Happy Friday!!!

Love the weekends. Last weekend was very productive, hoping this weekend will be too. Along with the clutches and needle case I posted last weekend, I also tried something new. Tried making a fabric background with bits of fabric placed between solvy. Found this technique in Fabric Art Collage -40+ Mixed Media Techniques.

Not as successful as I hoped, but not bad for a first try. I'll be trying this again this weekend, my friend Kathi gave me some good suggestions on how to do this technique.


Happy Friday, wishing everyone a WONDERFUL Weekend.

Made a few things

Sunday night already? Where did the weekend go? Stained door casings, made a couple sample clutches, finished my last "Ugly" Swap gift, and did a little crazy quilting.

I'm going to make a clutch for Emily, my daughter, to use on her wedding day. I've made a couple samples to determine what size she would like. I have a yard of Champagne Dupioni Silk on order. I made these two this weekend.

This one is about 7" wide Sarah choose the fabric for this sample.

This one is about 6" wide, made out of Ivory dupioni silk, great find in the remnant bin at JoAnn's.

I'll be trying another style next week.






I participated in an "Ugly" swap with the HGTV group. My swap partner was Dyed Grey, she made me this beautiful quilted table topper. Amazing what she did with the ugly FQ I sent to her.

I'm not a tradational quilter, I made a couple crazy quilted pieces and one quilt block zipper pouch. I need to mail this last piece, needle case.

Happy Creating, wishing everyone a Great Week.

FFT #10 RR finished

I have finished stitching on the last block for the Crazy Quilting International Fabulous First Timers Round Robin. To participate in CQI swaps or round robins every new member is required to complete a FFT RR. My FFT RR started back in October. A little setback but the RR is back on track. I have had the pleasure of stitching on the blocks of four very talented women.

First block I stitched on was Aida's, second block Colleen's, third block, Alice's, and finally Kathi's block. Everyone different but all beautiful and a lot of fun to stitch on. (click on the images to see enlarged)

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Rainy, Windy, Chilly Day at Lake Michigan

Sunday we took our pups to the beach, Lake Michigan, for a little walk/run. It was a windy, dreary, misty day but the pups loved it. Look at Penne smiling. The waves were 3-4 feet. Penne is the only one that went into the water. We played a little frisbee until the wind caught it and it got stuck in a tree!

I found some mermaid tears, mostly green and a couple clear ones.

Did a little creating this weekend and learned a lesson about fabric paper and freezer paper. Here are the two pieces of fabric paper I made.

I liked how they looked better when they were wet, rather dull now that they are dry. May try to remove a layer of tissue on the red & green paper.

Lesson learned, check twice and make sure the shinny side of the freezer paper is up before you start applying the glue water. If not you will find, when your fabric paper is dry, it will not peel off the freezer paper! 

Making fabric paper is still a new technique to me, I will keep experimenting. These two sheets will be fun to play with.

Two good books - The Dark Tide, by Andrew Gross. Finished, it was good, sort of predictable but some good twists. And Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani, still reading and enjoying it. Adriana Trigiani is the author of Big Stone Gap and Big Cherry Holler, two books I read a few years ago. May have to read them again.

Merry Christmas to All!!!

Just had to post this photo. Yes we are those kind of people that dress our dogs up and take holiday photos. This one made me laugh out loud when I saw it. Santa (Sydney) is such a good model, the reindeer (Penne) not such a good model or her nose was running because it was so cold outside today.

Happy Birthday to Penne, Dec. 17, she will be four years old. We can't imagine our home without her. She is a rescue but we are the lucky ones for getting to adopt her. Still remember the day a cute little 19 lb bundle of fluff came to our house.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas

hope everyone gets what they want

and especially what they need.

Halloween Primitive Pumpkin Give Away

Great Halloween Give Away from Primitive Pumpkin. Found this give away on Donna's blog Everythingquilts.

Beautiful fabrics!!!

House Progress

This was our house!!












House last winter












House remodeling is progress, here is the front.
Waiting for the front door to finish the front. They are working on the sides today.






Electricians have started on the inside.




Craftroom view and space.

Quite a bit of rain last week, most of the leaves have fallen to the ground.