Happy Valentines day you crazy ladies!

Happy Valentines Day !

Pat's New Magazine is Out

Hi all,  Pat has given us an early treat with her magazine out for us to look and touch and look again.  Thanks Pat for a beautiful magazine of Crazy quilters.    Here is where you can order it.   It is like to me when you use to get the Sears and Roebuck catalog.   Such an exciting day when the postman deleivered it.  Everything stopped and you had to look at the pages over and over again.   Sadly when we moved a few years ago I had a 1975 catalog and somehow it found it's way to the trash.  but never the less I had lots of good memories about those catalogs. 

There is a lady out there in cyber world and her name is Di van Niekerk.  Now y'all may have already know about her but she has some beautiful work.   I just had to share her site with you.   The ribbon work is just beautiful.  The link is a balerina and the detail is to die for.  Thought y'all might like to take a peek also. 

There you go,  just a quick post but promise pics soon.   I know you all have been creating to your hearts content and making something beautiful.  

Thanks for stopping by and seeing what is going on in my world today. 
                                                            
                                                              XOXOXO
                                                                Annette

Hello Denise here,

This is my February block.  After much fooling around with colors and embellishments, I realize I need a lot more practice at this. Sometimes the flowers come out good, other times not so much. But I have to say I am having a really good time.  Love seeing all the posts from our former classmates on Pat's summer classes.

Off for now --Denise

It's February and my block is done and done

Well here is is February already.   Seems like yesterday I was just saying that for 2012.   I have my February block done for the Crazy Quilt challenge of a block a month.  I am making mine 8 inches though instead of the 6 inches.  A little more landscape to fill.   My mother in law years ago made a fan quilt and I thought I want to do that on this little block.  If she were alive today I know she would love having some of these.  So Ona this is for you.   She wasn't a blingie lady, guess she left that to her daughter in law.  I was blingie enough for us both.  It is hard to know when to stop adding to these little treasures but here is my rendition of a fan quilt. 

Hope you enjoy looking and taking a peek at it. 

 

I tried to make soft colors here the best I could for Ona.  Her favorite color was green hence the green here. 

 

Thanks for stopping by and seeing what is going on in my part of the world.  Hope you are enjoying the other members beautiful work. 

 

XOXOXO

Annette

January Block CQJP 2013

Hi there lovely ladies! How is your week going so far? I hope all is well with you and you are busy creating:) I just wanted to pop in and share my "January" block with you that was created for the block of the month in CQJP 2013.  I'm sure most of you follow, but for those who may miss it or are new, click on the link and it will take you right to the site. This a 6 x 6 block and I folded over the seems for the pic so you could get the idea. I have no idea until the end of the year what I will be doing with these so I left the borders neutral so I would have options. Probably some thing in the way of a keepsake for my youngest Granddaughter as in her world I am her favorite person, how sweet is that:) Have a great creative week!

Hugs Marilou

CQ Duo

I have been playing and playing with the CQ, so what is new?  You all  know I am so in love with this form of art, it does indeed get into our blood.   I did these two little blocks , they are 8x8 .  They are a little bigger with the velvet around them but the block itself is 8x8.  

 

 

I did add some stitching to her bodice, it just called for some bling.

 

 

The second one was fun to play with. I wasn't sure what to do with the center applique but after sewing it on thought it needed something.  I cut the tulle out of the centers and added some beaded leaves.  I am thinking you can never have to many beads.  Can you?

 

These are hung on a crystal chains and proudly displayed in my guest bathroom.  No one goes in there but I do daily just to check them out. 

 

 

Now please check our Pat Winter tutorial about the fabric books.  It is wonderful and mine is nearly finished.  I will post it on my other blog.    I am a total newbie with the fabric books but girls if you haven't tried one please try it.  Her instructions are so eazy peazy.  

 

Thanks for stopping by and seeing what is going on in my world today.

 

XOXOXOX

Annette

 

 

 

 

A New Year and a New Block.

Well Happy New Year to you all. Here we are starting a new adventure again. 2013. I am not a resolution maker but do sometimes write down on a piece of paper of things I would like to accomplish. Goals I guess, most of the time I misplace or lose the paper but in a year or so it appears. Like OK Annette, you forgot about me but here I am. I haven't done that yet this year, don't know what I am waiting for. A vision I guess, not a vision but just a time when I sit still and start writing down things. You know there is a lot to the thought of writing down in a journal or what have you, just a healing process I guess. OK I am straying now.

Last year I took several online classes and friends that is the way to do it. You can do the classes whenever you want and just dilly dally all you want. You don't have to wait on anyone that is late to the class or anything. Just play to your hearts content. I do hope to sharpen my skills with the classes I did last year, kind of do overs if you will. I have the notes, well my notes---not the best BUT on Life Book they give you PDF's and they are great. I am taking that again this year Life Book 2013. I was not the best student and didn't do all my lessons but may or not be better this year and get more done. I will not promise.

I have joined a group, on my sidebar is the link thing, and it is CQ 2013. Wow what Kathy has done is bring lots of CQers together. Where you make a block at least 6 inches and decorate it as you please and just kind of a motivation to do it!!!! Lots of ladies over the world are doing it and it is fun to see the different stitches and designs. See pat Winter what you created in me? A CQ wild lady. Being as it is the first of the year I did this square to celebrate Happy New Year !!! Some bling if you will.

I do hope you can see the detail in these. The center color is a deeper Rosy pink and a beaded center piece is a treat to own from the glitzy days of yon.

Now here is some horn tooting but Pat Winter made me feel pretty special adding me in this Winter issue of her magazine. I think I mentioned it earlier but had so share pics with you.

I just had to share the pages Pat showed in her beautiful magazine. It was certainly an honor to be included in it. Now Pat did include our photos in the last magazine with our class work we did in Artful Gathering.

The cover is aways eye candy to the CQ lover of anyone else that likes to see pretties and creative work.

The first part of my featured pages. Oh I did feel so honored when I saw this. My friend and owner of Lytle Cove Cottage in Abilene Texas is offering these to her brides. Now wouldn't those be a wonderful first stockings for a young bride and groom? I did one with denims for the handsome guys.

"THE PILLOW" was also featured. I have made a couple more of these but lighter colors. They are indeed habit forming to make these. Humm guess better than chocolate, almost.

The last but not least showcase was a purse that I made for a gift. I love mine and hope they did also.

So there you go welcoming in the new year with some bling, Texas style and instead of tooting the New Years horns I tooted my own horn. Such an honor to be in the magazine but just had to share and hope all of y'all have a wonderful and creative 2013. 

 

I cannot wait to see what the other contributors of this blog, being a joint blog here, will do for this year.    

Thanks for stopping by and seeing what is going on in my world today.

XOXOXO

Annette