Valentine’s Day Swap

Posted on January 8, 2009 by owenjulesmommy

I love participating in swaps with people all around the world.  I found this Valentine’s mini swap morning over at Bunch of Scrap.  It’s very easy – only three items to mail by January 31st – doesn’t get any easier than that.  But I’m beginning to think I should have started tatting hearts a few months ago!!

Last night I found the motif that I’m going to use for my lastest crazy quilt swap block.  Her blocks that are left are all very rectangular, but I think I found the perfect one to make.  I’ve got to get that one rolling too – YIKES!!

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Christmas String Lap Quilt

Posted on January 6, 2009 by owenjulesmommy

Here is a quilt project that I finished up last week.  I wanted to do a quilt for my in-laws for Christmas (they are so hard to buy for!).  I had participated in a string block swap on the Quilting message board on HGTV and receieved all these great 6″ blocks.

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All I had to do was add four 12″ blocks for the center and the sashing and the boarder and I was done.  This is my second string block quilt I’ve done and I’ve liked how they both turned out.  If you are thinking of trying one – I strongly recommend you do!

This B&W one I did for a raffle at my children’s  school.  It raised over $150 so that was good.  It was also a lap size but this time all the blocks were made by me.  It was the first B&W quilt I ever did and the first piano key border I’ve ever done.

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First 2009 Resolution DONE!

Posted on January 6, 2009 by owenjulesmommy

Hello All!

One of my 2009 New Year’s Resolutions is now done – got my blog up and running! My other is making myself a lap quilt – we’ll see how that one goes!

Let me introduce myself.  My name is Christine and I live in New Hampshire with my husband, my two children, my four cats and my dog!  I work full time as an Office/Accounting/Human Resources Manager for an advertising firm.  All that doesn’t leave much time for other things, but some how I manage.

I learned to cross stitch when I was 8 years old.  Our next door neighbor (Mrs. Henderson) taught me and I’ve been grateful to her ever since!  I’ve been sewing for as long as I can remember and I started hand quilting 13 years ago.  As the children came along, the time went away so I moved to machine quilting.  Last year I added a new hobby to my list – tatting and I LOVE IT!! Here are some of my first pieces that I did with needle tatting – I now do mostly shuttle tatting.

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I hope you will enjoy my blog!

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Hello world!

Posted on December 10, 2008 by admin

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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