Nashville Market

What a weekend at the Nashville Needlework Market!

I was lucky to get to go to market with Little by Little to help in the booth, I failed in the help part, but managed to do the scouting for Cynthia and Candi who did all the work.

I have had some emails about Cynthia's new patterns, so lets start with a few pictures of her booth.

 Brown Dog Sampler

New Piddlings

 Old piddlings looking great together in wooden trencher

Three Blind Mice

Now my goal was to take lots of great pictures of all the wonderful booths with the lovely samplers and I managed to get two done.  I'm sorry that I failed you, but by Sunday when I was going to do this I was in a spending stupor.  Have you ever suffered from this?  

Well Here is the one other booth

La D Da 

 And Ms La D Da herself!

I did get this one other lone picture of a lovely little pin box from Needlemade Designs.

This was one of my favorites from market I loved the finishing on it and knew that I had to have it.  Can you guess what is on the other side of the mouse scissor fob?

Now I could go on and on about all of the lovely designs that were there but I will just list a few of my favorites!

Stacy Nash - Grace Bridges

Plum Street Samplers - My Brothers Keeper

Nikys Creations - Needle Keeper

Scarlett House - Mary Roe 1808

Needlework Press - Posies From the Cottage

Summer House - Nine Shaft Sampler (older pattern but a must have)

Shakespeare Peddler - Jane Patterson

I know that you will have already picked your own favorites I would love to hear what they are. I know that I will see them on all the blogs already stitched in a few days, you all amaze me with the shear speed of your needles.

So I mentioned that I would have a give away from market so.... with out further adieu

Please leave a comment and I will draw 10 names so you can share a piece of market.

Pin Cubes, Thread Packs, Patterns and a EZ PZ picture hanger.

How many of you have lusted after this lovely sewing basket packed with pinkeep, strawberry emery and slipper??  Well you now have another chance to make one of your own.

Stacy Nash is coming to teach it at 

3 Sisters Antiques and Needlework Shop in Knoxville TN

April 28th and 29th, 2012

$135.00 includes all materials and lunch.

Please call and reserve your spot today

865-588-1230.

The cross stitch design may vary from this one as I pulled this picture off of Stacy's blog.

Well I'm off to look at all of the lovely new charts Drawing will be Friday Night so I can ship on Saturday.

Christmas in February

This arrived in my mailbox last night and boy what a treat!  A lovely over one version of the peacock from Christmas at Hawk Run, I knew it was coming just not when.  I must say it was so worth the wait Thank you Darlene! Your finishing is perfect with the chenille trim I could do no better.  He is hanging on the postal desk in a place of honor.

Quilt up date. 

This is the kind of help I get when trying to finish a project.  I think the quilt passed the kitty comfort test. 

Kitty finally allowed me to finish the small quilt. 

I made a mistake on the front and had to redo a couple of pieces so not to waste them I used them on the back to add some interest. 

Oh I should have said I didn't make a mistake I just planed it that way right? 

Our class teacher who I just love for all of her great pointers showed us a little pattern to make our quilt label with.  It was paper piecing, which I had never even heard of, but oh what a fun technique to do. 

I know many of you have heard that Nashville Market starts tomorrow.  I am so lucky that I get to go I wish everyone had a chance to experience one.  There are so many things to see, people to meet and fun just to be had.  I'm not in a booth this year and in fact my new patterns will be coming out a little later, but I will be helping some in Little by Little's booth you know giving them breaks and such.

I did make a few things for Cynthia's booth.  They are little pin cubes inspired by one in the Primitive Quilt Magazine, but I modified them for stitchers.

Cats, Roosters, A&E, Colonial Lady and Man, Little by Little, and a Hornbook.

I hope everyone likes them.

I will try and find a little some thing at market to share with you. 

Have a great weekend.

The Winner

Sorry to post so late with today's winner, I'm on a quilting roll and was trying to finish my homework.

Using the random number generator the winning number was 3.  Congratulations Betty from Samplings from Spring Creek, I will get your box out to you this week.  Thanks everyone for entering and I will be having another drawing this week so please check back for another chance to win.

Change is in the Air

Thank you thank you! 

 I am always telling the kids if you have trouble in class go ask the teacher. The teachers love it when they can help you and even better if they think you care.  Why then did it take me months to ask for help???  I just don't know, because you all were able to help and I now can do everything that was evading me.  My next task is to make it pretty, but that will be another day.  I have been cleaning out my sewing room and found some items that would love to find another home so be looking for a give away in the next few days.  

Thanks again for all of your help.

Blogger!

I have been trying to make some changes to my blog, and I'm stopped at every turn!  I'm going to try and con Danny into helping me figure out some of these problems, I'm not so patient with computer problems.

A few of my problems are....

 1) How to change my profile information I keep getting an error message.

2) I want to add pages to my blog, I get a message saying that I already have them, they must be invisible.

3) I love all of those blogs that have a nice collage of pictures as their blog header I'm clueless how to have one also.

I was able to update blogs to visit, there are so many good ones out there, take a look to see if any are new to you.

So onto things I can do.

I finished a reproduction sampler that I will soon have ready for sale.  I will give you a few sneak peaks

I'm getting ready to start another reproduction and this one will be a favorite, a nice big house and a really cool garden, in fact I'm going to go start right now!

Hope you have a great weekend and get lots of stitching done.

If anyone has answers to my blogger problems feel free to send them my way.