Neighborhood Block Party Linkup!

A reminder about the Neighborhood Party Going on!

Make a 12.5 inch house and enter for a chance to win 9-12 houses made by others in the Neighborhood.

Click here or on the house icon above for more information and to sign-up.

My sister Ida is providing a linky so you can link-up your house block entry. If you have been a previous winner of the Neighborhood Party you may also link-up a post showing us what you made with your winning blocks. Let's all have fun!

Link up here.

1. Make house block 12 1/2 x12 1/2 inches square and sign-up here.

2. Mail to me so I receive by March 1, 2016

3. Link-up at Ida's linky

4. Have Lots of Fun!

Oh.  This is my entry. Even though I won't be eligible to win, I'm making my house block for the winner. It's the same block I'm using for the Neighborhood Party but it won't have my blog name on it.

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Neighborhood Party

Neighborhood Party Going on!

Make a 12.5 inch house and enter for a chance to win 9-12 houses made by others in the Neighborhood. Click here or the house photo below for more information! Click here to post your block to the linky party


On another topic:

Once again it's time for Anthea's "Piece Yourself Together" linky at "Hibiscus Stitches." This is the first link-up of the year. Please click on the photo link below to see what others are doing with their hexies.

We've been on the road again so I was able to continue with my hand-sewing on 1/2-inch hexie flowers. When last I showed you what I'd sewn together, there were 65 flowers. I now have 82 flowers sewn together. The background is a little wrinkled since I'm standing atop the bed taking the photo in our hotel room.

I also spent some time making MORE stepping stones to sew around my flowers. This part is definitely not fun for me...

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Neighborhood Party 2016

Encouraging Words of the Day:

Today I'm excited to tell you about a little celebration. It's not something new. In fact, some of you probably remember Beth’s Neighborhood Party from previous years. Beth created the Neighborhood Party which worked like a lotto where anyone wishing to participate sewed a house block. The houses were grouped the into neighborhoods and then the random generator chose the winners. Beth whose blog is "Love Laugh Quilt" has been unable to host the neighborhood the last couple of years. I really missed the Neighborhood Party so my sister Ida who blogs at "My Sister Made Me Do It" and I have resurrected it, with Beth’s “okay” of course.

If you've missed the Neighborhood Block Party too or if this is the first time you’ve heard about it and are interested in joining us, all you need to do is construct one house block.

12 1/2" square.

Send the block to me.

I will let the random generator choose the winners.

The winners will receive 9-12 houses each...depending on how many come in.

Ida will also provide a “linky” on her blog, "My Sister Made Me Do It..."page, , where we can link up and show off our houses.  Click on the link HERE to post to the linky



If you'd like to play along,

leave a comment below.

I will email you my address so you can send your block.



There are NO firm commitments here.

If you decide later NOT to sew a little house...

That's o.k.....Life happens..... :)



Add your blog address (if you have one)

or your name on the front with a fabric pen.

That makes it fun for the winners!



Deadline for these houses is MARCH 15, 2016.

That gives you time to decide on your house pattern and get it mailed to me.



I'm excited to see all the houses that come in. Beth tells me that she will try to join the party as well!



Please include email address if you are

a no reply blogger,

if you have no blog...

or are unsure!



We’d love to hear from PAST winners and post about the finished quilts that have been constructed with blocks won at the Block Party. As a matter of fact, I was a winner in 2012 and here is my “Neighborhood Quilt.” The photography is not the greatest, but take my word for it, it is a beautiful quilt and I'm so happy with my house blocks.

If you'd like to include a SECOND house block for a charity quilt....please send it along! We’ll be constructing a/some charity quilts.



This REALLY IS the BEST neighborhood. Tell your friends.

Let's CELEBRATE together!

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Piece Yourself Together Hexie Flowers

Encouraging Words of the Day:

 

Once again it's time for Anthea's "Piece Yourself Together" linky at "Hibiscus Stitches." Please click on the photo link below to see what others are doing with their hexies.

We've been on the road lately so I was able to get some hand-sewing done on my lifetime project of 1/2-inch hexie flowers. When last I showed you what I'd sewn together, there were 25 flowers. I now have 65 flowers and the piece measures a measley 21" X 31".

Upon returning from our travels, I was excited to find two packages containing flowers, both from fellow stitchers in the "Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap."

Geraldine, my November swap partner sent me these lovely flowers. I really like how she combined the different patterns/prints in the second flower. They are both perfect. Thanks so much.

We have a new member from Russia. We sent each other test snail mail to see how long it would take to receive something from each other. In about 2 weeks, I received these flowers. I love the cheerful yellow centers and those pretty prints. Thanks, Debra

And finally, for my December partner, I've completed these flowers which will go in the mail tomorrow.

My partner is Debra who is asking for small prints in the petals and black and white stripe, checks, or lines for the center. I hope she'll like what I chose for her.

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Trunk Full of Quilts Show

Encouraging Words of the Day:

I just found out about this wonderful Quilt Trunk Show from my sister. Its a place where we all get a chance to showcase our work on a blog post and link it up on this site. The Trunk Show is hosted by by Soma at Whims and Fancies. Just click on the photo below and you can go there too!

What a great place to see alll sorts of beautiful quilts made by our fellow bloggers. Here's the link:

http://www.whimsandfancies.com/trunk-full-of-quilts-2015/

I have two quilts I've made to show you. It seems like I've wanted a Christmas quilt for a long time but every time I thought about making one, it was almost Christmas and I never seemed to get it done. I finally started one in 2013, worked on it throughout the year, off-and-on, and finally finished by Christmas 2014. This pattern was from a Sampler Quilit-Along hosted by Beaquilter in 2013.

Here's another of my favorite quilts. My House Quilt is comprised of blocks from several sources. Whenever I found a house that appealed to me, I'd make that block and save it. Finally, I got enough houses to make a quilt. Well, the blocks are not all houses because I was getting anxious to see a finished quilt so a few blocks are not a house. Oh, and one year, I won some houses made by felllow quilters in a lotto hosted by Beth at Love, Laugh. Quilt blog:

http://lovelaughquilt.blogspot.com

Those are two of my favorite quilts, bad photography but great quilting, LOL.

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Hexie Flowers From Far Away

Encouraging Words of the Day:

 

We've been traveling but when we got home, I found these gorgeous flowers waiting for me in our mailbox:

These hexie flowers came to Texas all the way from my September partner in the Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap, Michele in Wisconsin, USA.

I think they're so pretty and love the contrast in the two. One flower in those beautiful browns and the other with its sunshiney center and the little confetti-looking print. Thanks, Michele.

And then there was another envelope which came to Texas from further away. Here are these lovely flowers from Sara in the UK, my October partner in the Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap.

What a coincidence, another lovely brown and 2 sunshiney yellow centers PLUS another flower with a confetti-looking print. I love the colors you chose for me. Thanks, Sara.

I'm off now to do my own sewing.

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Two Hexie Projects Getting Closer to Completion

Encouraging Words of the Day:

Hexies everywhere! I'm linking up with Anthea's "Piecing Yourself Together."

 

I finally feel like I'm getting close to finishing my "Rocksprings Wallhanging." Rocksprings is where our llittle ranch is located. My sister Ida paper-pieced a replica of our ranch house and I've been working on hexies to surround it. The hexies have been hand-sewn together and all I need to do now is fit the ranch house into the hole in the middle and put the wallhanging together in preparation for quilting.

Then, in my spare time, usually while watching tv, I continue to sew my little 1/2-inch hexies together.

The photo looks like a lot but it's barely a piece about 15 inches by 20 inches since the hexie flloweers are so small.

And finally, these two hexie flowers are off to my swap partner in the "Inchy Hexagon Flower Swap." She requested pink and/or purple flowers with a white or beige center.

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