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.

Happy Birthday Jean

Tomorrow is Jeans birthday so I'm going to give her, her birthday present right here on the blog.  This way it won't be late as I just finished it today.

So Happy Birthday Jean!

I figure if I don't hear from her she doesn't like it.

(design by Blackbird)

Now I will also post another finish that were Christmas presents for Jean and Candi, they still can not decide which one they want so I think the cats will have to pick.

They are knitted and then finished like a pin disk.

Now that you have seen that I really do stitch... I want to thank you all for your lovely comments on the last post. It looks like everyone is looking forward to a lesson on framing, so that will be coming up.   I'm trying to finish stitching a sampler so that I have some thing to work with. 

Well I'm off to do some stitching hope you all have a wonderful week.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! 

May the New Year hold much happiness and many finished projects for all! 

I have been looking at many blogs that have pictures up of all the stitching projects they have completed this year well....I'm just going to say I forgot the camera.

However this Christmas has been a busy one with lots of company some traveling and many friends.

Christmas day was fairly quite with my kids gone to Idaho to visit my family, we shared a wonderful Christmas dinner with the in laws, Eli and some friends.

On Monday we had guests in from Kentucky...you may have seen pictures here on Kentucky Samplers blog I was teaching Peg how to frame some of her cross stitch pieces.  It is a fairly easy process once you know where to begin. Let me know if a tutorial would be of interest to you.  Peg and I had great fun, but just as a warning finish framing then have your wine.  We did get in some antique shopping and Peg and Bob bought two wonderful gifts for Danny and I

I still can't decide do I leave it as a dish or is it to be destined as a pinkeep?  Danny has collected insulators for years and this one was very tiny unlike all his others a wonderful gift, I can't say thank you enough. We have been invited for a visit to Kentucky so hopeful this New Year will have a little travel in it.

Our next adventure was a trip to Knoxville where we stayed with Candi.  It has been way too long since my last visit there.  Candi is expecting her first Grandchild soon so we all ready have my next visit planed out for quilt making, between the two of us may it turn out square.

I was unable to see Jean in our quick visit as she was busy with company of her own.

We did swap Christmas gifts and I always come home with a pile of wonderful thing!

Jean's bag held all of these goodies plus a Christmas ornament that escaped the photo as it was already hanging on the tree.

Candi's package was all of this. 

Oh do I feel like one spoiled stitcher.  I tell them they do to much, but Oh I love every item, it will keep me busy throughout the year

When I arrived home there was a packet from England in my mail box.  Oh what a lovely surprise from Irene of Starry Eyed Stitcher.  We have been exchanging email and stitching advise after having met through our blogs this past year.  She lives in the Yorkshire area of England.  The fabric, lace, buttons and roving are from different places in Yorkshire, oh such lovely treats.  I was quite intrigued with the two morning pins and the lovely leaded heart that Irene made in her stained glass class this fall.  I'm looking for the perfect place to hang it.

 We did make one other stop on our way home from Candi's.  I can't go to Knoxville with out a visit to Ilona's Antiques in Maryville.  Ernie has great pieces of furniture at the best prices.  I believe that most of my house is furnished from Ernie's shop.  So why stop now....

You may remember a few post back that I had a picture of a postal desk I had seen. 

Well it has found its home.

Thanks so much for your interest in my blog, looking forward to 2012

I'm truly thankful for all the friends that blogging has provided the Internet is truly an amazing thing.  

And the Winner Is

Just a quick post to announce that Pam from Baskets and Prim won the drawing for the Primitive Quilts Magazine.  Please send me your address to I can send it your way.

I hope to have a full post soon, but house is in complete disarray trying to get Christmas out.  Why does it seem to get harder and harder each year?