Blogathon Canada 2014

 

Let's Celebrate Canadian Quilting Bloggers!

Find new blogs, make new friends and win amazing prizes!

Here's how it works:

 
Each day host bloggers will introduce themselves and their work on their blogs. They will include links to more blogs from their province so you can visit those blogs as well. The host bloggers will also host a giveaway of some of their favorite goodies from the Sew Sisters store so you have a chance to win every day of the week!

Not only can you win prizes from Sew Sisters on the host bloggers blogs, you can also enter giveaways on Sew Sisters blog during Blogathon week!

These prizes are sponsored by our fabulous co-sponsors:

The Hosts:

Monday, November 17	BC	Stacey	Stacey in Stitches
Monday, November 17	BC	Jessica	Momiji Studio
Tuesday, November 18	Maritimes	Linda	Scrapmaster
Tuesday, November 18	Maritimes	Linda	Stitch Lines
Wednesday, November 19	AB	Kelsey	Everyday Fray
Wednesday, November 19	AB	Leanne	She Can Quilt
Thursday, November 20	SK	Heather	Peace.Love.Quilt
Thursday, November 20	MB	Lori	Night Owl Quilting
Friday, November 21	QC	Josée	The Charming Needle
Friday, November 21	Territories	Janet	Caribou Crossing Chronicles
Saturday, November 22	ON	Lorna	Sew Fresh Quilts
Saturday, November 22	ON	Sandy	Upstairs Hobby Room

Join the Party:

 

If you would like for the host blogger from your province or territory to link your blog in her post please write to:  connect@sew-sisters.com and they will add your blog to the list. Please note that you need to be a blogger living in Canada and your blog should have posts about quilting or crafting to be eligible.

 

Grab the Blogathon Canada Button for your blog so you can have a quick link to all the fun!

 

 

See you on Friday, November 21...as linked from The Charming Needle

 

Kona Club March 2014

It's here, it's here! My Kona Club fat quarters for March have arrived, and they are bee-you-tea-full!

These colour choices I am told were inspired by a beautiful tulip flower garden. I will not show you where my tulips are at the moment. The fact that they are still under 3 feet of snow is quite disheartening, BUT...the sun is shining and the snow is melting slowly. Warm days and cold nights means an awesome harvest of maple syrup, and so I can wait patiently for my pretty tulips still sleeping under ground.

In the meantime I will oogle and caress my newly arrived fabric devising how many different ways I can use this. Pretty, pretty, pretty. Thank you Sew Sisters for another great addition to my stash! See you next month!

Monthly clubs also available: 

~Kona Club 1/2 yards
~Bargain Lover
~Batik Lover

A Sew Sisters Giveaway

Wish I could say Sew Sisters was having a giveaway on my blog, but even better than that is getting to meet another Canadian quilter who is having a Sew Sisters giveaway...

Please visit Lynn F from Southern Ontario blogging at Buttons Quilts.

"They are offering a bundle of 8 fat quarters of Dori by Mitzi Powers for Bernatex. Entries begin today and close Sunday evening at 9:00p.m. at which point Sew Sisters will send you your winnings! The winner will be selected using a random number generator."

Please visit Lynn and follow her instructions on how to enter the giveaway. This giveaway is also open internationally.

I can say, I love buying from

I learned of this fabulous Canadian resource back last November through their Canadian Blogathon and have since joined their Kona Fat Quarter club. A great deal! I also loved their Fat Quarter Frenzy sale back in February. What a fabulous way to increase my stash! Their customer service is one of the best I have ever experienced...they are a joy to do business with. You can also find them on Twitter and Facebook too. If I lived in the area, I would attend their classes as well. But, I'm just grateful for their online store.

Now go sign up here for the giveaway...

FNWF - Feb 7

 

Note: If you are interested in Crafting It Forward with me, visit this post and follow the directions there...thank you! I still have 4 spots open.


Cheryll over at Gone Stitchin' hosted FNWF again this past Friday. Please check out the sign-ups post to see what everyone else got up to and here to see what Cheryll was busy with.

I worked this weekend, but took the time to cut out my 5" fabric squares to make some bunny treat bags for the Sewing Bee with SGOT (Sewing Gifts on Time yahoo group). Washed my 10 fat quarters and dried them with the iron (also busy cutting 2" squares for the upcoming PSQ swap).

Then I washed my fat quarters purchased during the Sew Sisters fat quarter frenzy in February - Riley Blake "Priscilla" fabrics to use in the Sew Kitschy BOM over at Quiet Play.

Phew, I can tell you that just simply that took up pretty much all of the free time I had on Friday. My arm was tuckered out from all that ironing.

I hand washed all my fat quarters in Euculan (love the lavendar smell), which does not require rinsing. Wrung them out gently, then ironed them dry. That should take care of most shrinkage. According to Curious Quilter's guidelines, it is preferable to wash our fabrics prior to cutting for PSQ...so...that's what I did LOL.

I also started the sock KAL from another yahoo group Holiday Mystery Gifts. By this morning on my break I reached about 6" from cast on edge. I'm totally loving both this yarn (Knitpicks...something or other, yarn from my stash with no ball band) and this pattern "Plain Talk Socks" from sailingknitter on Ravelry.

And that about does it for me this FNWF. Looking forward to next month! Thanks Cheryll!

Oh, and one gratuitous nature photo:  presenting Squirrel...

Call me crazy, but I started feeding them this winter. Well, it seems I always feed them since they enjoy my bird feeders, but this year I stopped chasing them away. I have 3 or 4 black squirrels and 3 or 4 grey squirrels that come twice daily guaranteed. They love the sunflower seeds in my feeders, as well as the peanuts I throw out onto the snow for them. They don't like to get too close to each other so I scatter the peanuts along the top of the snow in two directions so everyone can eat at the same time. Periodically, blue jays join them by swooping down from a nearby tree and grabbing a peanut, then flying away to another tree to eat it. It is lots of fun watching them! My husband laughs and says they have all become as big as cats since I started feeding them this fall. LOL

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend. With sun like this, the snow bothers me less. Beautiful weekend for skiing if you are a skier!

Wake up to Kona - Day 2

Hello and welcome to my tiny corner of the world. I have been learning a lot during the last couple of months!

1. I learned of a Canadian fabric store called Sew Sisters.

2. I learned Sew Sisters has a couple of monthly clubs, one of which is a small 4 x fat quarters per month.

3. I've met many amazing sewers/quilters out there in blog land which continually amaze and inspire me with their creativity. (Have you seen the length of my blog list...and it continues to grow)

4. I caved to temptation and joined the Sew Sisters fat quarter club and...received my Kona solid cotton in avocado, spice, putty, and paprika.

5. I learned about and drooled over the hexihop of Mdm. Samm's last year.

6. Learned about english paper piecing.

7. Fell in love with Debby Kratovil's EPP Pin and Needle Case and purchased the pattern.

And finally...joined the Wake up to Kona hop by Mdm. Samm with encouraging head cheerleader Carol of Just Let Me Quilt.

When my fabric arrived from Sew Sisters, I just  loved it. It was just so pretty, I didn't know what to do with it...I was afraid to cut into it. LOL

Any way, this was my first time doing EPP...love it!

A small project to get my feet wet for the hugs & kisses upcoming hop with Soma. I absolutely love this needle case. I am beyond please with these results; sometimes it is all about simple pleasures. I'm also still getting accustomed to my new sewing machine.

I love these colours and am going to finish up the leftover pieces for some other sewing objects. The first of which is a wrist pincushion, and if enough leftover fabric, the pin cushion for the arm of the sofa. The wrist pincushion is about half way complete...if I don't have enough time to complete it, will finish it up on FNWF.

The lineup for today is: spread some comment love!

January 8

Stitchin’ By The Lake

That’s SewJulie

Living With Purpose  (you are here)

Nini’s Patchwork Blog

Quilts My Way

Jane’s Quilting

Quilt Matters

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