Victoria asks "Can You Help Cover A Naked Bed?"

Over at The Quilting Gallery there is a very special article and request by Victoria Findlay Wolfe, owner of Bumble Beans Inc. I am betting half of you have read this article already but for those of you who may not have read it, you will find within the article that Victoria through her efforts and the generosity of many quilters is attempting to fulfill a request through BASICS a non-profit organization helping those who are homeless.  I could go on about the article, but I believe you might like to read it all for yourselves.
I believe possibly some of us might have an extra top we could turn into a finished quilt very quickly and help Victoria meet the 700 quilt target.  I am working on completing one now, scrappy and warm, so, if you would like to join the many quilters who already donated 300 quilts, possibly we might just help Victoria get to that target number of 700.
I realize there are 1000's of fantastic causes out there which we all support with our quilts in one way or another, but, I cannot imagine what it would be like to be without shelter against the weather, especially now that winter is beginning to arrive, or what I would do without my home and warmth each night?
Being totally dependent on the kindness of others for food and shelter because of some horrible circumstances in your life that was totally not supposed to happen.  
Pat Sloan 

is helping Victoria help Basics reach that 700 quilt goal.  IF you can help, I know whomever your quilt covers will bless you time and again for your generosity. 

A Donated Quilt being presented

Take a look at the names of the Friends this is a page dedicated to the names of all the quilt donors from whom quilts have been received so far.  HOW very exciting to read the names on that list.  Will you add your name?
All right, I am off to choose as many scraps as I can gather tonight so that in the morning I will have a good start to my quilt I wish to donate to the BASICS cause.
I realize this post is a bit late today, but, I have been out shopping for staples and a special gift for myself, a new web cam!  My perfectly great Logitech web cam that I bought years ago and worked well XP on my older computer is no longer compatible with this new computer which runs Windows 7.  Now I can chat with my BESTEST friend while we are quilting, just like we did while I was there with her last month, YEEHA...
Now I can see how Microsoft is a wealthy corporation, every so often you have to upgrade the hardware to be compatible with the software and visa verse...
I promised to share links with you to discover some of those wonderful sites where you can find tutorials and instructions or patterns on how to make ANGELS for all sorts of uses.  Please tune in tomorrow and I will share some of these wonderful sources. 
Thank you so much for visiting again, please, leave a comment to enter into the Christmas Fabrics Giveaway, shown at the top right of my sidebar, this giveaway closes on November 12th, who knows I could be mailing these off to your mail box soon.  Look are these not pretty? 

4 Pieces of 9" x 44"

The Final Fall Cleanup and A Christmas Fabric Giveaway

Last week was a very busy week around here for me, much busier than some of those beavers out there. The snow, cannot be too far behind Jack Frost because there was frost on the pumpkin this morning.  BUT what woke me was the sound of my neighbour scraping at the frost on his windshield, brrrrrrr just thinking of snow flying around outside makes me begin to think about Christmas and all of the sewing most quilters are planning these next many days before Christmas. 
Before I tell you about the CHRISTMAS FABRICS I am giving away this month, I just have to show and tell you the mess we created on our property this week!  
For the past many years this property was surrounded by trees, which we loved when we first moved here three plus years ago, but, now that the fall is almost over, and on close inspection of the rag tag looking branches and limbs, it was noticed that something was definitely eating away at their insides.  Consequently, all of the diseased trees and nuisance trees have been evicted from their nested places, cut down, unfortunately in their prime, or so we thought until we spied the hollowed limbs.  What a mess!  I hated to have them chopped down but when something is not well and won't get better then it is time to have them removed. 

Limbs and branches from the front left garden

More piled up from the back of the house

All of the climbing rose bushes were trimmed back

Now the back garden is taking shape

Hey, we can see the street corner now

There is a fence back there!

More leaves to add to the yard waste

Another pile begun

These leaves seem to be endless

The following pictures are of the piles of tree limbs, tree branches and more leaves we have waiting to be carted off the beginning of next week. 
Hopefully when Tuesday rolls around next week all of this debris will be tidied up before the bad weather decides to set in.  Can you believe it, today is November 5th and our weather here in the Bay remains absolutely beautiful, with temperatures ranging in the mid 60's by the time noon rolls around making it very nice to work outside.  I feel a but saddened by the loss of the trees and I am certain all of the birds who nested in them will find it a loss as well.  We are planning to plant  new healthy trees come spring and hopefully a nice landscaping plan will fall into place.  
 All this outside work on the grounds left little time for sewing.
BUT this morning I stole some time from the outside.  I listened to what my best friend said about that Tribble Trouble block I shared with you this week.  She was so right, it was out of color kilter, and this morning I frog stitched and reworked the blocks and this is the end result.  What do you think of it now?  Not as dark and dreary as first sewn?  I believe it looks like it was meant to now, 100% better, don't you think so too?   Thanks Els!!!

Christmas is coming, only 50 days from today which is really just around the corner!  In the spirit of the Christmas and to get you into the spirit,  I have selected FOUR count them, 4 of 9" X 44" pieces of Christmas Fabrics for you to win.  These are simply wonderful!

~Here's how to enter~

Leave me a comment and tell me what you think you might make with these wonderful  

CHRISTMAS THEMED FABRICS 

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Become a follower of my blog ...make sure you leave me a comment so I know that you did

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Blog about my giveaway...make sure you leave me a comment 

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The giveaway ends on Saturday, November 12th at 11:59 (CST).

The winner will be randomly selected and announced on 

Monday, November 14th. 

Good luck everyone! 

Thanks for stopping by and visiting for awhile this afternoon.  I wish you a very pleasant day.