This week is simple, by Wednesday I want to be finished with my goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes for April. I still need to bind, my partner hasn’t gotten back to me yet so I’m just going to use my best judgment and move forward.
What is on your plate this week?
Last month I won one of the traveling stash boxes. It was fun to win, at the time I didn’t now that there were actually 6 traveling stash boxes, who knew! I went through the box and Anne claimed a couple of sparkly pink fabrics she wanted for the quilt that she is making (yup, at 4 years old she is not only a quilter, but a designer too!!!) and I threw in a few things from my stash:
To be eligible to win:
If you are interested, leave me a comment below. Anne will pick a winner on Monday April 28th.
April has just flown by for me. It feels like it came in like a tornado. I have been pretty productive, a couple finishes and a couple near finishes. My goal is one of those near finishes. I will likely be waiting until the very last minute to finish because I am hoping that my swap partner will comment on a picture on Flickr. No luck yet, but I remain hopeful, if she doesn’t comment soon, I will use my best judgment and move forward!
Since this picture was taken, I have finished the quilting and trimmed it up. All that’s left is to pick a binding and make the label. Where do you stand? Did you finish?
Remember there are only two requirements to be entered into the prizes this month.
1. Link-up the first 7-days of the month
and
2. Link-up {on this post} in the last 7-days of the month.
Add your blog post or flickr photo (with appropriate descriptions) to the linky party below.
Please grab a button or link back to Shanna and I so other people can join in the fun!
**Please note, the linky party is the same here and over at Shanna, so there is no need to enter twice **
Here’s what we have for April prizes:
3. $15.00 Gift Certificate to Fat Quarter Shop
4, 5. TWO winners each getting to choose one pdf pattern
from Sew BitterSweet Designs ($10 value)
6. PDF Pattern from Persimon Dreams
7. Sew Sweetness – 1 pdf Pattern
8. Thimblepie’s Quilt Supplies – Custom fabric package, 4 yards (worth $20) plus free shipping
9. Green Fairy Quilts – 3 pdf patterns
10. 1 Charm pack or $10.00 gift certificate to
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As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask Shanna or myself!
I was gone last week, sorry about that. Did you miss me?
Last night I was on Instagram, as I often am, and I saw that people were posting pictures of their Olfa cutters to celebrate Olfa’s 35th Anniversary. I went ahead and posted a picture. Then I began to think about just how many cutters I have that aren’t Olfa. I took a picture of my entire collection today and it is entirely possible that I have a bit of a Rotary Cutter Problem. I need to go to RCP Anonymous!
I am hoping I’m not the only one with this problem! Caption it!
Last Monday I told Anne that we were going to go on a long car ride and pick something up the next day. On Tuesday afternoon I got her into the car, brought our tablet along with us for entertainment purposes and headed out for a 50 mile trek in rush hour traffic to pick up her “package”. We got to the airport with about 15 minutes to spare before the “package’s” plane landed. Anne saw the luggage carousels and assumed immediately her package was a bag of some sort, imagine her surprise when she saw my mom.
Nevermind…you don’t have to imagine it! I will just show you the look on her face!
Her surprise was her Nana! Best look of joy ever! We spent the week running wild! We went to the Seattle Pacific Science Center, we went out for her very first grown up tea, and we drove out to Bremerton to visit family. On Easter Sunday, she got all dolled up in the dress I made her and we had a wonderful dinner at home with my cousins and mom visiting. It was absolutely lovely!
The dress turned out so different than I intended. I bought the wrong sized pattern (3 sizes too big) so I had to change the bodice sizing. Then I decided I didn’t like the collar so I removed that from the pattern all together. I also decided I didn’t like the skirt or the way that was assembled and I changed that too. I guess you could say I have finally become comfortable enough with clothes to do my own thing! WOOHOO!
Here is a shot of Anne with the Easter Bunny. She LOVES the Easter bunny and so do I because I get a nice picture of her once a year without her screaming bloody murder like she does with Santa!
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!!!
