Year in Review & Hustle Winners

First up - The 100 Day Hustle winners!

• $25 Fat Quarter Shop Gift Certificate goes to link #37 - Jane from Where Jane Creates!

 

• Madrona Road Fabric Roll From Westwood Acres goes to link #51 - Tessa from The Sewing Chick!

• Fat Quarter Bundle From Fresh Squeezed Fabrics goes to link #16 - Fiona from Finding Fifth!

• $20 Gift Certificate to Plum Patchwork goes to link #28 - Lindsey from Happier Than A Bird Quilts!

• $20 Gift Certificate to Sew Lux goes to link #19 - Stacey from The Tilted Quilt!

Congratulations to all of our winners and a huge thank you to everyone who participated and to all of the shops who kindly donated prizes!  I will definitely be organizing something similar next year!

                                                                                                                                                                     

I decided that I was going to try new quilty things in 2012 and I did!  I joined bees, swaps, learned to paper piece and got a longarm! 

I completed 10 quilts, one that just needs binding and one top for a total of 12 for the year!

Between the bees and my do.Good Stitches group I made boatloads of blocks in 2012!

 

One goal for 2013 is to up the number of quilts and reduce the number of bee blocks.  I enjoy participating in bees but it can leave you feeling a bit overwhelmed at times.  Once I finish out the groups I'm in I'm just going to focus on quilts and my do.Good stitches group for a while and see how that goes!

Here's to a happy, healthy and quilty 2013!!!

Stash Bee Blocks

 First up - the winner of the Charming Travelers packet is Mina from Kinda Quilty!

I just have to share the November Stash Bee blocks that I made for Jess of SewCraftyJess.  I LOVED making these blocks!!  I definitely see one of these quilts in my future :)






I have 3 quilts to bind, a few more bee blocks and a new quilt to cut out this weekend!  What are your stitchy plans?

Weekend Update

First things first - The 100 Day Hustle link-up winner of the $25 Fat Quarter Shop gift certificate is Marla!

2-59 since #1 was my test link!

I did a bit of sewing this weekend and managed to finish my blocks for Jennifer's Hurricane Sandy Relief quilts.  She isn't collecting any more quilt blocks but is accepting other supplies like binding in order to finish all of the quilts.  Check out the Flickr group to see what is needed.  I made two of each color scheme and sent them out today. 

I also had time to finish putting together my quilt top for the Tula Pink Sew Along that Sara organized.  I really wanted to use bigger cuts to showcase some of the larger prints.  This pattern is adapted from a tutorial video from Missouri Star Quilt Company.  The finished top measures 70"x70".  Now I need to decide how to quilt it - I'm stumped on what thread color to use!

Completed Quilt Top!

Close up of the center

You can check out all of the Sew Along entries by heading over to the Flickr group.

Linking up at {Sew} Modern Monday as well!

Winner!

And the winner of the Traveling Stash is Rachel!!  I'll be sending you an email today :)

I hope you all had a great weekend!  Ours was busy  with Halloween festivities and lots of basement organizing to prep for some excitement  that is *hopefully* coming soon!  

Winner & A Newish Project

First things first - congrats to Lyn on winning the 100 follower giveaway!!  I just sent you an email about it :)

Thank you to all who entered!  It really meant a lot to me that so many of you entered and left such nice comments.  Plus, I learned about a bunch of patterns and fabric lines that are new-to-me!

The "newish" project?  A double wedding ring quilt!!  I started it months ago (I may have made a quick mention of it here on the blog), made a bunch of the arcs and then got sidetracked and it's been sitting neglected.  Then I saw that Jennifer and Rebecca are each working on one as well and are going through it together and they were kind enough to let me join them!

Mine is a scrappy version with everything  for the arcs coming from my scrap bins.  So far I have 60 of them pieced - Only 20 more to go!

I have a print from Terrain and a print from Flora for the corner squares and another Flora print for the background. I'm still not sure what I'm going to use for a background.  I was originally thinking a white with light polka dots but now I'm wondering if that will be too busy....

Are you working on any new projects?!

PS - Linking up at Manic Monday!!