Birthday Winner!

On Sunday I used Mr. Random and came up with the winner of my birthday giveaway.

Congratulations to Polly!  She posted...

Polly @ Helping Little HandsMarch 18, 2013 at 3:38 PM

Happy Birthday! On my last birthday, my husband watched the kids all day, so I could spend the day in my room sewing, working on a quilt. (At least that's how it was supposed to happen, with a few sick kiddos thrown into the mix, I did end up coming out of my room to help a bit at different points during the day, but for the most part I got the day to myself.) I'm not sure if that was my most fun birthday...but usually I don't do much on my own birthday.

Love the fabrics you chose too!

I will have your fabrics on the way to you this week. 

Happy Monday!

Happy Spring!

Happy Spring!  I hope that the sun comes out for everyone today.  It is out here and my daffodils and chroscus are blooming.  It is so pretty.  Today is also free ice day at Ritas and free 4 oz of frozen yogurt at YoGo.

So, recently with all this hype of Google Reader dropping out it made em think about my blog and all the blogs I follow.  I love all the different posts I see and the inspiration I get from them.  So I decided claim my blog on Bloglovin. Follow on Bloglovin

Honestly, I use blogger and don't plan to stop, but in case something happens I still have my list of blogs I follow backed up.

Hope everyone is having a happy first day of spring!

Happy birthday...(Giveaway :) )

to me.  Haha, sounds funny to say that.  I decided for my birthday this year to have a giveaway.  I mean, why not share something that I love.  So I have 4 fat quarters waiting for a lucky winner.  When I looked at them this morning, I decided it needed a little more.  So, I added in a quarter of a yard of one of my most favorite fabrics ever that I have been hording saving forever.

The top, pink and green, is the quarter yard piece.  It is on old Michael Miller print that is oh so fun.  The other 4 I picked up at my LQS the other day.  Looking now, they don't really go together, haha.  I will probably throw in some 2.5 inch charms, too, because you know I love my little squares.

So to enter my giveaway just leave a comment telling me one of your most fun birthdays.  Mine was a couple years ago, my friends and I camped and kayaked all weekend.  I brought pink cupcakes and I had a tiara to wear as I boated.  Quite a few people asked if it was my 21'st birthday (which it wasn't) but of course I said, "yes, yes it is".  This year I had a fun birthday dinner with my sisters over the weekend, it was a fun night with just the three of us.

Good luck to all!  I will close the comments and choose a winner on Saturday, March 23 at 5 pm est.

Project Quilting, Challenge 5

Project Quilting challenge 5 went up on Sunday.  This weeks challenge is the Print Publications.  You choose a magazine, open to page 28 and use that as your inspiration.

I chose a Vegetarian Times magazine. Actually, I grabbed a few of them and they all had a similar color scheme and setup.

The colors on this page just popped so I couldn't help myself,  I had to go and find some at the fabric store.  (I was trying to sew all the challenges from my stash.)  So I picked up three Kona solids and mixed in a few batiks that I had.  So here is my creation for this week, I am calling it Frittata Quilt and it measures 32"x32".

It is more abstract, I pulled the colors and the placement of the plate, plus the glasses in the right hand corner.  There is free motion swirls on the solid blue on the front what were inspired by the batik blue.

The back was pieced with the left over Kona solids from the front.  I am loving how the swirls pop off the green on the back.

This was a really fun challenge.  I tried to step outside my box with it and love the outcome.  And I even hand stitched the binding on, so not the norm for me.  Can't wait to see all the other creations that this week brings.  You still have time to enter if you want, submissions aren't due until Sunday March 10 at noon.

And I just have to share this picture, my daffodils started blooming this week, just in time for this wonderful storm to hit the north east.  So here is the first daffodil blooming in the snow.

Project Quilting Challenge 4

Two weeks ago was Project Quilting challenge 4, Wish Upon a Star.  Usually I sit and think about the project for a few days before I start, but this week I didn't have to.  I immediately was able to focus on what I wanted to do.  So off to the stash I went to dig out some perfect fabrics for a baby gender neutral baby quilt.  I have a great texty print that is all about baby that I picked up in the sale room of my LQS a while ago.  It was perfect for this project.

I used some argyles that I had and a plaid.  The back in a fun stripe that I had in my stash, too.  (I love stash sewing!).  Each block in the quilt measures 5.5", the points for each star were free pieced, no measuring.

 The stars are echo quilted, one line being inside the star and the rest going out to the edge of the quilt.  

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QuiltCon

So I was not lucky enough to attend QuiltCon this year down in Austin, TX, but I did follow along on twitter and instagram.  It looks like a lot of fun and good times were had by all how went.  QuiltCon was the first ever show that I entered quilts into.  My Modern Mini was accepted for the show and I was beyond excited about it.  Well, I have to say, I was so extremely surprised and excited when on Friday it was posted on the Modern Quilt Guild blog the winners of the show.  As I read over the post I saw my name and it said first!  I had to ask Emily if it really said that, I was in shock.

So here it is, (in a picture that I borrowed from Fat Quarter Shop)

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So yay for QuiltCon being a success!  Yay for my first every quilt show that I ever entered a quilt into.  I am really looking forward to QuiltCon 2015!  If you want to take a look at photos of all the winning quilts, Christa at Christa Quilts kindly took pictures to share with all of us who could not make it.  You can find them here, here, and here.

Weekend Visitors!

This past weekend I had some great visitors come and see me.  One of my besties from college came and she brought her 11 month old little sweetheart with her.  So I was going through my pictures and I can't find any pics of just me and Emily from college : (  But there are plenty of us in group shots from physics club!  Oh Em, you know I have some awesome pictures of you ; )

Em is on the left and I am the crazy short one in the middle

So here is a picture of Emily and Me from the summer of 2010.  We went to Seaside that day and played some games on the boardwalk and in the arcade.  (I still have my bracelet we got int he arcade) So much fun!

Em made her the hat :) 

   We decided to take a quick drive to Seaside.  I wanted to show Delilah the Jersey Shore and we could check out the rebuilding.  They started driving in the pilings a couple weeks ago.  We played at Lucky Leos in 2010 and it is still there.  Maybe this summer they will come back so Delilah can play in the arcade.

It is amazing at the progress they have made since we were there. I saw a picture today of so many more pilings in and the planks laying ready to start going on.  The goal date for the boardwalk to be completed is May 10.  I believe it is possible... Jersey Strong!

You can still see the roller coaster in the water there.

We did a little fabric shopping while they were here, Delilah helped me pick some fabrics for my mom.   Em and and I stayed up so late just talking and catching up, I really missed her.  We spent so much time together in college.  I wish we lived closer.  But at least I get lots of updates through calls, texts, and her blog.

It was sad to see the weekend end.  I had such a great time with Emily and Delilah.  It was too long since I had seen Emily and it was the first time that I had met Delilah.  I loved all the cuddle time that I got with her.  I hope that my knee gets better soon so I can go and visit her and see her new house.