Crayon Challenge

Our local Guild recently had a crayon challenge.  You received a bag with two crayons that you were to use in your project along with only one additional color.

My two crayons were golden yellow and turquoise.  I think my project turned our rather cute but certainly not as detailed as most of the other entries.

Some little child will enjoy this at some point.

A recent completion

I have a finished quilt. Finishing projects is on my list of things to do this year. I have a good start.


This was a mystery quilt I started 6 months ago through our local quilt shop, Specialty Quilts. The quilt consists of half square triangles and 4 patches. It was a fun and easy quilt to make. I chose Kansas Troubles charm packs for my quilt. It will be interesting to see the other quilts as we all chose different lines of fabric.

Gift exchange at Thimbleberry Club

The Thimbleberry Club at our local quilt shop had our Christmas party and gift exchange this weekend.
I  received this lovely "Twister" Christmas tree with all the emblishments on it.  I love it.

I received this in exchange for the Snowman in my previous post.

Hooked on Knitting

After watching several of my friends knit I thought I would give it a try.  At one of our girls day out Gerry surprised me with a starter kit and DL was kind of enough to sit with me and give me some tips. 
I am no way at the level of knitting as these girls but I am enjoying making dish cloths. Will share a few pics of the ones I have made.

And one more for the season.

Another one of the grils shared  her Neck Warmer Parrellagram pattern with me.  It  is a good one for a beginner.  This can be worn several different ways.

I have not given up on sewing.  Just a few of the things I have made.  Cannot show everything because some are Christmas  gifts and I don't want to reveal them  just yet.

Four placematts.

A small snowman wall hanging using from my stash to finish.  I did hand embodery this one. 

Two more placemats. This time machine embrodery.

This is all for now.

Pot holder exchange

Our guild had a potholder exchange this month along with our annual picnic.  What a wonderful turn out we had. There were no two alike.
Here are three  of the four I made, I made one last minute and forgot to get a pic of it. The red one and the butterfly ones are mitts.

These are the four lovely potholders I cam home with.  The red and white one is hand quilted.  Each one too pretty to use.

Tomatoes instead of flowers.

We decided to put tomato plants in my backyard flower bed this year.  We have gotten some really nice tasty tomatoes.  Last nights storm blew all the plants over, we restaked them so hopefully they will be OK.  Sure would love to have some more of these yummy fruits.  We have been having some great BLT's the past few weeks.

Shop hop and meeting with Cyndi...

I just returned from a three day shop hop bus trip to Ohio. We shopped at the following shops on the way.


Jackman's Fabrics – in St. Louis

Quilted Garden- Edwardsville, Ill

These are all in the Columbus area:

Red Rooster, Quilt Beginnings, North; QuiltTrends; Glass Thimble; Sew to Speak; Quilt Beginnings, East and Always in Stitches - .

Quilts Plus, Indianapolis ( on the way back home).



I think the 33 shoppers on the bus helped out the local economy in Columbus, especially the quilt shops.



All the shops greeted us and had treats for us. However the best part of my trip was that I met up with Cyndi from bluebirdswing.blogspot.com at Quilt Trends and then she followed the bus to two more shops before she needed to head home. We had a nice visit and had a friendly chat.



Cyndi had a nice surprise for me. She made me one of her lovely handbags just for me using "Hello Betty" fabric. Now just how special was that. She included some lovely smell good items inside the bag. .

One more picture.  Now just how clever is this? 

 

Made if home safe and tired last night.



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