And the winners are....

Mary for the scraps and Quiltermom2 for the Christmas fabric! Congrats! Please send me your contact information so that I can get these out in the mail to you! ljlehn (at) charter (dot) net

So have you seen this?

This is crazy!

De-Stashing Giveaway.....

As you may recall, back in June I was given a knitting machine by a family friend. I have enjoyed it a lot. I recently went back to Illinois for a visit. While I was there, the sweet lady who gave me the machine, gave me all the accessories to go with it. She also gave me literally about 35 years worth of patterns. I don't even know how to use all of it yet. I hope to go and have another lesson one of these days. My problem is that my little sewing room is busting at the seams (no pun intended, lol). I have absolutely no space for everything that I have, plus all the new stuff, too. Therefore I am on a mission to de-stash and try and de-clutter this tiny little room. That said, I plan to give some of the stuff away on my blog here. I am also looking for a charity that might take some of the items. I have some fabric, some floral crafting stuff and a few other odds and ends. I might even go through my pattern stash and thin it out some, too. So.... for the first giveaway, I have these two pieces of Christmas fabric that I will be giving away. They are both just short of 1 yard in length, 100% cotton. I had preshrunk these pieces at one point in time. I have had them in my stash for years. I was going to make skirts out of them, but grew tired of making skirts so these sort of fell by the wayside. I will give them both away together to the same person. Still plenty of time to use them for this Holiday season. Secondly I have this pile of snippets. They are all random sizes, colors and fabrics. I have NOT sorted through them. Most are quilters cottons, but some are not. Most of them are smaller than 2 inches in size. Some will be so small that they are not useable. Like I said, I just tossed them all in a bin as I worked on different projects and I have not sorted them. They would be great for something like Amandajean's Ticker Tape quilt or Mini Ticker Tape quilt. I just do not have the time or the energy to deal with them, nor the space to store them. I would say that they would all fit into a large shoe box, if that helps you know how much there is. So to win all you have to do is enter... :0) Just leave me a reply to this post and indicate which giveaway you are interested in, either the Christmas fabrics or the scraps. I will draw a winner randomly for each on Tuesday, Nov 3.

Snowflakes and Fruitcakes.....

The BCheeky group launch "Snowflakes and Fruitcakes" started yesterday. I listed several simple Christmas skirts starting at $9.99 each and this OOAK set as well!

Finished Claire's Birthday dress....

I got a bit of a late start on it, but here it is. Now to get it in the mail....

Here are the pictures from the quilt show. There were between 500 and 600 quilts there. This is only a small sampling. There were some really amazing quilts there. One lady had three different quilts there that were made from counted cross stitch patterns. She uses the patterns and replicates each box on the pattern with a 1/2 inch square of fabric. The one I have pictured here has over 62,000 squares in it. It was massive! Another had over 30,000 and the other over 6000.

Sorry for the lack of posting...

I apologize for the sporadic posting lately. Let's just say that my personal life has been a bit of a roller coaster ride of ups and downs for the last couple of months. I am hoping things will begin to settle down soon and maybe I can get back to posting a little more regularly. It just seems like it has been one thing after the other here lately. Today my MIL and I are going to a quilt show. I am really looking forward to that. We went a couple of years ago and it was amazing! I will try and take some pictures if my camera cooperates.