Winners!!

Good news, peeps! I have enough fabric for THREE kits! Woot woot! Without further ado, the winners are:

Kathie
Kay Prince
J. Rae

Congratulations, ladies! Please email me your mailing address and I will ship them out!!

Giveaway Time!

It's finally here! My project is in AP&Q's "More Fast & Fabulous". Here it is, page 6!

And guess what? I still have some of the fabrics I used in the actual project. So I'm having a giveaway! Yaaay! I will cut them up tomorrow, I should be able to get enough for at least 2 kits, most likely more. So here's the drill:

• Leave a comment on this post to enter the drawing before next Saturday, October 17th.

• Post a link on your blog and get an extra entry

Good luck, peeps! I'll be back with an extra-special post tomorrow!

Light at the End of the Tunnel

I can't believe its been a whole month since I blogged! Well, the quilt made it off in time for the photo shoot and is now on its way to Quilt Market. If any of you are going, it'll be hanging up in the Lecien booth.

I came home a couple of weeks ago to a package on my doorstep. Inside was a lovely note from Joy that literally brought me to tears. She had won a giveaway on my blog a few months ago, and after reading about my family getting robbed, she decided to send me and my babies a little giftie. She sent along a raggedy Ann doll (in the picture above), and two gorgeous lambs for Liberty and Wyatt. There isn't a picture of them because I literally cannot pry them away from them, and they are both asleep clutching them. But you can see a picture at the bottom of this post. Wyatt's kept the name Lambington, and Liberty named hers Joy. It was such an unexpected surprise that I still get all emotional thinking about it! Bug hugs to you Joy! You are such a wonderful, caring person!

I also received my lovely doll quilt in the mail from Jessica! I just love the munki munki prints and the awesome pebble quilting! This is going up on the studio wall!

And last but not least, one more addition to my Blythe family: a Bow Wow Trad (my dream doll), tentatively named Sabrina.

I've been busy sketching away on some BIG projects, but I can't show them for quite some time. Sorry for the tease! But, my project that is being published in More Fast and Fabulous (American Patchwork and Quilting) comes out this week! Woohoo! I will be having a giveaway to celebrate! I saved the fabrics that I used in the project, and I will be giving away as many kits as I can scrounge out of the stash!

Happy Stitching!

Chaos

That's right: chaos. I'm going MIA, peeps. I've got a quilt going to Market. I have two more days to finish it before I send it off to the quilter. I was honored to be asked to design a quilt for the Lecien booth. It will be a free pattern on their website after Market. Some really cool people have already "been there, done that". Seriously. I feel like I've accientally sat at the "popular" table in the cafeteria, and its only a matter of time before they start throwing tater tots at me. Wish me luck. I'll need it!

My Inheritance

Those of you who have been reading my blog for awhile will remember this emotional post about a year ago. Well, about a month ago I received the rest of my inheritance from my grandmother: two trunks of antique quilts! My mom (the quilt hoarder) has a lot more, but she let me have these :)

An antique scrap quilt. Most of these fabrics are leftovers from the other quilts in our family collection.

This is a well-loved and very faded quilt

Perfect hand piecing

I couldn't believe it when I saw this one (my hubby is a pilot)!

This one is just amazing: needle-turn applique and embroidery:

A closeup of one of the blocksAnother embroidery one, very faded:

I also got an antique sewing machine from my Aunt. She was using it as a table, and knew I would love it, so she gave it to me. Isn't that sweet? Something is stuck in the table, so I haven't been able to get the sewing machine out yet. My hubby will have to use his carpentry skills to fix it.

Here's the instruction manual:

The sewing feet in a velvet-lined metal box:

And the little drawers were still full of vintage notions!
Some threads:

And rick rack:

I love it all so much and feel so blessed to have received all these treasures from my family. If any of you have any advice for displaying and caring for antiques quilts, I'd love to hear it!

Mail Call!

Today I got two books I had pre-ordered from Amazon. "Blogging For Bliss" and Tilda's new book "Sew Sunny Homestyle". "Blogging for Bliss" is just fabulous. If you haven't got it already, run out and get it!

I'm a big fan of Tilda, and I had seen some photos of her new book on Flickr. It was released in Norway last winter, I think. There was a cute little mouse in it, and I had no idea what projects were in this book, but I went ahead and ordered it. You can see all the pages I have marked already! And that was within 10 minutes of opening the box!

Here's what's first up on my "must make" list:
How cute are those "cake" pincushions??

I know a couple of friends who would like one of these:

A jewlery keeper:

Ta-da!! The adorable mouse! He needs to be in my sewing room!

And look at these cute little houses!

So you all know what I'll be up to. My quilt buddy Stef has been showing me up with all of her completed projects. She got me inspired to get back to work on my UFO's. Back to the sewing room!

Whew!

I've been busy.

Chasing after this one (Lord help me, he's a climber!)

I got two new girls.

Emma, a custom by Melacacia, inspired by Jane Austen

And Jenna, the 2009 Anniversary Girl

Yes, I've gone crazy in Blythe land! What can I say? They are my muses!
Lots of cute stuff to show you soon.
Until then, enjoy the sunshine!