Look....what came in my mailbox!!!

Aren't they just lovely!!!

Sweet Nancy at Cozy Thyme Cottage  knitted these for me and sent them to me.

I have already used the blue one as a hot pad this morning

because I do not want to get them wet yet!!!

SO special...

Thanks Nancy!!

Blessings all,

Kathy

Strawberry Jam 2013....Summer Wallet Give Away WINNER !!!

The Duke's Strawberry Jam 2013

Hard....no

Easy... no

Messy...yes

Time Consuming...yes

Costly...yes

Worth It...YES !!!

In case you wondered how it got in the jars...

Blessings all,

Kathy

PS I am drawing for the wallet give away at 8:00 pm ( Saturday)...

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I drew...and the winner is...

Nancy
over at 
Cozy Thyme Cottage

Congrats and enjoy!! ........"My Twin"

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I am hearing "pops" coming from the kitchen!!!

Downton Abby Fabric......can you believe it?????!!!!!

I was so excited today when our local quilt store showed this fabric inspired by one of my all time favorite series...DOWNTON ABBY !!!!

Take a peak...then wait for it to come in...and go buy it ALLLLLLL...

Mary Ellen McEnnis's quilt store...The Thistlebee Quilt Shoppe

Andover Fabric line- Downton Abby

My give away is ALMOST  ready to post...soon !!!

Blessings all, 

Kathy

Give Away ...coming this week...I hope !!!!

I am working on the "Give Away" and hope to have it all ready this week...hoping!!

Keep posted to see when I have it ready so you can enter to win...

any ideas on what you think it may be???

Blessings all,

Kathy

Fun Quilting...

What fun to make quilts for special occasions!!! I am currently working on a Wedding Guest Book Quilt for a June wedding in PARIS....yes, I said Paris. Isn't that exciting.

 The bride chose an "Old World" theme in colors of pale pink and grey. Look what lovely fabrics I found for her...

The most special thing was having an Etsy friend hand stamp some additional fabric squares with the Eiffel Tower, poste cards etc...take a look at her work.

Here is her shop fancydesigns for you to enjoy.

She has made several items for my personal use in the past as well.

All packaged up and in the mail.

She will return these to me after the wedding and I will make the quilt...more pictures then!!

Blessings all,

Kathy

keep looking for my give away coming...

Cabbage and Quilting...

Well, the time has finally come to begin cooking from the garden...potato salad with garden onions and those hard to keep "debugged" pointed head cabbage.

And another baby girl quilt from my  Needles and Pins shop on Etsy.

And take a look at my new fabric labels.

I am very pleased with how they came out.

I ordered them from Michelle at Inked Papers.
You will have to give her shop a look too!!

Have a restful Sunday and and wonderful week.

Blessings all,

Kathy 

ps....am planning a give away real soon!!

FInally...back to some hand quilting

I am finishing up my two year term as president of our Neuse Quilters Guild and my personal quilting has suffered to say the least...

So this summer, at our guild meetings, I am preparing to do some hand quilting.

You may remember my post  on my sunflower quilt from May 10, 2011

where I showed you my inspiration and progress on it.

Well, here it is all pinned and machine grid quilted and I am preparing to hand quilt around each sunflower

and the sashing and borders.

Which color thread to use...white, cream, or green?????

Packed all up in my hippie bag 

and ready for Wednesday's meeting...I will show you my work

along the way...

Give away time 

 over at 

Notes of Sincerity

take a look at Trish's lovely blog!!

Blessings all,

Kathy

Pressed down and running over...

You may be familiar with the scripture in 


Luke 6:38...
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down,
 shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap...

Well, that is just what happened to me!!!

Debby, over at Nanny's Place 
won the fat quarters in my 100th post give away and made this adorable 


notepad & pen holder

and sent one to me!!!!!!!!

that is not all, either....

she cut out this lovely Kate Spain "Flurry" fabric and sent it as well

and the pattern!!!!!!!!!

How generous

and what a thank you I have never received!!!

Quilters are the best.

Thanks Debby.

Blessings to all my readers,

Kathy

And the winners are...

The winners of the 100th post give away are...

Debby

 at Nanny's Place

her sweet blog

Jennifer Gail 

at Hoodies and Flip flops

her sweet blog

LuAnn

 at Loose Threads

her sweet blog

Congratulations to each of you ladies!!


Thank you to each of you who entered and also to those who joined for the first time. I look forward to blogging and sharing my life with you and learning about your lives as well...
Now, I am off to work on our taxes...ewwwww !!

Blessings,

Kathy

New book and my Genie...

I won the nicest prize....

Monica at the
 thehomespunheart.blogspot.com 


had a give away and I entered and WON!!!
IF YOU ARE READY FOR A CHALLENGE,
then read this book.  It is wonderful and talks about the mature Christian life that women should be living. 
Each chapter is briefly written so you may read as you have time and not get too overloaded with info.


Thanks Monica!!!

My Bernina messed up while embroidering two jackets for my friends daddy's birthday.  Thankfully, I was on the last line of the second jacket when it started to jumble the threads all up on the bobbin. After trying to fix it myself, I gave up and took it to the dealer!!

Well something good came from it...

I get to use my Genie!!

...Michelle at 
lifewithlou.blogspot.com
can tell you all bout this machine...
Her October 2, 2011 post tells about her Genie that she found, cleaned all up and is read for use.

My Genie was a high school graduation present and only cost $99 !!
I have lugged it all around to college and back each year, to every apartment I rented to the beach, to my aunts houses...you name it and I took it with me nestled in the back of the car to sew...window treatments, dust ruffles, pillows, shams, garments (before my quilting days  ..hehehe), bathing suits, prom dresses...oh my...
it has had a lot of use and has ONLY BEEN CLEANED 2 TIMES !!!!!!
What a great machine it has been.
Well, I am making an adorable bedding set for my friends new
granddaughters high poster bed and my old faithful Genie
is just sewing along !!!
What fun.

Here is my little prayer pal...

The view from my sewing machine. 
And can you believe that as of October 22 my impatients looks better than it did this summer when it was so hot.

I have the privilege of sewing on the stand that my great grandmother and grandmother used with their sewing machine...the machine was kept in an outside shed for too many years and only the metal was still in tact. So  my daddy had it refinished and a new top put on for me to sew on!!

Blessings all on this gorgeous 

Sunday morning.

The joy of the Lord is my strength.     Neh 8:10
and I hope yours too

Kathy

And the winners are...????

It is an absolutely beautiful Sunday here in North Carolina.

Isn't our Lord good!!!

It is good to praise the Lord

and make music to your name,

O Most High,

to proclaim your love in the morning

and your faithfulness at night,

to make music of the ten-stringed lyre

and the melody of the harp.

                                                                         Psalm 92: 1-3

Here are my blog followers that won the 

sewing closet clean-up fabric

give away...

Blues

"Shirley"

Blues & Greens

"Debbie"

at Angel Scraps Quilting

Pinks & Purples

"JNnNC"

at Shade Tree Quilting

Dick & Jane

" Deb"

at Mountain Musings

Congratulations to each winner !! 

Thanks for following

and I look forward to more give aways

in the future...

(But NOT to more closet clean outs!!!)

Kathy

Fabric, Floss & Faith Give Away !!!

Here it is my 50th post.....SO, I am having a give away to celebrate.

Isn't blog life fun? !!!

Fabric

Kate Spains "Flurry" for Moda

1/2 yd, 1/2 yd, 1 fat quarter

Cute little red birds, flowers, candy, and stars

in Christmas colors plus blue, my favorite.

Floss

DMC & JP Coats

Red, green and blue floss

  pearl cotton & floss

Colors to match the fabric.

Faith

"God's Guidance at Dawn"

by Mary Light

A sweet little devotional published years ago

that I wanted to share with someone.

Now what do you have to do to win???

1 - Follow my blog

&

2 - Comment about how you would use

the Christmas fabric & embroidery floss.


(Don't forget to include your email if it is not
on your blog...)

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That is it...

I will announce the winner on August 6, 2011.

Hope you win but most importantly

I hope you are always blessed 

from reading

Needles & Pins!!

Kathy