Wednesday 13 March 2013

Nancy Drew , a Clue and a GIVEAWAY too!

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Thank you for another hopping good time
Madame Samm  and Carol!
You're 2 gals that know how to have fun!
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(forgive the glare)
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Welcome, to what a great many of us would call a step back in time.
A time when we read the adventures of this plucky teen and her friends.
Nancy Drew. 
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This young lady has been the talk of the town these last few days 
and has also been the inspiration behind a wide variety of hidden mysteries.
This is my offering for Madame Samm's hop,
a pleasingly, plump pillow with a hexie front 
 (my first completed hexie project),
all hand quilted
(another first for me, what do you think Susan?)
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That magnifying glass is something my parents had when I was a kid,
leather bound handle, brass fittings and a built in light.
I finished this pillow off with a zipper back
(another first, in a pillow)
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 How cute is this top hat and monocle?
It's the original box the magnifier came in ;)
Keep reading....
because there's a giveaway,
 since you stuck around through my babbling!
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Tell me your what your favourite kind of book would be
AND 
you must be a follower.
One comment please.
I'll leave this open until Tuesday, March 19th.
My giveaway...

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 will be this drawstring pouch but in a different fabric.
A great little pouch for your jewels or your sewing supplies!
Someone had suggested that my pouch would be great for their hexie projects!
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See what these other sleuths are up to today ;)
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Finally, another HUGE THANK YOU to Madame Samm
and our PHENOMENAL cheerleader,
CAROL!
What a team you make ladies.
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73 comments:

  1. Great job on your Nancy Drew hexie pillow! My favorite books are mysteries. I am a follower. Thank you for sharing.

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  2. Oh ... My ... GMTA!!! I love your pillow ... !
    This is too funny ... :-) Pat

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  3. great project. Love hexies!

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  4. I follow you. I love mysteries. I started with Nancy Drew as a child.

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  5. I think your stitching looks fantastic. The question is - Did you enjoy doing it?

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  6. My favourite, hexagons, what a gorgeous cushion cover.

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  7. I am a follower and love all of your hexies! Your hand quilting is great also.

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  8. I love your hexies!
    These days I read mostly historical fiction and mysteries!
    I'm already a follower!

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  9. I love your hexie pillow. Congratulations on finishing your first hexie project and first pillow zipper. It's such fun when you achieve a first! Guess you know I'm one of those suspects in your GFC photo gallery.

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  10. Gotta make a hexie pillow. So cute!!!! I am a follower already. Thanks

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  11. I so love your bag. I am a follower already. I love the Nicholas sparks books. I lived in North Carolina for twenty years and all his books are written in North Carolina so I can perfectly visualize all the details. Thank s for the chance.

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  12. Love the pillow and especially the way you stitched around each hexie. blessings, marlene

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  13. Great hexie pillow! Your hand stitching is perfect! Thanks for sharing!

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  14. A great hand quilting job--lovely stitches. I prefer to hand quilt, but since I broke a finger this summer, I have been doing mostly machine quilting. Your pillow is so cute. I've never worked with hexies--I need to give it a try!

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  15. I love your hexies pillow..

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  16. Great project...all those hexies! I do follow...and I only read quilt books....imagine that!!! lol

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  17. Your hexie pillow is great! Thanks for sharing.

    Your links to the other bloggers is hardly legible being in light yellow on white background.

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  18. nice projects

    ABreading4fun [at] gmail [dot] com

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  19. I've never made a hexie into anything, so I'm totally in awe of you and that pillow. The zipper on the back totally gives you a star from me. Great job! The box cover is so cool! Thanks for hopping with us and of course I follow you and love it. :O)

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  20. Cute! I love mysteries.

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  21. first attempt at hexies..wellll you made a delightful pillow...so glad you shared another success with us

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  22. Great job at a few firsts , lovely pillow and great quilting too !!

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  23. I have not made hexies yet. Yours are great! The pillow is pretty darn nice too. I like mysteries. Nancy Drew when I was young, Agatha Christie when I got older. I`m a happy follower!

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  24. Love your pillow!

    Love mysteries and history

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  25. It looks like a pretty quilty project full of learning opportunities for you. You met the challenge head on! My favorite book would be mysteries, of course--already a follower. I tend to do them as a series, in order, if possible and depending on availability at the local library.

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  26. I love especially love mysteries and this no doubt stems from reading Nancy Drew as a child!!!

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  27. Love your hexie pillow, it's fantastic!

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  28. What a great pillow! Great job! (And I'm already a follower!)

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  29. I love all books! Quilting, Counted cross, knitting, traveling , reference and mysteries too. Thanks for the chance at winning your lovely bag. Jane

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  30. You Hexie girls are "sew" talented. I'm not really what you call a "reader". I got hooked on the Calder series (about a cattle family)a long time ago, then read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. Nowadays it's just my bible. Love the giveaway. It's very generous !

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  31. Love the bag. It is so cute. i am a follower and I love all types of fiction. Thanks for sharing and for the opportunity on the draw.
    bonnielarson58@gmail.com

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  32. Carolyn you did a wonderful job for your first hexies' I am still working on my first hexies that is doing them not putting them together yet.lol Love the bag I sure could use it for mine...take care and have a wonderful dun filled day. I love anything that is a biography or history....

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  33. I am a follower. Great project. I love hexies. I love to read. Supernatural and historical romances. I lvoe Crristine Feehans Dark Series

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  34. hmm... i like to read a lot of different books... fiction, non-fiction... so can't really think of an ideal type of book
    cute bag!

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  35. Great pillow! I love Hexies myself. I love a great mystery. I read Karen Kingsbury, Earlene Fowler, The Elm Creek Quilts books, James Patterson, so on and so on. LOL

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  36. Nice stitching on he hexie pillow front. I am a paranormal book reader and although it is vampirs, werewolfs and other creatures of the night, there is always a mystery. I am a follower.

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  37. I love your hexie pillow. The hand-quilting is terrific.

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  38. Great pillow. I have never done a hexie or a zippered pillow. I always love a good mystery. I have been a happy follower.

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  39. I'm already a follower. You did a nice job with your fabrics. I love a good mystery book.

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  40. Love those hexies and your hand quilting was very nice. I keep wanting to hand quilt one of my quilts but am too impatient to get it done slowly. One of these days I will try it though. I am a happy follower. My favorite books are mysteries. Maybe started with Nancy Drew!

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  41. Love your hexie pillow. Yet another project for my to do list! lol I read anything that sounds good to me--mystery, romance, science fiction....I am a follower. Thanks for sharing and for the very nice giveaway. vickise at gmail dot com

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  42. FAbulous Hexi pillow, and I do love your photos!

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  43. I LOVR the pillow. I love hexes and need to make more. Thanks for the giveaway. Of course I am a google friend follower.

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  44. I love Hexies. I just haven't got around to making any myself! Beautiful pillow!

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  45. My fav kind of book is a mystery, I grew up on Nancy Drew, and before that the Bobbsey Twins. I am a follower. I love your pillow, I havent tried hexagons yet.

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  46. I really like Debbie Macomber, Nicholas Sparks, ALL QUILTING<SEWING<CRAFTING etc books magazines Thanks for sharing!!

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  47. Since Nancy Drew I have always loved a good mystery, especially fun ones, like Sue Grafton's, Janet Evanovich's, Michael Connelly's, AND not exactly a mystery but love Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series! TIA! B-)

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  48. Love the pillow. What size hexies did you cut? And thanks for the giveaway. I have one of those wonderful jewelry pouches that is about to fall apart so a new one would be wonderful....thanks for the opportunity. I'm a follower.

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  49. I'm a follower. I love the hexxies! I love the little pouch too. It would be perfect for my sock knitting projects. My favorite books are crafting books and sci-fi fantasy novels. thanks!

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  50. I'm a follower. Love your hexxy pillow. This is a fun blog hop and glad you were part of it. Thanks for the chance to win a gift.

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  51. I'm a follower who wants to congrat you on your 1st for this blog hop. Your pouch is just darling too. My favorite books would be mysteries -especially paranormal mysteries!! Thanks for taking part in this wonderful hop and the chance to win your great gift.

    Sincerely,
    Tricia

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  52. Your projects are so wonderful as always. Thanks for sharing your lovely projects-

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  53. I am of course a follower since long time ago.

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  54. Great Hexies! I'm so impressed with the hand stitching. Wonderful job. Thanks for sharing and the opportunity to win. I am a follower.

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  55. My favorite books are mysteries and suspense. I also love chick lit! Great hexies, thanks for sharing!

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  56. Love the hexies and hand quilting. My favorite books are "feel good" or humor. I am now a follower!

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  57. Great job on your first hexie project and bravo for some hand quilting!!!

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  58. I'm not a follower so don't enter me but I wanted to say how cute your project was! Thanks for sleuthing!

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  59. I follow on GFC and my favorite books are mysteries, but I do read quite a few other books too!

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  60. Love the hexes you did a lovely job on them to.

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  61. I'm not Susan but I think your project with the hexies and hand-stitching is marvelous. Congratulations on so many firsts. That's a really cool mag. glass. How neat is that that it has a light, too!

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  62. Wow!! You did Awesome job on your Hexie Pillow!!! I want to learn to make Hexie's....been such a chicken! lol Love your Bag too!! What a cool sewing bag it'd make for sure!! :)

    I love mysteries best...was an avid Nancy Drew,Trixie Belden, Hardy Boys reader...looooooved em all!!!

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  63. My favorite kind of book has a little romance a little mystery, and a little adventure. One of the best books I've read in a while was called The Art of Racing in the Rain. Great story! Thanks for the chance at the giveaway!

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  64. Awesome pillow. Love that you stepped out of the box and hand quilted it. I have some fabric cut to make my first hexies. Not sure what I'm going to make with them, but I wanted to give it a try.

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  65. Your hexie pillow looks so good with the hand quilting and the zipper! I read all the Nancy Drew books as a kid and I still like mysteries. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  66. The stitching on your hexies is really good! I love it! I like the monocle guy as well, i'm glad you stuck him in the middle! I'm a follower. Thanks for sharing your project!!
    -karrie

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  67. Great job! I love your pillow. My favorite books are mysteries, of course. Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win your cute bag. It would make a great sewing bag.

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  68. Awesome hexie pillow, Carolyn! I think your hand quilting is the perfect finish - brilliantly done.

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  69. I'll read anything I get my hands on. I did read all of the Nancy Drew books as a kid.

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  70. I love your pillow. My favorite books are books by Jennifer Chiaverini. However, right now I am into reading about and practicing mindfulness. The pouch is awesome. I am glad you were able to get through your dry spell!

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  71. The pillow is adorable and functional. I am thrilled to hear of your first hexie finish. And to think you publicly asked me (Susan) what I thought about your finish! You are very generous with your giveaway and I might be inspired to do more with hexies. Thank you for participating and being a great inspiration in creativity and finishing projects.

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