Stop by and visit with these inspired Ghastlie sisters.
Such a talented group of people they are.
Wednesday October 26th
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
The Ghastlie Blog Hop is here
It's here, it's here, it's finally here. The blog hop has begun. Please join us in the fun. Links to the participating blogs are noted below in the official welcome from our fearless leader Madame Samm.
Welcome GHASTLIE FANS
Behind the scenes we ( 54 ) Ghastlie obsessed
Sistah- Stitchers have been rather busy, you could say.
We all have been stirring up some pretty GHASTLIE
projects, searching for a cure...Your assistance is required...YOU are the
Prescription we are looking for..
A comment, of ohhs and ahhhs
that will help our flu...Are you ready?
It all begins tomorrow morning at the stroke
of MIDNIGHT ....tick tock tick tock..
OH Ghastlie....
If you have this thing for Ghastlies
and they have tied you in a knot
and you wish you could get them out of your mind
than this may be a thought.
We heard her plea for a cure
Mdm Samm was pos/it/ively sure
that we could stitch the nights away
in hopes that we MAY----
( all 54 of us)
BUT....
The side effects are Ghastlie
there is no mistaking too.
if you don't run this very minute
YOU too will catch the FLU...
We suspected all along
this was her master plan
she did not want to be alone,
with all YOU Ghastlie FANS...
HERE is OUR Schedule.....
each name will link you to our Ghastlie
Sistahhhhhhhhhhhhhs!
Be sure to leave them some comments
this may help them in their cure...
ON Monday, October 24th
ON Tuesday October 25th
ON Wednesday October 26th
ON Thursday October 27th
ON Friday October 28th
ON Monday October 31st
ON Tuesday November 1st
ON Wednesday November 2nd
ON Thursday November 3rd
ON Friday November 4th
Each day we will have a giveaway...
Some of my Ghastlie Sistahs have made some special
projects to giveaway and we will have daily SPECIAL PRIZES
from these sponsors....to sweeten the CAULDRON....
Some of our Sponsors
Alexander Henry Fabrics- lot's and lot's of Ghastlie Fabric
Colonial Needle -sewing basket
Janes Fabrics -Kona fabrics in PINK -fat quarter bundle
Reliable Iron - orange Velocity 50
IHAN ( kelly )- aurifil threads
Coeurdalenegifts- 2 sets of Halloween lights
Forth Worth Fabric Studio - gorgeous gift set of Ghasltie fabric
Creative Grid -3 Rulers their top 3
Blue FIG- wheeled bag in PINK
Beam N Read and custom Ghastlie Buttons
Our 1st Prize Giveaway tomorrow
will be this...the WINNER will always be announced
here and the next day on our Sistahs-Stitchers blogs...
will be this...the WINNER will always be announced
here and the next day on our Sistahs-Stitchers blogs...
4 Yards of this GHASTLIE
Collection from our sponsor
They are sporting a BRAND NEW look too.!
YOU can VIEW these from samples they have posted!
(shipping cost responsibility of winners, this will
be mailed out of the US)
exception Wheeled BAG! Free shipping .
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Not exactly a quilt
I started blogging to keep track of my quilting life but I just had to post this knitting finish.
I started this sweater/hoodie 3 plus years ago. I worked on it in fits and starts. First shot I did up to the top of the pouch, 6 months later I did the rest of the body, 6 months after that a sleeve and on and on.
I haven't touched it since last January/February. I had a vacation day on Thursday and decided to finish it once and for all. Told myself that I had to finish it before I quilted anything else. I sat down with it and no lie, I had it completed in less than an hour. All I had left was to sew shut one arm pit and to weave in about 10 ends. How sick is that.
I am so thrilled that it is finished and that it fits. Not to mention I get to wear it for a full season at last.
I started this sweater/hoodie 3 plus years ago. I worked on it in fits and starts. First shot I did up to the top of the pouch, 6 months later I did the rest of the body, 6 months after that a sleeve and on and on.
I haven't touched it since last January/February. I had a vacation day on Thursday and decided to finish it once and for all. Told myself that I had to finish it before I quilted anything else. I sat down with it and no lie, I had it completed in less than an hour. All I had left was to sew shut one arm pit and to weave in about 10 ends. How sick is that.
I am so thrilled that it is finished and that it fits. Not to mention I get to wear it for a full season at last.
Are you a Ghastlies person. I will be participating in the Ghastlie Blog Hop on Thursday. It starts on Monday and will go on for 2 weeks 5 stops aday . Stop by for your very own Ghastlie experience.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Keepin Busy
I’ve been pretty busy with needle and thread this past week or two but haven't been able to post photos about most of my doings. I sent my 2nd Santa sack gifts to Dawn last week. But since she can’t open them until December I can’t post about them in October.
I will be participating in the Ghastlies blog hop at the end of the month so I can’t post about my Ghanstlie doings either. I have 5 items completed and several on the drawing board. I have a new shipment of Ghastlies fabric that came in this week. I didn’t realize that there were 2 separate patterns out there until last week. Fabric arrived Thursday and I'm having so much fun with it. Can’t wait for the hop
I am also participating in a SAL sponsored by Lesley at http://www.sewhappy.me/quilt-blogs/patterns/ is posting 1 Christmas pattern a week for a Banner. I am right up to speed on that one. 3 complete and this week’s is about half way done.
Aren’t they wonderful? I have opted to make them a bit bigger than the pattern calls for. I plan on making a Quilt with my blocks for a Christmas gift. It will be great if I can stay on top of this one. My goal is to have it 100% complete by Thanksgiving.
Well I must be off now I have several more Ghastlie items to complete.
I will be participating in the Ghastlies blog hop at the end of the month so I can’t post about my Ghanstlie doings either. I have 5 items completed and several on the drawing board. I have a new shipment of Ghastlies fabric that came in this week. I didn’t realize that there were 2 separate patterns out there until last week. Fabric arrived Thursday and I'm having so much fun with it. Can’t wait for the hop
I am also participating in a SAL sponsored by Lesley at http://www.sewhappy.me/quilt-blogs/patterns/ is posting 1 Christmas pattern a week for a Banner. I am right up to speed on that one. 3 complete and this week’s is about half way done.
Aren’t they wonderful? I have opted to make them a bit bigger than the pattern calls for. I plan on making a Quilt with my blocks for a Christmas gift. It will be great if I can stay on top of this one. My goal is to have it 100% complete by Thanksgiving.
Well I must be off now I have several more Ghastlie items to complete.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
this is what happens when you don't proof before you publish
I missed this picture in the prevoous post. It should have been at the very end. It is part of my goodies form Jan.
Week full of surprises
Then came the first of my Mug Rug Swaps. It came from Susan G of http://www.historyquilter.com/. This was a fun gift. A week or so ago Susan posted the pouch that was the goodie in my package. I didn't know who was sending swaps to me. I loved what she did and told her I'd love to be a recipient and lo and behold I AM. There was also my first mug rug, isn't it great. All of the flowers in the border are fussy cut. The big extra is that I love the back as much as the front so it was like getting a twofur.
There was also a great piece of dotted fabric pumpkin tissues and candy. What more could a girl ask for.
Well I didn't ahve to ask, today I got my other mug rug swap gift. This one is from Jan in the UK at http://isisjem.blogspot.com/
Her choices were made in my favorite colors. I love Red anything and I gravitate toward greens. I actually went on vacation last year and when I went to unpack at the hotel I found I had packed 6 green shirts. I didn't even know I owned that many green shirts. sometimes I scare myself.
So ladies, all of you. Thank you so very much. This was my first Mug Rug swap and it was all I could have hoped for and then some.
Selina
Monday, September 26, 2011
Another busy weekend
After making my first Jelly Roll quilt I got it into my head that one in blacks and whites would be terrific. Great idea but couldn't find a Jelly Roll that met my requirements so I purchased 14 regular cut fat quarters and cut myself some strips. Friday night I sat down in front of the TV to clean up some recorded shows and started to sew. This is such an easy quilt you need something else going on such as TV, movie or book. I meant to officially time this project but forgot. I think it took about 4 hours excluding the ironing which you do at the very end.
It's actually about 40 by 60 inches. I'm noticing that I didn't do such a great job and getting it all in the picture. Maybe once it's quilted I'll do it right.
I am currently in a quilt along that is scheduled to be completed later this week. Since I had all of my other scheduled commitments done I figured I would finish this one up so I could link it up to Make a Gift on the 25th.
It's a table runner about 35 X 15. It's the tree from the petite forest pattern which is a wall hanging. I love it and I know the person I made it for will love it too.
OK so that's 2 things off the list and I think I only added 1 thing to it last week so I'm ahead for a day or 2. Time to see what mischief I can get into now.
It's actually about 40 by 60 inches. I'm noticing that I didn't do such a great job and getting it all in the picture. Maybe once it's quilted I'll do it right.
I am currently in a quilt along that is scheduled to be completed later this week. Since I had all of my other scheduled commitments done I figured I would finish this one up so I could link it up to Make a Gift on the 25th.
It's a table runner about 35 X 15. It's the tree from the petite forest pattern which is a wall hanging. I love it and I know the person I made it for will love it too.
OK so that's 2 things off the list and I think I only added 1 thing to it last week so I'm ahead for a day or 2. Time to see what mischief I can get into now.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Busy weekend
I had another very busy crafting weekend. I'm now into 4 different groups with project deadlines. By the end of this week I need to have in the mail 2 mug rugs plus goodies which I can post most of because the people I am sending to don't know who they are getting theirs from.
This is the front and back of the second rug and cozie. One very traditional and one very contemporary.
Here are the pictures of 1 of the goodies. I found the tutorial for this neat little envelope at http://originateandrenovate.blogspot.com/2011/09/traveling-art-kit.html
It was a good tutorial with a button closure. I used velcro. My envelopes contain a kit to make a rice bag. The other goodie that I made can't be posted as they are personalized and that would give them away.
I also spent some time working on my applique cards.
This is the front and back of my very first mug rug ever. It is the Elegant Pumpkin pattern from Shell at Raspberry Rabbits. http://theraspberryrabbits.blogspot.com/ I just love it.
This is the front and back of the second rug and cozie. One very traditional and one very contemporary.
It was a good tutorial with a button closure. I used velcro. My envelopes contain a kit to make a rice bag. The other goodie that I made can't be posted as they are personalized and that would give them away.
I also spent some time working on my applique cards.
The applique pattern is from an old Art to Heart book and the celebrate is a Stampin Up stamp. Well I need to get going cause I need to get a small table runner finished and photographed by Friday.
Have a productive week.
Monday, September 12, 2011
applique b'day card
The first entry forthe Sew Darn Crafty submissions for this week at http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/ is for scrappy cards from
http://happycottagequilter.blogspt.com/
I saw her card and knew I had to try one immediately. I needed a b'day card for a friend for this morning. Such a great opportunity. I used an applique pattern I had on hand and came up with this
The only problem was that I picked up and used a pen without checking if the color of the ink would match the fabric choice.
It is such an easy process. I would recommend it to everyone. it took longer for me to pick out the fabric scraps than it did to put it together.
Have fun.
http://happycottagequilter.blogspt.com/
I saw her card and knew I had to try one immediately. I needed a b'day card for a friend for this morning. Such a great opportunity. I used an applique pattern I had on hand and came up with this
The only problem was that I picked up and used a pen without checking if the color of the ink would match the fabric choice.
It is such an easy process. I would recommend it to everyone. it took longer for me to pick out the fabric scraps than it did to put it together.
Have fun.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Ghastlies - 1st post
Now that I have an idea I sit patiently waiting for my fabric to arrive by mail. Fat chance.
yesterday I had to go to my FQS to pick up some support fabric for my idea. It was so much quicker to go there then shop in my stash.
There are days when my tunnel vision scares me. I know about the Ghastlies through blogs. I ordered my fabric on line. Why it never occured to me to look for it in my quilt shop I don't know. So when I asked if they had any I was totally shocked that they had some. More shocking ( more tunnel vision) was that it came in green background. It was all they had in stock. It didn't matter cause I love it.
Since it doesn't work with my original idea and the new fabrics, I had to come up with another idea. See you at the hop.
yesterday I had to go to my FQS to pick up some support fabric for my idea. It was so much quicker to go there then shop in my stash.
There are days when my tunnel vision scares me. I know about the Ghastlies through blogs. I ordered my fabric on line. Why it never occured to me to look for it in my quilt shop I don't know. So when I asked if they had any I was totally shocked that they had some. More shocking ( more tunnel vision) was that it came in green background. It was all they had in stock. It didn't matter cause I love it.
Since it doesn't work with my original idea and the new fabrics, I had to come up with another idea. See you at the hop.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Very productive weekend
It's Monday AM and this is my weekend so far.
My weekend started Friday when a friend wanted to know if I had made the Jelly Roll quilt where you sewed all of the strips together end to end and then side by side. Well I hadn't done it yet but had been thinking about. Anything J sends my way I tend to take as a challenge. So Friday night I pulled out a Jelly Roll and started. Found out real quick that it was a small roll containing only 20 strips so I had to start cutting additional strips from the matching fat quarter bundles I had picked up at the same sale. Including making 20 additional strips from the fat quarters I was completely done the top in just under 3 hours. The first long seam of 800 inches is a hum dinger, I finished that and went to bed. The next morning I got up and finished the top before breakfast. OK so the 3 hours does not include ironing. That seemed to take forever. The top finished at something around 48 x 62. I did listen to a great book while making these long seems and ironing. "The Brutal Telling" by Louise Penny ( a mystery takes place in Canada)
After that, I went on to finish the tote B asked that I make for her. I really like the way this one turned out. Maybe I need to keep it for me, maybe not because I really am toted out for the time being. Next I decided to work on some personalized purses that I wanted to do only to find out I was out of black ink. Instead I worked a bit on some mug rugs that I need to do for a swap later this month. I gave in and ran to Staples for ink and whipped up the 2 purses and called it a day.
It's now 9AM on a cloudy soon to be rainy Holiday Monday. I need to go find something else to accomplish. I hope you and yours have a great Holiday.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
How I spent my rained in weekend
Irene was not bad to me and mine. We never lost power and only lost a few small branches. I have spent my lock down time very productively.
I am part of the Make a Gift on the 25th at Sew Many Ways and was very busy working on Christmas gifts. Last month I had started on some of the blocks needed to make 3 quilts for Nephews families for Christmas. My goal for this month was to finish at least one top.
These are the blocks for top 2.
I also did some embroidery for a Christmas swap and started on another bag, this one for a friend, just to break up the snowstorm I was caught up in. I'm gonna run now since I still have several productive hours left of this crafty weekend.
I am part of the Make a Gift on the 25th at Sew Many Ways and was very busy working on Christmas gifts. Last month I had started on some of the blocks needed to make 3 quilts for Nephews families for Christmas. My goal for this month was to finish at least one top.
TA DA !
I also worked on the blocks for the other 2 tops, all of the snowmen are done and hopefully by end of day I will have the 8 star blocks done also. That would make the goal for next month - finishing the tops for the other 2 quilts.
These are the blocks for top 2.
I also did some embroidery for a Christmas swap and started on another bag, this one for a friend, just to break up the snowstorm I was caught up in. I'm gonna run now since I still have several productive hours left of this crafty weekend.
Friday, August 26, 2011
I’ve had a fun week. For some reason or another I got it into my head to make a bib. I’ve been thinking about it for several weeks. It’s odd because I don’t have kids or grand kids. All of the kids in my immediate world are in school.
Earlier this week Beth at http://www.lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com/ posted about her rag dolls. See her postings of 8/20 and the tutorial of 8/22. So very, very cute. Had to make one. I did, isn’t she a sweet heart?
Now back to the bib, while I was hunting in my kid fabric I saw this great scrap of rocket fabric and thought that now was the time. I googled for a free bib pattern and let it fly. It is backed with the same fabric as the dolls tights. The doll was resting on my desk at work waiting to go to her new home.
I have some great coworkers who were more than willing to give these items new homes.
Here is a picture of the bib on its new owner. Is he not the greatest model ever?
Just a great week. Maybe if the electricity holds out this weekend I can whip up a few more.
Earlier this week Beth at http://www.lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com/ posted about her rag dolls. See her postings of 8/20 and the tutorial of 8/22. So very, very cute. Had to make one. I did, isn’t she a sweet heart?
Now back to the bib, while I was hunting in my kid fabric I saw this great scrap of rocket fabric and thought that now was the time. I googled for a free bib pattern and let it fly. It is backed with the same fabric as the dolls tights. The doll was resting on my desk at work waiting to go to her new home.
I have some great coworkers who were more than willing to give these items new homes.
Here is a picture of the bib on its new owner. Is he not the greatest model ever?
Just a great week. Maybe if the electricity holds out this weekend I can whip up a few more.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Thank you
When I first started to read blogs that I now follow I was fascinated by the generosity of all of the people in this new world. Giveaways and Swaps were an intriguing concept. Bloggers getting gifts from people they only knew through their blogs just didn’t compute. I’ve now been blogging for several months and been reading blogs since maybe January. Now I too have made friends around the world.
Last month I found a new blog to visit from the http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/2011/08/sew-darn-crafty-partyweek listing. Judy at http://cathcarts.blogspot.com/2011/07/printing-on-fabric-hint.html , was printing onto fabric from her printer and I offered a suggestion that I thought would be easier using Freezer Paper. I live in NJ, USA and I consider Freezer Paper a staple. Judy lives in a small town in Australia and Freezer Paper there is rare. So I sent her some freezer paper.
Now comes the fun part. I had a world wide experience. I function in the world of what goes around in life, comes around some time, some place. The very day I mailed the Freezer Paper to Australia I won my first Giveaway. The notice that I won came from Madame Samm, in Canada, at http://www.sewwequilt.com/ I won a wonderful pattern and thread from Shell at http://theraspberryrabbits.blogspot.com/ NC, USA. A very cool international day indeed.
OK so now it’s a couple of weeks later and I come home on Saturday to a puffy mailer from Australia. It was chock full of stitching goodies.
Can you see them all? Wonderful play things, Aussie buttons, labels, a plaque, a great mini tote that the picture doesn’t do justice, on and on and a wonderful thank you card. Judy, you shouldn’t have. Many thanks, I love it all.
I really am glad to be part of this adventure. Selina
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