Sewing Obsessed!

I cannot believe just how fast time is going!  I mean really ... here we are in the middle of February!!  Can I please, pretty please have my January back?  I had some time off work in early January and thought I would get some sewing and relaxing done.  NOT!  If I hadn't of "made the time" to have a sewing day with friends, I'm not even sure I would have sewed at all - THAT is just wrong!   Work has totally taken over my life and my "me time" is almost non existent therefore making me not a happy camper sewer   person!  Between family (and I love 'em to death!) and work (it's a love/hate relationship LOL) there is almost nothing left to have "me time" with.  I do have to sleep in there too, you know! ☺   So, with that being said, I do believe I will have to start making the time to create my "me time" any chance I get.  Hermits (that's partly me) like to be alone; well I confess that I am part Hermit and I thoroughly enj...

Whoa!  Have I lost touch or what?  Cannot believe my last post was almost two months ago!?  Can't be, but it most certainly is! I was not the winner in the McCall's Quilt Designer contest.  Melanie Wilson of Utah won.  You can check it out here. http://www.mccallsquilting.com/contests/design-star.html Entering this contest really was most enjoyable for me... something I never ever thought I would do.  Would I do it again?  I'm not sure but I "think" so.  The pressure of trying to turn out a design from scratch and on demand while working a full-time AND a part-time job was a little trying and wouldn't want to do that all the time I tell you!  For some reason I was able to do it this time and things ... well they fell into place like it was meant to be!  Amazing, right?   That's what I thought each time I moved on in the challenge and came up with something - Amazing! Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all who voted.  ...

There is only one more week of voting left!  Where has the time gone??  I mean 6 months ago I had entered Spirit of Hope for the first round of voting.  Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have made that first round.  Now, here I am in the final challenge and I still cannot believe I am even partaking in something this big!  The prize package is totally out of this world!!  Check it out for yourself...scroll down the page to   McCall's Quilting Contest Blue Suede by Shirley Jobson The last Canadian in the challenge and I'm having the time of my life!  How else can you top that?  Winning the second round ( See .. I won!! ) was a huge win against the caliber of designers I was up against, and again NEVER would I have ever dreamed of winning it!  Honestly... I even said to my hubby (my Martha) that I knew I wouldn't be voted in to stay in the final challenge and I was okay with that.  Boy was I wrong - I won it! I h...

It's time for Challenge 3 voting, the final round of McCalls Quilt Design Star! I've said it many times, I know, but I cannot believe all this and that I'm even partaking in the final round!!  Thank you to all who have voted in the past and to those who voted me into first place in the second challenge.  I do hope you think this last creation is worthy of your votes again.  As soon as I read what our challenge involved...this song came to mind!  And wouldn't you know it?  It's a song I don't care for ... at all!!  So here we go with a double challenge again - inspiration from lyrics to a well known song and working with a song I don't really like!  Oh boy! But before I made it home from work (something told me to check my emails before I left work) I already had the start of the challenge in my brain.  I hurried into the house and I put the ideas down on paper.  Then someone said something about working on a project from the "outside i...

OH my goodness! What a ride I have been on the past 3 weeks!  Actually since April!! I don't show excitement ... but boy if you could be in my body you would know just how excited I have been!!  I have butterflies having pillow fights in my stomach and my mind, small as it is, is racing a mile a second!!  I still cannot believe that it is me living this dream ...yes to me it is still a dream!   Soon the dream will end and I will awake with such wonderful memories ☺ Camp - from the shore line I was at sewing camp a week ago and oh how I relaxed!  But the best part....was Saturday nite.  Where everyone (approx 50 people) wished me the best of luck with my "dream".  And I even got some sewing done too! Of course I took way too many things to work on but you never know when the sewing fairies will come along to help you out so you best be ready! LOL Peaceful... isn't it? I have had this cut for some time and decided that I would get it...

Oh my gosh!   I was the winner of the 2nd Challenge round for McCall's Quilting Design Star 2011.   Me? YES.... ME!!   Totally unbelievable... but oh so wonderful and fun!  I stayed up until 2:30 this morning tweeking a design that popped into my head before I read all of the requirements for Challenge #3!  And I'm going with it.  Rule of thumb, always go with you first instinct so I am. Don't believe me.... see for yourself!!  Check out Sept 9th's post here..... http://www.mccallsquilting.com/blogs/ I'm still walking on air on Cloud 9, soon to be passing by 10, 11 and 12!! Happy Sewing everyone!!! hugs, Choux

The excitement of the last 4 1/2 months has been quite overwhelming to say the least!  New job, still working old job, taking on duties as president of the Quilt Guild I belong to and then being a participant in the McCall's Quilt Design Star contest!!  Who would have ever thought that I (me....ME!) would ever enter something like this and be in the second round of voting!  Certainly not I!  My entry for the second round is called "Breaking Free".  It had to take a slight turn with the design when I got clarification on what the "surface" actually means.  Everything was cut to go "my" way of thinking before I got the clarification.  I had actually had 1/4 of the braid strip sewn!   To me surface was the "inside" of the piece - not including the borders.  I mean if you put a "quilt" on the bed the borders are not on the surface, right?  Uh-uh .... it includes the borders.  I was so distraught that I really considered dropping out as...