Resolved to Sew 2012

VerryBerryHandmade is having a giveaway!   Visit her website for details! 

Some of the quilts to finish.

Resolved to Sew 2012

1. Create a quilt for red & white quilt challenge for FPQG show in March

2.  Finish Star Trek quilt

3.  Finish Bloggers Block of the Month blocks

4.  Finish Fat Quarter Stars Quilt Along

5.  Finish Relay for Life Cancer Stars quilt

6.  Quilt Wonky log cabin

7.  Quilt Elongated star baby quilt

8.  Quilt 9 patch diamond quilt

10.  Make a Swoon quilt

11.  Put together Let's Bee together blocks

12.  Put together Block Swap Adventure

13.  Make quilts with old swap blocks
14.  Habitat challenge

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Dad modified and put up some of my $3 shelves in the kitchen.
I can finally display some of my treasures.

Giveaway Winner!

December is such a busy month.  I dont seem to have time to blog at all.  That and my wrist pain is acting up. Maybe being off work for a while will help.  So I picked a winner but never posted it.  Oops! So with out further ado...the winner of the Christmas fabric is

58 Jessica said...

 I follow! Thanks for such a generous giveaway!

Saturday, December 10, 2011 2:51:00 PM

I also follow Jess.  She is a college student and a newer quilter.  I won her first giveaway last year so it's nice to see her win one of my giveaways!  Check out her blog Quilty Habit.  Jess email me your address and I will get it out to you asap.  I dont know if I will have time to mail it until after Christmas.

keep dreaming...Colleen



Last years white christmas on the lake at Mom and Dad's house.  Im wishing very hard.



Winner will be picked tomorrow

Go to the previous post if you have not had a chance to enter my giveaway.  I will pick a winner probably around noon Sunday.  And now back to baking cookies, burning cds and wrapping presents!

keep dreaming...Colleen

My angel tree decrated in store bought and bazaar made angels.

Quilter's Blog Hop giveaway day

Are you on Santa's good list?  Are you ready for lots of giveaways?

Today is the start of the Quilter's Blog Hop Party with the Quilting Gallery. 

Im giving away some great Christmas Fabric from my stash! 

Some is new and some is old but all free fabric is good!

(not actual fabric-my camera died last night!)

You will recieve fabrics totaling about 2 yards. 

All you have to do is comment for one or all of the following. 

The more comments the more chances to win!

1.  Be a follower and let me know you are.

2.  Tell me about your favorite Christmas tradition.

3.  Tweet, facebook, flickr, or blog or any other social media way of sharing this giveaway.

That's it!  Check out the other giveaways on the Quilter's Blog Hop Party!

12/11/11 Update:  Camera working! Here is the picture of the fabric sitting under my small angel tree that sits in the upstairs hallway.

5 different fabrics from 1/4 yard to a yard in size.  More than 2 yards in total.

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Christmas tree in my library.

oops! I forgot!

to pick a winner for my FQ giveaway! 

This is a twin set to the fabrics I picked for the Fat Quarter Star quilt along.

Here is my first star.

Boy are there a lot of great BOM and quilt alongs out there.

So the random number genertor picked #52,

Tiffany said...

52 I'm in 2 bees, and a block swap. Makes for some fun adventures every month!

Congrats Tiffany!  When I get your snail mail I will send it on its way!

 

Keep Dreaming...Colleen



Quilt I want to make!



180, 291, giveaway, destash

This is my 180th post. 

Wow!  I kind of missed the 100th and 150th etc...but 180th..that is almost 200! 

291 is the number of followers I have. 

That is almost 300! 

(I am an elementary teacher and can round up!)

I may have to do another giveaway if I reach one of those rounded numbers.

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BTW my current giveaway is for a 16 fq bundle of the fabrics that I'm using for the Fat Quarter Stars quilt along.  Giveaway ends Tuesday October 11th go here.

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I'm still destashing. 

If you are interested in any of these fabrics or books below please email me and include your paypal email so I can invoice you.  
Shipping is $2 an item with $1 for each additional item.

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#1  A random selection of 10 fabrics some just under to over a 1/4 yard in total.

$6

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#2  A random selection of 11 blue fabrics some just under to over a 1/4 yard in total.

$6

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#3 A wonderful resource for any quilter.  Like new.

$8
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#4 - 5 yards of this batik

$16

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#5- 1 yard of this sewing print.

Selvage reads "Antique Etching" Hoffman international fabrics. 
Background is yellow.  Border is a double measuring tape.

$4

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#5 - 1 yard of this blue and tan buttons print.

Selvage reads classic cottons FCI 1996 Ted Bear.

$4

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#6 - 2 yards of the border print. 1 yard of the coordinating print.

Selvages read "Sew Cozy Notion" Daisy Kingdom 1997 printed with pride in

the USA.

$12

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#7 Wonderful resource for any sewer.  Like new.

$5

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#8 - Brand new

$25

Keep dreaming...Colleen



My edit in Pioneer woman photo contest.



Habitat layout, maybe

Spent the day at the Dixie Classic Fair.  Got there when it opened at 9am and didnt leave until 3pm!  I will blog about what I ate and show pictures later. 

So Ive been sitting with my sore feet up and playing around in Publisher with a layout for my habitat challenge quilt.  I think I have found what I like.  It really is me! 

 Can you get a little bit of an Amish feeling with the layout?  Im thinking no border with using whatever scraps I have for the binding.  The back may be whatever I have left of the habitat and the gray which is one of the new Free Spirit solids called Dogwood.  I really like Dogwood because the gray has hints of brown.  Let me know what you think.  I will probably try to sew it tomorrow so I can plan the quilting.  Any ideas?  I kind of thinking a square spiral for the center. Triangular spirals in the corners of the gray.

Keep dreaming...Colleen

Dont forget my giveaway for this FQ bundle.  Go here to enter!

A mystery and a winner!

Good news! As I closed out the giveaway I saw we had 110 comments!  That means I have put together extra bundles of 90's fabrics!

So first I want to tell you about my treasure hunting.  I blogged here about my trip to Hillsville, VA flea market and the treasures I found.  Especially this quilt.

I took most of the ties out to remove the top. 

I exposed how part of the back is dyed feed sack, with the writing turned to the inside.  I found a cool article on the founding of Royster which had its roots in Tarboro, NC.   It was fascinating how many different weights and weaves the fabrics were in this quilt.

You can see the blocks exposed of the inner quilt.  This is a very old quilt!

It is also very deteriorated.  But look string blocks!  I dont know if the old quilt was so deteriorated when it was sandwiched or if washing effected it.

As you can tell in this pic there was a lot of lint in the folds of the binding.  I think this quilt was washed a lot.

The surprising things were all of the 'other' things I found sandwiched inside.   Let me tell you and show you some of them and then think about why.  BTW I think the older quilt is probably from 1860's.  I went by looking at the woven fabrics on the back that are fairly strong and the mostly disintegrated piecing on the front.

The outer quilt is probably 30's or 40's.  But what in the world is inside?  Can anyone tell from this?  What is it?

Yes it is someones undergarment.  Around the edge of the quilt these were folded to fill in the shortage of length I guess of the older quilt.  

Here is the slip. What do you think 30's 40's?  I think it is like a kind of organza?  It is handmade with lace straps and edging.  Im not good with non cotton fabrics. There were other pices of what seemed to be cut up womens bloomers? and mens cotton what??  do you call old fashioned mens underclothes.  There were also random pieces of various fabrics from thick wollens to cotton to a dotted swiss printed voile.  When I finish taking it apart I will photo all pieces of the quilt better.

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So now for the winners! I created a virtual 10 sided die with the digits 0-9 and rolled it three times.  First I got a 0 then a 6 then 8 so 68!

Congrats to Mimi who wins the first bundle left over form my two stretched stars quilt!

Mimi said...
I am a new follower and look forward to your future blog posts!! Thanks for this sweet giveaway! I'd love to make a stretched star quilt!

Now for the bonus bundles!

And the winners are with six more rolls of the virtual dice!

#20 Natasha and #15 Irina!

Congrats to all winners!  Please send me your snail mails and I will send out you bundles asap so you can get started on your scrap quilts!

keep dreaming...Colleen



I have cut my Jay Carrol Habitat challenge fabric and the solid gray
 into1", 2", 3" strips.  More to come...



And the new winner is....

I had to pick a new winner for my March Stash Giveaway. 

True Random Number Generator

Min: 1

Max: 67

Result:

14

Powered by RANDOM.ORG

I picked #14 Diane!  Congrats Diane!  Send me your mail address and I will mail it right out. 

Keep dreaming...Colleen



Photoed this hexie quilt at the Stone Mt Country Store.



And the winner is ....

Ooops!  I shut the computer down and forgot to write down the number I generated. 

Ok I will try again.  

And the winner is.... #64 Rhonda who said

"I have two sewing machines: a Necchi that I bought in the mid 80s and a Janome that my hubby bought me last year (after he got tired of listening to me "talk" to my older machine when it decided to become cantankerous!)  Thanks for the opportunity to win fabric -- one can NEVER have too much fabric!"

Congrats!  Email me your address and I will ship it right out!

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I know I have been a little quiet, I have a lot to share but last week was Spring Break!  I was camping in the mountains with no iphone service.  It was wonderful!  Despite there being rain and fog! More to come!

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When I got back Friday, if I was home I was finishing my DQS10 quilt.  I did a lot of hand quiting and some beading.  But it is finished and I think it turned out great.  

Monday I boxed it to ship with some goodies to ???? Then Monday night we had a vicious storm that had me up half the night.  I was too sleepy Tuesday night when I got home to blog.   I will share latter when I get my pictures upIoaded so I read a few blogs and went to bed early. 

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I got a present in the mail today... a beautiful DQS10 from The Bella Modiste.  Check it out!  I will blog about it later.

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I hope every one has a great rest of the week. 

Please take a moment to say a brief prayer...

for those in Christ Church, New Zealand

where no lights and port-a-loos are still the norm...

for those in Japan

dealing with radiation and rebuilding and loss still not confirmed...

For a solider named Dustin in Stone Mt, NC

who is going back soon to Afghanistan to hunt terrorists...

and a prayer for a blogging friend

whose mother was diagnosed with lung cancer last week...

Keep Dreaming...Colleen



Sock monkey puppet of Amelia Earhart 
hanging out in my library with Al Einstein and Abe Lincoln.



March Stash Giveaway!

Ok so I know March is almost over but I forgot to post the giveaway!  I have actually had the fabric read since February!  I cleaned up my studio and work table and rediscovered it stacked under a pile of stuff. 

The giveaway is for three different green fabrics at least 1/2 a yard each from my 90's stash.  I will pick a winner on March 31. To enter leave a comment below answering the following question 

How many and what kind of sewing machines do you have?  How old is the oldest?

I have three, the oldest is my Singer Featherweight I think it is a 50's model.  Then I have a White machine in a beautiful cabinet which with a knee bar this was my dad's moms.  Last I have a 1973 Kenmore that was my Grandmothers.  I forgot to add my Singer felting machine I bought last summer for a ridiculously low price on Amazon.

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I am still collecting

See this post for how you can contribute a block and help raise money for Relay for Life.

Keep dreaming...Colleen



Dont be scared its not a horror movie, just my dialated eyes from the Dr. 
They were still dialated even when I went to bed.



A winner!

Congratulations to Wendy of Down the Avenue!

She has won an autographed copy of Quilt Fiesta!  I will send it to her as soon as she send me her address.  Congrats!

Keep dreaming...Colleen



February block for Jackie of Block Swap Adventure.



The winner is...

Just a quick blog to let you know the winner of my 90's Stash giveaway, pinks and reds...

 and an Egyptian print...

#31 Linda of Stray Stitches!!!  Yeah!!!

She said

I included your giveaway in my post today:

http://straystitches1.blogspot.com/2011/02/few-stitches.html

 

I'm so excited she won, she deserved to!

 

BTW some of the commenters had their blogs set to No-Reply.  I actually drew another name first but she was set to no-reply.  See this tutorial at Pleasant Home to fix this problem.

  One last thing, I compiled the list of fabric lines commented on in this graph.

As I said to one commenter, "Yummy!  So many lines...so little time $$."

Keep dreaming...Colleen



Old house right next to the old windy country road.