It's My Day...Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange

I'm so excited that Carol brought back her holiday staple...

Her Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange.

You know how much we all love seeing what's happening in our friends kitchens.

There is always coming good to be found!

So grab a cuppa of your favorite and join me while I share some "cuppa's" myself!

This is Angie Padilla's "Holiday Mugs" design.

It spoke volumes to me. Let's face it, there is nothing better than a cuppa of your favorite holiday beverage. I did a little adjusting on the border and rather than piecing it, I chose to use assorted Christmas fabrics and made prairie points instead.

Full disclosure...there are no snowy photos here. November was a completely crazy month, so I knew I had to get my project done and the photos ready to go early, for this hop. As you can see fall was in full bloom. It really is my favorite time of the year. 

The festive cups do bring out those wonderful holiday "feels" still.

Now to go along with all our cuppa's, I have our newest, most favorite cookie recipe to share. I know some of you have peanut allergies, so these aren't for you unfortunately. But if you don't,  you won't find a better cookie around.

These are Snoop Dogg's "Rolls Royce Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip" cookies.

Even if you aren't a Snoop Dogg fan, you're going to love his cookies.

Unfortunately for my diet, they are a family favorite and seldom not in the cookie jar around here.

LOL!!

Diet??? What can I say...I have fallen off the wagon and right now, I'm not even sorry about it.

Thanks Snoop, I am blaming this on you!

Make sure you stop in and visit my fellow bloggers today. Leave them some sugar with a sweet comment, too

December 5

MooseStashQuilting (you're here)

Scrapdash

Sew Many Yarns

Happy Cottage Quilter

Days Filled With Joy

That Fabric Feeling

I want to thank all of you who participated and our readers for our 2 fall favorite hops. 

Carol and I sure felt the love.

Wishing you a  blessed and wonderful holiday season!

 

Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange Blog Hop is Here

December 1 is finally here and that means it's Carol's turn to shine.

She's bringing us her yearly hop that puts a smile on our face and an inch on our waist!

So be sure you visit all our blogging buddies and see what's going on for their holidays!

DECEMBER 1^st

 

Just Let Me Quilt

Hill Valley Quilter

Karrin’s Crazy World

Lynn's Blog

Quilted Delights

Quilt Schmilt

Selina Quilts

 

DECEMBER 2^nd

 

A Quiltery

Ms P Designs USA

Bumbleberry Stitches

Texas Quilt Gal

Beaquilter

Quilted Snail

 

DECEMBER 3^rd

Just Because Quilts

Just Sew Quilter

Kathleen McMusing

Songbird Designs

Quilting Between The Rails

 Words & Stitches

DECEMBER 4^TH

 

MooseStashQuilting

Scrapdash

Sew Many Yarns

Happy Cottage Quilter

Days Filled With Joy

That Fabric Feeling

I will see you Thursday!

 

 

Circle of Life

 I am so excited to share my latest finish. It's been in the works for about 6 months. I just saw the Broadway play "Lion King" last weekend, so the timing feels perfect for this.

This is Jacqueline de Jonge's "Cirlce of Life" design.

I absolutely fell in love with it when I saw it, many many years ago. When I saw her in Houston at the big quilt show, the pattern just had to follow me home.

I have made friends with paper piecing finally, so it was time to dive into it.

While "Y" seams were a bit daunting to begin with, I survived them. I found that pins were my best friend on this one. For the record, I hate pinning things! HAHAHA

There are 24 different colors or shades of a color in this. I used mostly batik fabrics.

Seeing the progress was really exciting, as I worked on it.

Getting this far really wasn't as hard, as I had convinced myself it would be.

Here it is prior to quilting. Apparently I neglected to take photos of the final circle process. Now that was a challenge. The background is in 4 pieces, so there were some crazy curves to stitch, but that being said, it ended up fitting together and was perfectly square. Happy dance!!! 

I had hope to get a better outdoor photos, but between the shadows and the wind, it just wasn't happening. We are supposed to get weather coming in finally, so I wanted to get the photos done. I know it's November, but I am not ready for the snow to fall just yet. How about you?

What's in my future???

Well Bonnie Hunter releases her first clue for the yearly mystery quilt on Thursday. You know that one is a must.

But, I was gifted another Jacqueline de Jonge pattern for my birthday and yes...that one is calling my name now too.

See you in a couple of weeks for Carols

Have a blessed Thanksgiving season!

 

Abundance

 I am so excited to share this post with you. 

I've been working for months on a paper piecing project that has really stolen my heart...

This is "Abundance" a Bonnie Hunter scrap quilt.

She named it that because of how many scraps are in it and she wasn't kidding.

To took over 11 yards of scraps (according to Bonnie) and much of it was done with as little as 1 1/2" scraps. See, there is a reason we keep tiny stuff!!!  HAHAHA

I love the optical illusion you get, because the white scraps are narrower. 

I would love to tell you I am now scrap free, but I would be a big ole liar!

For the world I don't know how that happens.

And that's what I have been up to!

What's on you sewing table?

October 31...throwback Halloween

 Well, this is the day...

My favorite day of the year!

Today I am sharing the row by row that Carol designed for the "Cackling Stitches" facebook group last year.

I shared a lot of photos of my progress on the Facebook group page, but never on my blog.

The top has been done for awhile, but it's finally quilted.

Who knew a trampoline would be such a great place to hang a quilt for photos???? I have to admit, I am not a trampoline person. At my age, balance and a broken hip are first and foremost in my mind. LOL!!

The first step was tricky, but I survived.

Technology amazes me sometimes. It sure is fun to play with. I got a new Iphone with a clean up tool in the photos, that allows you to remove things you don't want in them. It's not perfect, but it's pretty cool to play with. I tried to remove the clothes pins holding the quilt up and it did actually take half of them off. You can still see part of them on the quilt itself, but the half that was in the sky is gone. 

HAHAHAHA

That even sounds like an old fogie comment to me!

The colors are starting to turn here and my clothes pins are actually all gone, in this photo.

TEE HEE HEE

Have a hauntingly fabulous Halloween!

Trick or Treat...I get all the Tootsie Rolls!

til next time...

Keep on Stitchin'