Sew'n Wild Oaks Quilting Blog: Post Number 1,000 and a Giveaway

Sew'n Wild Oaks Quilting Blog: Post Number 1,000 and a Giveaway:Hi Lynn.... It's hard to believe 1,000 post but I'm pretty sure I was there close to the first one! Love all your friendly posts and following you along the quilting path!

Merry Christmas to you and your family whoops and little Mazey too..

Hugs, Crissie

Meet Miss Iris

Block number 10

Only two more blocks to complete and I'll be ready to work on the borders. This is just glue pasted to the back ground so I've got stitching to do and then some embroidery accents here and there.

The border has all kinds of flowers, stems and leaves to applique on too. This was a BOM started in November 2009, I asked the organizer of the BOM if she felt I'd ever get it completed, she (Lynn) assured me I'd get it done.....  I think I just need to focus focus focus! Each block is 16 X 16! My mind just is so full of other things I want to do. And it's hard to shut those thoughts out. At times when I look at other quilters and all the work they put out it just amazes me how fast they work and all they accomplish. 

This is my Grand son Austin, he had been living with us for nine months so he took a lot of my time up but now he is back with his parents. I think I almost made a quilter out of him~

I was cleaning up my sewing room and trying to keep him busy, so I put up a little display board and he was having so much fun arranging and rearranging blocks. Kept him busy for a while but then it was back to his Legos

 Lego's are one of Austins favorite things and he sure can get creative, he will play for hours on end

 When he started first grade they give the children a web site to go to and an ID when they so their work on the computer the teacher can check from time to time to see what their progress is. He is very good with math so I might have a change when he gets older to be a quilter? He's playing a game right here. So it was bribe him to do his home work and then play games.

I hope everybody is having a wonderful Summer Vacation and enjoying what ever your working on. 

Well, it's been a while sense I posted. I've got many reasons~ One being our six year old grand son came to live with us for a while. Now when you haven't had small children around in a long time it takes a bit of getting use to. I'm not sure who is getting use to it, our grand son or my husband and I? We have our ups and downs but all in all, he is a good little boy. I have to keep reminding myself his is a typical six year old. He started school (first grade) last week and in his words Loves Loves Loves his new school his grandma, grandpa, mama and daddy. So that's off to a very good start!

I started Miss Zinnia way back in February and here it is the 3rd of  September. So now I'll have to prep the fabrics for Miss Iris, this will be block number 10. I had to put a number in each corner so when I go to my quilting group I can remember when I'm working on them I know what block I'm working on. Sounds like I'm close ... however ... there is a very large border and it's all applique flowers all the way around. I'm not so sure where this quilt will go when it's complete, maybe it's just going to be a reminder (one day) how much I loved needle work? My grandson and I had fun spreading the nine blocks I have completed on the floor and then picked the one we liked the best. We found that hard to do and we couldn't just pick just one.
Memories we made together.

Happy Quilting to all my friends.....
Crissie

Miss Bell is completed.. ... at a snails pace. Just a few embroidery stitches and it will be ready to add to the others that are waiting to be joined together a total of twelve blocks and I started this in 2009, I've been competing the applique work and then I'll go back and add the embroidery. I feel like I'm moving at a snails pace and wonder if I'll ever get these all completed? This is block number 8, so I'll be starting Miss Zinna #9. I'm not like Eleanor Burns with doing a quilt in a day. Remember the story about the Rabbit and the Snail race? I'm sure I am that little Snail. But something like that old TV show "The A team" I like it when a plan all comes together. I would surely win if we had a contest of UFO's.
If only I could stay focused and not fall in love with things that keep tugging at my heart.

The group I belong to has started working on a scrappy quilt something like this one. We've been having fun going through all our scraps digging out scraps, pressing and cutting into the different sizes, lots of half square  triangles. Love this quilt too! 

Just another day in a quilters world. 

Where is Winter?

Blog is acting up? I'm not sure if this is going to work? Or Google has change things? I've been working on this and I'm now picking out the backing. I'm pretty sure I've decided on the backing but was short and luck have it, I found some extra exactly like I'd picked out. This pattern is from Toppers by Lynda Milligan & Nancy Smith. I love the idea that it can go over pillows or the back of a sofa. To change the decor a little. Now, if I can squeeze quilting this between making gifts that will be nice! If not I'm sure I'll have it done by next Christmas...

Frost is on the ground and roof tops and it's 39 degrees but it's climbing, it was 34 when my husband got up at 5:00am.
I'll bet everybody is busy......

Back to my sewing room, Crissie

Christmas Time

I would like to take this time to wish everybody Happy Holidays and a Very Merry Christmas! Our Snow people are out on the table, the most snow we'll get around our house but they get us in the swing of Christmas Sprites! Now I'm trying to beat the clock on making gifts!



I've been making Table Runners and have an assembly line in the works. I love this fabric and think it works with Thanksgiving or Christmas. I'm just planning on straight stitch quilting.

Before the holiday's I made a bag for my light box.



I've completed two UFOs this year and will post those when I get them quilted. I'm still planing on working on UFO's in 2012. It's so hard to think how fast this year has passed! I'm not very good at keeping New Years Resolutions..... I make them and then fall short of following through! One of my friends told me she keeps a journal and when she starts a quilt she also put the date she plans on completing it. Good idea! But I don't know how good that would be for me? I skip from one thing to another, to many loves to keep up with. I should do as she does and never start another project until I've completed one. But some times I just want to do aplique work and other time I like piece work and then a friend will ask if I will quilt something and my work gets set aside. And then there's the ladies in our group who will bring a sweet pattern in and we just have to do it together... like the purse pattern. But those grommets discouraged me when JoEllen had troubles getting her's to work for her. I ended up giving her my package so she could complete her purse. Funny story, when we went to PIQF we found the grommets and felt they were to expensive, as we walked around we found another booth and they were mush more reasonable. We search through all they had until we found clear ones so they would go with our fabric. Come to find out they were yellow not clear~ Disappointed! We found another brand at JoAnn's but they didn't work as well at least not how the YouTube showed they should. So I'm going to complete what I started into a different style!
Have you ever checked out QuiltingHeaven.com? It has just started a few months ago from what I understand and is drawing lots of quilters.
Quiltingly Yours, Crissie