Howling Haunted House

Did you happen to catch this?  I know I almost missed it, and I sure do not know why.  I love "Pecks Pieces", and visit it all the time. Marjory shares the most delightful patterns with us. This one sure makes me smile. Yes, I have caught up and downloaded all she has posted so far. I think I am going to have to start on it today cause this is just too fun!   ;-)   You can find it here yourself.

           http://peckspieces.blogspot.com/2014/09/howling-haunted-house-wall-quilt.html

 We've got time. Halloween is still 3 weeks away!  Now you know your house doesn't need cleaning, meals don't need to be cooked and goodness knows we can all wear the same cloths for a few days. Heck no, there is no time for that stuff, not when there is a great pattern to stitch!  That's my story, and I'm stickin to it!  
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Scraps

There is nothing like the feeling of success when you are able to make up a very quick little project with what you have on hand. I consider them freebie projects, something I have managed to use leftovers for. A week ago Sherri over at This and That shared this fast and easy little cutie. It took me longer to figure out where I had stashed my ric-rack, than it did, to stitch it up. Now there is something wrong with this picture isn't there?  I clean up my sewing room, then I can't find a thing!   :-(  

I added a little purple piping on top of my ric-rack. What do you do with that last 3" strip of something? Why cut it into 1" strips and make piping. Verging on insanity you say!  Probably, but it sure made a fun edge.

It's not too late to make up one of these for yourselves. Go visit Sherri and get the pattern for yourself.
http://thisandthatpatterns.typepad.com/thisandthatpatterns/2011/02/will-you.html

Happy almost Valentines day!

 

Turkey Time

Well, the count down is on. Soon the ovens will be cranked up and the pies and turkeys will be cookin! The beginning of our eat-a-thon holiday season!  I feel my thighs expanding as I type!  LOL!! 

I have finished up my little fall quiltie from Kaaren over at The Painted Quilt. It's Autumn Blessings from her First Friday Freebie. If you have never visited Kaaren, treat yourself to a visit. She is so creative and sharing of her talents with us all. And for those who love Raggedy Ann's there is a block of the month that will knock your socks off. I was all caught up on my months till this last month, and Christmas projects got in my way, but I will be back on track real soon, I promise Kaaren!

Make sure that you check out the Christmas Quilt Show over at SewGalCal's. There are some incredible bloggers with fun things to share. Just clink on the link of the right side of my blog, grab a cup of coffee and prepare yourself for motivation to keep us stitchin for many moons to come!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I will be thinking of you all while I work my 16 hr day that day. It's all good. No cooking or cleaning for me this time around!!  And better yet they cater Thanksgiving dinner to us who have to work. So it's really a win-win for me and my pay off is that I don't have to work any of the other holidays! :-)

Enjoy your day! Don't over stuff yourselves!! :-)

Carolina Christmas Mystery Quilt

Christmas might be over but I got my mystery quilt top pieced yesterday. Bonnie Hunter from Quiltville came thru yet again with a great stashbuster quilt. I am finding that mystery quilting is really quite fun. Not having any idea what your finished project will look like really challenges me. I need to make this quilt, quite a bit bigger for my California King size bed, so I am going to do something a little different in the borders. I will keep you posted as to my progress.  For those of you interested in the pattern I believe that it us only up temporarily on Quiltville.com  you best download and save the pattern very soon.

There are a couple of other sites with great patterns that are up for a limited time also. First is from Harbour Quilt Company  At the bottom of the page is a darling snowman table runner that will only be a free pattern thru the end of January. Make sure you get him before he disappears. Harbour Quilt Company offers a free pattern every month, so make their great website a regular place to visit for fun free patterns.

Last but not least is a wonderful new Christmas quilt from Fat Cat Patterns This will be a row of the month quilt. Be sure to download your pattern each month before it is replaced with a new row. It runs  now thru August giving you time to have it quilted by next Christmas. This one is just too darn cute to pass up. Check them out!

Hope this gives you some inspiration for the new year.