We Support You blog hop. . . . today is my day to post. . . .

I believe the details surrounding this pattern was that Madame Samm designed it as a way to show support for a friend who was undergoing breast cancer treatment.  She made a quilt for her friend; but those of us in the blog hop were given the opportunity to do anything that we wanted to.

Lately there has been some medical issues that have come up around me. . . . .a co-worker has been hospitalized for the removal of a brain tumor, a guild member (a breast cancer survivor) had some medical issues lately, and now my mother has a medical situation that will be addressed soon.

Cancer is one of those things that we all seem to be connected by. . . .one of my best friends had undergone breast cancer surgery before we had met, my brother-in-law died in 2013 from colon cancer after battling the illness for four years.

Here is the little wall hanging that I am making:

I've shown it to several friends at a quilt retreat that I was at recently and they all said that I should "bling it up" with beads and sequins and such.  Their comments got me thinking and I want to get to the store to get some red and pink beads and such to see if I like the effect.

If it wasn't for their suggestions I would have been starting on the hand quilting of this little piece.

I am also thinking of making another little quilt, in applique and stitching to represent a belly dancer's bra. . . I think it would be a fun piece to make up.

It was an easy pattern to follow ---- and I may try doing the applique version by enlarging the pattern to make the pieces big enough for me to be comfortable (I am not the best person for applique, LOL).

It was wonderful to see the other projects that have resulted from Madame Samm's design talents. . . here is the full schedule so that you can go "back in time" to see what others have come up with.

We Support You Blog Hop Full Schedule


Jan 29^th 

Life in The Scrapatch

Living With Purpose

What About Rheema?

Kwilt Krazy

Jan 30^th 

Just Let Me Quilt

Stitch and Quilt

how arT you

Living My Dream

Feb 2^nd 

Quiltscapes

Made By Me In Red

Ga's House

Sew Incredible Crazy

Feb 3^rd 

My Quilting Journey

Creativity Amongst Chaos

Peanut's Patchwork

KaHolly

Feb  4^th 

Kris Loves Fabric

Words & Stitches

Jane's Quilting

Tea Time Creations

Feb 5^th  

Selina Quilts

Dutchess Crazy & Sane Quilting World

Moose Stash Quilting

Lovelli Quilts

Feb 6^th  

I Piece 2 - Mary

Baa's Amazing Adventure

Quilted Delights

The Blended Blog

Feb 9^th 

Stitchin By The Lake

 Tea Leaf Quilts

Books, Hooks, Sticks, etc   (this is where you are now)

Seams To Be Sew

Stitchen' My Life Away

Feb 10^th  

 ^{Creatin' In the Sticks}

^{The Quilting Queen Online}

^{Everyone Deserves A Quilt}

^{The Quilted Cat}

Hill Valley Quilter

Feb 11^th  

Buzzing and Bumbling

In Stitches and Seams

All thingz sewn

The Slow Quilter

Crayon Box Quilt Studio

Sew We Quilt

If you would like to have the pattern for your own use you can purchase it directly from Madame Samm for $12.00 via email at madamesamm@me.com.

In peace and pieces,

 


 This content was originally posted on the quilt blog Books, Hooks, Sticks, etc. (www.bookshookssticksetc.blogspot.com). If you are reading this on any site other than the original or quilterblogs.com it is WITHOUT my permission and the content has been stolen.

Swapping that has been sent

I've taken part in a couple of swaps recently. . . . but due to delays by the USPS I was not able to publish the information until that I knew that the recipients had gotten their gifts.

The first swap was an Initial Heart swap that was hosted by Cheryll:

I sent to Terry in California the following gift:

The pouch with the embroidery is my version of a tutorial offered by Jenny of ELEFANTZ.  Her tutorial can be found here.

Another swap that I was involved in was with the Monthly Doll Quilters program.  This was the quilt for January.  The monthly theme (which is optional) was "A Good Book" and I made the quilt below basted on "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz".  My partner, Dorian, said that her favorite color was blue.  Since my favorite color is yellow it seemed like a perfect plan.

The quilt pattern is my version of a Grecian Key design. . . the yellows and blues all came from my scrap stash.  It was fun trying to make all the pieces a different version of each color.

I machine pieced the quilt top and hand quilted it.  

I did not take a picture of the back. . . but the label was about 1/2 of the back and I wrote the label with my own handwriting.

I have to take pictures of the items I received in both swaps. . . .but I'll leave that for another posting.

Now I plan on getting back to my sewing machine to work on a pincushion for a swap that I am in through the Quilted Angels Yahoo group.

Once that is done I will be finished with the swaps that I have signed up for. . . .and I think I will take the "extra" time I will have to work on my own projects so that I can get some things done.


In peace and pieces,

 


 This content was originally posted on the quilt blog Books, Hooks, Sticks, etc. (www.bookshookssticksetc.blogspot.com). If you are reading this on any site other than the original or quilterblogs.com it is WITHOUT my permission and the content has been stolen.