Quilty Fun Birthday!

In honor of Lori Holt's 1 year anniversary of her "Quilty Fun" book, she baked a cake and you can have a piece!

I baked a strawberry cake with buttercream icing and put it on my jadite cake pedestal.

Then I tied a pretty pink bow around it to remind me of all my pretty little grand daughters.

 Would you like to bake a cake, or more than one cake?

Go to Lori's blog and get the recipe,

Who doesn't love birthday cake, especially one that doesn't have any calories :)

The Bees Knees, a quilting bee - October

This is the block I made for my quilting bee, The Bees Knees, for the month of October.

Shari sent us fabric for the block and the pieces were already cut to the right size.

The quilt she'll be making with these modern maples blocks is really cute.

The pattern is by Amanda Woodward-Jennings, and you can see and print it free here.

Each block is 12 l/2" unfinished, and it would be a fast quilt to make.

AYOS and a little bit more, winner!

I joined "Another Year of Schnibbles" and a little bit more, this year :)

I worked really hard to get my "Whit" pattern finished before the end of the month, you can see it on my blog post here.

You can see half of the parade of the small quilt parade on Sherri's blog, A Quilting Life, where my quilt top is featured.   

The other half of the parade is on Sinta's blog, Pink Pincushion.

Four winners were chosen, two from each of the quilt parades.

Mine was chosen as a winner!!!!

This lovely box came in the mail and it was really heavy!

Carrie, from Miss Rosie's Quilt Co, sent me a fat eighth bundle of "Miss Kate", and a beautiful handwritten note :)

That's not all....

It was literally like Christmas!!!

A cute little mini charm pack of "Pot Luck", and the cutest little "Hello Kitty" Hallowe'en tin of sour orange bone candies.

Isn't the tin adorable?  

I can hardly wait to fill it with pins or something :)

A Clover seam ripper and a Clover curved awl!!!

A fantastic little package of glass pins and a little house tin to hold them.

Aren't these the dearest little things?

I'm beyond excited!

Hold on to your chair....

Carrie also sent me some mint green "Miss Kate" fabric, enough for a quilt back, about 7 yards worth!!!

I'm in heaven :)

I shared it with my husband and he very patiently admired everything.

I wanted to share it with you because I know that you will be as thrilled as I am!

You should think about joining the Schnibbles parade.

"Harvey" is the pattern for the month of October.

"Frozen" dress is finished!

I have been sewing and sewing....

...and finally finished "Elsa's" dress for my grand daughter's birthday.

This is the back view.

I added a little "snow" pearl button as a closure at the back.

I looked all over the mall until I found an affordable broach on clearance!

Here is a closeup of the broach and the colors in this photo are true.

This pattern was easier to sew than I thought.

It's a McCall pattern #7000, and I highly recommend it.

I hope to post a photo of my grand daughter in her dress soon!

Thanks for following along with me :)

Quilty Humor

More "Frozen" Fabric

Disney's movie "Frozen" is out of this world popular right now.

Even the Disney store can't keep the "Frozen" merchandise in stock.

When I saw this pattern at the fabric store, I just had to buy it!

One of my grand daughters will be 4 years old in October and she's crazy about Elsa, one of the sisters in the movie.

The blue satin is by Michael Miller, and I don't know who makes the other two. 

The aqua fabric is sheer and drapes really well, while the white fabric is a little on the stiff side.

I might sew the white over the satin for the bodice, but I'll have to see how it looks.

I'm really excited to make this dress, I'll show it to you soon, when it's finished.

Bees Knees, a quilting bee - September

I was invited to join the Bees Knees, a quilting bee.

The button is on the right of my blog if you want to take a look!

September was Melissa Corry's month from Happy Quilting.

She wants to make a quilt for her grandparents to use in their camper so she sent us "Smore Love" by Cosmo Cricket.

Melissa told the quilting bee that we could make whatever block we want to.

I saw this cute fabric and knew right away that I wanted to make an appliqued owl.

I drew my little owl.

Then I numbered each section in the order I would appliqué the fabric onto the white background.

I traced each numbered section or piece, onto the paper side of freezer paper, and numbered each one.

I traced the owl pattern with the branch and leaves, onto tracing paper.

I cut out all the pieces that I traced onto the freezer paper.

I turned the steam off my iron and pressed the paper pieces wax side down unto the fabric.

I traced each piece with a fine point pencil and cut each one out, leaving a l/4" seam allowance.

I placed each appliqué piece on the white background in the number order, and made sure it was centered, using the tracing paper template.

Here's my little appliqued owl!

I love the woodgrain on the brown and aqua, and the fabric on the foot really looks like claws!

I added a patchwork border around my little owl.

He measures 12 l/2" unfinished.

I can hardly wait to see all the blocks Melissa receives and see how she puts them all together in a quilt :)