A Tuff Job

but somebody has to do it!


Every year at my big girl job I hand make Christmas cards for our clients...
for all three of our offices. I just finished and mailed out this year's creations.
I found some wonderful paper by My Mind's Eye. A little of this and a little of that... add a bow,
and whala! 150 cards done.
Now, I ask you, how many of you would like to come to work with me???

Catching Up Part I

This little gem got it's binding on it and got sent off to Cottage Quilts as a sample.

They made a kit out of it too! I just love Quilt Soup patterns and fabrics.

They are just so simple and sweet. 

I am showing the next photos to show you that I made progress

last week on my Charming Girls Club list.

I got my blocks finished but never got a chance to show them to you...

More Quilt Soup fabric but a different pattern.

with the parade last week I got behind on my posting.
I got my rows for Yoyoville finished also, again, last week.

But as much as I love it...

it seems to be the never ending project.

This morning I just realized that the outer border with the houses have trees... that need yoyos.

And I don't see any already made, and I think I made 297. So I guess that means back to making yoyos.

As much as I would love to stray off course and work on these
wonderful little projects, I resist,
because I know that there is no way in *!#*! that I would even
 come close to getting them done in time for Christmas anyway.
I just don't know why I'm not smart enough to get started on these cute holiday projects early in the year... like maybe Spring?

Have You Been Waiting Long Enough?

or the other title I had for this post was "It's All Sherri's Fault".
But really, the day got away from both of us yesterday!




You are going to love making this Prairie Point Christmas wallhanging!
After putting this on the design wall and giving it much thought... I decided to add the extra borders to mine... and add a rustic jingle bell to the top of the tree. I think it's ready to be quilted now!

Sherri and I picked the winners for the Le Petite parade of Butter Churn, and
here is our list of randomly chosen winners:

 Sherrie of This and That Patterns, aka designer of Butter Churn wanted
to help us celebrate our parade and
is giving away a set of 8 patterns to:

Shannon!  Congratulations to you!!!

For the Fat Quarter Shop $25 gift certificate:

Allison at Cardy Girl blog! Yay!

and for the Quilters Paradise $25 gift certificate:

Tonya! Discombobulated Ripples blog! Congratulations!!!

From Quilt Taffy gals there is a $10 gift certificate that goes to:

Gretchen at Stella Bella Quilts blog! Kudos!

From Bear Paw Quilts and More

there is two packages of Robyn Pandolph Fancy Hill Farm charm packs.

I love this Christmas group... and the winner is:

Mary from Mary on Lake Pulaski blog.http://maryonlakepulaski.blogspot.com/. Woohoo!

Now just one more thing...

here is a chance for you to be a winner...

Sherri the designer of This and That patterns... who designed Butter Churn is having a little

giveaway to celebrate our little Le Petite parade. She is at Little Bits blog. Enter her giveaway for

9 patterns! Eight of her new patterns and Butter Churn too!

You have until the end of the week to

enter!

Le Petite and This & That

Ok, can you believe it's parade time again? I wanted to thank everyone who is participating in Le Petite!

You all did amazing projects... they were all so fun to see! So, now Sherri and I get to share them all with you!

But first, we wanted to give you a little news flash!

We changed our minds, at the last minute, for our next project.

We thought we would take pity on our Le Petite group...

with all of the holiday hustle and bustle upon us.

We are going to save our December pick of Mon Ami by Carrie Nelson until January.

Quilt Taffy already has kits available for this project, in case you want one and want to put it under your tree for Christmas, from you to... you!

So that's right... you are getting a heads up!

For our next project we are going to go with

the Moda Bake Shop project by Cara Wilson.

So, the pattern is free... and the fabric requirements are minimal... and it's quick and easy and could even possibly be made as a Christmas gift... or even for yourself, in time for the holiday!

This is Prairie Point Christmas

This is the original quilt by Cara Wilson from the Moda Bake Shop site.

Do you remember the one I made last week or so?

This is really fast and fun... Cara just posted a about this quilt

and showed a group with their completed tops! You might want to check it out!

But now, lets see the Butter Churn Quilts!

The pattern was by Sherri Falls of This and That patterns.

First we have... 

 Linda from the Quilted Pineapple made her version of Butter Churn from the Clermont Farms

fabric group by Minick and Simpson.

This version of Butter Churn was made by Shelley, at Poplun blog, she used the Awesome group by Sandy Gervais.

It amazes me how different these can look!

 Mary on Lake Pulaski made this beautiful Butter Churn
out of Lumiere de Noel by French General. It looks so Spring-y, not
what I would think by the name of the fabric line... did I mention I love it???

 Naomi made her Butter Churn from the Summer's End group from Kansas Troubles.
She, is still deciding on adding the borders. It looks pretty cute the way it is!

 Leah from Quilted Delights blog made hers out of scraps from another holiday project...

this one is for herself!

Here is a fun and bright version made by Shannon! I love the fabrics... she didn't add the name of the group... does anybody know?

 Tonya discombobulated ripples made a gorgeous version of
the quilt... wonderful colors! Quilted and bound too!!!

Michele, a new person to our group, her blog is island life quilts
made her Butter Churn in Island Life colors! Don't they look tropical to you?
Very fun!!!

Here is the version made by Kay Mc C.
It turned out so sweet!

 

 Nathalie at wasteland wallowing blog...  made a fun version...
you can see her post on her blog about it.

 Sandie crazy bout quilts made her Butter Churn, and gave it a whole new look! I love the placement of the red blocks and how they stand out with the center churn dash blocks!

 Sandy F made a great version of this quilt by using strong contrast fabrics. Everything just pops!
She used fabrics with snowmen and some with snowflakes from her stash.


Here is Butter Churn in retro colors made by "Messy Karen"...
I love this color combo!

 Laura at laura loves quilting blog made her festive version of the pattern above!
It looks so dramatic with the dark and light fabrics!

and next....

We have a beautiful version of the This and That pattern made by

 Paulette (no blog). She used a new group by Blackbird fabric group.

Melissa from  melly in stitches decided to make her version
in a two-color way. Added bonus... used up some stash fabrics!

Please go see the other  quilts at Sherrie's blog A Quilting Life...
you won't want to miss them!
We'll be back tomorrow with the winners of the parade!
(and probably back today to add anybody I missed)