Spool Art

Here are some pretty pictures I have been taking of my wooden spools,

I am thinking of printing them to hang on my sewing room wall.

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend! Meg

And the Winner is.......

Alisa said...

What a wonderful giveaway, Meg! I make all kinds of things with scraps, including quilts, bibs and applique on all sorts of things.
Thank you.

Please send me an email with your shipping information and I will get these goodies mailed out to you!

Thank you for all of the comments!

Meg

It Is GIVE AWAY time!!!!!

Finally I am getting things back on track!  So for all of my wonderful readers I am having a give away! One lucky person will win Sandi Henderson's NEW book Sewing Bits and Pieces and to help you get started on some of the projects in the book a set of 7 fat eights (Approx 9" x 20")  in some of my favorite Meadow Sweet prints!  All you have to  do is leave a comment and tell me your favorite fabric scrap project! I will accept comments until 12:00pm midnight Eastern Time Sunday June 6th. Winner will be announced on Monday June 7th!

Have a wonderful weekend!  Meg

Blogger's Quilt Festival Spring 2010

I am running a bit behind this time around for the Quilt Festival, my little boy had surgery last week and it has thrown my whole schedule off!  I know I have posted this before but it is truly my favorite quilt!  I made it for the Quilt Along with Old Red Barn last yea,r it is for my new bed room that is almost finished, I will be posting pics soon.  I love the color this quilt has it is so bright and cheery and it will be hung like a head board behind my bed!  I have made a pillow to match and will be making a few more! I look forward to seeing all of the other entries!

I also have a give away ready (involving one of my favorite fabric designers and her new book) I will be posting details soon!  Hope you are having a wonderful day! Meg

Sew Darn Cute....

I love this book! Sew Darn Cute by Jenny Ryan it is packed full of really cute super easy projects! This little sunglasses case has been on my list of to do's forever and I finally took the time to make it today!

I used a little bit thicker interfacing that I should have but that just means extra padding right :)

I am working on a fun giveaway! I will be back with details later in the week!

Hope you are having a happy day!

Meg

And so it goes.....

Spring always seems to be a super busy time around my house. I got some great shots of my cherry tree in bloom last week along with this busy bee!

We have had beautiful weather, they sky was perfect on this day!

Along with the beautiful weather we have been playing outside more and little guy fell while playing ball in the yard and broke his wrist. It always amazes me how well children adapt to changes in their life. He is pretty bummed he has to miss quite a few t ball games but he is still going to help out with the team! Look at that smile, I have to say he is such a great kid!

I have been busy working on my hexie quilt! Wow hand sewing is tedious work but well worth it! My plan is to have 9 of these big blocks and if all goes well it will make a 54" square quilt. Only 264 more 2" hexies to go.....
I love all of the colors together.

Here is a look at the back side.

Although I am hand stitching the hexies I am machine sewing on the borders!

Hope you are having a wonderful week! Meg

Hexies....

Hexies, they seem to be very popular right now and I have always been a bit intimidated by the construction of them. My Aunt gave me a few patterns a while ago and I finally pulled them out and gave it a try. Aside from my sore finger tips from all of the hand sewing, they are super easy!

Now to decide on the layout....

Here are some great tutorial if you want to give it a go!

English Paper Piecing

This one is great!

this is more of the method I am using Hexagon Piecing

this one is perfect for machine piecing I will be trying this......

Have Fun!

Meg