CHARMING GIRLS CHRISTMAS IN AUGUST SEWING PARTY

Today is the big day and I will be working on my project for the Charming Girls Christmas Party. I will be working on this little pin pillow that I plan on giving to a special friend for Christmas.

This pattern is offered at The Painted Quilt and is one of her First Friday Freebie patterns. Also for all you Raggedy Ann lovers out there she now has a monthly Raggedy pattern going on that is also free. I love Raggedy Ann so I am definately working on this one. If you will scroll down on my right sidebar you will see a button where I link to her and you can check out all her freebies for yourself.

I am off to check out a couple of garage sales and than I will be back also with some sweets to share with the rest of you. Who knows, maybe I will score a few Christmas items at the garage sales.

Looking forward to sewing with all of you.

Barbara

ROADSIDE RESCUE & NEW QUILTS

As I was driving home from work one morning about a month ago I passed by this little beauty hanging out beside a dumpster. I could see that beneath her rough exterior was something beautiful waiting to come out so I stopped and carefully stuffed her in the side of my Van and brought her home. She now sits in the garage waiting for her transformation to start but the temp has been almost 100 with such high humidity that I am going to have to wait for cooler temps to get out there and start the sanding process. I am not sure how to do the back of the chair. I think I will just cut a plywood oval and nail on than I am thinking of a beige or white. I hung my new Shabby Chic looking quilt over it and I think it looks reall nice so once finished that is probablly where the quilt will hang when not in use. I bought some pretty pale blue gingham on sale that I plan to make cushions for the back and seat with.

I have also finished another baby blanket with a cowboy print for my niece and her new baby in Washington so I can cross one off of my goals for the next two months in The Charming Girls Club. Still need to start my weight watchers and only went to Gym once last week but it is a start. Oh I did do something for myself, I went to see The new Twilight movie and it inspired me to knit a hat like the one Bella wore in the movie for my grand-daughter Savannah.

Till next time - DAISEY

CHARMING GIRLS UPDATE

I am now a member of the Charming Girls Quilt Club and I should have posted on here what my goals were for the next 3 months. I am late but here they are and I have to say that some I have actually been working towards achieving my goal.
SELF-CARE:

1. My number one on this is TO LOSE WEIGHT.
2. Take more time for myself. Going to a movie or out to eat with friends.
Go shopping and buy a outfit for every 10 lbs that I lose.
3. I am paying every 2 weeks on a membership to a gym but I never go.Sostarting
this week I will go and work out at least 1 hr, 3 times a week.

MY PROJECTS:

1. Finish my poor sisters wedding quilt. My goodness she is going on being
married for 4 yrs now and they are still patiently waiting.
2. Work on and hopefully finish my repo row robin quilt
3. Finish and tie my charming friends quilt for my new great-nephew
Jaxon.

I have some finishes to show but will put in a post for tomorrows entry.

Barbara

GYPSY'S ROSETTE SWAP

Hello here I am again and this time I have a neat swap to tell everyone about. I just signed up to be a follower at The Gypsey Fleamarkets blog and wanted to let you know that she has a neat new "ROSETTE SWAP" going on. I am going to join and see what kind of pretty flower I recieve. Hope some of you will think about trying this. One of my favorite things to do is blog surf at night and I have seen some really pretty rosette tutorials out there. There are so many ways to do these and I am really anxious to see what everyone comes up with. Now to put my thinking cap on. I have posted a button over on my sidebar that will take you right to her blog.
Ta Ta for now.

JUST 4 RAMBLING IS HAVING A GIVEAWAY!!!

My new friend over at Just 4 Rambling is having a fabric giveaway if anyone is interested. She has alot of fabric left over from her shop closing that she is thinking of making into 3", 4' and 5" charm packages that she wants to giveaway to blogging friends. Go on over and take a looksie and be sure to tell her that I sent you. Her blog address is just4rambling.blogspot.com

Starting a New Cat Block of the Seasons Quilt

I am starting a new Cat Block of the Seasons Quilt over at Ellies Quilting site. I have posted a link on my side bar. I have finished the first block which is SUMMER and I am posting it here. She offers it in embroidery or applique and I chose the embroidery. I have also been saving the Under the Seas block of the month, you can find it on my sidebar also and she is doing a special coloring technique using the Derwent Coloring pencils so I thought I would try it on these blocks. Being a lover of all things CAT and LADYBUGS this BOS was definately for me. I am posting my finished first block on here today. There are 4 main blocks each representing a different season and 4 corner squares with embroidery. There will also be patchwork blocks that seperate the 4 main blocks and maybe a center block, I am not sure but Ellie says it will be really cute in the end. Anyway without further ado here is my 1st finished main block. I havent finished the smaller block yet but will post them togather when it is finished.

Early Bird Christmas Crafting

I am also going to join this 4-month group to try to work on some early Christmas Gifts. I have put the button here on the blog. It started June 1st so I am not all that late. Our first project was to decorate a Journal and than to make a christmas list of people I intend to make things for. I have a Compostition book I intend to decorate and have on here by monday nite. I work 12-hr nights for the next 2 days but will work on it on my down time and have it done on monday to post. Judith is helping us to organize things so we can have stuff done by the end of September. If I keep up and make the 3 gifts a month than I will have 12 gifts done by than which is quite an accomplishment for me since I always start way to late.

Take care and hope everyone has a great weekend.

Barbara