Blog Hop Party and giveaway

Are you ready to party?? Did you know that the Quilt Gallery is celebrating their 4th anniversary with a Blog Hop??

So today I am hosting a giveaway and I'd love for you to sign up. What am I giving away??

I was asked to review Jennifer Chiaverini's new book "The Wedding Quilt" and was given a copy to share with you. Now if you have never read any of the Elm Creek Quilts novels, this is the book for you. Let me tell you why. This book has a great story line, but it also interweaves the history of the Elm Creek Quilters and many of the previous stories are recapped throughout. It doesn't leave you guessing as to who is who, and what is what. I've read several in the series, but I've missed some, so I was able to catch up and keep going as the story unravels through the history of the Quilters. There is also a surprise at the

I am including a tote that I made for you to use as a book bag, or whatever you want. Just leave a comment on this post. Although it's not a requirement for entry, I would really love to know why you blog. I will close the giveaway in a week. Please be sure that I have a way to contact you if you are the winner.

Thanks so much for stopping by. And if you are a new visitor, I hope you will come back again.

Happy Quilting!

We gather together

Not much stitching going on here this week. But I've already been to a Ladies Christmas party that was full of fun.

There was delicious food..........

talk and fellowship................

and some fun

Have you spent time enjoying friends this week??

Another landscape

Remember when I made this landscape quilt?

When I made it, I was hoping to make a different wall hanging for each season.

As I was going through some fabric one day I came upon a piece of stormy weather fabric and one of a mountain scene. So I started playing with it, and this is where it is going.

It was so much fun, mostly because my children love to snowboard. And finding the snowboarder sealed the fate of this fabric. Maybe I can get it finished and hanging before they go snowboarding again ;-)

Fabric Tuesday

I'm a follower........ I think??

Are you having difficulty with Blogger lately? I have tried and tried to add, and manage the blogs I follow but to no avail. There were a couple that I needed to delete, as they have been dormant for a while, and others that I wanted to add. But every time I think I've added someone to my list to follow, they are not there the next time I open my dashboard. The ones that I've deleted are still there!!

I went to the Blogger site, and this was the best answer that I found -

Brett from blogger

Google Employee

The Blogger Team

11/29/11

Best answer - DarkUFO (Top Contributor) Go to this answer

Really appreciate everyone's patience. We've identified the problem and hope to have the fix rolled out shortly. I'll make sure to update this thread once that happens.

-brett

You did notice the date, right? Last Tuesday. So hang on to your list to follow, and hopefully Blogger will get this tool fixed.

In the meantime, I guess I will have to keep looking around blog land. There were several new blogs that I thought I was following, and it hasn't happened :-(

Finished!

The Project Linus quilts are done! Ready to be mailed.

For me, using these fabrics was a little bit of a But the quilting part was fun. I love practicing machine quilting on charity quilts. I know they will not be judged harshly and I have more freedom to experiment with stitches.

AmyLouWho Sew and Tell
Stitching by Starlight Finished it Friday
crazymomquilts Finished It Up Friday

Score!

Yesterday I happened to stop at a Thrift store that is on the south side of town. It turned out to be a profitable visit.

This thift store does not often have many crafty things that I can use. However, yesterday there were as many as 50 quilting books! Woo-hoo, what a party.

So I started looking through the books and came across this one.

I thought this book looked very familiar, but I did not think that I actually owned this book.
So as I am leafing through the pages I recognized many of the quilts. And now I know why.

I loved making Button Box. It was such a fun quilt.

And the Bow Tie quilt

was another fun one to make

Cracker on the other hand
did not get finished.

While making the blocks for this quilt, I remember that I had so many left over that I made another quilt and gave it away. So this portion never got finished. And not having the pattern, I forgot how to put the border on.

So the mystery of these quilts was that one of my quilting buddies had the book, and we all worked on these patterns. When I put this last one away, I did not have the instructions to complete it.

But now I own this book, along with 9 others ;-) Not a bad score for $10.

WIP

I've been working on finishing up the Project Linus quilts.


All that is left is the binding at this point.

I'd love to get these in the mail by the end of the week.

What have you been working on??

W.i.P. Wednesday