Summer is over.

Okay so during the late spring/early summer I don't do a lot of quilting or any other crafts to be exact but I am slowly getting back to it, so when I have some new interesting projects that I've completed I will post them.

Hope you all had a good summer.

so much to do... so little time

Seriously I have no time. I did however fill out a billion blog giveaways (well if felt like that many). Good luck to everyone who entered.

Let's start out with some music:



So I've been working on a baby quilt. It's called Hooterville (yes weird name for a baby quilt but anyways.) Here are the owls for the quilt:















There will be 16 owls in all, 4 trees, and some triangles. When I get more done. I will post more. Which owl is your favorate?

Steph

Paper Piecing

I love paper piecing. I just learned how to do it from some friends of mine, after searching for a shop that does a class in it for a year, and coming up empty. So now that I know how to do it, I see it being taught in a couple different shops.... figures....

anyways here are pictures of what I am doing.





Paper piece christmas trees. I generally don't like to do christmas crafts, but these are so easy and fast. I am going to make two table toppers, one for me and one for my mom for christmas.




Also I made a cupcake pot holder. I didn't like the pattern this came from though, I should have made the muffin top a little bigger so that when i was turning it there would be a little extra room.

That's all for today.
Have a good day!

Music... We Need some Music!!!!!

Seriously this is the third time I've tried to post this.

I don't have any new projects to share today but I would like to share some music.

So grab a cup of tea and listen.

Patchabilities

I am loving these patchabilities patterns. You can check out the website for them at:

http://www.patchabilities.com/

I have done several of them, and have several more to finish. Here are the ones I've done.


Tulips


Chocolate Bunny


Candy Hearts


Flower Pots


Canada Day

They have tons of different patterns and they are super simple for you lazy quilters out there like me. I've found that I love applique and now I am trying to find a class in classic turn over applique in my area to take. It's surprising to me that most of the quilt shops in the are teach this method where you use steam-a-seam and a blanket stitch but nobody seems to teach the classic way of doing it.

Also sorry for the huge amount of time between this and my last post.

More Greece

I thought I would add more photos of Greece today. I will be heading back to Canada soon.



This is the old port in Fira, Santorini



Fira in Santorini



This is the boat we went to Santorini on. Don't sit up top when there is a lot of waves... bad idea!



A picture of the parthenon.

That's all for today. I'll add more in a few days.

Food in Greece

Today's blogpost is all pictures of foods in Greece.

Win 21 fat quarters!

For a chance to win 21 fat quarters from the collection flower sugar 2 head on over to:


http://mariemadelinestudio.typepad.com/mariemadeline_studio/2010/07/a-giveaway-for-a-whole-flower-sugar-fat-quarter-bundle.html

Trip to Santorini

Hello Everyone!
I hope you are all enjoying your summer. Mine has been an adventure definantly. I don't have time to write a lot but thought I'd present you all with pictures of the donkey sculptures of Santorini. If you ever get the chance to go to Santorini, it is amazing. Now onto the donkeys.


The first two donkeys were on the black beach. This is the Domed Church Donkey.

This is the chess donkey.

This is the splotchy donkey. Sorry that the picture isn't great.

This is the world donkey.

This is me with Donkeysaurus.

Here are some real donkeys.

Enjoy
Steph

Going on Vacation.

First off this might be my last post for a couple of months, but I will try to update, and put on pictures of Greece as I go if I am able to find an internet cafe, and if I have time. I hope I have time because then you can all come on vacation with me, atleast through pictures.

Now let's start with the song that's been going through my head all day.


Sway. This is a fairly old song, according to wikipedia it was originally from 1953. I am feeling in the mood for a little mambo music... too bad I am no good at dancing.

So I'd like to take this opportunity to show you my new hair cut and highlights for Greece. What do you all think?



It's not a very good picture of it but the highlights are bronze coloured.

Altleast it's cooler then my old hairstyle.

I also wanted to mention that I won a few things during the sew mama sew event in mid-may.



Now the pincushion is wonderful and I think it'll be more of a decoration then something to stick pins in for me. It's from Cindy at http://www.aroundtheblockdesigns.blogspot.com/

The Scissor Bling is wonderful and from Susan at http://quixoticcrafter.blogspot.com/



This wonderful set of 2 embroidery threads, 2 beautiful fabrics, a bright and colorful pincushion and the book pretty little potholders is from Martina at
http://sunshinequilting.blogspot.com/

I can't wait to make potholders but it will have to wait until I get back from Greece. I wonder if I'll find any interesting fabric there.

I hope you all have a wonderful summer if I don't get to blogging until I am back.

Stephanie

Two Lane Blacktop and updates

Hello and welcome to Wednesday. Only 6 more days till I am off to Greece. YAY!

First off Music:



I felt like something a little harder today. So this is Rob Zombie - Two Lane Blacktop. As well as music, Rob Zombie is one of my favorate directors. If you like creepy horror movies, like I do, then check out House of 1000 corpses and The Devil's Rejects. If you don't like horror movies, then these will definantly not be good movies to watch.

As some of you know I have been working on a quilt for my mother for Christmas. I know Christmas is a long way off but I am going away for 2 months and am not bringing my sewing machine. So today I finished the middle part of the quilt.




Now I just have to add on the border color - darker purple batik and then applique on the flowers, then quilt and bind. I've realized that I don't like working with batiks so much. You need to iron them constantly and they aren't soft or silky like some other cottons. The only thing I really like about them is the colors and patterns. I am not crazy about the purple border color but my mom picked it out. This might end up being my ugly quilt.

My flowers are blooming. I love lilies, but if you have pets, keep them away from the lilies because lilies are poisonous to animals.








I just know they will be in full bloom while I am away. Isn't that great. Spend all the time planting them, only to miss seeing them bloom. Oh well, hopefully the neighbours enjoy them.

Steph

Hello and Welcome to Saturday!

If you live in Windsor/Essex check out the Art in the Park or the Redbull Air Races.

Now for some music:



This is a band called Komeda from Sweden.

I have been working on my mother's quilt but I have no new pictures so here are some other things I've done in the past year.


This is a Dolphin Hotpad that I made out of scraps.

Also I've been working on Patchabilities:
http://www.patchabilities.com/





I am going to go check out Art in the Park and the Air Races with some friends. My lilies are starting to bloom in the garden and I am going to take some pictures later today and I'll post them next time.

Greece is only 9 more days away... whoo hoo... oh and a 13 hour flight. Bah... I haven't been on a plane since I was 5. A friend of mine says take-off and landing is like a roller coaster.... that didn't help my anxiety about it any.

Have a good day!
Steph

Win a Go Cutter!!!

Bejeweled Quilts by Barb is giving away a Go Cutter! I've never tried one but it looks like loads of fun.

If you go and enter to win, post my blog name and I'll get an extra entry. Whoo hoo.....

Here is the link to the giveaway:
http://bejeweledquilts.blogspot.com/2010/05/accuquilt-go-giveaway-time-is-nowthe.html

Here is the link to the accuquilt go cutter website incase you aren't sure what it is:

http://www.accuquilt.com/homepage.asp?

This nifty new toy could be yours, although I hope it ends up being mine!

Good Luck!!!!
Steph

First the music.

Today The Cardigans - My favorate game




I am pretty sure most people have heard this song, but I like the video and the song so this is today's song. Maybe if you are like me you want to dance around the living room to it while your dog stares at you with his goofy eyes. I wonder what he's thinking to himself?

So I am going to Greece. Yippee! I've decided to give the two ladies I will be staying with the snap bag/coaster combo plus a little tissue pack because these things are super easy to find space in my luggage for.

Tissue Pack:



They match. YAY! These are super easy. The pattern was in one of the Quilts and more magazines but I am sure you could find it online.

I am also making a charm square quilt for my mother. I made my father a quilt last year that looks like this:



He loves Canada. So do I, but he's obsessed with canadian things so I made him this quilt, which is technically my first quilt that I've finished.

So my mom wanted mauve as a background color... seriously mauve... thanks mom. This is a super hard color to find in a batik so I found one. I don't like it but mom does so.... we will see how this turns out:








This last one is going to be the outside border, to give it a little interest. I hope it turns out okay. More pictures will come the more I get done.

Back to cleaning and organizing the bedroom.
Happy Wednesday.
Steph

Mini Quilt is Coming Along.

Happy Sunday!

First off let's do some music:




Okay this is kinda silly but appropriate because I might be going on vacation soon. So I probably won't be posting blog posts during that time but we will see.

First off here is a picture of what those little 30's printed pieces I had cut out last week are starting to become:


I've got bear paw fever! I wonder if that is like cat scratch fever? It isn't finished yet and I'll update pics when I have finished.

I NEED OPINIONS:

I need to bring a gift for my hosts on vacation, something small but nice.

Note that my hosts are 82 year old ladies.

Here are the options. First I have two snap bags with matching coasters.





Or I could make some potholders/table covers out of this piece of UFO I found in my stash:





and the other could have these two placemats:



Well there you have that. Let me know what you thinks, and I'll tell you what I've decided closer to when I leave.