A Sweet Valentine Giveaway

Lynn at Happiness is Cross Stitching is having a Valentine's Giveaway. I just had to enter- all of the items are so adorable. She also does a lot of very beautiful stitching. Hope I win!!

Crafty/Sewing Weekend!

This weekend has been a good weekend for crafting and sewing. Last night my little sister came over and we had a good time sewing and cutting out fabric for projects. I did finish sewing a baby quilt- I can't post until after next weekend's baby shower, but I really liked the way it turned out.

Today I decided to work on some pillows that I had half completed. The picture below shows the two pillows I completed (the ones on the outside, the one in the middle I made several years ago). I don't think I am completely done yet because they don't quite match up.


This pillow was one that I had done a while ago- I quilted it using my machine and a stippling stencil. (Took this picture before I washed the stencil off!) I didn't think that I liked it as much- but then when I finished the second one without the quilting I think this one looks much nicer and it looked a lot better when it came out of the washer. Don't know what to do now.


I finished this one today- did the piecing on the front as well as finished the back. I like the way it turned out, but I am not sure if I want to quilt it to match the other. We'll see what my husband thinks when he gets home.


I also worked on some scrapbooking tonight and making a Valentines card for my sweetie. Lots of plans for crafting tomorrow too!

Happy stitching/crafting/quilting!

Sweet Jewelry Giveaway!

While surfing through my blog roll today I found a link to a giveaway for a beautiful Robin's nest necklace- very cute- you can sign up for it here. I enjoy seeing all of the creative things that people do, very inspirational.

This weekend I plan to do a lot of crafting- mainly sewing and scrapbooking. Just can't wait!

Happy Stitching everyone!

A Project Five Years in the Making!! It's DONE

Well it has been 5+ years in the making but I finished my Calendar Project yesterday! I remember when I made the first one- June- I thought, "Oh I will make one of these each month and then in a year I will have a nice calendar to hang in my office." Well, life happened like it always does and the project got set aside- but that doesn't matter now because it is finished!!
I laid them all out at work today and I realized I really like them all- I think January and October are my favorites though. These patterns were all freebies from Erica Michael's, she also has some other sets that are free too. You can find the patterns here. And helping me finish this project was....

My New Sewing Machine!!! Around October last year my old machine bit the dust, I was sewing on a baby quilt and it just quit working. When we took it into the shop we found out it was going to cost a lot more than what the machine was worth to fix it. So last week I went and got an Elna 6200- I love it! It stitches very smoothly and quietly. After reading reviews online I found that it was a good quality machine- hopefully it gets me through many happy years of stitching!

Another Finish- January Calendar

I have had a great weekend. I got to spend a lot of time with my husband, got to catch up with old friends, make some new friends and even finish a cross stitch project. This is the January calendar from Erica Michaels. This is my last project from this calendar. Once I get the Dec. and Jan. sewed and stuffed I want to take a picture of them all together. I have picked out the fabrics for the backs, just don't have the energy to get them done tonight!

Well, back to work tomorrow but hopefully I will get some crafting in on the evenings this week. Happy stitching/quilting/crafting to all!