More finished blocks & a Giveaway too!

This evening I managed to get this block sewed up.
The name of this one is Rocky Road to California,or
Cali as Gil calls it.
Thinking that I  will make 2 more of this particular block.

These are both star flower blocks,which I needed to practice
before attempting to make again for Sarah for this month in
The Sew Bee Blissful bee.
So I killed two birds with one stone,so to speak.  Although
my fabrics don't make it look much like a flower.  I now
know how to construct the block,and have two more blocks
for Gil's quilt!

Two more for Gil,which brings my total to 17 blocks!

Now for the giveaway part of the post!

I made up these three little Micro blocks last night.  I
included "The Grim Ripper" in the photo to give an idea
of the actual size of the blocks.

How and what do you win???

The How...
Leave me a comment as to what you think these tiny lil
blocks are going to be used for.

The What you will win...
A fat quarter of Riley Blake's Fly a kite
and the book Crochet Bouquet!

Anyone can enter!

* BUT*
if you are a No Reply Blogger make SURE to leave me a
way to contact you in your comment.

Open to international peeps too :)

If there are no correct guesses Mr. Random will pick the
winner ;)

Giveaway open through March 5th,winner announced on the 6th!

Good Luck/Happy Guessing :)

A few blocks

One of the two most recent blocks for Gil's
quilt.
I like the block,but not so sure about the
fabric combo.

This one I really like!

Finally finished the other three mug rugs that I was making
up for "V" Day!  They all turned out good,but the bottom
one is my fave of these three.

My fabric purchase from the LQS in Taos NM.  Love the
southwest prints.  As if you couldn't tell that I Love,love,
love,Kokopelli!  The top print just called my name,so it
had to come home with me too :)

The rolled up fabric remnant is for making blocks
for Gil's quilt.

Lastly,all 10 of my blocks for the QAL.
Which is almost over,only two more blocks
go!

These are all so busy,I am going to have to
add some solid sashing to break it up a bit!
Also I need to make a decision on the block
layout.  Have narrowed it down to two
different ones.  Now to decide which one.

A few "old" quilts

Just a few Quilty related photos from my long weekend
getaway.

Above is a photo  of the LQS in Taos NM,I was a "very
good girl",because I only bought 4 FQ's and a remnant to
use in Gil's quilt!

These two quilts are on display in one of the Museums we
visited.

Close up of the quilt on the right.

I really love the fabrics and the design of this quilt.  There
was no information on any of the quilts,so its anyone's
guess as to their age.  My guess is maybe the 1930's.

Love all the HST's in this one!  Also the color.

This one was in the same room as the one above.  I am not a
big fan of basket quilts,but I do like this one :)

Thats all I got for tonight,hope you enjoyed the "old quilts"!

Long Weekend

Mr. P and I are running away for a long weekend!  Hope you all have a
wonderful weekend yourselves :)  See you next week.

Love Notes & Heart Strings Table Mat

When I found out that Melissa over at Sew Bitter Sweet
Designs was going to have a Valentine's Day Showcase I
decided to make something!
The idea for this table mat started forming in my mind.  The
name came to me before the actual design.  I knew that the
name would be Love Notes & Heart Strings :)

So with the name in mind along came the design,the only
thing I wasn't sure of was how to add the heart strings.
However it came to me while working on the envelopes for
the Love Notes part!

The back side!
I even finished it on time to enter :)

There was one envelope left over from the table mat,that is
going to become a little pouch in the very near future!

Make sure to check out the link above for lots of sweet
valentine projects!