New List February's To ~ Do's

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UPDATE HERE  for January's accomplishments :)

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Why not throw your hat in the ring as well?

Pig Tales and Quilts is hosting this motivational event.

See what you can finish or what continues to elude you!

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My tape measure sucks!

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My BoM for January,

I definitely need to find a better  marker or some tape measure fabric!

My tape measure sucks! It sucks a whole bunch!!

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February will be better, I just know it.

Okay, I'm trying to psych myself up here people.

This might fall in line for a re ~ do.

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Until something better shows up,

HAPPY STITCHING :)

I love it, Cyndi!!

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This treasure is from Cyndi, my Doll Quilt Swap partner for January 2013.

What a gorgeous start to the new year!

Thank you so much Cyndi, I adore it.

AND, AND, AND

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Have you all heard of Amy Ellis of Amy Creative Side ?  

You have, fantastic! You haven't met Amy...yet?

She is hosting a 2013 QAL featuring this wonderful new pattern,

"DANCING STARS"

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How cute is this? 

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Dancing Stars is another scrap eater quilt!

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Amy has included info for a variety of sizes so whatever you want to stitch up from a table runner to a Queen size quilt it's there and lots in between.

How sweet is that of Ms. Ellis!

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If you don't have scraps there's kits available as well,

just click on the link up at the top and you'll be taken to the places you need to go

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If you love paper piecing or want to give it a try, you're going to love this pattern!

Yep, it's a paper piece pattern.

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There's a tutorial available if you've never pp'd before ;)

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Mail Call

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Before Christmas Michele hosted the Christmas Quilt Show 2012.

My name was drawn for a prize and I was the lucky recipient of a $25.00 Gift Certificate 

from Fabric.com

Most of my goodies arrived yesterday ,

(there's fabric that's missing however I'm hoping this gets resolved today),

**(things did get resolved and I have a credit)**

here's what did  show up in my mailbox ~

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Oooo La ~La

MICHAEL MILLER'S

"SPRINGTIME IN PARIS"

I absolutely love these fashions, tre chic, non?

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On the left, Riley Blake, destine for pillowcases and take

a second glance at the pink, do you see them?

Squirrels! garden of delights.

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Nice, 2" pins with heads my fingers can actually grip (yay)

and chocolate thread.

Now if only my brown dot fabric had shown up too, those cases would be finished!

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RSC2013 is in the PINK

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Finally something to show!

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Boy, oh boy, it's been a bit of a haul to get to this point with my

Northwinds blocks.  This pattern may seem easy and probably is, when you don't have 

umpteen dozen  other issues  floating around in my head at the same time.

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 So Scrappy's Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2013 is proving to be just that, challenging, indeed.

But that's a good thing because spending time getting my brain out of neutral,

 and then out of reverse

(there's a reason I don't  get  driving a standard transmission)

and into drive has got my mind off other family matters for a little while.

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I know they don't look like much right now but when I've placed them together

I can see the Northwinds (also known as Corn and Beans)

coming together, and I like it!

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I played around with some other pink pieces and ended up with this block

but I'm not sure whether to keep it for the back of this quilt or make this

and more scrappy, one colour placemats. We'll have to see!

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Sew whatcha doing with your scraps?

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SHhh, In Your Words PiLLowTaLK

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It's time for,

join these fine blogs to see their words

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Stitch.Stitch.Stitch.Stitch

Kwilty Pleasures

Debby Kratovil Quilts

sew.darn.quilt  (you're here)

Mary on Lake Pulaski

Traveling Quilter

Just Let Me Quilt

Vroomans Quilts

Cates Linens

Nini and the Sea

Sew Much 2 Luv

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Thank you to both Madame Samm and Linda for pulling this Hop together in the eleventh hour!

I'm sure it has proved, for a few of us, to be very insightful and even difficult to find the words.

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I tossed  around quite a few words and in the end decided to go with my word for 2013

" RENEW "

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faith,

hope,

direction,

beliefs,

because we don't get to Re ~ Do our life but we can Re ~ New.

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I added my word to the absolutely easiest pillowcase e-v-e-r-, 

courtesy of this video from

Missouri Star Quilt Co.

I've "french seamed" all my pillowcases to give them a high end finish.

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I've Shown You Mine...UPDATE ADDED

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I've shown you mine,

now show me yours! (If you want) ;D

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It's a To - Do List, It's A Linky Party, It's Going To Be Down Right Fun!

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***"UPDATE HERE!"***

Don't laugh too much but, for the second month now I've finished up my DQS,

packaged and labelled it and popped it in the mail,

and forgot to take a picture!

I'm hoping that when it arrives at it's destination (which should be any day now)

I can get a pic (I'm such a Homer (SIMPSON)!

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 January blocks for my Northwinds quilt brought to you by the 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2013 (RSC2013).

These make up some good size blocks, 12 1/2" , so this should come together

fairly quick, I hope all going well!

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Below is another block for the RSC2013 but just for kicks,

I may make this into a pillow.

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This is also some fiddling about that could find life on the back of my Northwinds

or on the table as the start to placemats for my crew.

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As my fingers fly stumble across the keyboard to have this post up,

I'm telling myself that I will get Mill House Inn quilted today come hell or high water!

Or in our case...

come the second "-43C, way to friggin' cold for the school bus to even start" day followed by

a teacher's day tomorrow!

My darlings have a 5 day weekend! 

So without further ado, I'm off to quilt and, all going well, I'll be able to add

this to the finished pile!

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The last thing on my list was to organize a pincushion swap.

I've seen quite a few of these going on, so for now I think I'll shelf this idea for the time being.

I'm not completely sure of how to go about putting a swap together,

any suggestions would be appreciated.

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I guess I didn't do too bad and I did finish some things that were not on my list.

February will be better! :)

Until the 28th of February then,

HAPPY STITCHING!

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Thearica over at Pig Tales and Quilts  

is going to keep the motivated from the get go!

What will you gain?

The accountability to yourself to get those pesky things done and start something new,

maybe challenge yourself to jump in with both feet and try that project you've been tempted to do but have held back. Well now's the time to give it a shot

I'm not quite as adventurous as Thearica with 5 but I think 4 projects is doable for me.

Sew...what about you? Are you up for a personal challenge? This is so much easier

than some of those new years resolutions I've tried and failed at over the years!!

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Are You Keeping an Eye out For IT?

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It's Coming!

It's almost Here!

Don't miss IT!

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HAPPY STITCHING!!