Pickles Garden

Mrs. Pickles Garden is running a Blog hop starting Monday (the 31st). She has rounded up several talented quilters to share their secrets with you.

Mysterious Presents

So I opened the door today and out side was a package. No label, no stickers, no name. Kind of odd, there are 3 people living in my house.... ok. Inside is this....

Ok... Not someplace I usually eat at. Love the top, bottom is meh. Needs to go. 1/2hr later, a little bit of work and presto!

A beautiful 2013 Chinese Calendar.

Managed to finish a few Christmas presents in between classes.

Mostly make ornaments, their my specialty. Larger projects require more time then I usually have.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I Won!

So right before school starts for the fall semester I won a few prizes. @ Leona's Quilting Adventure I won an awesome book on making fabric flowers.

Thank you so much Leona!

Right before that I won at Suz-A-Palooza!!!
SuzGuz Designs runs an awesome event and I won this awesome layer cake by Kathy Schmitz for Moda.

Thank you Susan!

Also I won the new Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks magazine at the Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks Blog Tour from Cirlique Creations.

 

She also sent along a lovely block pattern she created =)

Thank you so much Jennifer!

On the U R Priceless! Coin Purse Blog Hop I won a 4 FQ pack of random fabrics from The Desert Rat Chronicles. Thank you Sheryl!

Thank you to everyone for the prizes. I learn so much on the blog hops and I love seeing what everyone makes. Maybe I will have time over Christmas break to participate in one.

Cakes

Bumped into this blog today. These sound awesome. I love chocolate =)
Chocolate cakes

Quiltiness

Obviously I don't update often. This is not because nothing is going on. The opposite is true. Things get done a little at a time and I post here when I feel ready.

This lovely is my applique quilt and my current large project.

Comes with a hot air balloon (me mums fav, she always wanted to go for a ride)

 and a kite. If you can get the pictures a bit bigger (they shrank when I loaded them) the hot air balloon has stitched basket weaving and the kits has pearl cross strings.

The argument I'm having with a couple friends is that no one likes my cloud. They think it looks like a lake when I was trying for a sky scene. So if anyone wants to give an opinion I'd appreciate it. It's almost done, but I don't want to be hearing about my sky lake forever. Esp once it's quilted and I can't fix it.

Summer of Stitchy Love

This was my entry for the Summer of Stitchy Love contest on Flikr. The contest has ended and I hope I get a door prize. There are 8 of them, so I have a decent chance. The patterns are from Hoop Love Vintage Transfers Flikr Group. You need to join to see them, but they have over 7500 patterns! I am planning on making this project into a tote bag, but that will have to wait until I get the other side stitched up. Currently deciding if I want to stitch up another flower bowl (since they came as a pair) or do something a little different.

Quilting

Working on an applique quilt, which is slow going. Still attaching many peices and working on a embroidered design for the Summer of Stitchy Love project. Might post pictures. I don't really like to show off my work for some reason. Quilt is a memorial for my mother, so sharing is difficult.