a few things

I got my new lights in the mail yesterday and I have been playing around with them and my background and pictures. I like the results so far. Please check out my flickr site to see everything that I've been working on, this is just a taste! Btw, the quilt is for sale too, on etsy.

an Awesome! giveaway

Check out this blog for a great giveaway. Believe me, you won't be sorry!!

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wip's and sewing bees

Well, here I am, working on my latest quilt. Can anyone out there guess what it is? Yes, a string quilt. I actually started it a while ago, but it got pushed to the side when other projects came up. I decided I needed to finish it. I also got a little help, well not really, but my little man had a good time playing in all the paper torn from the back of each block. He was even making little piles out of the paper them jumping in it like it was a pile of leaves. Cute!


I have been sewing quite a bit, but I don't have many pictures. I want to play around with my camera some more to see what I can do with it. I ordered some special lights, and they should get here sometime this week. I know lighting is an issue for me, but more of the issue is not knowing how to use the features of the camera. So hopefully by next week I should have some nice pics. Who knows... I can wish, right?

On another note, I joined two more online quilting bees. One is a spider bee, sewing spider web blocks each month for other bee's, and the other is Cancer is Sew Done. We will be following Block Party! quilt along and then the finished quilts will be auctioned off to benefit Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. I am pretty sure there are spots available in Cancer is Sew Done if anyone wants to join! Click the link

first quilt for sale

this is for sale in my etsy shop, click on the right

check this giveaway out, it comes from a great blog that i follow:)

mini quilt monday

19 x 27

I still need to play around with my new birthday present. Nice camera, weird lighting on my part.

busy 2

Two posts in one day. There is a reason for it. I actually finished all these quilts around the same time, but I have been playing with a new camera and it has been taking longer to upload pictures. So I split up posts to give me a break from frustration.
This was the I-Spy quilt that has been sitting around just waiting to be transformed into a beautiful quilt. After I saw this post I decided to try the loopy quilting. I wasn't very pleased at first, but the more I quilted the more I liked it. Not to mention it was quick! I like how it turned out in the end and I will be doing this to more quilts!
I have one more quilt finish but I will post it tomorrow.

busy

This quilt has kept me busy for some time now. It was one of three tops that my mom sent to me after my great grandma passed away. My great grandma hand stitched all of these little pieces together, wow, but she never got around to quilting it. It measures 72 x 88. The top looks like it was used though. It has obviously been washed because there were many places where it was fraying and coming apart. I don't think I did a very good repair job, but I did manage to quilt it without anymore pieces falling off. I do like the end result, and I hope my mom does too. This baby will be in the mail tomorrow.