Give Away

Something I love to do with my left over half square triangle is make pouches. They can use to hold many different things from makeup, sewing kits, wallet items, ect. This is one I made a while back and it holds my Baby Lock Quilters Pro Accessories. It was made with left over Thimbleberries HST and scraps.

So to celebrate my birthday and to say thank you to my viewers and readers (almost 5000) and family and friends. I have made this pouch from my Thimbleberries Village Green leftovers to give to one of my commenters.

All you have to do is leave a comment  on this post about how you would like to use this pouch (7 3/4" x 6 1/2"). Please make sure you leave me with a way for me to contact you. If I can't reach you, I will have to choose another winner. Giveaway is open to everyone.

I plan to close comments and draw the winner on May 7th .

Giveaway is now closed.

Winner will be announced shortly.

Thank you for joining in and your birthday wishes and comments.

April FMQ Challenge

Sew Cal Gal is having a free motion quilt challenge this year. Each month she has a guest teacher. This month it is Don Linn. The challenge can be found at

http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com/2012/04/april-2012-fmq-challenge-tutorial-by.html

Thank you Don for a great video tutorial.

So I began my challenge by choosing a quilt design and enlarging the design.

Next I traced the design onto my tulle with a Sharpie.

Then I traced the tulle design onto my quilt sample with water erase pen.

     

Next I stitched the quilting, it was very difficult for me to quilt on the lines I had to sew slow and make lots of stops. It was a fun technique though and I plan to use it more. One major thing I wish I had done different was used a solid color thread with higher contrast to my fabric.

Front

Back it came it very good.

This picture is after I soaked the mini sample and partial dried it. It is being blocked.

On another note: I am participating in a pay it forward. I have 3 positions open if you might be interested check out the rules. Click on the picture.

And another note: I am coming up on 5000 views very soon and my birthday is April 30th. To celebrate I am going to have a giveaway. So be watching for futher details.

Tina

More Purses

This first one is for my friend Cheryl. It is from a starter kit that had the bias strips and muslin backing. I machine quilted part of the blue with curly meanders.

                                                                          

This is the second one for this month, the two sides are different. Machine quilted

 using a variety of quilting patterns.

 

This is the last one I made. The houses are pockets. Machine Quilted with

2 sizes of meandering, a star burst in the stars and the lining is quilted in loops.

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