Winner of the Giveaway

THE WINNER OF THE SAMOAN JELLY ROLL IS NUMBER 6 CHERYLS TEAPOT. 
I had my sister pick a number didn't feel like being tech savy tonight. Here are two design that I drew out in EQ incorporating multiple ideas from all your responses.Of course my ladies are on point but I couldn't get the design to rotate them. I was thinking about a larger top and bottom border and   narrower sides. Spent Saturday looking for muslin, I had to go buy some more today after work, couldn't seem to find mine anywhere (looked in every box in the sewing room, in the process I did some organizing......side tracked.......again). I also found some more antique quilt tops that I forgot I had.

I did change the orientation of the fans.

Giveaway

Give said the little store give oh give, give oh give away.

Remember this little quilt from the last post. I am in need of suggestions oh how to make it longer so that it can fit a single bed. I looked on the internet and didn't find anything that appealed to me, so I am putting the question out to my fellow bloggers. Post your ideas and for your trouble you will be entered in my giveaway.  Then next week I will randomly choose a winner for the Somoan Jelly Roll Below.

 

If you have been collecting Moda's Sampler Block Shuffle patterns, I added 3 new free sampler blocks to the Inchworm Store, just click on the underlined words.

Old Blocks

I love old blocks, I can't pass them up when I see them at thrift store or garage sales.

 I have 18 of these beauties, given me by my husbands mother. She said they were made by her mother and some friends when she was a child (some of the fabric was from her leftover dresses), so that would make them about 80 years old or so. It seems they were making a quilt to raffle and had made enough blocks for 2 quilts but only one got put together and the rest have been passed down. They have been in my cedar chest for about 10 years or so. She gave them to me thinking I might actually get them put together, unfortunately I didn't do it before she passed away.

Over the years I have pulled them out and looked at them and lovingly put them away not know what to do with them. The problem is they were put on light weight muslin (what a shame so much work). So I decided that I would put a plain piece of muslin behind them before I set them together and hope they will hold up. I used a whole lapel stick to glue 9 of these to muslin.

 I have 7 married children and I thought it might be nice to give each one a quilt made with antique blocks. So I am splitting the blocks into two quilts (I have other antique blocks that I can split to get enough for everyone) and my Saturday project below is the first of these little lady quilts before borders. I am so excited to put them in a quilt and love the way it is looking. I may have a hard time giving it away.

 For all of you that are saving the Moda sampler block shuffle, I have added 3 more to the Inchworm Store. The only way I can add them is as a picture, so you just have to print the page. Enjoy.

Free Lapel Stick and Moda Patterns

3 more patterns from Moda's Sampler Block Shuffle

 You can find the patterns on the InchwormFabrics Store free patterns. Also if you order in January you will get a free lapel stick with your order while supplies last.

 Christmas cookie making with a 2 year old. She had a blast. Her older brother lost interest but she stuck it out till we were finished.

Twin 8 year old boys sledding down the hill behind our house. Perfect day and perfect hill for their little sleds. They had the most fun aiming for the gate into the pasture. Dad had to stand guard to make sure no one crashed into the gate post. Grandma and Mom even ventured down the hill on a sled and through the gate into the pasture.

Hot cocoa and chili after all the fun and then some more sledding after getting warmed up.

Moda Sampler Block Shuffle

Starting today I am going to make available 3 free patterns from Moda downloadable each week. These will make a terrific sampler quilt. There will be 30 blocks all together. There will also be setting instructions provided at the end.

So visit my store website regularly where you will be able to find the block patterns.  Each set of block patterns will only be available for a few weeks so collecting the entire set will require you to visit the store website every week for approximately ten weeks. Even if you are not making the blocks each week, you can collect the patterns to make later.

Week 1 of December and the Sale is still on.

I had great plans and know better than to wait till December to do projects.

I came back from a visit to my mom in Louisiana a week before Thanksgiving with a cold, so I wasn't real productive. Then on Monday I started to feel sickly and by Wednesday I had a full case of the flu. So not feeling like sewing and Christmas is fast approaching. BOO HOO, I had such big plans. Well one of my daughters came over yesterday and spent time quilting her projects but when she was done she helped me with some of mine. And a bonus was I got to enjoy her two little ones. I would post pictures of the projects but that would run the surprise for everyone on our lists.

Here is some fabric, Atelier line from Moda, I just got in last week. I know it has been out for a few months but it is so pretty I thought I would share. These are the colors that I have in the store and I am having a 20% off sale for the whole month of December. If you order over $25 I will include free shipping for this coming week.

 This is the view out my upstairs sewing room window. It was pretty frosty for a week there after the big wind storm.

 This is one tree cut up on a sixteen foot trailer. My son helped his friend cut it after it fell during the big wind storm a couple of weeks ago. Now it sits in our pasture waiting for our son in law to come over with his portable saw mill and cut it up.

Winter IS here and we are having a great SALE!

I was hoping that winter would skip right by us but it is here. Between the wind storm that took out power for a lot of NE Washington, and the inversion with temps dropping well into the teens, and the fog/frost on everything, it leaves no doubt that winter is here and Christmas is around the corner.

Well I had to whine a little but that being said. I would like to let everyone know that I am having a 20% off  sale at InchwormFabrics.com till the end of December.

You should go and check out the precuts, they would make great Christmas gifts. 

 Because of the Brave fat quarter bundle at $50 with 20% off when checking out using the code Sale.

Red White and Free layer cake at $25 with 20% off when checking out using the code Sale.