PBee&J quilting bee - September and October

For my other quilting bee PBee&J, we made a spider web block.  This one was very hard challenging lol.   I love the look but it might be way to finicky for my skill set :)

For October we made a Wonky Log Cabin with christmas fabrics!!!  It was soo much fun working with the red and green fabrics but I couldn't believe how hard it was to make something NOT straight lol

Check out www.flickr.com if you are interested in joining a virtural quilting bee.

Fresh & Funky Bee-gineers Quilting Bee - No 2 block FINISHED

Last nite (a month ago) lol  I finished number 2 block.  It was a fun pattern, making a Windmill Style Block with HST's (Half Square Triangles). Although I made a teeny tiny boo boo I think it turned out ok. I love the contrast in colors.

October's Fresh and Funky Quilting Bee

Friendship Star pattern

For the month of October in our Fresh and Funky Bee-gineers virtual quilting bee jcoomey725 asked us to make a friendship star using these delicious colored fabrics.  I found this pattern quite easy to complete  Here is a link to show you how you can make the friendship star.  http://www.blockpartyquilting.com/2009/11/friendship-star-tutorial.html  Let me know if you make it... I'd love to see it.

Boooo!

This is the first post for National Blog Posting Month.  I hope to post everyday this month.

Today I want to show you my two beautiful granddaughters Mikea and Kazera in their cute halloween costumes.  Mikea was a beautiful fairy princess and Kazera was a cute little poodle.  Poppa and I went trick or treating with the girls and had an awesome time.  It was fun to experience halloween through the eyes of a 3 year old (birthday tomorrow). 

Did anyone else have an eventful halloween?  How many trick or treaters came to visit?

See you tomorrow :)

National Blog Posting month

Happy Halloween everyone.  I know I have not been very good at posting very much lately, so I have joined something that may help.  Starting tomorrow November 1, I, Cindy, will post something everyday for a month. It is called National Blog Posting month (see right side) and I might even win a prize :)  I will be posting anything and everything lol... such as sewing, scrapbooking, grandchildren, husband and maybe even some photography. 

Maybe you would like to join me?  Check it out and see if this is something you might like to do as well. 

See you tomorrow.

PS. If I forget a day, let me know!! lol  Keep me honest :)

Amy's Creative Side "Bloggers Quilt Festival"

I'm going to try this again.  Last time I tried to enter this quilt I was too late :(   So this time i'm early :)  

It's Blogger's Quilt Festival this week and I'm sharing my all time favorite. It's my Stained Glass Star Quilt I made in class at Atlantic Fabrics in Dartmouth NS. My teacher was the fantastic Ken :)

This quilt used to hang in my hallway and I loved it!  Now it's all folded up in my sewing room.  Hope you like it :)

Hurricane Earl!

Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the hurricane watch.. It is t-minus 24 hours before Hurricane Earl hits Nova Scotia.  We don't expect the eye to hit us directly but it will be a tad windy/rainy. We've batten down the hatches (lol) and have extra supplies ready.  I'm hoping the power goes out for an hour maybe, no more than that though.  Our power NEVER goes out!  We were supposed to go camping for 3 nights (our first all year) but did not want to take any chances with the hurricane. Hopefully we'll be able to camp at least one time before it gets too cold.

I'm hoping that this long weekend I'll be able to finish a couple of my virtual online quilting bee projects.  I have joined two more: Modern Swappers and PeeB&J on flickr.com I also hope to finish a few of my own projects: ie. kitchen curtains, granddaughters doll blanket/pillow and a harness to carry her bunny around.  Last weekend we had the girls over and that's all we heard was: "Where's bunny" lol  So Poppa thought it would be a great idea to make a pouch for bunny, that way he would be with her always!  She soo loves her bunny :) I will show a picture of bunny next time :)  He's been around lol

What are your plans for this long weekend?

Virtual Quilting Bee

Recently I joined two online quilting bees on Flickr.  Fresh & Funky Bee-ginners and PBee&J Quilting Bees.  This is how they work.  There are usually 12 members (one for each month of the year). When it is your month, you mail out fabric and a pattern to all of the members and then they sew up your block and mail it back.  What a great way to get a quilt finished!!

Well, I just finished the first block, Chrissy's spiderweb block. What do you think?  I can't wait for her to sew all of the blocks together and see the finished quilt :)  My month is February and May... I'm already thinking of what colors and pattern I want to do. 

Have you ever been in a virtual quilting bee?

Baby Boy Blanket Tutorial..finished!

I have finally finished the baby boy flannel blanket before he was born!!!!  I am very impressed with myself :) 

Because of the process pledge, (see on right) I tried to document each step (kinda)....instead of just showing the end product.

First I purchased a ready made panel, warm & natural batting, the backing fabric and Gutterman thread to match.. I stacked the 3 layers on top of each other and then pinned it altogether!

I did quilt a little on the blanket... mostly straight line around the border and also around the star and moon. Once that was finished I trimmed the edges and started to sew the binding on.  I always have to look up on the internet on how to properly attach binding.  Thank god for the internet!!! 

and here is the end result :)  Yeahh!!!  It's going in the mail tomorrow :) Have you ever used a fabric panel to make a baby blanket?  Do you have pictures?

One Thing One Week Challenge

Update:  Although I did not finish my challenge within the week (I kinda forgot about it) I did "almost" finish the binding on the baby's quilt and that's progress!  Plus! I am actually hand sewing the binding... I know... I know... I said HAND sewing lol   I usually machine sew it on.... But this time I said to myself, Self, why don't you try it the right way... and it's not that bad....a lot slower but it looks great!

Did anyone else try to finish something they've been working on last week?

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Ok. So. Amy over at Amy's Creative Side is starting another really cool challenge.  This one is called One Thing One Week Challenge.  She is hoping to motivate us either to finish something or start something.  What ever is reasonable for us to be able to finish in one weeks' time.  Post your challenge in her comments section and then the next Tuesday, she will have a linky which we can link to our blog post to show off your met goal.   I know I need something to kick my butt in gear. 

My challenge for this week is to finish the binding on a baby quilt.  I know I know.. that should only take an hour tops to finish, but I'm taking baby steps... nothing too overwhelming :)  lol  

Let me know if you post your challenge on Amy's blog so that we can be in this together.  Remember it can be anything!!!