Friday, March 6, 2009

GIVEAWAY I WON ARRIVED, SNOW & BABY GRANDBABY

Look what arrived in my mailbox today all the way from Canada!

This is what was inside from Lynn of UFO's, Stash and My Life. Go by and pay her a visit! This is the first giveaway and only giveaway I've won! See what was inside the envelope! A Jelly Roll of Moda's Maypole fabric.
Aren't the colors delicious!

More from the side views...

And another view from the side...

Such wonderful SPRING shades!
I was in my favorite haunt --Nancy's Calico Patch and purchased this book last week. I thought it would be pretty done up using this jelly roll. She has this line on the bolt...needless I"ll be going back and buying some of it for the borders, backing and such.
Thanks so VERY MUCH Lynn!!! I am beyond THRILLED!!!
Here is a view from my backdoor looking to the back corner of the lot...taken Monday morning.

Look who is moving all around the floor as I'm blogging---the five month old grandbaby while her older 2 & 3 year old sisters are napping. She started out lying on Mr. Froggy playing with the hanging frog/bug/fish the rolled over and started moving backwards.
Went backwards into the desk and chair.Once she got into sitting position for a few seconds...got too excited and rolled backwards. She's now napping on Papa's chest.

Monday, March 2, 2009

GIVEAWAY

Go here Visit Vanessa and sign up for her giveaway. Aren't these fabrics just luscious?

Sunday, March 1, 2009

GIVEAWAY--THIS TIME MINE***THE WINNER IS----

I just drew the name of my 100 posting giveaway....I have emailed her to see which she fabric group she want the roll of fat quarters or the two charm packs....
The winner is Liz of Lizards Little Luxuries She has a wonderful blog...see the precious clothes she makes, the goings on in a SAHM's life.

Leave a comment Liz or email me which fabric group you desire and email me you snail mail address so I can get the package off to you this coming week.

CONGRATULATIONS ! ! !


MID-ATLANTIC---PART 2

I got to meet Lola of and sew on. Had a nice short visit. Fun to meet those you follow their blogs and email.


I am a nut for decorating for Autumn and Halloween also Christmas then Snowmen for winter. I thought this was so cute for Halloween. This one reminded me of home.


This yellow, white and touch of red was really pretty. Reminded me of one that sold at a family auction at my great-grandparents home place that my great-aunt had made. I was bidding on it but and I drove the price way up but loss out.

I've started saving selvages and there was a selvage quilt at the show...it was pretty...first time I've see one in person.
This one was really pretty The colors don't look the same in this picture. This I thought was a good idea for a sports team fabric to do for an enthusiast of a certain sport or a team.


This was pretty and again the colors didn't turn out correctly in the picture.

This picture doesn't do this quilt justice.

This was beautiful a color wheel. I've been reading you should make color weeks of your stash to pick colors and fabrics for your quilts. Well, I thought this quilter sure doesn't but I guess she did in in a large quilt. It was amazing to say the least.

This was really pretty I loved the colors though this picture isn't a good one of it. I used the second camera I took when my favorite acted up and it was blurring sections of the pictures. One of Lola and I our faces were like it was a painting some one smeared the paint downward like it was melting and running.
This was a scrappy looking one and beautiful.
This was another pictorial one I feel in love with...

I've been collecting black and white fabrics for a quilt and took a few pictures of them at the show. This one was really pretty.


and this one...
See where the camera was melting the picture again in the bottom corner of the above quilt.
This one was lovely blue and yellow but the colors didn't turn out in the picture of it.

This pictorial quilt was amazing. I really like them but never have had nerve to do on. However, maybe one day as I collect fabric that I think I could possibly use one day when I get up nerve.


Picture doesn't do it justice but it was very pretty.


Yesterday I posted a picture of a full size quilt I said reminded me of Williamsburg. Well, it was of Pennsylvania. The woman did it as a tribute to her family. Well no wonder I loved it so as I am a genealogy buff. It was on the Baltimore Album style. Now today I learned this is the FIRST you read correctly the FIRST quilt this lady has done. Apparently she is one gifted needle artist. One block of the Family Bible. This was of the family tree and the leaves have names of family members.

One block was of a floral arrangement and I tried to get a close up of the flowers which were dimensional. This picture doesn't do it justice either.

This of the clipper ship had ancestral information on the sails.

The backside of the quilt had pictures of ancestors and labels about more information on the family.

I was trying to get a closeup picture of one of the family homes blocks.

Her grandfather had worked for Hershey and this is of the Hershey plant the smoke coming out of the smoke stacks got cut off but it was ribbon. The colors didn't come out correctly in this picture.


The colors in this quilt were beautiful too.

I'm not sure what the deal is with this picture guess (stuff hanging down on the right side of it) Anyway it was beautiful the stars were scrappy.

There was this woman there that had four quilts of various classifications of dogs. This one is the only one that turned out that I took of the four. And none of the close up of the individual dogs turned out.

I've always love this pattern but don't have nerve to attempt to make one...I can't see me doing one where all the diamonds in the start actually lying flat. This one was just gorgeous.

Didn't get all of this today which makes me mad...it reminds me so much of back home.
Friday I posted picture of the kitchen quilt. I got a closeup of some of the cinnamon buns today.

This picture doesn't do the quilt justice. I love traditional quilts, scrappy quilts, and pictorial quilts. I make traditional and scrappy. But this was beautiful. I didn't get it full view or any close up of sections and wish I did.

GIVEAWAY ---THIS TIME MINE UPDATE

I'm going back out to Mid-Atlantic in a little bit. I will keep the opening for the giveaway up until at least 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time USA or until I print off the list for the drawing. I'll be printing off the comments made at this location the one where I first mentioned having it and the one where I posted picture of what will be in it. Adding names again if they mentioned it on their blog and let me know or if I saw it mentioned on another blog.

Hoping to meet up with Lola of ...ansewon today out there and maybe some more of you who will also be out at M-A.

Friday, February 27, 2009

I WENT, I SAW, I SPENT--MID-ATLANTIC QUILT FESTIVAL

DD's DH got of early today so we went on out to Mid-Atlantic around 1:30. Hope to get back Sunday. My camera acted up and I only got eight pictures before I stopped working or cutting off sometimes before I could take the picture. Guess battery dying on me. Love the colors in this one.
This was one that caught my eye. I wonder if it is a self-portrait of the quilter...

Love this one too.

This was neat the jars looked SO REAL

Close up of one of the jars....notice the thread painting...

I've been wanting to do an under the water Chesapeake Bay Quilt so I snapped a picture of this for inspiration to remind me to do one base on bay life...

This woman does wonderful 'room' quilts each year...I remember a bedroom, a living room in previous years. You'd swear it was a page in a decorating magazine. This year she did a kitchen scene. You'd swear you had peaked into a kitchen. You could almost smell cinnamon buns cooling on the table.


I loved this one too. Reminded me of Colonial Williamsburg...
Several picture I took didn't show up on my disk when I downloaded them...but I expected that from the way my camera was acting up...

I did get it to work to snap a pictures of my loot after I got home. The furthest back is a handbag patchwork quilt a show special on of the booths. In blues and yellows which are my weakness. Next a French tablecloth panel which can be either round or square. I got one several years ago in blue with yellow. A booth had buy 10 fat-quarters $1.75 each get two free couldn't pass that up. Found some more deals on fat quarters bought eight more and half yards...got three of them. A couple rotary rulers one for Dresden Plate and one two inch square. A wool pincushion (have a weakness for pincushions), Pink Rotary Cutter show special (a rotary cutter Junkie), wood iron (is that the name?)

Got a lot for what I spent.