Don't watch too closely, though - it might be a few weeks. :-)
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Pay it Forward x4
OK - so how could I pick 3 out of 4 and have one person not get to play. All four - Gina, Shellie, Heather and Zarina - should watch their mailboxes for a little special something from me (Shellie - you just might get yours hand delivered)...
Don't watch too closely, though - it might be a few weeks. :-)
Don't watch too closely, though - it might be a few weeks. :-)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Pay It Forward
A few weeks ago I received my Pay It Forward gifty from Jill - and with everything going on forgot to get a photo of it posted.
Here it is:
So now it is my turn to play.
To give more people a chance, I will take comments on this post until Sunday, October 18 at 8:00 AM - then I will pull 3 names and send those three each a little gifty from me.
Your only obligation is to then "Pay It Forward" on your own blogs and do the same for three more people - a great way to continue to spread the love!!!
Here it is:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh78yFXBSeV6ftFNQhxmPa_Fwl1Z6AKIb24JVqMAA0rw8uDcQCfNZo8lRRHs1ehA25zzjGPu0zgEOP4xxUcFVctj_KeaVcWGQpvmwfivPifHmP_5XgSdJz081966b26EnGLtk3MIA/s320/PIF+Jill.jpg)
To give more people a chance, I will take comments on this post until Sunday, October 18 at 8:00 AM - then I will pull 3 names and send those three each a little gifty from me.
Your only obligation is to then "Pay It Forward" on your own blogs and do the same for three more people - a great way to continue to spread the love!!!
Monday, October 12, 2009
Two (actually three) Finishes
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This summer I got busy - and yesterday afternoon I tied the final knot and removed the last safety pin, and called it done. Of course it was instantly comandeered by the Munchkin, who turned himself into a quilted ghost, and then used it for a cave and tunnel for his trains as he played on the floor. I got it back after his bedtime, and field tested it on both the sofa and the bed. This one's a keeper!
Note the bees in the border~ and all those ties - in the middle of EVERY four patch. If I had it to do again I would have added an inner border, but I was tight on the bee fabric and it was one I could not get more of so I was not messing around too much by making the center too big. As it is this ended up as a nice large quilt - touches the floor on all sides of the quilted ghosty, and covers my side of the king size bed - and then some.
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I had a slight change in plans as to how I was going to use the fabrics, and I ended up using the original novelty print in the borders, so you can see it both uncut and turned into kaleidoscope blocks. The dark black/brown with the orange dots will probably be the binding - the more I put it with the blocks, the more the "black" really read as brown and just did not work with the other fabrics, but I think it might work for the binding.
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I have a traditional Halloween white sheet for the backing - a vintage sheet still in the original packaging that I picked up at an estate sale. It's in the wash to get some of the sizing out of it but then I think it will be great on the back. I plan to quilt around and through the kaleidoscopes stitch-in-the-ditch which should create some "spider web" type areas on the back - and i have some black yo-yo spiders prepped to applique back there to make this double sided.
19 more days until Halloween! I hope to get this done sooner than that so we can at least have some time to enjoy it before the Halloween decorations get put away!
Oh - nearly forgot that I needed to post a finished picture of "On Pinwheels and Kneedles" - the machine quilting turned out great and I was very very happy with this one. So was my MIL.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipkTwJ48_jHS3ZIqRdQvQjS6ry7nT7tHcvhm096Qb0JVs6H2UqPWuCpkE-ilLRHmdcNz_hGr5Hjnh1iWfDlHd4myk-OJY7o3S9iorw-JiAtwE20DqZqGZ-60fbDxTRfC-Jcco3vA/s320/pinwheels+and+kneedles+finished.jpg)
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