Baby it’s COLD outside…

There’s ice on our ponds, frost on the back deck and the car windows need scrapping…and the fireplace is going…yup Winter is fast approaching!! A good day to stay in and stitch!

No, I didn’t stitch this wonderful little mat…but I SHOULD have because I just KNOW that this is around the corner!!  This is a Butternut Basin Pattern that Claire was working on…It says it all, don’t you think?  Dang cute!

I have been trying to use up everything that’s in our freezer before we leave…So when I found a bag of turkey meat (left-overs from our Thanksgiving) I said out loud “PERFECT!!”  And believe me, it was the perfect day for some Turkey Soup!!!  I made a huge pot of it too!  Leftovers for at least two-three days!!  Even better!  You know what left-overs mean…more time for sewing!!  And sew I did…but it’s all secrets…a real Santa’s workshop!

Good thing I received pictures from Veronica!!  Remember her…she’s the sweet lady from NY who designed and quilted this beautiful quilt and then went outside her comfort zone and entered it in a contest…  

The contest is STILL OPEN…if you haven’t already done so, you can still vote for Veronica’s quilt by going HERE!  Wouldn’t she be tickled RED AND GREEN if she won?!!

Let me show you a little more of what has kept Veronica busy these past few weeks…

This gorgeous Fall Snowball Quilt…isn’t it wonderful…

And here is a close-up of the quilting!!  PUMPKINS on a vine!  WOW!!

And this is Veronica’s first attempt at working with wool…me thinks a new WOOLIE is born!  Love the way she took this pattern and made it her own…do you see how she is making the penny fit her little oval table!!  Perfect!  Wool is hard to come by where Veronica lives so she is stitching the wool onto a cotton print background!!  VERY pretty!

SEW…that’s it for Veronica’s Show and Tell this morning!!  Hope that these pictures warmed your soul as much as they warmed mine!!

Thanks SEW much for sharing, Veronica…and good luck with the contest!!  Regardless of the outcome, you are already a winner in my books!!

Have a sunny Sunday…and stay warm…just stitch faster!!~P

Short… but DANG SWEET!…

Glynis is getting ‘Ready For Christmas’!!  Look at what she is working on…

Is this not DANG SWEET?!  It’s called ‘Ready for Christmas’ and was a FREE pattern from Scrap, Quilt and Stitch Blog…and YES, it is still up on her blog and yes, it is still FREE…and YES, YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO GET ‘READY FOR CHRISTMAS’!! 

Glynis is appliqueing wool onto cotton and just has the stitching left.  The wool adds a lovely richness to this whole project!    Glynis had a slight ‘dilemma’…her green tree bough stitches were lost in the snow…so she  has decided to stitch over them using a much darker green thread to pop them more!  Glynis’ work is always perfect…I will (hopefully) show you pictures when she is finished and ALL  ‘Ready For Christmas’! 

Now hustle over to Scrap, Quilt and Stitch Blog and download this wonderful pattern…and remember to pop in and say “THANK YOU”!!  Roxanne, the designer of this pattern,  has been so generous with her time and talent!  If you take the time to peruse her blog, you will find many FREE and wonderful patterns that are still waiting for you to download!!  And you thought you had nothing to do this fine Saturday morning!  haha

Thanks for popping in for the visit…it’s always good to say HI and share a morning coffee!!~P

“THE NEW PHONEBOOK IS HERE!! THE NEW PHONEBOOK IS HERE!!”

Did you recognize this quote?…It came from Steve Martin in ‘The Jerk’ as he runs like a wild man throughout his town, waving the newly released phonebook…screaming “The new phonebook is here!!  The new phonebook is here!!”  He was excited to see his name in print! (Trust me it was funny!…Well, maybe you had to be there?)

Anyways..that’s how I felt yesterday!!  I FINALLY had my hot and sweaty hands on the newest Quilts and Crafts magazine called ‘Simply Vintage’!!  I have been drooling over this magazine for months now… but this is the FIRST issue translated into English and we found it in Chapters and Monroe Book Store in Victoria!! (insert happy dance…and me running throughout the shop yelling ‘Simply Vintage’ is HERE!!  ‘Simply Vintage’ is HERE!!!!)

Oh man…it was SEW worth the wait!  Imagine Lisa Bongean, Norma Whaley, Connie Tesene and Mary Etherington, Polly Minick, Mary Flanagan, Kathy Cardiff…and SEW on…and SEW on..all in one magazine!!  WELL here they are…all together!! 

Have a peak…isn’t it purdy…they really captured that vintage feel…

         

This wool runner (by Lisa DeBee Schiller) stopped my heart…I swear, they had to get out the paddles!!

It was worth the price of the magazine just for this pattern alone!!

A sweet and simple quilt…the best kind!!  (by Norma Whaley)

And Kathy Cardiff whipped this one up…gorgeous!!

Wish I could show you MORE…but I better not!!  I WILL show you the back of the magazine…top left is Lisa’s ‘Favourite Things’!!  Yowzers, I love this quilt…and yes the pattern is in this magazine!!  On  the bottom right…looks like a penny rug but it’s really a cover for an ottoman!  SWEET!

I would say that ‘Simply Vintage’ is a cross between ‘Primitive Quilts Magazine’ and ‘Quiltmania Magazine’…SEW if you like those two magazines then you are going to LOVE ‘Simply Vintage’!  If you want to see more of ‘Simply Vintage’ than go HERE…and if you click on the magazine, it will activate the page flipping magic!!  (love the computer!!)  That way you will get to see MORE projects without me breaking any copyright laws!!  ALSO check out the newest WINTER edition…it’s a winner too!

So rush out to your nearest bookstands…if we have this magazine here in Canada, then you will definitely have it wherever you may live!  Happy hunting!!

I hope you have a FUN Friday…as for me, I’m off to a Craft Fair and lunch with THREE car loads of women…and I am the only QUILTER!  Yes, I like to occasionally keep in touch with the ‘outside world’!  :0))))