Friday Night Sew In is Tonight!

I hope you can join in for the fun tonight!

To sign up for the sew in, 

just click the 

Friday Night Sew In

button on my side bar,

or click

HERE

Tonight I will be working on something just for me.

You know how I adore my blogger buddy,

Melissa,

from 100 Billion Stars.

Well lucky for me

(and now YOU!)

she posted a freebie pattern today

that is so cute and simple,

I was chomping at the bit to get out of work early to make it!

Just click this link

HERE

if you would like to try your hand at it.

It's the Fresh & Easy Table Topper.

Here's the fabric I have cut and ready to put together.

Another fun event I'm participating in is the Triple Zip Along

hosted by Deb of A Quilter's Table.

I've been wanting to give these pouches a try,

so this is the perfect opportunity.

If you are interesting joining,

just click 

HERE 

for details.  There are some great prizes!

I think the fabrics & zippers I have picked out here will

make a cute pouch.

(I'm all over cute, you know!)

One more thing you might be interested in

is my friend, Stephanie,

from Peas in a Pod

is participating in a blog hop

and having a giveaway on the neatest quilt pattern.

I am so in love with it that if I don't win it,

I am purchasing it for sure.

You can read about Stephanie's adventure with the pattern testing

of the Peace Quilt, the giveaway, and blog hop

HERE.

Enjoy!!

xoxo

Cindy

Friday Night Sew In

I have a quick post to share today!

Lots to get done.

Groceries, helping at the in laws and a Halloween party tonight.

Last night was the monthly Friday Night Sew In.

I had some help from my "homies".

My lovely little girl, Oreo.

My 'energized' gal, Sadie

And with their help, I was able to create this "Ghastlie" wall hanging!

I bought this fabric (The Ghastlie's) last year, 

so I fussy cut a few of the 'family' members,

scrounged through my scraps for fabric to put with it,

and came up with this little goodie.

By the end of the weekend I will have it quilted and hanging in

it's new spot in our livingroom.

I'll make sure to share pictures when it's done!

At least I'll have a little time to show it off before Halloween is over.

:o)

I hope you all have a beautiful weekend!

xoxo

Cindy

Friday Night Sew In Accomplishment

Hey!

Just a quick update on what I worked on last night for the

Friday Night Sew In.

I've had this quilt ready to bind for quite a while,

I FINALLY sat down with it last night

and cut the binding and sewn it on.

I LOVE the tutorial Julie Herman of Jaybird Quilts has on her blog for a perfect binding.

You can find it here.

My bindings come out perfect every time.

No bulk, or humps, when you come to the end of the line.

Just a perfect mesh of fabric flowing smoothly along the sides of the quilt.

I love it!

So here it is

(and you've seen posts on this quilt before...lol)

I need to hand sew it to the back and

put a label on it

then it's all ready for use.

This was a from a quilt along from

Rachel of psiquilt.

If you're interested in making it,

just click here for the tutorial.

This is a link to Rachel's free tutorials.

You will love them!

And make sure to check out the Flickr group to see all the beautiful

pinwheel quilts everyone made.

Make sure to tune in at 7:00 PM (CST) tonight

for my next blog post!

You can start to sign up for the giveaway of:

I have not one, but TWO issues to giveaway! 

Sign ups will start tonight and the winner will be

announced on July 22nd.

So be watching for the blog post tonight!

See you soon!

xoxo

Cindy



Fabulous Thursday

Hey!

How the heck are you?

I'm doing pretty well, thank you.

I took the afternoon off work yesterday

and had lunch with my

"sister from another mister".

(Don't freak out...that's just a saying

when two gals are so much alike

they really should have been sisters)

LOL

I've posted about my friend, Julie, before.

We seriously are two peas in a pod.

Except she likes dark, primitive fabrics

and I like cheery, modern fabrics.

Other than that,

we are identical.

And I forgive her for this

one, slight difference.

:o)

So here we are right after I picked her up

at work for lunch.

(Julie on the left and me on the right)

I thought I better tell you that

because you might not be able to tell us apart.

***wink***

We're just crazy.

I made her the cute little

Catch All Cutey

from Melissa

at 100 Billion Stars.

You'll have to excuse the shadow.
I made this at 5:00 in the morning.
Just cause...
you know...
she's that special.
:o)
So special that I made the pouch
in 'her' colors.
I put my iTouch next to it
so you can get a feel of what the size it.
I know you're going to want to make one!
So hop on over to the tutorial
and get busy.
I PROMISE you won't be disappointed.
Swear.
Cross my heart.

I know y'all are just dying to know what we had for lunch.
We were good girls
(darn it!)
And had this luscious
oriental salad.

We ordered it with grilled chicken.
But I won't lie.
We really wanted that crispy
fried chicken.
Our hearts are thanking us right now
for staying away from the grease.
But my mouth is watering
thinking about that crunchy chicken.
No worries...
I'm not giving into the beast!

On a side note,
if you're not busy on April 20th,
that's the night for the
Friday Night Sew In.
They're doing something really special,
so click here  to sign up.
That's actually my 27th wedding anniversary,
(oh for the love...how did that happen when I'm only 29?? LOL)
but I'm pretty sure I'll be fitting some sewing in that night as well.
I hate to not help out with something like this.

I hope you all have a fabulous Friday!
xoxo
Cindy

Friday Night Sew In

Last night I took some much needed time

to lock myself in my sewing room.

I love Friday Night Sew-In's.

You can get the button for this monthly event

here

It was great therapy to shut the world out

and just be in my room creating all these yummy projects.

I got 2 quilt backs sewn together

and they'll be off to the quilter today

(thanks, Sarah!)

I have two more quilt backs to go

and then I will be caught up with those.

Melissa from 100 Billion Stars

designed this adorable tutorial.

I love her patterns.

They are so easy to follow

and the end result always makes me happy!

Plus, as you know, she's just one of my all around

favorite people.

If you aren't already following her blog,

you really should.

She has been a HUGE inspiration to me.

I used Good Fortune by Kate Spain

for everything but the strap.

For the strap I used Terrain,

also by Kate Spain.

(cause, you know, I think she's pretty awesome too)

Melissa & Kate go well together,

don't you think?

:o)

I also made this zipper pouch

using this pattern

This pattern has GREAT instructions for zippers.



I hope you all have a great weekend!

Mine is full of busy things,

so I'm glad I had last night to myself.

I gotta say,

I do like my own company.

LOL!

Make it a good one!

xoxo

Cindy



Friday Night Sew-In

First, if some of you just received an email update,

I apologize for the confusion.

I hit 'publish' when I meant to delete.

So I'm sure it made absolutely no sense.

Ugh...

For anyone that's interested,

I just found this AWESOME idea

from another blogger.

I signed up.

It's going to be fun!

Click the Friday Night Sew-In button on my right side bar.

Check it out and join the fun!

Heidi's website is here.

Have fun!!