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Do you Facebook?

I love facebook.  I can find out tons about my family and what they are up to...I can communicate with my girls (the son has banned me from his account and I don't want to know why!) I can see what my favorite fabric designers are doing ...  Something else I can do?
I can enter contests...I am very particular about which ones I enter though...And Bernina came up with one a couple of weeks ago that I HAD to enter.  I posted a photo of my sewing room and am in the running to win $2500 from Bernina and $2500 from Home Depot..  My sewing room could sure use it.

If you facebook would you please go over and vote for me...starting today and every day until May 25th..

Click this link  BERNINA Makeover Contest   and I am on page 66 bottom left hand side.  Nancy L in Williamsburg Mo.

Thanks so much...

Here is the photo so you know what to look for... Isn't this pitiful?  Bad color, bad light, no floor, the only thing going for it is it's big...

Posted by Nancy at Thursday, May 19, 2011 7 comments: Links to this post 


Last week there was a blog hop for Pat Sloans new book.."What a Novel Idea".  I won the drawing on Carrie and Rosie's blog LaVieEnRosie.   And just in case you don't know that Rosie is her dog...she makes it very clear on her package...lol A couple of days ago I received Pat's book in the mail from Leisure Arts, so was very surprised to find this huge box on my front step yesterday..  Apparently when you win something from Carrie you get more than what you won... Thimbles, 100 Blocks edition 3 magazine, two mole skin journals, an organizer in green and fabric...7 yards of fabric to be exact.  You can see the yellow orange...it's a cute circus print...and then there was a wonderful Christmas print..

Tomorrow the real estate agent is coming to get the details on the house so we can get it on the market.. I hate it... I am excited to move and be closer to the grandkids, but I would love to have an inner Samantha  and just have to twitch my nose and have the house clean, sold and all of this stuff moved... but since that isn't bound to happen, I guess I better get busy...lol

Posted by Nancy at Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11 comments: Links to this post 

and I spent my Mothers Day sewing....

Saturday was the first St Louis Modern Quilt Guild Sew-In.. such a long fancy name for such a fun group of friends getting together to do what we like to do best...

I can't show you what "some" of them  worked on cause they are doing some secret sewing for THE MARKET...you know...the one in Salt Lake City that starts this week?  Five members of our guild are making lap quilts for a local designer and oh man...are they all wonderful...and even though they all have the same fabric each quilt looks so different!  I can't wait til I have permission to show them...

In the meantime..here is what the rest of us mere mortals worked on...

And remember this video?   I sent out a message and asked anyone that wanted to race to bring a jelly roll all sewn together..  and we raced!!  Kristy had a stopwatch on her phone and was in charge of starting the race, and keeping the times...

I came in first and there is a reason I won't show you the back or the seams...I can't promise that I kept a good 1/4 inch seam all the time ever...  I take the most terrible awful photos in the history of the world..unfortunately it looks just like me...lol I also made a small zipper bag for seconddaughter and worked on a Yellow Brick Road for a new baby coming soon... no photos of either...

And how did I spend Sunday? The normal Mothers Day..

And everything has just been dumped into the sewing room and it's a mess and we have a realtor coming tomorrow and I need to stop typing and get cleaning...

Posted by Nancy at Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11 comments: Links to this post 

Mothers Day... 

Have a good weekend all...

Posted by Nancy at Friday, May 06, 2011 4 comments: Links to this post 

do your quilts talk? I woke up early this morning and after having tea and some cereal....reading email and checking in on my blogs I decided to finish cleaning the sewing room...  It never fails.. As soon as I get the cutting table and ironing surface cleaned up I am compelled to mess it up again.. So out came my quilt challenge project.  I started about a week after we got the fabric and instructions and then got stuck..I didn't like what I had done and put it away..   I got out what I had already pieced together and started "reverse sewing"... Then those little pieces started talking..and talking..and talking..and then it was YELLING!!  And I hurriedly tried to listen and draw sketched out the pattern and started stitching... and stitching...and stitching...and finally I had a top...then I had it pinned...then it was quilted...and now the binding is on and ready to be sewn down.  And now it must be sleeping because it is nice and quiet in the sewing room. whew..and I am tired..but so relieved to be "this close" to being completely done..

There is no "rule" that says we can't show it, but I think I'll keep it off the blog until we have the reveal..which isn't until the second Saturday of June...  I am so happy with myself that I have it almost done.  I will confess to being a chronic procrastinator...although I do pull it out at the last minute...

Today my Redwork group meets.  I haven't been to a meeting since December and have no idea what is going on, but I will gather up my hand stitching and show up...

And then I need to figure out what to take to my Sew In on Saturday...and pack...

Posted by Nancy at Thursday, May 05, 2011 6 comments: Links to this post 

Oh, don't fall over....

Yes, two posts in as many days... but this is too good not to share...

Go HERE...and read... So funny and so true!!

Back to working on my Modern Quilt Guild Solids Challenge..  it's finally revealed itself to me...

Posted by Nancy at Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2 comments: Links to this post 

APQS Quilt Show in Paducah...

I think this is my 10th year going to the show in Paducah.  I remember being overwhelmed my first year and I think I came home with a couple of fq's...  (I made up for it the next year!lol)  This year was a bit different with the flood gates being closed and a lot of the vendors moved to the west part of town.  The city of Paducah came through though and the free bus service moved the quilters around as fast as possible.  We were given new maps with the routes and yes, it took some time to get from place to place, but all in all they did the best they could with the situation..

A friend and I took the bus again this year... We left St Louis at 5:30am and returned around 10pm..  It was a long day, but the sun was out and it didn't rain and it wasn't so hot you died...

So what did I get this year?

The quilts were absolutely stunning...

I know I have been MIA lately..  We are working really hard on the other house and also getting this one in some kind of shape to put on the market..  I have a couple of quilts that have deadlines and I have been working on them...but of course can't show you..one is a challenge and one is for a new baby coming later this year.

I fear this blog will continue to be quiet until the other house is finished.  I hope you will all stop in now and again and check on me...I will be here...

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