Christmas Show

You can always tell when Christmas is right around the corner... as Darlene at SewCalgal hosts her annual Christmas Quilt Show. If you are a quilter you can enter your Holiday Quilt, If you don't have a quilt ready, you can still enjoy the show and see what all these talented quilter's have entered.  I try never to miss entering one of SewCalgal's show, as I am kind of new to quilting and most of the quilts I make are for my Charity Group, they go to nursing homes, ill children and a abuse center.  Now while these people love the quilts I make, I am not one of the extremely talented quilter's who enter the Big Quilt Shows, I will never be that talented to have my quilts in one of those shows. So by entering my quilts in SewCalgal's shows, I feel like I am one of those special quilters.

This year I almost missed my entry in the Christmas Show as I have 18 quilts in the process for my charity group.. You see I not only quilt the tops I make, but there is a lady in WA State that makes tops and sends to me to quilt and our Children's quilt maker had a medical problem and she wasn't able to finish the quilts she started so I had her send those quilts to me as well.  All these things meant more time being spent on the charity group, less time for other quilts..

Then one day while checking out SewCalgal's site I realized that the Christmas show was fast approaching, and I had to get something made to enter as this is my chance to show my work. I had planned a Christmas quilt but there wasn't enough time to make the planned one, so into the sewing room I went. I opened the dressers and pull some holiday fabrics, grabbed my Accuquilt GO cutter and dies and I did a design as you go type quilted wall hanging. When that one was finished I found a Christmas panel in my Christmas fabrics and quilted it for my Mother In Law as well as another Christmas table runner like I made her last year. 

So without further ado  here is my entry in this year's SewCalgal's Christmas Show, I hope you like them...

Don't forget to visit all the other quilts that are entered in the show.

http://sewcalgal.blogspot.com/2011/11/2011-christmas-quilt-show-welcome.html

My Christmas Tree made with Accuquilt Feathers Die and Star Die

hand cut applique banner is embroidered using Brother machine and Brother Alphabet card

background is done with tight meandering quilting on Bailey's 15" quilting machine

My Christmas Panel,  free motion quilting using invisible thread

A holiday table runner made for MIL, Quilted using Janome Embroidery Machine Quilt Designs,

Well, that's my Christmas Quilt Entries in this years show, hope you enjoyed visiting my Blog  # 19 on the list

Watch this site in the next few weeks for all the charity quilts to be posted.

For those of you wondering, YES my Christmas tree is up, it went up Thanksgiving day.  Most of the grand kids were here and they decorated it for me, of course the Moms had to do some rearranging as we had clusters or ornaments in places.

Happy Holidays.

Another Dolly Mama is Done

Finished yet another Lovely Dolly Mama...  of course I just had to stitch the Quilting Dolly Mama.... Now on to Counted Cross Stitch Mama... oh and if you are wondering just where I got the Quilting, Counted Cross Stitch and Crafting Queen Dolly Mama that I am now working on... would you believe MY HUBBY bought them for me... He always comments how ugly my Dolly Mama's are and yet he bought me these on his own...

Make sure to stop back tomorrow to see my entries in this years Christmas Quilt Show... I did manage to take a few moments away from my charity quilt work to get my entries made.... They  are not quite what I had planned on entering, but time got away from me and I had to come up with something in a hurry..

Christmas Show is coming

Darlene over at SewCalGal blogsite is getting into the holiday spirit. She is making her list and checking it twice to make sure things are ready for the Christmas Quilt Show.   If you look on the right side of this blog you will see the show's tag, between November 28th and December 2nd, just click on the tag for a magical ride to a wonderland of quilts.  If you just want to take a look see, well you have to wait till  November 28th for the show to open.  So get busy ladies if you have a Quilt ready take your pictures, if you are thinking about entering the show, well then you just need to get the sewing machine humming and get that quilt finished.  I can't wait to see what you all enter... See ya at the show.

one more charity quilt

I finished the Farm quilt top for the nursing home this week, the WOCS members did a excellent job on the cross stitching. This design is not what I had planned on making, but sometimes things just don't go the way you want them to. So I walked away for the night and the next day I made this one, which to me was a plain border, so out came the embroidery machine and I did a Machine applique pumpkin and two embroidered chicks.  I have one more top to finish for the nursing home and that's the butterfly quilt top. I sent the cat pillows to the nursing home this week that Dona and Pam from WOCS had stitched, my part was to stuff the pillows, add their bows and send them on their way.  The pillows were a really big hit at the center and the group has offered to make more.

Last night I started on the frog and dragonfly quilt for my niece's baby... She is due in January so I have some time to get it done.. Her Brother will also be welcoming a new member to his home, they are expecting a little boy in February.  Looks like my husband's brother will have his hands full next year with the new grand children to spoil.  Oh yea, spoiling is what a grand parent is supposed to do and I think we all do it so well.

Another Dolly Mama finish

I finally finished the High Maintenace Dolly Mama..  I did have a excuse as I have been trying to get caught up on the quilts.. I started Quilting Dolly Mama last night...
Today, I am making Apple Butter with a old Amish Recipe... Lot of work, but oh so worth it... gotta go and stir the apple butter..

two more finishes

Here are yet another two tops finished and the ones that didn't make this blog last week.. I have one more to work on tonight which is the Farm Quilt .. and as soon as the last three butterflies come in I can sew that top... Hope to be able to start the quilting next week... that is after I work up 40 lbs of apples that I got last weekend...  Apple Pies, Apple Dumplings, Apple Sauce and Apple Butter are what's planned

                                                                          Tea Pot Quilt

  Long Legged Holiday Bird Quilt

                                                          Hand Embroidered Quilt W/Applique

                                                                         Garden Quilt #1

                                                                     Super Sports III Quilt

                                                                         Under the Sea Quilt

                                                                      Birds of Prey Quilt

                                                              
                                                               Holly Sampler

My mistake

I made a mistake, I wrote a cute post to catch you all up on why I haven't been here in so long, other then the giveaway that is..  BUT I put it on the Nanbon's Corner Blog, so you can stop there to read and see what I have been up to... I am just to tired to up load everthing tonight..

Follow the link to see the beautiful quilt tops.
http://nanbonscorner.blogspot.com/2011/10/puppies.html