A New Year, A Chance to Renew

I have been absent all week!
I am so happy at the turnout we have so far for AYOS.
Every one is so creative... I am sure it will be another fun year.

(photo borrowed from somewhere out on the web)

I have been wanting to share with those of you who are making Full House...
the fabric requirements so that you can start your wheels turning and
maybe start looking at your stash while you are waiting for the pattern to
arrive.

Full House Fabric requirements:

2 charm packs

1 fat quarter roof background

1/2 yard sashings and borders
easie peasie!

I have big plans for 2012.
I took photos of my projects but I have been traveling
and it seems that my camera cord has been traveling also... and we haven't
caught up with each other yet.

Here is my plan for January:

• I can tell you that first on my list is Swoon. I have that one cut out right now. Yeah!
• I plan on taking one of my unfinished projects and completing it as a monthly goal.
• A Schnibble per month is a must!
• Henrietta Squirrel is on the agenda also. I have all the patterns that didn't get done last year. So I can start that as a monthly project as well.

But that's not all!
Remember that last year Kelly at Charming Chatter challenged us to come up with a word for the year?
Last year my word was picnic.
As in: enjoy life, take it easy...
I have lots and lots of ideas that have been brewing in my head this past year
and I have decided that my word for this year is:
Renew.

I want to make changes in my home and my life but I don't necessarily want new.
I just want a little change, to refresh, a chance to re-new.
So that will be my motto for the year!

Do you have a word???

  

A Brand New Year but...

it's Another Year of Schnibbles!



I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe New Years celebration!
We had another full house...

I didn't take any pictures at all of the baby shower!

However,  there were a lot of pictures taken... I just need to get my hands on them!

Here are a couple of pictures of the left over balloons and gifts.

The theme was Bees. As in Ba-bee.  

Jill's friends made the cute little invitations.

It was a fun day and so very sweet!

But I'll bet you are wondering about

AYOS!

Well, here it is...

Sherri, at A Quilting Life and I decided that we would make it simple and start off

the year with Full House!

It is a very fun pattern so we hope you will enjoy the first project of the year!

I know some people made Full House as their "free choice" pattern
for Le Petite last year. If you did, you might want to whip up another
variation of the pattern. Carrie (Ms. Schnibbles herself) had a great post
a couple of months ago and gave a few examples
 and instructions of other projects using this pattern.
You can go see it here.

(photo borrowed from La Vie En Rosie blog)

Sherri has the ins-n-outs of joining in for Another Year of Schnibbles,
so if you want to know how it "works", go check out her post today.
For those of you who are already familiar with how we play...
go grab a pattern from one of your LQS's or
 from one of our featured quilt shops listed on my sidebar.
If you are already a member of Fat Quarter Shops
Schnibbles pattern club, you are probably
already set and good to go!

We will have a parade of Full House on February 1st!
And don't forget to add our button to your sidebar if you are playing along...
or if you just like
the button! hehe

Bindings and Other Finishes

Looking back at the posts of 2011

I thought I would choose one

of my favorites to share with you... one that

I thought would be worth repeating.

It is titled:

 Have You Had Your Quilters Vaccine Yet

(just click on title above)

Of course, it is a little bit embarrassing but a little bit funny,

the funny outweighs the embarrassing and I thought you might enjoy it!

Tomorrow is my DDIL baby shower that is going to be held at my house...

it will be a brunch and will probably be the big event of the day. I expect

I will be in bed long before midnight. I think I could manage to

celebrate using East Coast time though.

Happy New Year to all of you.

Thank you for a year of friendship and sharing.

Wishing you all a safe and blessed

2012!

 I will see you next year!

Are You Ready for Another Year?

It's getting close to the end of the year...

but the good news is that it will be the start of

Another Year of Schnibbles!

Monthly challenges, parades and fun!

Remember these?

Click here to see the post of Le Petite Grand Finale of Small Quilts.

It's time for Sherri at A Quilting Life and I to start getting

everything in order for those of you who are interested

in participating in Another Year of Schnibbles.

Sherri is working on a post that explains  "the rules".

And we have a new button for you to put on your sidebar if you would like!

I think it's really cute...

You can just take the button and link it to either one of our blogs.

Since we both host this it will just be easier this way.

So I am going to hurry up and get my holiday decorations put away and find

my sewing room again. I have the first pattern to finish up so that

it will be ready on the first of January along with Sherri's Schnibble project.

Wouldn't it be fun if Carrie, Ms Schnibbles herself played along with us???
nudge, nudge!