I won! I won!

Well, now that voting over on the HGTV board is complete, I can post what I made for the Valentine CQ Challenge. (And, I won one of Nicki Lee's gorgeous packs of hand-dyed lace! I'm drooling already and haven't even received them!)

Presenting LuLu the Platypus!

It's Giveaway Time!

Okay, I have decided what I am going to do for this giveaway. If you would like to be included in this drawing, please leave a comment. (I would love it if you would post on your blog, but it is not required.) I will use a random number generator next Saturday, 2/25 to pick a winner.

The first prize in this giveaway is a handmade, "strawberry" pincushion. It is a jumbo size (1/2 of a 9" circle) and is filled with poly-fil and crushed walnut shells. (Base was only used for photographing purposes and isn't included.)

The second part of the giveaway is a crazy quilting fabric pack from My Etsy Shop. You may choose any color posted. If there is a color that you would like but isn't posted, I can make up a fabric pack for you. (If you are a traditional quilter, I can make up a cotton fabric pack as well.) Please leave in your comment what color fabric pack you would like to have.

It's Almost Giveaway Time!

This is just a tease really...I'm putting together some ideas for a giveaway and will post it tomorrow!

TAST Weeks 1-3 and Viv's Tree Skirt Wedge

Well, I am completely behind taking photos and posting here. (Who would have thought?!?!)

We are doing a tree skirt wedge RR on WWCQ. The first wedge that I worked on is Viv's. Here is the whole wedge.

Button hole stitch Christmas trees.

Fly Stitch seam and snowflake.

Feather stitch seams.



Secret Sister and Christmas Cracker Gifts

I received such a fantastic assortment of items from my Secret Sister at WWCQ and from the Christmas Crackers on CQI. Thanks so much ladies!

Christmas Tree Skirt

Over at WWCQ, we are going to have a year long RR with wedges for a Christmas Tree Skirt. These are big wedges; 24" in length and 18.5" at the largest width. So, as you can imagine, each of the wedges will probably take a bit longer to embellish than your average RR block.

Here are the wedges that I made:

I pieced these using the same technique as I did for the purple blocks that I posted about, Martha Green's method. I really do find that this is a great way to make a dent in my cotton fabric scrap bin; these wedges are entirely out of scrap fabric! What's really funny about the process is that I made so many units, that I probably have enough for two more tree skirts...lol!

Stitching on Gerry's Retreat Block

Late September, I attended a crazy quilting retreat with some ladies from CQI. One of the things that we did leading up to the retreat was a round robin with fabric selected by the challenge leader. Boy was this fabric a challenge!

Gerry's block showed up to the retreat a little bare, so some of us volunteered to take it home and give it some more stitching.  Here is what the block looks like now.

I added the fan at the bottom and did some stitching on a couple of the seams. I also added the spray of ribbon flowers at the top...which, now that I look at it, it looks like there really should be one more. I did send Sharon one extra, but it didn't have leaves. =( I also did some stitching on the center, adding pizzazz to the motif that was printed on the challenge fabric.

I hope she likes it!