We made it, above the fold on page 3 of the local newspaper and that isn't too shabby now is it?
I am certain our little group will grow, all it needs is time and consistency. Something worthwhile doesn't just appear overnight, so I shall be patient and wait.
Have any of you been keeping up with Bonnie Hunter, I can never wait to get back to her blog to read what she has been up to, she's not only a Master Quilter, but she's a fantastic writer. Maybe one day she'll write a book about her experiences. I find her so interesting and as I said can't wait to read her blog posts everyday! In today's' post she introduces up to Barbie - you just have to see her and to see what finds Bonnie took pictures of from her most recent Antique Mall jaunt. Too kewl!
I spent time actually working on this latest quilt though that makes the String Stars huge blocks I was working on another UFO, but I do plan to get that one finished by end of April, if I can because April is going to be such a full month for me. We have an International Evening in New York State with another Lions Club, the District Convention is coming up and of course Easter is in there as well, sigh! So much to do and never ever enough time to do it all, or so it seems.
Last night out Lions members packed 5 care packages for some of our troops serving away from Canada, what fun we had. These are chock filled with goodies and even some reading materials. Next shipment we shall have to have another type of selection. However in the meantime this will certainly get them started.
We also cleaned and sorted over 200 pair of eyewear.
These will be shipped off to a company who will properly refurbish the glasses and properly catalogue the prescriptive values and then polish the lenses and shipped to eye specialists who work in other nations where other less fortunate peoples may be fitted with proper glasses and be able to read or see better, and what better way for eye wear to be then on some person who needs prescription eye glasses.
All in all yesterday was a very productive day for me and a productive evening for my local Lions club.
I am hoping to hear from the remaining two winners of the St. Patrick's Day Blog Hop which just recently finished so that I can mail my remaining two prizes off. If I do not hear from Robin of Quilty As Charged or Hueisei then I shall go and visit with Mr. Random once again and choose other winners, so ladies, if your out there and reading please contact me.
I did one more important thing yesterday and that was to revamp my Profile page and in there is my e-mail address for anyone interested in contacting me. So if you have nothing better to do before you leave here this afternoon, go check out my Profile page and tell me what you think, too much, but I love talking and as you can see from my updated page I am still gabbing away.
Thank you for stopping by today and visiting with me, I probably gabbed too much as usual. Have a perfectly wonderful day today, stay safe out there, be vigilant in your surroundings!!!! I am off to my Stitch 'N' Chat group this afternoon and evening, maybe you'd love to drop in, I would love to meet you.......................
I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent. ~Author Unknown.................
Hello, hello, hello I'm back from the post office and three prizes are already in the mail, so Gun, Jodi and Connie please be on the lookout for your mail delivery from Seeley's Bay, Ontario, Canada - Yayyyyyy now if the two remaining chosen winners being Hueisei and Robin from Quilty as Charged would please contact me at my e-mail address mitzjidebos@yahoo.ca and provide their snail mail addresses, then all of my St. Paddy's Day gifts will be in the mail......
I am making a surprise gift, I cannot say for whom, so suffice is to say I got into it this morning and have several blocks made already.
It's to be a beautiful bright colored quilt but I am attempting to keep it simple because of the variety and brightness of the fabrics.
Flying geese blocks will form the border, and in the center of each goose block there will be a signature block. Now what do you all think of this combination. With a thin white border separating the actual 4 patch blocks and the flying geese signature blocks.
These are some of the blocks, fashioned a bit from a Kaffe Fasset pattern of June 2003 named "Plaids Squared", like I said, similar but not exactly the same with all of the four patches being surrounded with a different bright fabric.
These are the two fabrics I will use for the flying geese border fabrics.
The white center of the flying geese blocks will be where all of the signatures will be.
Can you picture this quilt from my description? I hope this quilt will be a bright and cheerful reminder of all of us.
Tonight is Lions and this is the night we are packing care parcels for the soldiers far away from Canada doing peace keeping duties.
As such, I am off to my meeting.....see you all tomorrow?
Thanks for stopping by, and please if you have an opinion of this bright quilt I am making, please voice it by leaving a comment, possibly it may be too busy or too bright?...........and remember
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown
I have finished my surprises to accompany my giveaway gifts to the winners, but, if the winners do not contact me with their snail mail address how can I possibly get these to them? Is there something wrong with my blog? I don't notice anything amiss. I checked for
e-mails, and not one have I received. One 1 comment was made after I announced the winners names and that was a congratulatory comment. So, please tell me, do you want your prize? The Hop is over and I really am anxious to get these out of my sewing room and into the post.
Here are the surprise bags going with each giveaway prize and remember there are five gifts and 5 winners....
These little sacks have a zippered front pouch and a draw string bag all in one. There are five different colored bags all with the same front pouch panel. WHICH COLOR do you want? Hurry the sooner I get your choice of color the sooner I can mail my gift to you!
Now that this is over, I am going back to my stash reorganizing and clean up. Possibly by this time next year I might actually be organized, LOL.
Wasn't the Blog Hop a good one and were not the give away prizes so great, what a generous group of bloggers.
Our weather temperatures went from the high 70's & 80's to the low 30's and 40's this week, what a shock to my system for certain. Overnight here it was -7 Celcius, that is 19 Fahrenheit. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr and right now while I am typing it has reached its daily peak according to the weatherman and is only 3 Celcius which is 37 Fahrenheit. Par for this time of the year so they say. Those hot temperatures last week sure spoiled me!
Sew come on those of you who were named the winners, get in touch with me at mitzjidebos@yahoo.ca with your choice of bag colors and leave me with your snail mail address so that I might get all of my goodies posted on their way to your mailboxes.
Those winner who left no e-mail address should contact me before Saturday, March 31st, and if I do not hear from you by close of day I shall randomly choose another winner for that prize.
I have also been catching up on my favorite bloggers and if you skip on over to Bonnie Hunters Blog you can see what beautiful quilts she adopted which she found at an Antique Mall. I was astounded at their beauty and I believe you will be as well. Then too you will find some pictures of her latest sewing machine she purchased which is gorgeous by the way! I often wish I had the opportunity to make such finds, but, if I haven't sufficient room for my stash, where in Heavens' name would I show of such beautiful antique sewing machines? Honest to goodness, Bonnie has a nose for the good stuff out there and she knows when to hold em too!
Thank you for making time to visit with me this afternoon, I truly hope your having a good day, I know I am in spite of the cold temperatures.
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. ~Barbara Jordan........................................
