And The Winner Is!!!

http://dandelionquilts.blogspot.com/. Please send me your mailing information and I will get your goodies off to you. Thanks to everyone that entered the giveaway. I will chat soon.

Pat

Fall Into Fall Blogger Giveaway!

This is a picture of my Fall Into Fall Blogger Giveaway. There are 4 Halloween and Fall fat quarters. Also included is a small Halloween table topper pattern and kit that I have put together. There are a couple of other suprises too. One is verrrrry SCARY! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and tell me about a project that you are working on. The winner will be drawn on October 15th. This giveaway is open to all. If you do not have a blog please leave me an e-mail address so I can contact you if you are the winner. If you don't want to publish your address send me an e-mail. Also please be sure that you are not a no reply as I will not be able to contact you either.

Now click on the scarecrow on the left and he will take you to a list of at least 39 other participating quilting blogs. I have seen some of the giveaways and they are very nice. So leave a comment, go have fun and good luck everyone!! Iwill chat soon.

Pat

Have You Heard???

Have you heard of the Fall Into Fall Quilter's Blog Giveaway? Well I heard about it and I joined. It starts tomorrow, October 1 st and a winner will be drawn on October 15th. Debi over at http://debiquilts.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default has organized 40 quilt bloggers to do giveaways. Visit http://fallintofallquilters.blogspot.com/ for a list of the participating blogs. Check back tomorrow and leave a comment on my October 1 st post and you could win a Halloween table topper pattern and kit that I have put together. There will also be four fall and Halloween fat quarters and maybe a couple of other small surprises. Tomorrow there will be a picture of the giveaway. So check back and leave a comment on my post.





Pat

My Bag Has Landed In.........

My bag for Linda's Bag Swap has landed in Australia. It went to live with Bec. I was really sorry to see it leave. I fell in love with it. The pattern is "Ric Rac & Blooms" by Sally Giblin. This is a picture of it just before it flew away. I also made her a little pincushion to match her bag. Go over to Bec's blog and read about her one and only other pincushion. You will also see a better picture of her bag. Thank you Linda for hosting the swap. It was fun and I got to meet a very lovely family. I will chat more very soon.

A SNEAK PEEK!!

I have been very, very busy here. But I can't show you anything yet. I have been stitching for friends for Christmas. After Christmas I will have a BIG show and tell for you. I also did the cupcake swap that I had to keep under wraps until yesterday. Now I am finishing up my bag for the bag swap. Here is a little peek. Don't tell........ I hope she likes the colors I chose.

The fabric is In The Pink 2 designed by Buggy Barn for Henry Glass& Co. I am off now to sew, sew and sew some more. Fun, fun, fun!!

I will be back soon to chat.

Pat

Cupcake Love

I love cupcakes. When I heard that Sharon was having a cupcake swap, I joined up. I had fun looking and shopping for cupcake "things". I found out that my partner was Erna. She is a young mother of two little boys from The Netherlands. We exchanged e-mails and introduced ourselves. She is a lovely person. Now that we have both sent and received our swap packages I can show you our goodies. We tried to send them on the same day so that we would receive them at the same time but that didn't work out. Oh well, it was a nice idea! This is what I sent to Erna.

I made a small wall hanging with a cupcake in the center, a cupcake tote bag and a cupcake pincushion. I also gathered some other cupcake items.

This is what I received from Erna.

Erna made some cute little cupcake tags, a cupcake needle holder and a cute little bag that I will use to hold my threads and scissors. She also sent two fat quarters with cupcakes on them and a few other little cup cakey items. Again, thanks so much Erna. I love everything and it was so nice meeting you. I would also like to thank Sharon for hosting the swap. It was fun.

Blogger is not playing nice again! It downloaded the same picture twice and will not allow me to remove one of them. So Please enjoy looking at the pictures.

I will chat soon,

Pat

I Have Been A VBG!!!

At the end of May I received a Thank You gift from Stina in Sweden. I sent her a thank you right away but I never posted about it. Soooooooo I am going to fix that right now! She sent a beautifully wrapped gift along with the best chocolate that I have ever tasted. I Have tasted a LOT of chocolate in my day. Along with that there was a beautiful card and a note written by Stina.

When I opened the package there was a beautiful Couch Cushion with my name on it. Stitched in pinks and greens. I love it! The pattern is by Leanne Beasley. The stitchery pattern was taken from another book. I am sorry but I have forgotten who it is by. Remember I was a VBG!!

Here it is all packed and ready to go. Stina I am so sorry that I have not posted your beautiful handwork before now. It gets a lot of use and I love it. Again thanks so much.

On July 7 th I mailed Stina a thank you package. To date it has not arrived in Sweden. I spoke with the USPS again this morning and they seem to think that the package MAY be in Israel. Now how do you suppose that happened??? You also have to wait seventeen working days from the time that the package was reported missing to get any information on it. Other than it left the US on the 9th of July. That will be sometime in the middle of August. Next time I may try UPS. (I will keep checking on it Stina).

Today I went to see Momma Mia. If you haven't seen it, you have to go. I loved it. I have been singing and dancing since I left the theater. On the way to the car my sister and Debbie would not even walk with me. It probably wasn't very pretty! I will chat soon.

Hugs,

Pat

Continuation Of My Last Post

This is a continuation of my last post. Blogger and I are friends again. Well maybe not!!! Here is the runner on my table.

Here is the quilting that Chris did. I love all the fruits.

The runner goes well with the fruity things I have in my kitchen.

This cross stitch picture was stitched by my friend Debbie. She gave it to me for Christmas two years ago. Well I am off now. I have a busy day tomorrow. I hope to finish up a couple of things for my cupcake swap with Erna. We are keeping in touch so we can mail our packages on the same day. I will chat soon.

Pat

Gifts in the mail.

Hi everyone. I hope you are all having a great summer. It sure is zipping right along here. Back at the end of June I won a give away by Chris from NH. We are almost neighbors!! She was very generous in her giveaway. She had shown a table runner that she had made and quilted and hinted about something else saying to think jello! When I found that I had won, I was very excited. I loved the runner. I kept thinking about the jello. I was hoping that it would not be a gelatin salad in the summer!!! Well this is what Chris sent.

Some great NH maple syrup and maple candy. Yum!! A beautiful hand made card, that I did not photo very well. The card was made by Chris's daughter. Two old hankies. An old package of pins (love them). A quilting pattern that I love and a pin cushion in an old jello mold and....

The table runner. I love it. It goes really nice in my kitchen. Chris did a beautiful job of quilting the runner with all different kinds of fruits. I have some nice pictures of the quilting but blogger is not playing nice right now. I will post pictures of the quilting when blogger will allow me to. Thanks again Chris. I love everything. I will chat soon.

Pat

Welcome Debbie!

I have a very good friend that has been a blog reader for quite some time. She does beautiful hand work of all kinds. Cross stitch, quilting, embroidery and applique to name a few. She has finally started her own blog. I hope that you will stop over and say hi and welcome Debbie to blogland. It's about time my dear friend!!!!

Thank you Lilly!

A few days ago Lilly Gave me this lovely award. Thank you Lilly. (Sorry it took me so long to post it). I am to pass this on to seven blogs. I read and enjoy so many blogs that I can not pick seven favorites. So if you are reading this please feel free to take the graphics and post them on your blog and play along. This is what you have to do:

1. You can put the logo your blog.
2. Link to the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the people you have nominated.

My Pincushions from Chantal!

The faster I go, the be hinder I get!!!! Almost two weeks ago I received a beautiful package from Chantal in Belgium. I saw this lovely pincushion on several blogs and had admired it each and every time I saw it. I was extremely pleased when I opened my package and found that now, I am the very proud owner of the lovely pincushion too. I would like to share what Chantal sent me.

I love it. I love the fabric that she used. It is larger than I thought it was and that is great! She also sent along a lovely card and three more pincushions. She was afraid that she had not sent enough!!! (Silly girl.)

There was a pincushion to put on my wrist which is very handy. One that is in the shape of a cute little flower that I can keep right in my stitching bag. The last one is something that I am scared to death of, a mouse! But so far we are getting along just fine. I named him Mighty. Thank you again Chantal I love everything.

I will chat soon because I have a lot to show and tell.

Pat