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Sunday, March 2, 2014

Celebrate National Craft Month

with CRAFTSY and Enter to Win a Free Class

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Join the Craftsy community in celebrating National Craft Month!

There are so many ways you can celebrate National Craft Month. Here are some fun ideas:

Enroll in one of Craftsy's fabulous new classes including The Classic Double Wedding Ring, Elevating Oriental Stringwork and more.
Shop Craftsy's selection of over 100 quilting kits and yarn kits.
Celebrate for FREE with one of Craftsy's free mini-classes, from Complete Knife Skills with Brendan McDermott to Painting Flowers in Acrylic with Micah Ganske.
And even delight in free patterns like the Wear Everywhere Dress Sewing Pattern, Crocodile Stitch Baby Blanket Crochet Pattern, Tree of Life Cross Stitch Embroidery Pattern and beyond.

Whatever your creative outlet of choice, take this month to enjoy the beauty of crafting because when you create something with your hands, you always use your heart!

Plus, enter for your chance to win a Craftsy class of your choice for FREE!

To make sure this month is one to remember, Craftsy is giving away a class to three lucky members, who will be selected at random at the end of the month. Whether you’re a painter, quilter, cake decorator, photographer or just a creative person that wants to try something new, winning will enable you to select your perfect class.

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The deadline to enter is March 31st, 2014, at 11:59 pm MST. The winner will be notified via email on April 1st, 2014.

How are you going to celebrate National Craft Month?

Friday, February 14, 2014

Hugs and Kisses Blog Hop - Day 3

Today, Day 3 of the Hugs and Kisses blog hop, is MY Day to show off what I have completed. Yay! Mesdames Samm and Soma worked together to give us three awesome paper piecing patterns and cheering us all on to greater heights of creativity!

I signed up for this hop, and then I went in search of how find out just what foundation paper piecing actually is. I had seen some of Soma`s work before...after all she has created some very awesome Dr. Who paper piecing patterns (which I have saved to try my hand at later). And I had heard of Carol Doak, and it was recommended that I take her Craftsy class to learn how to paper piece. Found a link on her blog to save 25% off the course price (not sure when offer ends!). So how could I resist. Here is my first paper piecing experience...the Bird of Paradise.

I have decided that I really enjoyed the necessary organization required with this technique. I printed off my patterns, taped them together as needed. Decided on a fabric, and wrote the colour on each piecing section...it is so easy to forget! Then I measured each piece (not always successfully lol). Then I organized each piece of fabric as I cut them out...

This O was my first square. Which I quickly followed up with two x`s and a heart. I added 2 and 1/2 inch borders around each pieced square, then sewed them together like so...and then prepared them to quilt.

Seems tonight is not the night for me to quilt...this is my second and final attempt for tonight!

I`m not sure if I should use this as a table runner, or if I should make it into a wall hanging. Any thoughts?

Here is the pretty pink backing...

So that is it for me for tonight. Thanks for visiting and thanks in advance for any and all comments. Each is truly appreciated. Now I`m off to bed to nurse a sore tooth (on antibiotics for infection) Ugh, I really don`t like tooth pain!

And here are the others showing today...

Feb 14th