Giveaway!

Don't forget to enter my giveaway!

A lined zipper pouch with 3 fat quarters to make your own.

All you have to do is sign up to follow my blog and leave me a comment telling me that you did.

If you are already a follower, tell me in a comment.

Good luck, the winner is open until Sunday evening.

I will be announcing the winner on Monday morning.

Time for a Giveaway!

Hello friends ♥  It's about time that I have a giveaway!
I love Randi's blog and etsy shop, fresh squeezed fabrics.  She has a 
monthly sew along that I follow.  In March, she had a "bottomed" zipper pouch tutorial and sew along. 
I made one of the zipper pouches and would like to give one to you, along with three coordinating fat quarters so that you can make one of your own!
All you have to do is sign up to become a follower on my blog, and leave me a comment telling me that you did.
If you are already a follower, leave me a comment telling me that you are.
The zipper pouch is really nice, it has a coordinating lining that doesn't show up that well in the photo.  The zipper is pink.

This giveaway will be open until Sunday night, June 24. 
The winner will be announced on Monday. 

Doll Dress class

I taught another Doll Dress class and the students were delightful!  They made the apron dress (in the middle)from "Vanilla House" designs.  This doll dress pattern is easy to construct because the pattern pieces are all rectangles, cut with a rotary cutter.  There is no fussing with inset sleeves, and the back of the dress is fastened with an 8" long piece of sew on velcro.

Mickey brought her grand daughter, Makayla.  

Donna  brought her grand daughter, Kate.

The girls chose their two coordinating fabrics all by themselves.

I love the pleased look on Makayla's face as she shows off the dress she sewed for her doll Julie. 

Kate is really pleased with her dress too, her doll's name is Taylor.

The girls learn how to measure and use a rotary cutter, with strict supervison of course!  They also learn how to use an iron, and how important it is to press for good results.

It is very rewarding teaching young girls how to sew.

Isn't it cute how much each of the girls' dolls looks just like them!

Paper doll blocks

I started taking the Paper Doll quilt class from Lori Holt at Material Girls quilt shop  in the fall of 2009, with my daughter Lindsay.
I was only able to attend two or three classes because we moved to Florida.  I put this quilt on the back burner because it was a memorable and busy year for us....four grand daughters were born within seven months of each other.  I made each of them heirloom blessing gowns with matching bonnets, and flew back to Utah for each of the births.  One of them lived with us, so that was really nice!
I have been working on the blocks here and there.  The blocks are appliqued and hand embroidered.  I just finished one this past week.

Isn't it adorable?  I named the paperdolls after my two oldest girls, Rebecca and Lindsay.  They were born 16 months apart and did everything together, wore matching clothes (thanks Mom!) and even shared the same friends most of the time when they were young.
I only have three blocks to go, so I decided to complete the applique on both of them and I can just take them with me and do embroidery on the go.

This quilt will be so gorgeous when it is finished!  The border has little white pom pom trim, and each outfit the paperdolls wear and each activity they go to, are so detailed.

For instance, look at the jumprope.  It looks like rick rack with handles.

I use two strands of embroidery floss and stitch each rick and each rack, and the jumprope has dimension!

We have two road trips planned in the next month.  I hope to get a lot of embroidery done so I can show you the rest of the blocks and maybe actually finish the quilt!

Raffle quilt squares

Katie is making a quilt to give away in a raffle.  She let all of her teachers at Sew Katie Jane choose two fabrics from a selection of matching civil war reproductions.  
I love my design boards.  I put the cut pieces on the board and simply carry the board to the ironing board and back to the sewing machine. I never get the pieces mixed up this way.

I really like star blocks, this one is called Farmer's Daughter.

This block is called Color Wheel, I thought it was different.

My two finished 10" blocks, just a little of what I have been up to lately.

A New Project

Cotton Way - Peppermint Pizzaz

Christmas is coming, it's almost July!  I will be teaching this class at Sew Katie Jean, it's a square table topper.  Instead of the aqua background, I will be using the "Ruby" red polka dot at the bottom of the pile.  The peppermint sticks are all pieced and cut on the diagonal, but I will simply be using the "Modern Vintage" red and white striped polka dot fabric.  The green and red "Modern Vintage" to the right will be the peppermints, and the rest of the prints in the pile will be the stars.  Since it is a small project, I will machine quilt it myself.  I should have it done by the end of the month.  I'll show you my finished table topper then!

Montreal, Some Art and Some Portuguese

This is the last post of interesting things I saw on my walk with my brother, in Montreal.  This is a garage in the middle of the city, in between some shops. Pretty fancy, pretty artistic!

Interesting....by the way, those bikes are for rent and they have them all over the city along with really nice bike lanes.

Murals are painted on the side of buildings, all over the city.  I like how the street lamp looks like it is part of the man's face :)

Since my son is in Brazil for two years and learning the Portuguese language, I took a lot of photos of interesting food and miscellaneous Portuguese items.

On May 22, Paul and I went to Place des Arts to see a demonstration on Bill 78, an emergency law passed by the government of Quebec to prevent students from demonstrating for lower tuition.  They had a legal demonstration with 400,000 and Paul and I were a block ahead of them on Sherbrooke St.  There were swat police everywhere you looked, inside glass doors of buildings, there would be a line of them, to the left and to the right, at every intersection in vans, on horses, on bikes and motorcycles.  It was pretty exciting!



Well thanks for coming along with me on my walk with my brother through part of the beautiful city of Montreal.