One-Flower Wednesday and On the Road Again

Encouraging words of the day.

Today, no matter where you are in your journey of faith, just focus on moving forward. God hasn’t given up on you! Trust that He has you in the right place at the right time. Trust that He is working all things together for your good. Trust that new doors are opening. Choose faith and patience, and you will inherit His promises because it’s never too late for you to embrace the good things God has in store for you!

Today is One Flower Wednesday, organized by Karen (over at Journey of a Quilter.) Karen provides a linky for all of to share our hexagon flowers so if you’re interested in seeing beautiful hexie flowers, check it out.   Here are two scrappy flowers I’ve made.

We’re driving back to El Paso today so I’ll have plenty of opportunity to sew more petals and sew up hexie flowers.  I also have a couple of “My Jane” blocks to complete so I should be fairly productive.  Not much else to tell you.  Just posting this quick update and getting ready to go on a 6 ½ hour drive.  Until later.

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Fugly Fabric Winner and Snow in Rocksprings

Encouraging Words of the Day – Many people enjoyed receiving moisture in Texas this past week. We actually got snow in Rocksprings. We continue to pray for  heaven's gates to open and continue to replenish the earth.  Thank you, God, for your care and faithfulness.

Happy Valentines Day

As I mentioned in my prayer of thanks above, we had a snow fall in Rocksprings, Texas.  This dusting of snow is rare in this part of the world.  We bought our property here in 1999 and this is only the second snow we’ve seen.

Recently, Lucy at "Charm About You" hosted a linky party and  I decided to join the Fugly Fabric Party since I have a few fabrics that definitely qualify.  It turned out that 21 of my blogging friends were interested in owning my fugly fabric.  

 The Random Number Generator chose the winner this morning.

Gina said... 8

I'm a follwer! Would love to use the fabric in the prayer quilts I make for our church ministry! Thanks so much for the giveaway!

Congratualtons, Gina.  I will contact you by email to get your snail mail address. 

Giveaways I've run into:

"Leona's Quilting Adventure" is having a giveaway of Jennifer Chiaverini book, Sonoma Rose and a Vicksburg Civil War Charm pack. – ends February 24^th.

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Traveling Stash Giveaway & Christmas Quiltalong

Encouraging Words of the Day – And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8:32, NLT

I’ve joined the "Christmas 2011 Quilt-Along" hosted by Sue at "Quilt Times."  What we do is set aside a day to work on our Christmas projects and post about it.  This month our hostess is Hazel from "Hazel's Quilts."   Ok, so, what I’m starting today is a mini quilt that I saw at "Temecula Quilt Co." called the “12 Days of Christmas.”  One of the hardest things for me is finding coordinating fabrics in my stash.  What I ended up with are these prints:

A reminder about the “Traveling Stash” that  "My Sister Made Me Do It..." won and is now ready to send along after chosing the  goodies she wanted and replaced with some of her own. and is ready to send the “Traveling Stash” on its way to another lucky winner.  Just look at all these lovely items.

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Traveling Stash Giveaway

Encouraging Words of the Day –

But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you have rescued me. I will sing to the LORD because he is good to me. - Psalm 13:5-6, NLT David was faithful to God and trusted wholeheartedly in him, but he felt the pressure of his problems as much as anyone. Instead of giving up or giving in, however, David held on to his faith.  In times of despair, it is much harder to hold on than to give up. But if you give up on God, you give in to a life of despair.

I’m still sewing and enjoying myself so much.  We have a good weekend ahead of us with our youngest son and our daughter coming to the ranch so I won’t be sewing much then.  What I’ll actually be sewing is some mending which my bachelor son will be bringing.  In the meantime, I’m posting what I’ve completed on the "2012 Free-Motion Quilting Challenge."  This month we’re sewing feathers that are supposed to look like this:

 It seems so easy when you watch the video.  I even practiced doing it on paper.  It was not easy.  Finally I tried it on real fabric.  I’m trying to put my free-motion sandwich to use so I’m  making myself a little wall hanging each month, then quilting on the backside for my free-motion challenge of the month.  I made a cute little Sunbonnet Sue for St. Patrick’s Day.  I kind of ruined it with my free-motion quilting.  Here’s what the back of my quilt sandwich looks like. 

I drew the bottom ones lightly with pencil, then sewed them.  The top two, once I knew what I was doing, actually turned out worse.  Needless to say, I won’t be using this technique in a quilt for quite a while. Here's the front side of my St. Patrick's Day Sunbonnet Sue.

Good thing this is practice and I'm not sending it to one of you all as a candle mat or wall hanging or mini quilt in some swap...

Have you heard about the “Traveling Stash” that are all the rave in Blogland?  I guess they’ve been around for a while but I’m just now hearing about them AND my sister won one.  Now she’s chosen all her goodies and is ready to send the “Traveling Stash” on its way to another lucky winner.  Just look at all these lovely items.

Check it out and enter to win it at "My Sister Made Me Do It."   I guess I’ll disqualify myself from entering it.  Doesn’t sound right, if I should win it.  BUT, maybe I’ll be able to win it from one of you all?

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Teddy Bears' Picnic in Australia

Encouraging words of the day:

Those who know your name trust in you, for you, O Lord, do not abandon those who search for you.~ Psalm 9:10, NLT

Melody at The House on the Side if the Hill sponsors "Teddy Bears’ Picnic" on every second Thursday of the month. There are free patterns, fun links and giveaways. Please join in the fun. Here is my little Teddy who is planning to attend the “Teddy Bears’ Picnic today in Australia.  My Teddies love going to the picnics but are always late since the picnic in Australia starts wayyy before it’s Thursday in Texas.  Thanks for making him feel welcome.

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Fugly Fabric

Encouraging words of the day:

Those who know your name trust in you, for you, O Lord, do not abandon those who search for you. ~ Psalm 9:10, NLT

Lucy at "Charm About You" is having a linky party and  I’ve decided to join the Fugly Fabric Party since I have a few fabrics that definitely qualify. 

This is an opportunity for me to get rid of fabrics I consider ugly but that someone out in blogland might like to “try” to do something with.

Here’s a photo of my “Fugly Fabrics.”

I have no idea what I thought I would ever do with the first colorful fat quarter.

The second one is a quarter yard although not a fat quarter of an ugly brown fabric with flowers on it.  Go figger…

The third one is not the beautiful light purple you see but a dark obnoxious purple.  It is almost a fat quarter as I cut two hexies out of it trying to justify ever buying this fat quarter.

And the last one is another ugly, ugly, "flowerdy" brown fat quarter.  What was I thinking?

This is open to my followers so if anyone listed as my follower is interested in owning these fabrics just let me know and tell me you’re a follower.  What a way to repay someone for following me, huh?  If more than one follower is interested, I will draw the loser  winner on Feb 14^th.

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One-Flower Wednesday and My Jane B-4

Encouraging Words of the Day –

But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you have rescued me.
~ Psalm 13:5, NLT

I’m enjoying getting back to my sewing machine.  I’ve been sewing like crazy.  I finished the the name for my "Name Game"  person over at Samelia’s Mum’s blog.  Oh, and it’s One Flower Wednesday .  That day of the week when Karen from Journey of a Quilter) gives everyone the chance to share their hexie flowers.  Here are mine:

I took photos of “My Jane” blocks.  I don’t know if it takes me longer to sew a block or lay it out, photograph it, do all the tweaking on my photo editor, write the blog and post my photos and so on.  But you know all this since you’re doing it too.  Anyway, here is “My Jane” B-4.  It is all paper-pieced and came out beautifully.  It looks kind of crooked in the photo but I’m blaming that on my lack of photographic skills.

 

B-4

Then I worked on a couple of blocks for the Block Lotto which is now at BlockLotto.com  The color combination selected for Valentines Day is somewhat strange and/or different; gray, orange, pink, and cream.  I’m not too sure if I like them or not.  See what you think of these two:

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