Charming Girls Quilt Club

Wow! That's so sweet that so many people entered my apron giveaway in the last post. Just in case you didn't see it, scroll down to the next post, read it, and leave me a comment.   And I'm excited that I gave you an idea for your next quilting group's Christmas party.  I have another idea, too, which you will see a little further down in this post. 

Most of you know that I am in the Charming Girls' Quilt Club.  To keep this post from being sooo long (like the last one) you can find out about the Charming Girls' Quilt Club here.  It has been a few months since I have posted any UFO's that I would like to finish, so I'm happy that I'm still in the club!

My first UFO that needs to get completed is the apron that I'm giving away. Just in case you're wondering, here are the fabrics I chose:                                    

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Both of these will look adorable with red polka dot apron strings!   

On Thursday my quilting group, "The Girls", are getting together for our annual Christmas Fat Quarter Exchange. I have blogged about it here.   It looks fun, huh?    It's like a cookie exchange only you don't bake cookies and your hips don't get larger unless you eat too much of the good food everyone brings and my Italian Cream Cake, in which case my hips will get larger.  I'm making something special for them as a little gift.   I need to finish those, too, so here's a sneak peek.

 

As you can see it involves triangles, prarie points, little handles, and yo'yo's.  Since some of my friends read my blog, I'll show you what they look like on Sew and Tell Friday.

Here's a Christmas present that I can't show you until after Christmas.

It's a surprise.  Again, friends and family read my blog.

If I get those things finished it would be fun to finish these, too.

It's a design by Nancy Halvorsen of Art to Heart.  It says "Kisses Under the Mistle Toad".  I think I'll embroider the letters while visiting with my friends at the Christmas Fat Quarter Exchange.

I bought the kit for this tablerunner by Sandy Gervais last year and didn't get around to making it. 

It would look great on my kitchen table.

 

Now I'm really going out on a limb here when I say that I'm going to try and finish all of this by the end of December, but I could get snowed in and not be able to go anywhere!  I wish!!

Be sure to leave a comment on the previous post if you would like to win an apron.  Comments close Tuesday night at midnight CST.  I will draw a number Wednesday morning. 

Amanda

Charming Girls Quilt Club for October

It's time again to post what I hope to finish this month for the Charming Girls Quilt Club, a group of bloggers that are trying to finish some UFO's. Every month we post what we think we will get finished. If we finish everything by the end of the month, Kelly enters our names in for us fabulous prizes! I haven't won anything, yet. In fact I didn't finish anything in September, but I'm hoping to do better in October.

Here's what I hope to get finished in October.

1. My blocks for the Red and Aqua Disappearing 9-patch swap. (This probably doesn't qualify as a UFO, but it is something I need to get finished and mailed off this month).

2. The binding on my Fall Harvest quilt. I don't want to show you pictures of it because it will be displayed during the Bloggers Quilt Festival.

3. The October button-up wallhanging that I wanted to get finished in September.

I finished Happy Hour in August. Terry (bff with a long arm) quilted it and it's gorgeous!

5. Quilting and binding on Halloween quilts for the grand kids. I would show photos, but they are at Terry's.

Edited: I was scrolling down and forgot about my September Schnibbles project! And I have to finish my October Schnibbles project!

Whew! That's a lot to finish in October, but I think I can do it!

Amanda

Today's The Day (And I'm Not Ready)

Today is the day to show our year of Schnibbles completed project for September and our completed finished projects for the Charming Girls Quilt Club, and I'm not ready.

In a perfect world all I would do is have fun with my family and sew, but it's not that way.

Nope.

It would help if my brain would get back to where it used to be, or that time would slow down. Both would be great.

I went on my retreat last week thinking that I still had two weeks to get my projects finished for the Charming Girls Quilt Club and my Schnibbles project. Boy was I wrong!

It doesn't help that my Schnibbles pattern got lost in the mail and then when I finally got it (last week while I was gone), I lost it, or so I thought. It was in my sewing room right where it was supposed to be, but it was so little I didn't see it!

I should have had my bi-focals on. My brain and my eyes are a little fuzzy. That's not good.

If my world was perfect I would have completed this cute wall hanging for the Charming Girls Quilt Club.

It's a cat in front of a pumpkin. It's supposed to have a moon and stars appliqued above it with the word October on one of the borders. It's a Joined at the Hip month by month pattern. Hopefully I will get it finished by this weekend.

This is what I would have finished for my Schnibbles for a Year project.

Once I found my pattern I decided it would look cute made out of my Halloween scraps. Maybe I'll finish it by this weekend, too.

I'm sure there are lots of other people that finished their projects. You can go to Sherry's blog
to see her sidebar of Schnibble participants. I've clicked on several and each one is different and beautiful. And you can go to the Charming Girls Quilt Club and see who finished their projects.

Congratulations to everyone who completed their projects. I can't wait to see them all!

Amanda