Blog Hop Party with Giveaways!

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Michele over at the Quilting Gallery is at it again... She is hosting another fantastic Blog Hop Party with Giveaways!

If you are new here, welcome! My name is Ginette and I am a 4th generation quilter from the Ottawa area, in Ontario Canada. I love quilting and everything about it. Please feel free to look around, I love sharing my passion!

If you are a regular here, welcome back!

I can't think of a better way to beat the winter blues than to have a party, and one with giveaways is that much better!

This time around, I am offering a Frixion pen, some decorative buttons and a mug rug, made by yours truly!

I just bought a ticket to go see Ricky Tims on August 1st. I am so excited! It is the first time I see someone who is so well known in the quilting world!

So to enter my giveaway, please leave me a comment and tell me if you have ever taken a class or been to a lecture featuring someone well known in the quilting world. If not, maybe you can share who you would like to see some day.

I will be picking a winner via the Random Number Generator on March 14th. I am willing to ship internationally so anyone is eligible to win, as long as you leave an e-mail address so I can contact you.

Now head on over to the Quilting Gallery's Blog Hop Party page and enter the other awesome giveaways!

 

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A little bit of this, a little bit of that...

I spent a big part of Saturday watching the lectures from QuiltCon.  Did you know that Craftsy has them available for free?  

I was so excited when I found out that I headed over to Craftsy right away and got them.  I saw so many posts on Instagram about QuiltCon and it looked like so much fun, being able to watch the lectures made me feel like I could be part of it.  I haven't watched them all but so far I am really enjoying them.  You should definitely go take a look!

Saturday night I worked on this baby:

I really love the way this is going!  The best part is that I haven't bought a thing except pearl cotton thread and needles.  All of the fabrics and embroidery floss are from my stash.  I am thinking this one will hang in my dining room when it is done.

I also just finished printing off all of the instructions for the blocks for the Moda Friendship Quilt Along.  I think I might have to start cutting some of those this afternoon...

Hope you have a wonderful week!

Progress!

Last night I finished the embroidery on my Medallion Quilt.

It took about 4 weeks to complete the embroidered border, but it was so worth it!!

For those of you who don't know, I am taking a class called Handstitched from Rachel at Stitched In Color.  The next border is patchwork with EPP Storm at Sea blocks in the corners.  I have started basting my Storm at Sea pieces but still haven't chosen the fabrics for the patchwork.  I think I may just go search my bag of strips for appropriate colours.  Hopefully this border won't take as long!

Have a great week!

BOM

I couldn't remember which block we were suppose to work on this month for our Block of the month, so I decided to work on one of the blocks I picked out instead. That way I will be ready when it is my turn to show my friends how to go about making it, in June.

I chose a pattern from the Quilter's Cache called Solomon's Star.

 

It is a great block with a little of a challenge... lining up all those points is not as easy as it looks! In fact I may still rip one of them out and fix it, but I am not telling you which one. Yes, I am anal like that!

Here was last month's block just to remind you:

 

I am using scraps and a few fat quarters from my stash, as well as a creamy coloured print for the background. So far I am having lots of fun! Can't wait till next month!

 

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WIP Wednesday

Here is what I am working on today.

 

I am so loving the pink and red together in this quilt, just perfect for a little girl! I need to find the perfect backing next.

And I am still working on my satin stitched jewels for my Handstitched class.

 

Only 3 more after this one! I am slowly finding the fabrics for my next border which is a patchwork with storm at sea blocks in the corners!

I have also been printing off the patterns for the Moda Friendship Quilt Along. They all look lovely so far, and I am thinking of doing some embroidery in some of the blocks. I am trying to pick some fabrics for this one too and trying to decide if I should do machine or hand embroidery... Decisions, decisions!

Linking up to The Needle and Thread Network.

 

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