and tutorial can be found over at Thermoweb.


I love these so much and these fabrics are too cute.
I may need more...


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