Sew Scraps Along

Well I have not had good luck finishing all the Quilt Alongs that I have joined. I love to start them, cut the material, get started then I move on to the next one. LOL! I have heard it called QADD, Quilters Attention Deficit Disorder. That is what I have. In my defense I may not have finished the quilt alongs but I have had finishes, so I am working on something. I am going to try to follow along with this one.

Jump over and give her post a read. You might find yourself joining also.

I am OFFICIALLY on a fabric buying ban! Maybe with me noting it here I will stay to it. I can not start any new project unless I already have all of the materiel, including the backing and binding. I can only buy new materiel if after searching in my stash I can not make anything work. HELP ME! LOL! I really need to finish the old and not start any new. I have won some fabric so that will help!! I was one of the winners on the Fall-O-Ween Blog Hop. Go check it out. So cool!

Then today I found out that I was a winner on one of the blogs that joined up with Fall into Fall give away. I won from Sabrina at Doodle Quilts. Go check her out, she is so wonderful.



I will post on Monday what I have worked on for the last two days. In classic Shannon Manner I waited until Thursday night to start on a baby quilt for my Sister-in-Law's sister's baby shower that was today. I worked on it a few hours on Thursday and last night. Then a few hours today. I was only 45 minutes later to the shower. I got it all done but the washing and drying. TTFN

Fall-O-Ween Quilt Designer Blog Hop

I WON I WON I WON!! I am so grateful for this. It is my first win. Thank you ladies for the Blog Hop. I had so much fun reading the posts. You all are so wonderful. Thank you! 

Fall into Fall Give Away

Well after hours and hours I am done posting on almost all of the participants of the Fall into Fall Give Away. I have not done mush sewing the last week. I have not been feeling well. This weather does a number on me. I miss my sewing machine so today up and Adam, get to it!

I will be finishing my top for the Brown Bag Contest quilt. I have decided to go around the edge with some of the  remaining blocks that I have. Hopefully get it sandwiched along with my other two quilts.

Hollyhocks Big Giveaway

Go check out this wonderful give away. They are having a 5 day give away. Today is day three but there are some cool things to win. Just look at the picture above.

CGQC Theme Sept/Oct

I am still new to quilting. I have only quilted six quilts. I guess that is alot. LOL! I love quilting. I taught myself how to stipple and I love it.  I have looked at the spray but have not tried using it yet. That is my next step, spending more money on good batting a spray. For now I just use pins and cheap batting. After the quilt top is finished I make a quilt sandwich using pins. Then I fix up my sewing machine with the darning foot. After I practice a bit on some scrapes I just dive right in. I love the motion of the stippling. I could do it for hours. Just love the free motion of it. I guess that is why they call it FREE MOTION quilting. Then after that my next favorite part, binding. I could do that for hours. I don't know if this helped anybody but it is how I do it for now. I am sure I will upgrade to better ways as I learn.

This is my second try at stippling. I love how it turned out. This is one of the Quilts for Kids quilts. I have my second kit at home and just need to buy more fabric for my second donation quilt.

The Scrap Savers Solution Book

Here is what I have been working on the last few days. I have so many irons in the fire that I wanted to do something silly. I bought this book and picked this pattern.


I also had bought some new matterial. I had gotten a Moda Scrap Bag. It is my second Moda purchase and I love it. I will post more on that later.

Charming Girls' Quilt Club

I have joined in with a group of wonderful women. Kelly started Charming Girls' Quilt Club back in July of 2009.  It is a place to post goals for quilting and everyday things. I have been reading her posts and they are wonderful. The first thing we do is post a list of things we would like to accomplish for the months of September and October. For me it will be mostly for October. Then you post about your finishes. There are things like monthly themes, quilt alongs, prizes. You have to be a member to join in the fun. So I guess this is where I start:

1. Sandwich, quilt and bind my Fat Quarterly Quilt Along quilt.

2. Sandwich, quilt, and bind my Brown Bag Contest quilt.

Sandwich, quilt, and bind my Amy's Creative Side Quilt Along quilt.

3. Block from Designer Mystery Block Of The Month.
4. Blocks 1 and 2 from Flowers of Love by Designs by Fee.
5. Blocks 7, 8, and 9, then finishe the whole quilt from Frosty Flakes by As Sweet As Cinnamon.
My list is longer than that but I think I will stop here. I only have a month. LOL! Thank you ladies for letting me join in the fun.

What I have been working on. . .

First off I recovered my ironing boards. Love the new look, nice and sunny. I have a full size board and a table top one for paper-piecing.

 This is what it started out as stained and ucky!

See this hole, it happened when I iron some crayon between sheets of waxed paper. It squished out and I had to cut it out so that when I ironed again I did not get crayon on everything else. It has been like that for about 5 years, HA HA!

 Nice new beautiful cover. So bright and sunny. The kids even like it.

 Now here is my table top board. I only put a piece of batting under the fabric and you can guess it right, it melted. There are a few holes.  Now both boards have the stuff you use for pot holders. (sorry I can't remember the name)

Now it is nice and pretty also. I will be linking this up for "The Great Coverup".

This next one is for the Fat Quarterly Quilt Along. I need to just finish it now.

 I made this pillow for my Aunts Doggie.



Somebody stop me!! ;)

I must just need something to do. I have found another BOM. It is from Mothers Cupboard. It is called Flowers of Love. It will run for 10 months. I am trying to do more applique. It is so fun. Hop over and give it a look.

Fall-O-Ween Quilt Designer Blog Hop

Go over and check it out. Don't forget to read all 10 post from all 1o designers every day.

Brown Bag Contest

I received my Brown Bag package from a gal in Georgia. We are chatting on Facebook. It is so neat to meet someone you never would have if it was not for the internet.

She even sent me a neat card.

Here are some pictures of the wonderful material she sent me.






It took some time to decide what I wanted to do with it. There is so many different fun fabrics. I finally decided I wanted each fabric to have some time in the sun. A 9patch works for me beacuse you can see a good sized pieace of each fabric.

The kids will have fun looking at all the different pictures. She sent me 9 fat quarters and let me pick the ones I wanted. I love what I stuck with. I am going to call it something like "All the things a girl could need" Hope you have a good day.

Baby blanket plus new baby!!

I just received a picture of the new baby in her baby quilt I made for her. Isn't she so sweet. Hello little one!!

Oh it makes me feel so good. I hope that she will know all the love I put into it for her!