A small finish.

I started this little hanger early last year, and all I needed to do to finish it was to stitch the words and sew on the binding, which is what I did over the weekend.
I bought the kit (by Country Cupboard) a couple of years ago, and I just love it. I would really like to make another one, but in my own colours, as I feel the legs, hands and face are a bit too close in colour to the background fabric, so they don't show up very well.

Another one finished and ??? to go. So till next time.....

A Splash of Purple

I'm not sure just what it is about the color purple, but I seem to find myself sewing with it A LOT.   I don't wear it and I don't decorate with it, but it manages to find itself in my quilts.  Hmmm.   Maybe someone is trying to tell me something.

I started this quilt probably four or five years ago, got bored with it and put the blocks aside.  Maybe it was the purple.  Anyway, last year I dragged the blocks out, sewed them together and sent it off for quilting.  Again....there it sat with no binding for over a year.  Was it too purple???? 

This month I dragged it out once more and finally sewed that binding on and now can say it's completed.  Do you see all the green in it???  I do.  Sew...it's finished.  Yeah.

A spotty finish ;)

I have managed another finish for 2013 - this is from my Misc List of bits and pieces (orphan blocks)

this is all I can show you for now, as it is a gift
and I want to wait until the recipient gets it before the big reveal.

Cheers, Cathy

Two finishes

It has been an extra good month , two finishes yeah! The first one I will show are my crazy patch blocks that were from a RR exchange and sat on my shelf for many months waiting for inspiration to get me going on finishing them . It was such a fun and challenging exchange and I am thrilled to now have this finished .

Sorry for the terrible photo but it was the best I could do at the time. Next is my Winter in Blogland , a free design from Ellie's Quilt Place as well as a couple of other blogs ,sorry I don't have the names but all of the patterns can be found on Ellie's sidebar.

This has a Christmas theme but I am much too late for that however you could say I am ahead of the game for 2013 Christmas ;-) So nice to have these two finished up now on to a few more ;-0

A few more small finishes - my 3rd & 4th

I have quite a few of these hand towels cut out for gifts last year but ran out of time, soooo I am slowly making my way through them, this one is wining its way over to Perth as part of a care package.

  And below is another 10 book marks for work.

Another Fun Finish

I had seen these Spool Pin Doilies on Bonnie Hunter blog and like the idea. She had a pattern for the one she shown but I did not like it that much so I decided to make up one I wanted.

I have made a few different ones and plan to make one for all in my stitch group

If you would the pattern to the design I made you can find it on my blog.

I CAN'T BELIEVE I'VE GOT ANOTHER FINISH DONE!

Last time I pooped over here I said the ONLY thing I really wanted to finish this year was my big blue/white Dresden Plate quilt.

I can't find it.

It went into storage along with everything else in our garage when we got flooded.  Then we unpacked MOST of the storage box to get out various things we needed, then it went back to the storage facility.
The men (drat) didn't unpack EVERYTHING, so my quilt is still in the box.  *sigh*

So I have been forced to work on other UFO's that we did find.

Today I finished a bag for my 2nd daughter, she is 33 TODAY.  I started this bag for her about 2 years ago!

ABOVE:  Lacy loves PURPLE, so I thought this fabric was purple enough!  Got it in a sale at Spotlight, love that store!

ABOVE:  Lacy will be able to use it as her 'Baby Bag' ... because you can fit so much in it.

I've probably made about 10 of these bags now... they are just so POPULAR!

I'm very happy I have another FINISH to show off!  That is two for this year... not bad for me!

ONWARD!