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Nest

When I saw this fabric…Nest by Tula Pinkp1220023I fell in love! It is so bright and happy! I love the color! So I bought a few…(three) layer cakes! and started to dream. p1220024The possibilities were endless really…I finally settled on an easy one…Cut one layer cake into hourglass blocks. and the second layer cake into four patch, the third may become the border…we shall see!

The Hourglass blocks are made by cutting each 10″ square across diagonally from corner to corner p2090064p2090065Then you mix up your fabric…(this, for me, is very time consuming:) Then you sew two sides together, p2090068press toward the dark fabric, and then join the two triangles and you’ll have a nice hourglass square…p2090069Now onto the four patch…p2090070Cut each of your squares in half horizontally and vertically…you will then have four 5″ squares. Mix them up and sew them back together! always pressing toward the dark and lining up your seams.

Next I mixed up all my squares and laid them out on the floor…Alternating hourglass and four patch until I was pretty sure I liked it….p2260074It’s really a fabulous (Easy) pattern…I’m still in love! I added a 3″ strip of white for the inner border….p2260075Now I am debating what to do for the outer border…piano key? a scalloped edge? turquoise? lime green? yellow? red? This may take a while!!!

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Winner, winner Chicken dinner…..

Ok, so most of you know I am taking this “fat quarter” weight loss challenge seriously, right!?  So, I may be a little obsessed with food right now!  Hence the chicken dinner.  🙂

With out anymore delay….the winner of our seriously awesome, totally amazing GIVEAWAY…….is  Sherri

Sherri, please email me, with your address so I can get this great stuff to you asap!  Thank you all for playing along.  Keep checking in with us, as we will have more giveaways and more fun stuff for you all!  Have a great day!

*don’t be depressed.  If you didn’t win, check out today’s Daily Deal.  It’s a great ONE!!!  Guaranteed to get you our of your depression.  (side effects could possibly be:  joy, excitement, sewing fever.  Countless creative ideas may flood your brain.  Take caution.)

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Fat Quarter Friday!!

Thoughts for the week …

Keep Going!!

You know the little engine that could was a pretty smart little guy.

Here’s my reasoning…
(At least, it’s what I keep telling myself while running circles around the block)

1. If you will keep going during the exercise when you think you can’t and you keep going till you can’t go another step or push another weight you will burn more and become stronger (this is the goal right 🙂 ) .

2. Keep going everyday!  It’s a whole heck of a lot easier to exercise when you did the same thing yesterday and the day before.  Rest is essential it is the time where your muscles rebuild themselves, just don’t wait to long… it makes starting again that much harder.

There is no falling off the wagon!

Now that I’ve told you why we keep going I’m not going to let you use that as an excuse.  It’s important to remember that even if you do something unproductive to the weight loss process there is no falling off the wagon… your horses are probably getting restless though waiting to get going again 🙂  Taking a break for a while won’t kill you.  You’ll probably still wake up the next morning and be better off for the exercise you’ve done.  But good enough or even really close is not our goal, so, back to thought number 1 and just keep going!  You’ve been doing great and the sooner you keep it going the easier it will continue to be!

Have a great week and keep moving!!

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The Giveaway…..

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You better hurry it up!  Today is the LAST day to enter!!  Clickity-click on this and comment on the giveaway post, and BAM you will be entered to win that amazing prize!!  HELLO-  Did you hear that it was ONE JELLY ROLL and ONE LAYER CAKE!?!??!  Seriously.  That is a BIG giveaway.  HUGE. So tell your friends.  Fast.  This is it Ladies…..one last chance.  (almost like the last chance workout.  almost)

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On the machine…

We have been super busy this last week!! Which is great 🙂 Ladies (and Gents)  keep em coming!

I wanted to spotlight this amazing quilt… It is a scrappy quilt made by one of our local librarians, and it is gorgeous! This is a paper pieced quilt,  and the main block is called pineapple.  (?)  Each block has 37 different pieces of fabric!!  I was just in awe of this quilt.

p2220023p2220024And all the borders had this beautiful applique on them!

We machine quilted the simple feather meander pattern on it and it turned out great…I love how the machine quilting enhances the design!

Amazing!