SA and Freshly Sliced

Good news! The package for my Stitcher's Angel partner has arrived safely overseas. Now, I can revealed who it is....... Bea. Yes, it's the same Bea of Capricorn Quilts with the Quilters Blessings BOM. I've been following along with this BOM but haven't started yet. It was a pleasure to be able to make a few stitching projects for someone who has freely shared her adorable stitching patterns.


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It's been rather a quiet day here with the teenagers gone, and John was busy with his project and Sweetie Pie with her Social Studies assignment. I love it when that happens. It means I have the afternoon to sew with no interruptions.


During the summer, I had ordered some "Fresh Squeezed" charm packs from Hancock of Paducah during their great 50% off sales. I love the colors of this collection.... it's so fun and "fresh". :-)

I wanted to do something quick and easy.... the Disappering 9-Patch that everyone's been doing came to mind. Thus, last weekend, I started sewing the 5" charms into 9-patches.... then, sliced them into quarters and sewn them back into 4-patches.

It's amazing how quickly this quilt grew.









By the next evening, the borders were added.

Isn't it such a happy quilt? I love it! I used four charm packs and a little bit of muslin for the inner border. It makes a good lap-sized quilt, and I called it "Freshly Sliced". :-)









Yesterday, I loaded the top onto Dolly, my HQ16, and quilted before heading out to dinner with John and Sweetie Pie.

Today, I prepared and attached the binding. All I need to do is to sew the binding to the back. Yippee!! I love to make these kinds of fun and quick quilts.







And now .... time for some relaxations... Sweetie Pie and I will have a nice soak in the spa.... Afterall, there's no school or work tomorrow. :-p

Have a good night. xx

Stitcher's Angel

I was in such a hurried yesterday that I did not see who had sent the box, so it was a delight today to discover that the package came from Peg of Happy in Quilting!

Inside, there were two bundles beautifully wrapped with pink FQs and a card.

And what's inside those bundles?...

Stitcher's Angel projects! WooHoo..... Peg is my stitching Angel! I had admired these projects on Peg's blog and had thought that her swap partner is one lucky person. Who knew!! ... that I'm the lucky one!

The colors are lovely... the stitchings are beautifully done.... the projects are well made.

And look at these treats she sent .... all the way from Australia! Lovely card by Chookyblue and chocolates.... a girl can never have enough chocolates. lol

I have never seen Vegemite snacks nor Eucalyptus drops before. My family tried the eucalyptus drops. They liked the drops and agreed that it's quite different. Thank you, Peg, for allowing us to try something new and different.

Again ... thank you, Peg!!!! I love everything, and my family thank you for sending the treats. I'm glad that you're my Angel! :-)

Bad Blogger

I'm a bad blogger. I've neglected this blog and the family blog for too long... hopefully, that will change soon.

What have I been up to? ...

Well.... I went back to work! It's been almost two years since I left my last job, and now I'm back doing the same thing. So for the moment, I have to really manage my time wisely to keep things running smoothly around here.... time is limited.

oh.... it's only a part-time job, and I still have time to do things that I love to do like quilting and blogging .... except only with less time now.

I had several chances during the week to write something up in this blog, but I chose not to. I know... I'm a bad blogger. :-(

You see... when time is limited and the choice is computer or sewing machine.... my sewing machine won! ;-)

It's a good thing that I picked the sewing machine because I am done with all swap projects. The Secret Santa Christmas Swap is completed. Yeah! Can't share with you what it is yet... it's a secret. ;-)

However, I can share with you my Stitchers Angel project. Tomorrow is the deadline for sending out all of the projects. Talk about cutting it real close, I barely finished with the this project for my partner today.

I couldn't resisted ... I had to make a Stitching Angel. I hope my partner will like her.

Here she is enjoying the sunshine and roses.

The pattern is in this book "Gift" by Rosalie Quinlan. For fun and a little of sparkle, I added beads to the wings and changed the word to "stitching" on the heart.

And this is everything that I'm sending to my Stitching partner... the armchair caddy, bag, pincushion, stitching angel, chocolate, and a California thimble.
It may still be early for some people, but for me, Christmas is right around the corner. So here is a Christmas gift in progress. It's a pattern called Nifty Thrifty in Bonnie's new book, Scraps and Shirttails.

The little furry animals were asleep when I spread out the quilt top on the floor for the pic, but as soon as that camera click, they came running and wanted their pix taken. lol ... silly little doxies!

Third SA Project

I'm done with the third Stitchers Angel project designed by Karen Gass at Cotton Spice blog.
I don't have any chenille on hands... so used quilting cotton instead...
... then had more fun with embroideries and embellishments... then, a couple of yo-yos and a bead on top... I'm done! :-D

Stitchers Angel Projects

Dear bloggy friends,
Thank you for all the well wishes from yesterday. I'm feeling much better, finally! :-)

I even had a few laughs with the kids last night from their stories of the day. What will I do when they all grown and flown from the coop? ..... More quilting!... :-D

Here is Helen's armchair caddy done in country colors as per my secret Angel's request.

I had a lot of fun adding beads to Linda's bag swap that I couldn't resisted adding some here too.

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This next one is designed by May Britt at Abyquilt... again, I couldn't resisted adding a few extra seed beads and embroidered the flowers (didn't have buttons) and a couple of butterflies.

These projects have been a pleasure to make.... I enjoyed stitching away every evening. The next project is a pincushion... I'm almost done and will show that soon.

Keep Stitching...

Stitchers' Angel

After spending times tending to my much neglected garden and catching up with house cleaning for the last few days, I need to give my hands a rest. So I rewarded myself yesterday with lots of computer times. Gee... I can't believe I'm saying this, but I missed my computer. :-)

What was I doing? Blog hopping! Landed myself at Hugs from Helen blog and signed up for Stitchers' Angel Swap. I am excited about this project; it will start in August. There are a couple of things going on here... looks like a lot of fun! So go take a look at it yourself... just click on the button...