Halloween Giveaway Goodies

I got myself in gear and got all my goodies together to send to QuiltingDaisy, winner of my "Celebration" giveaway. They will be going into the mail tomorrow or this afternoon if I have time.

I wanted to make more for the giveaway but I only had time to make the embroidered towel. Taking lead from my friend Kris (dandelionquilts), I tried my hand again at machine embroidery.

Came out pretty good, I think!

Here's a close-up of the pumkin.

I got the pumpkin embroidery pattern from SWAK embroidery. I love their site. LOVE it. There are so many things I want to do off the site and their sister sites. And their instructions are very easy to follow. I'm going to be making some Christmas/winter towels too. I think with snowmen.

They have one project that has been on my mind since I found the site about 6 months ago. This one. Since I can't find a darn thing with Amelia's name on it, I would love to make her a personalized pillow. And I adore the font they used and it's all done in the hoop. On their sister site, youcanmakethis.com, they have the letter patterns for sale to make it "manually" but I like how I can set my embroidery machine up to do all the curves and stuff and I just have to sit back and watch it come alive before me!

I did a practice run with the pillow but I ran into some puckering so I put it aside. I'm taking a stablizer class/lecture in a couple of weeks. That's going to help me a lot in getting over my machine embroidery fears.

That's all I got. I'm up for a very quiet weekend. Punkie is going with my in-laws today to New Hampshire for the weekend. So I'll have Saturday and Sunday all to myself! What to do? What to do? My list is long. I have lots of sewing to get caught up on and some movie watching to do. I don't think I'll be bored at all!

Enjoy your day!

Jen :)

You Got Mail

I got lots of goodies in the mail over the weekend. First from Marsha and Frannie from cutestuffinside... A guilt free cupcake "pot" of chocolate lip gloss. MMMMMMM. Chocolate! And fat free too! Thank you Marsha and Frannie for remembering me on Valentine's Day! You guys are the best.


Next up... a box filled with goodies from Sharon. She sent me a package of Thangles so that I can practice my triangles, some fabric scraps which will come in very handy for my stash, some cherished candy for Punkie, a tool for my ruler to cut fabric correctly... I NEED that... a weekly calendar, some Valentine's Day pencils and a sock monkey tote. LOVE that tote. Now, I'm not sure if that tote was meant for me or Amelia but I'm going to use it first. Punkie told me it was just the right size for her so we'll share it. Update to say: I emailed Sharon to thank her for her gifties and she clarified... the sock monkey bag was intended for Punkie. SHOOT! LOL. That's okay. We can share. Amelia is really good at sharing!

LOVE that tote! Thank you Sharon! You're the greatest!

One more. This is stuff that I bought.

Fabric from my ironing board cover project. I need to wash it first. That's going be one sharp looking ironing board once I'm done with it! I'm not going to want to iron on it. LOL.

And some happy spring fabric. I think it's called Farmer's Market? I spotted it and NEEDED it. LOL. I'm going to cut them into fat quarters. There's a half yard of each.

That's all. I hope everyone had a nice Valentine's Day and did something special with your loved ones. We spent a quiet day at home which is rare. My husband is always out and about on Saturdays but I asked him to stay around the house and spend the day with us. He did. I was also surprised to receive this for Valentine's Day...

I hinted that I really liked it (and an email to him helped too. LOL). My husband is not one to spend money on jewelry even though that is a safe bet for gifts for me so I was really surprised to get it. Better than flowers. Lasts forever.

Enjoy your day!

Jen