Cheerful card

I made this card following the latest sketch on the Sweetest Thing blog. I love this little stamp, so cute. (SSSC 142)

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Flannel quilt

I decided to share this quilt today. It is not a new quilt, in fact it will be 7 years old in January! But, it is special to me because when I had my 2nd daughter in January 2005, my mother came to help me. And, as you know, babies sleep a lot in the beginning so we got busy and made the top of this quilt together. We set up the sewing machine on the end of the dining room table and left it there for at least 2 weeks and anytime we had a chance, we'd sew some more squares together. I did send it out to be long-arm quilted however (and bound). I love putting this on the spare room bed in the fall, it makes the room look so cozy for guest.

Linking this up to Quiltstory today.

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One more quilt

I decided late on Saturday to make one more girly blanket for the show. There is a lot of gender neutral/boy blankets but I needed some pink. So here it is, pretty simple just cut 6x9 rectangles and pieced them together. The backing is really soft flannel. Most of the fabric is My Mind's Eye by Riley Blake. I quilted the top to the batting, then just sewed the backing on. This way I eliminated having to do a binding so it made the blanket quick to complete.

I'm linking this to sew modern monday today at Canoe Ridge Creations (see button on sidebar).

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Craft show display

Burp cloths, flannel backing.

Lots of zippered pouches.

I bought this awesome handmade box at a store in Halifax called Rusty Hinges. I love this and look forward to adding to my collection of reclaimed wood products.

Well, here it is, the trial run of my craft fair table. My good friend Michelle helped me set it up. Anyhow, I wanted to take some photos (for memory when I'm actually at the fair next weekend) and also for critique-positive or negative- I'm a big girl, I can take it! Now off to a hockey game with the family....

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Eyeglass pouches continued...

I made a few more eyeglass cases today, I'm hoping to have a good variety of colors/fabrics for people to choose from.

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Cute eyeglass/sunglass pouches

I'm still gearing up for the craft show I'm in on the Remembrance Day weekend in PEI. Today I made some eyeglass cases with some of my favorite fabrics and ric rac. I especially like the pink pompoms, I must find some more fabrics to match! There is ample room in the pouch, could be used for larger sunglasses as well. That's it for today!

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Bloggers quilt Festival

I made this quilt for a dear friend/teacher at my daughters' school. She was due to have a baby in July, and another teacher asked me to make her a quilt that would be part of her gift from all the teachers. I tried to make it gender neutral, with lots of bright fun colors for the baby. On the back I used a microfleece which is very soft and warm, and very easy to work with since it didn't shift, or move much during quilting. I quilted 1/4 inch in from the seams, and around the small center square.

There is nothing better than making a quilt for someone that you know is truly going to appreciate the gift. I was so excited for her to receive it, and she was so very thankful and happy to have a special blanket for her baby girl.

This week at Amy's Creative Side, she is featuring the fall installment of Blogger's Quilt Festival. It is a wonderful place to view hundreds of quilts from different bloggers all over the world. I'm linking this post to her website today.

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Glittery Day

I felt like making some more Christmas cards today-must be the cold weather! The bottom 2 cards feature stamps by Artful Stamper, the snowmen are by Stampin Up! The bottom 2 are embossed and are quite sparkly in real life, the holly was colored using twinkling H2O's. The snowmen have some glitter ritz and some viva pearl pen for the snow.

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Star block zippered pouch

Here is one more bag I made this morning. I decided to piece together a star block for the front of the pouch and fussy cut the centre block. The block came out a little bigger than I had hoped, but I guess I should have used my math skills a little better!

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Spice Cake

Here are 2 more bags I made this afternoon, again with Stampin Up! fabric. This time spice cake. These will be added to my table at the fair.

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Flirtatious zippered pouches

This morning I was busy making a couple of zippered pouches. One is a birthday present for a 6 year old friend of my daughters. I used the flirtatious designer fabric from Stampin Up!, her favorite colors are pink and purple (I lined it with purple). Now just to add some little lip glosses and hand cream....

Today is Fabric Tuesday at Quiltstory, so I'll be linking this post over there.

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More Christmas Cards

Just returned from stamp-a-stack today. It was a lot of fun. These are the other 3 cards that my tables completed. It puts me in the mood to make my Christmas cards!

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Christmas cards

I made some Christmas Cards this afternoon. I'm loving the glitter paper! I'm linking this to SSSC139 since the top card is the sketch for this week. I'm also linking this to Cori's blog for her Created for Christmas linky party-it's time to start making some gifts for Christmas and she wants to feature some ideas on her blog.

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Felt Christmas Ornaments

I'm really trying to make my booth appeal to more people this year, last year I was very baby focused. Anyhow, I ordered this wool felt from Etsy last winter and am just using it now! So far, this is what I have done, I'm thinking of bringing my daughters' little xmas tree to hang them on at the fair, but for now, I photographed them hanging in the trees behind my house! Linking this post up to Sew Modern Monday at Canoe Ridge Creations (see button on the side).

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Rainbow Thrum Mitts

I've been making these mitts forever, but I went to a mill in PEI this summer and she had bags and bags of colorful roving wool. So instead of the usual white thrums, I opted for some bright colors. And they are so warm and soft when you put your hand in, love them! I'll be adding these to my craft fair pile, it's growing (slowly!) I stumbled upon a blog called Stitched in Color and she is having a fall linky party and is including knitted items. So in honor of her Celebrate Color theme, I am linking these mitts over there today.

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