Happy Turkey Day!

We had a wonderul dinner today, just me and Hubby, I made the cherry pie and he made the Turkey. We had lots of yummy treats to go with it. Way too much.
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Tomorrow I am excited about the Quiltville mystery -- I have never done one of Bonnies mysterys, so I am looking forward to the first clue. And of course decorating the house for Christmas.

Happy Thanksgiving

Dorothy

Nov 1st! Where did the time go!

Hello

I hope everyone had a fantastic Halloween, we sure did. We had about 150 ghosts and goblins stop by, what fun. This is what the house looked like after dark, so much fun! We have a fountain in the center of our front yard and we put in a red light, so it looks like blood. To scary for the faint of heart.


Here is what it looks like before the lights go on and today it is all packed away.

I usually pack it halloween night, but last night it was just too cold and I guess too cold for anyone to come by and destroy it, so this morning we packed it away in the coffin we made, for the from yard. Til next year and then we do it all again.

Have you been sewing alot? I have been making some tablerunners for a craft show this coming weekend, I will post them in a few days.

Off to make an apple pie!

happy Stitches

Dot

Friendship bag swap and so much more

Hello

WOW it has been awhile since I have posted -- but I promise after Oct 24th I will be posting more. That is my last day at the garden center, so I will be sewing alot more, I still have about 70 UFO's to finish!!! But of course when I was surfing blogs the other day, Kim at http://www.kimsbigquiltingadventure.blogspot.com/ made an adorable Thanksgiving table topper, so far I have the top done, now onto the letters. She has instructions over at her blog, check it out.



I was involved it the Friendship Bag swap -- they are so quick to make and so addictive, I think I have made 5 and have lots more ready to go. This is the great bag I rec'd from Kellie --who actually lives less than an hour from me. She treated me to a charm pack from Mary Englebriet -- I just love it thank you so much! And if you can see her little note card she sewed fabric onto it -- very clever idea Kellie!




This is the one I made and send to Polly my swappee, she loves Halloween and fall just like me - so it was easy to find fabric for her. Check out her blog at http://www.auntpollysporch.blogspot.com/

Well today the garden club is heading over to the apple orchard at 4 today, it is in the 40's and some rain is coming in. So I will report tomorrow, about the orchard.

Happy stitches

Dot

I am going back upstairs and sewing!!

Sept 1st!

Good Morning
Can you believe it is Sept 1st already~! WOW time is flying. I tried to finish up some things in August, got a couple of things complete, I will post pictures later this week. But of course as most quilters do I started a few new projects! My friend Susan gave me this little Witch Towel kit and I got it done the very next day -- so cute!


At work I have been making scarecrows, and this is my favorite, it is a little girls overalls and I put the pumpkin applique on the front. She is about 3 feet tall and just adorable.

I also did get caught up on my row quilt and our quilt group gets together on Thursday, so I did this just in the nick of time!

I am off to work

Have a great day!

Dorothy

What's New?

Good Morning

I have finally got the creation station cleaned once again!! YIPPEE!! So this morning I made a simple tablerunner called Nifty Nines, the top is done tonight I can quilt it and then bind it. Fells good to be back in the ol sewing room!
I also rec'd the name of person who I am making the friendship bag for in the swap -- see the sidebar of my blog. Fantastic, she loves fall too! So that will make it very easy to make a bag for her. I will probably start on that this week. Weather is cool here so it is good sewing weather. Tomorrow it should be the last 85+ day and then the next ten days look cool, fall is right around the corner.
Sorry no pictures today. Off to work!
Happy stitches
Dorothy

The Weekend is Here!!

Hi there!
Finally Friday evening!! YIPPPEE! I am off this weekend it feels so good. I am going to get some sewing done tomorrow morning and then I am going to see Rick Springfield in concert!! Should be a fun weekend.
I have been trying to see a bit each morning and I have a few pictures to show you.
These cute little bags are so fun to make - I did Christmas and it truly just uses scraps -- I am going to make some fall ones for some friends. You can check it out at
http://rachel-griffith.blogspot.com/2009/08/friendship-bag-tutorial.html
I am in a group that gets together once a month and we are working on a row quilt, each month we draw the type of block to make, this month was Trees -- this is an older pattern from Little Quilts, but they turned out so cute. I have 4 done and 4 more cut out. I am doing mine in all 30's. I just love 30's :) So far we have done crazy quilt blocks, flowers and there is one more and I can't think of it right now, but so far this is the only one I have done this far, I am hoping to get caught up by the Sept meeting.

I hope you have a great weekend!
GO sew something!

Dorothy

Working on Projects

Good Morning!
Here is the picture of the little flower blocks I am working on, the are 4 1/2 inch blocks and the stitching goes pretty quick. I only finished 2 last night, I was watching the Cubs game and they were not playing well so I did not get much done, I decided to fall asleep.
Here is my patriotic tabletopper before tea dying.

Here it is after tea dying -- I don't know if you can really see the difference, but you sure can in person it is much darker and I just love it. You never know what it is going to look like but I am pleased with this. The colors were so bright, and now they are just perfect. And the best thing of all this kit only cost my $7 and included everything -- including the batting.

Well I am off to work today, I hope you have a great day -- can't wait to get home tonight and do some more flowers!!

Happy Stitches

Dorothy