Happy Halloween Giveaway!

Brenda, of Pumpkin Patch Primitives Quilt Shoppe, is having a spooktacular giveaway, click here to enter. You can wind a bundle of 27 fat quarters of Whimsicals line, Pumpkin and Spice. Way cool, so generous.

I am getting excited to leave on Wednesday for Omaha, the boys now have a Nanny at home instead of going to daycare. They started daycare at the end of July to insure their spot with a certain caregiver. School starts mid August in Omaha. Well since they started they have not had one week without a sick child. They were to the point where my son was needing to take family leave time, they started inquiring and found a Nanny! They had looked into this first and it didn't work out. They are so happy, and I am very relieved for them. Now the boys stay at home and their Nanny comes to their home.

This means the boys will not be a daycare when I am there visiting. :)) I am very thankful for their new arrangement. I am praying that this flu season passes them by.

Its Monday and I have lots to do before leaving, this weekend I prepped all my wool BOM and have lots to keep myself busy during my flights and layovers. There is a funny clip going around on facebook from Conan nights show. So like the saying goes " I will be flying in my seat in the sky" it is amazing traveling by air in just a few hours to your destination.

Fall Blessings, Carrie

Jaxon’s New Glasses, a Giveaway

Krista shared a picture this weekend of Jaxon and his new glasses. Our little pumpkin is far-sighted with astigmatism. Just like alot of his family.

Wow, I was so amazed that they could detect this in an eye exam without him reading the chart . I just didn’t know, did you?

I think he is so cute in his glasses, ;)) he wears his little helmet for a few more days. He will get to pass it along after his doctor appointment at the end of the month. Preemies heads can get flat on the back so they have them wear these little helmets. It has kind of been his signature look for some time. Now it will be the glasses!!

Joe says he looks just like his mom with his new glasses, I thought he reminded me of myself, I got glasses in the first grade, on the way home I remember saying, “ Oh, I can see all the individual leaves on the trees!”

Jaxon loves to watch Sesame Street, lol…….can you believe it. They have a couple episodes taped for the boys to watch. He is the one who really is attracted to the show!!! That is what he was doing when I saw him for the first time last month. I just sat right down and watched it with him, he gave me the cutest smile!!!

Farmhouse Countrystyle is having a Harvest giveaway, give her a visit if you would like to win her little sign.

We had a fun time at clients party yesterday, they have a landscaping business and live on a small farm. They grow some trees and have some greenhouses. But they also have a 9 hole golf course, which goes around their Aspen Orchard. It is a par 18 course and there were 13 foursomes that competed. It was such a fun family time. Lots of kids playing in the water, sandbox and trampoline. And the cutest little puppy!!! I am glad I went, I really wanted to sew all day, but it was good to get out and meet some new people and old friends.

I didn’t get to the local guilds quilt show :(, you just can’t do it all sometimes. So you can go here for some show and tell. Anne went and I am going to go over and enjoy her pictures. Love her new quilt, too!

OK today I am going to sew all day, lol…….we’ll just see, but that's the plan.

Summer blessings,

Carrie

Pumpkin Patch Giveaway!! Guess who is going to be 1?

Go take a peak at Pumpkin Patch Primitives and leave her a comment, she is giving away a kit for this quilt. Tell her you heard it from me and guess what, I get another entry. LOL..... always a motive!!!

Did you guess who is going to be ONE on Tuesday!!! O boy, O boy! Hayden, Ethan and Jaxon.

And if you look closely you can see there little teeth.

Grampa Lee celebrated his birthday with the boys!!! They had a blast and they even helped unwrap the presents. I think they are going to be waist deep in wrapping paper for their party.

We fly on Wednesday to go visit. Do you think we are excited. I just can not wait to sit down and play with these guys.

My suitcase is going to be full of fun stuff, so while I am in Omaha I plan on visiting a quilt shop or two and will have room for a couple things if I find something. Yeah, like a quilter can't find anything, maybe a prim shop too.

If you love wool then you want to go here and just drool over these shops. I'd say this is prim and wool capital of the USA.

Prim Blessings,

Carrie

Just Another Hang-Up!

Suzanne at Just Another Hang-up is having a darling giveaway. Hop on over and sign up for a perfect summer bag.

Oh!! She is a stickler for rules make sure you follow directions.

Carrie

IT'S HERE.....

Oh Yes....Lovely Spring Weather......has blessed Central Oregon. I celebrated by working in my garden, flower beds, took a two hour walk along the Deschutes River with a girlfriend. Finished the day with a BBQ dinner. It was so wonderful.

So wonderful until my sore muscles tried to get out of bed this morning. Ouch! I am going to be doing some stretching and lighter celebration in the yard work today.

It does feel like a celebration though, I hope Spring is blessing you with some warm weather too.

After dinner, I printed up your comments and put them in a basket for my DH to draw.

The winner of the little spring 30's fabric pack is Quilt Hollow! So please email me your mailing address and I can get these in the mail to you.

Thank you for all your comments, it has been fun.

Today is going to be a nice day so I am going to spend some more time outside. Yeah!!

Spring blessings,

Carrie

Tea Towel Embroidery, Sweet Spring Giveaway

Yesterday I spent some time going through my embroidery patterns, magazines and the web looking for ideas for my colorful tea towels. It was very fun and I think I found enough ideas to do more than three.
First I pulled out my Folk Art Friendship book, it is full of many varied projects. I want a vine to do along the bottom and something not to busy above it.

I found vines that I could repeat across, like some of these.

I like the dangling hearts on this one. And repeat the vine below it.Or Anne of Bunnyhill Designs has her A Tiskit, A Tasket BOM embroidery pattern.

I thought I had more Crabapple Hill patterns than I found so I went to Meg's website. I love this one. It is from her free downloads. It may be busier than I was looking for but it is perfect for my towels and just what I had in mind. May is Mother's Day and my birthday month. So I will do this on the turquoise towel.. using some brighter threads...... on top of the third vine, there are just X's, she has detailed instructions on some daisies free to download. So if you like this design go to the link highlighted above. You can see her new designs and she has a cute club you can join.

I shared previously about the Australian Homespun magazine. The have a lot of embroidery and here are three that I liked. A sweet house mini quilt, it would make a cute design, the trees are so cute, with Blessings and a heart.

This is to cute, maybe not for my towels, but it is part of their new mystery BOM, to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation. I would love to be doing this along with them, I am hesitant to start anything new. But these are really tempting me, it is block two of Breast of Friends, designed by artist Bronwyn Hayes of Red Brolly. This BOM will be revealed over the next nine months and there is a sneak peek of all the blocks in this issue. Are you as tempted as I am?

The link to Homespun for Breast of Friends: http://www.completecraft.com.au.

Well continuing in the same magazine is a project by Christine Book. I have a wonderful book by her, this basket of flowers is definitely jumping off the page for me. Very folky and just the perfect size. I love the tongues too, or the border pattern I could do as well.
Yes, I like this one very much as well. But maybe on some osnaburg, or some linen.

Well its always fun searching through patterns to find the design. It's part of the process of quilting that I love. Searching through fabrics is another. I have been going through my fabrics and doing some organizing a clearing out. I came along some 30's prints, I do not have alot of these but I have had some for a very long time. So I cut the 1/2 yards pieces in half and made fat quarters. While looking through my AP&Q June issue I came across this quilt.It really appealed to my desire for spring to get here fast. And I remembered those fat quarters. I made a couple stacks and I want to give one away. There are 16 pieces in the bundle. So leave me a message on this post and Sunday evening I will draw for a winner. That will give me time to add a couple things to juice it up abit.

I think these fabrics would work in this quilt, maybe you have your own idea. Its up to you, so pass it along to your friends, sharing is a good thing.

Thanks for stopping by and my very best spring wishes to all of you.

Carrie

Simply Springs Poetic

I come to you with a report just in from this clever blogger. http://simplythisthatandtheother.blogspot.com/

Sharpen you poetic skills and you can win this:

There are simply so many useful tips on this blog, you simply must visit today.

Carrie