A Second Lookie Lou at Cindy Lou Who

Julie at Jaybird Quilts is having a 100th post giveaway... and she did good!!!

She went to Market with a plan and a list... and now she is celebrating! She picked out great goodies for you to win... so all you have to do is "enter-to-win"... as they say!

I didn't realize that she was had been blogging about the same amount of time that I have.

I haven't reached my 100th post yet... but it's coming soon.

So tell you what,

go on over and give Julie some blogging love and enter to win her giveaway!

Then next week or so, when it's my time to celebrate we'll have our own giveaway right here. It's just a win, win all the way around!

and speaking of winning...

Cindy Lou Who and I wanted to acknowledge the November

Schnibbles winners one more time!

So I thought we could have another look at the quilts of

our (randomly picked) winners:

Lanette from Crafting in Tataville blog.

By Judith (n0 blog).

KJ Quilts... aka Quilt Quilter.


Megan's of Crooked Seams


From Carol at Carol's Craft Blog.


Happy Cottage Quilter!

Kviltsinta blog... of Stina's.

I just loved all the variations of this quilt. Everybody did an amazing job! I want to thank you all for participating in the parade and also for taking the time to visit the Parade of Schnibbles on both my blog here and over at A Quilting Life; Sherri did a great job organizing while I was here, there and everywhere...

Cindy Lou Who-- We Have Winners!

We had the parade and now we have the prize winners!

But first... please take one more look at the parade. I have added some quilts to

my post that I neglected to get into the parade somehow!

I know you want to see them all!!!

We have wonderful support of our Year of Schnibbles from several Featured Quilt Shops.

We want to thank them very much for their generosity and interest in our group!

First of all, Carrie Nelson who not only designed the patterns-- she has a wonderful prize, actually two prizes for us.

The Fat Quarter Shop is extremely generous in offering a $50 gift certificate... now even if you didn't win this time... you might want to play along thinking of next month... and go see what you would pick out if you won a gift certificate from FQS! It could be you next!

Lake Havasu Quilt Shop is offering a Thanksgiving Holiday panel along with coordinating fabrics, so you can whip up a little something before Thanksgiving!


Bear Paw Quilts & more is offering 2 Harvest Home charm packs by Blackbird Designs to one of the winners!

Quilt Taffy is donating a great gift certificate this time. They have a large selection of charm packs and patterns to choose from.

Carolyn from Cottage Quilts also has a wonderful gift certificate for $25 to one lucky winner!


Now to announce the winners of our A Year of Schnibbles Parade...

Carrie has posted her winners (randomly picked) on her blog yesterday...

They were...

Megan of Crooked Seams from my blog

and

Jocelyn of Happy Cottage Quilter from Sherrie's blog.

From Sherrie's group there was

Carol who won the gift certificate from Fat Quarter Shop and

Stina who won the gift certificate from Quilt Taffy.

The winners picked randomly from my blog parade of Schnibbles are:

Judith who won the Lake Havasu Quilts panel with the coordinating fabrics.

Also, KJ Quilts who won the Cottage Quilts gift certificate

and lastly,

Quilting in Tattaville won the prize from Bear Paw Quilts!

I want to thank everyone for making this another great parade

and making A Year of Schnibbles so much fun!

I hope you enjoy Picnic! I know I can't wait to see the next parade.

Thanks again to the Featured Quilt Shops for playing with us to make it even better!

A special thanks to Carrie for making sure we have plenty of Schnibbles

to choose from and for her wonderful generosity as well!

I hear there is something going on over at her blog...

we might need to head over there to check it out... what could it be???

A Year of Schnibbles Parade #2

This is our last (or latest) entry into the parade by Quilter Going Bananas... aka Katherine.

It's another one with great placement of colors! I really like the way this one flows!

Edited 11/2 Oh Lord help me! I am so sorry ladies... I have 3 more quilts here to add to the Parade of Schnibbles! I have been out of town and trying to do this all between 5 computers... and it obviously has gotten the best of me!

This Cindy Lou Who was done by Quilt or Dye. She did a wonderfully bright version... I am wondering if she used any of her fabulous dyed fabrics??? Can you see?

I needed to add Marianne's quilt to the Parade! I lost hers between computers and it is so adorable... that I had to put it up... front and center! Marianne's blog is D is for Dovey.

She calls her CLW Roo Who! See whole story on her blog.

This one is by Cynthia of hyachinthquiltdesigns! Done in the fabulous Sweetwater fabrics!

Hi Blogettes! Here we are again and Sherri at A Quilting Life and I are sharing the entries to the Parade of Schnibbles! So make sure that you visit both of us and see all the quilts! We had a great turnout of quilts again this month! You guys are good!

I thought I would share with you the definition of a Schnibble as found on Carrie's website.

Schnibble: noun A scrap of fabric; a leftover bit of cloth; a small piece. The word has a German origin and is found primarily in German settlements in the Midwest. From the Dictionary of American Regional English published by the Harvard University Press.

So now let me show you my newest example:

This is Picnic. And this will be our Schnibble for November!!!

... and wouldn't it be nice to have a little picnic before we say goodbye to Autumn altogether?

I love basket blocks and I'm glad that I met this challenge. I used the Panache group that I acquired at Cottage Quilts. The pattern gives you options on 5 different basket blocks... so you can make it more of a sampler, which is like the picture on the cover of the pattern.

I thought I would keep it simple for myself... and kept them all the same...

I wonder what you will do?

2 charm packs, 7/8yd of background and you're good to go!

I hope you have fun with this one... I just love it.

So now, let's get this parade started!

First up is an entry by Lanette from Tattaville, I have to mention

that I love the music on her blog... she made her special Cindy Lou Who classic style!


I love the red white and blue with the lighter blue thrown in.

This is Trisha's Cindy Lou Who and can be seen on her blog: TLC Stitches

Allyson's entry has a warm holiday look... her blog is Fat Cat Quilts where you can see her cat's approval going on!


This is beautiful and made by Sandy Feigner! I don't think she has a blog...

if I'm wrong please let me know :)

Here is one by Megan from Crooked Seams blog done in April Cornel fabrics. So sweet... I love the romantic look it gives.

KJ Quilts (aka the Quiet Quilter), did this one in wonderful fall fabrics!

Karen K .... made this C.L.W. I like the way

the stars stand out in the corners and in the middle!

Judi Smokey from the Netherlands decided that this one was done...

as far done as the cat would allow!

Pam Walker (no blog) sent in this little Cindy Lou Who

done in the lighter colors and with a nice twist to the border.

This one is adorable! She made little pumpkins in the stars!

It's by Jewel, of the Jewel's Arm Candy blog.

Annette's blog is called Sunshine Yellow and this quilt looks happy doesn't it?

Alicia has the blog: "Where Do I Go From Here". My answer is don't go anywhere...

for goodness sakes... you are in Maui. Can it get any better? I like this fabric group with this pattern. It looks so fun!

Judith did a beautiful job on her Cindy Lou Who.

My favorite Holiday fabric group from Minick and Simpson.
Above is Cindy Lou Who made by Lisa D. from Stashmaster ... love it!



This one has wonderful contrast... by Lisa Burns from the Candlelite Quilting blog.

Lynda G made this Cindy Lou Who... her blog is From My Farmhouse Window. She has a sweet story about this quilt and where she is going to hang it on her blog.

Sandie of Crazy 'Bout Quilts did her version ~wonderfully festive!!!

Heather of Quilt or Stitch did a patriotic version... very fun!

I know that this is Winter White... and it did not make it into the September Parade of Schnibbles but I thought that you would want to see it just the same... it's by Quilt or Dye.

Sandy of Loves to Quilt

Sweetest Cindy Lou Who yet! Do you see the hearts in the quilting?

Dona of Stitch By Stitch...did not only one Cindy Lou Who, but two of them!

the second one by Dona

Thelma, Cupcakes and Daisies did a larger version in red, white and blue and fussy cut the stars in the center of the stars! How smart is that! Love it!

Here is Cara's Cindy Lou Who, the border stripe is great! Check out her blog: Cara Quilts.

Rita designed a nice crisp looking CLW quilt. Sorry, no blog.

Those nine-patches around the center star pop out so nice!

Julie, Stitches of Love did another patriotic version... it looks so good in those colors!

Here is a Cindy Lou from Julie at Red Key Quilting, that red just pops out nicely!


From RSIS Landcrafts is this fun CLW by Robin.

An Encourager says that this quilt taught her patience... actually it was PATIENCE.

Her story about it on her blog made me laugh! I'll bet she wasn't alone!

Well, thanks for stopping in and viewing our Parade of Schnibbles!

Watch to see the prizes awarded from our generous Featured Quilt Shops. The links to those shops are on my sidebar if you're in the mood for a little bit more browsing around!

The prizes will be announced on Sherri's blog, A Quilting Life.

I am up in Chico for the weekend to watch my oldest son run a 10K.

So have fun... and I can't wait to see our winners!

*** I am coming up on my 100th post very soon, so keep watching- a giveaway will be coming!!!

A Morsel or Two

There have been some great giveaways out there in blogland lately.

This one caught my eye this morning... so I thought I would play along.

This is 1 of the 5 giveaways that Jackie at Canton Village Quiltworks is giving away.

She brought them back from Market just to share the fun!

This fabric group is too cute... so you might as well give it a try over there. Jackie has a really fun blog... so it's worth just going over there to look around!

You also might enjoy, La Vie En Rosie... Carrie's blog this morning.

I'm telling you, this girl never sleeps! Maybe Miss Rosie sleeps enough for the both of them.

This is one of the new Schnibble patterns that she has up on her blog.

You might have to go look and see the other one's she has just created!

You are going to love them!

Note to self: go get some of that Simple Abundance fabric! Now!

Schnibbles on My Mind

I had a great relaxing, low-key weekend!

After the last couple of weeks it was a welcome change.

Of course my sewing room did see some action yesterday...

I have been working on my Schnibbles project...

I am rushing to have it done this week because it is the November

pattern pick for A Year of Schnibbles!

I'm not going to elaborate on what a cute pattern this is...

because I know you love all the Schnibbles anyway!

Still, it needs to get finished... before the first when the

Cindy Lou Who Schnibbles Parade begins!

Here is what is going to be a shop sample. I am feeling a bit behind and I feel so bad that this one here is not completed yet either!

I better get a move on because as you can see, this is a time sensitive project!!!

I'm doing it in the Benartex Christmas line from Nancy H.

Now I need to share a little something with you...

I keep running across these dolls on various blogs

and I keep thinking

I am going to order the pattern from the person who sells them.

I think they are so cute and the pattern is for 3 girls and there is another pattern for 2 boys.

I always talk myself out of purchasing the pattern... I'm really not much of a "doll" person

but I really like these stuffed dolls

and of course I can't remember now where it was I saw them,

so I am showing this picture of my most recent sighting in hopes that someone can tell me the doll designers link.

Any helpful hints out there or should I get AMW in on the case?

I also have been swept up in the moment and joined Nicole at Sister's Choice Quilts and Allyson of Fat Cat Quilts in a Red and White Snowball Challenge.

I'll be checking back in with you to see how your Schnibble progress is and to maybe give you a sneak peak of mine!

Camp Part III: Dishtowel Diaries & Schnibs Info

On Saturday evening we have a "group session" and this year it was titled Dishtowel Diaries". (last year we had the Pincushion Diaries). It's a fun time to share our little treasures... that not just anyone would appreciate! The stories that unfold are so fun, endearing and surprising!

I also had my apron collection at the retreat to exhibit. I found these old wooden clothes drying racks, via a friend, and I was able to show them off pretty well.

Linda G. had several to share and this one hear just spoke to my heart.

It was so sweet and I loved the vintage green... just look at the back! The ties slip through the center before you tie it. I haven't seen one like that before!

These dishtowels have tatting on them. They are new but embellished with a very old art.

and these dishtowels were so adorable... I can't tell the whole story but

they aided in the capture of spies in WWII. Seriously! F.B.I. and the whole shebang!

If you really want to hear it... I can tell you about it latter.

I get to know a person so much better by having a little story to connect them with.

The sharing these women did really made my weekend special!

Now for other matters...

I have Schnibbles on the brain right now! I did not get to work on my Schnibbles pattern over the weekend at all... I don't know why I even thought I could!

So, now I am really behind the eight ball... trying to find time to work on our

November Big Reveal!

I know you are anxious to see it... right?

Are you finishing up the October project?

Whenever you do finish your October Schnibble please put a post on your blog and email me a link to it. That way it will be easy for me to organize the Parade of Schnibbles!

Sherri and I are looking forward to the next go-round... so let's see what you've got!

Quilt Camp Part II

I just have a quick post here.

Here are a few more photos from the retreat.

We had some wonderful "show & tell" going on throughout the weekend and I didn't want you to miss it!