squishie!!!!

Came home from work and look what i found! a wonderful present from the lovely Sonja(no blog?) in the netherlands, two red fabrics, one an african print, and one a football print. plus some lovely dutch fabric, which i need to use for something special. its so pretty. and the cute little clog on a keychain. so happy... i love swaps. this was for the imagingermonkey fatquarter swap. stay tuned for pics of what i will send her.

quilters shorthand

i found these today, on this blog, this seriously made laugh, and wonder where on earth some of these came from.
umm, seriously, SEX, is apparently something i do whenever i have the money for it. hehe. read on, and get your mind out of the gutter

BOM Block Of the Month
DSM Domestic Sewing Machine as in home sewing machine, not longarm
EQ Electric Quilt, marvelous software (also seen as EQ5 or EQ6)
FART Fabric Acquisition Road Trip
FLIMSY Finished top, not quilted
LA LongArmer, professional machine quilter
LQS Local Quilt Shop
PIG Project In a Grocery Sack
SABLE Stash Accumulation Beyond Life Expectancy
SEX Stash Enhancing eXperience
STASH Special Treasure, All Secretly Hidden
TGIF Thank Goodness It’s Finished
UFO UnFinished Object
WHIMM Work Hidden In My Mind
WIP Work In Progress
WOMBAT Waste Of Material, Batting, And Time
HST Half-Square Triangle
QST Quarter Square Triangle
DWR Double Wedding Ring (quilt pattern)
GFG--Grandmother's Flower Garden
MAM Mile-A-Minute, modern version of crazy quilt block
SBS--Sunbonnet Sue

i have pictures to show you all soon, progress on the wedding quilt and my newly organised stash, i just cant post pics at work, and im always at work. but i will have pics by friday at the latest, blogs are always better with pictures

Lately I've...

• been reading a lot, The constant princess, the Boleyn inheritance, the hiding place, and I've decided to share what i read, cause id like to have a record for myself.
• bought some new fabric. but that should be it for a while. its washed but not all ironed.
• organised my stash, refolding and reorganising, also taking inventory of how many yards i have, I'm not finished counting, but its getting close to 150 yards, so i need to stop. i spend all my food money on fabric and make something to eat at home. which is fine, but i have plenty of fabric for now.
• realised i need to fix my husbands clothes before he decides to buy more, 3 of his 4 pairs of jeans are waiting to be fixed, it'd take 10 mins to do all of them. but its just not fun. (not when i have fabric to play with)
• started breaking down scraps into scraps, strings, and 2.5 inch strips and 3 inch strips. not as crazy nicely organised as bonnie from quiltville, but what i can do with the space i have. basically anything smaller than a fat quarter gets cut into use able pieces, and organised in a drawer with its friends, and when i want to scrap something i pull from the appropriate drawer. it seemed like it would work and so far it is. much better than having a pile of too.big.to.scrap.too.small.to.use.and.what.do.i.do.with.it fabric.
• cleaned off the couch in my sewing room. yep, there was a couch in there, you just couldn't see it for all the junk. good thing i did this cause now my chair has all my un-ironed fabric on it, so i can sit on the couch
• found the perfect fabric for the apron for the winner of the giveaway, possible sneak peak coming soon

Winner!!!

and the winner of my whirl into winter giveaway(and 50th post give away cause those were the same thing) is Ly + Alan.
Congratulations!
email me and let me know what your address is, and i will have some questions for you about colors and stuff.

something fun

While following a rabbit trail through blog land, came across this lovely blog.
Blogspot Templates. they have tons of cute and different templates for your blogspot blog. i will probably play around with that when i get home from work. from what i can tell, this might be free, but i don't have access to photobucket at work so i haven't actually tried. but its cute and worth checking. i'll let you all know how it goes later tonight, or maybe you'll just see my fantastic new blog.

I'm participating-Whirl into Winter give away

winner is here

You've seen my previous post, Debi is hosting a major give away, and has let me join in the fun, although i'm a bit late. I will be giving away a reversible half apron, kinda similar to the one in the picture, but i haven't made it yet, so the winner will get to choose their colors. i will also be giving away a stack of wintery fat quaters, a couple quilting magazines, and some other secret stuff as we go along.

the rules:
you do not need to have a blog to enter, but i must have your email address in the comment or i can't contact you and you won't be eligible to win.
You can get 1 entry for commenting, 2 entries for posting a link to my blog on your blog, 3 entries for being or becoming a follower of my blog, for a total of six entries. Be sure to let me know if you link to my blog, so i can go check and make sure you get all your entries.
I will announce the winner on Jan16, you have until 11:59 pm on jan 15 to enter. Only comments left on this post will count towards this giveaway.

Good luck,

edit: please don't follow anonymously, if i can't tell who you are you won't get the extra entry, and anyone who is a current follower is already entered just by being a follower.

Whirl into winter give away

Have you heard of this give away yet? It's going on from now until january 15, on about 60 blogs. its being hosted by Debi at Whirlintowinter, where the links to all of the blogs are.
i have entered a few already, and will update this posts with more links when i can earn more entries.
go check out keepsakemoments and zananinis, and all the rest of these fun give aways
also craftyjanie,
alittleofthisandalittleofpat
hillscreekquilter