What I Did Over My Winter Vacation.

Okay... it was really over a Winter Weekend but it felt like a vacation.... Saturday was the December meeting of my Modern Quilt Guild (Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild) So many pretties on display...

Like this Walk In The Woods Quilt by Alison (on the far left). Alison works for C&T publishing.

And this gorgeous little quilt by Colleen with Heather Ross'  Far Far Away.....

Much talent at my guild!

Sunday, I was a bad girl and played hooky from Church and Small Group to take a class from the incomparable Kristen Robinson at A Work Of Heart.

Her jewelry designs make me drool. She had pieces for sale there at a trunk show and wow it was hard not to buy them all. This is her book...

 These are just a couple of the pieces she shows you how to make in her book. The examples are gorgeous and inspiring and she makes them so easy.

Here are the beginnings of what I made in class:

These aren't finished yet because I have to wait for the resin to cure before I can finish. The cuffs started out as flat shiny blank cuffs. We learned to etch them using stamps and alcohol ink and ... well it is etching.. acid.

Eventually they will have bezels attached and lots of bling... here are some of the bezels I picked up at AWOH for further Ice Resin work (and the one that I already did for attachment to the large cuff):

 (oh and a chandelier crystal for another art piece :) )

It was a great weekend. I hope you all got to follow your muse a bit this weekend too!

Talk soon!

Friday Fun Day, Giveaway Winner, and the new Giveaway

Hi Everyone!

Time to Reveal the Glamp Kit Giveaway winner. If you are looking for the Little Apples Giveaway winner Di has posted the name here. Now for the Glamp Giveaway The winner will receive a Glamp Kit straight from the one and only Quiltded Fish and a few fat quarters of the ever popular and sold out Sugar & Spice collection of fabrics from me.

Mr. Random says:

And Number 39 is:

Quilter in the Gap said...

I voted! What super cute lamps

August 11, 2011 4:36 PM

Woot Rhonda! I will be emailing you.

Thanks for entering both giveaways. This week.

I am off to a quilting retreat today with my Modern Quilt Guild. So much to do in the next few hours. Here are a couple new free quilt patterns for thenew lines I have coming in... Fun stuff.

Moroccan Mirage

Rendezvous (this one is for three table runners)

Okay on to the really important stuff... the giveaway for this week. This week my friend Jackie will be hosting my giveaway. She chose 6 Taza fabrics "The Hostess' Half Dozen" for you to receive FQs of. They look something like this:

So go over to her blog and enter to win some of this yumminess. Click any of the links to get there or here :)

Tomorrow I will be making a very short post... seriously less than 10 words probably but you won't want to miss it. ... just sayin'.

Talk Soon.

Let's Promenade the winners...

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the terrible title... ROFL. First the three winners of the two giveaways that ended last night:

For Friday fun day I am giving a Terrain Charm pack to:

Number 30 is:

JanetK said...

The glamps look fun - I'll have to see if I could get a kit in time to participate. Thanks for the giveaway - both great fabric lines!

July 29, 2011 4:38 PM

The winner of the Little Apples Charm pack:

 And number 90 is:

AlyceB said...

Ooooh, I am LOVING Little Apples! So cute and sweet. And that pillow is gorgeous. I love the colours.

July 31, 2011 7:06 PM

 

The Winner of the big Blogiversary prize pack is:

 

Jessica said...

Congrats on 2 years! I'm a new follower.

August 3, 2011 6:33 PM

Congrats ladies I will be sending you an email in a few moments.

I decided to add two new collections from Riley Blake to my fall line up of fabrics:

Promenade should be here this week... here is just a sampling to show the gorgeous colors:

Then I also ordered Sunny Happy Skies:

The Panda slays me!

I am off to the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild today. Have a great weekend everyone!

Talk soon!

The Farmer's Wife Quilt Along and "C" Blocks.

Hi Everyone,

Have you been bitten by the bug to join The Farmer's Wife Quilt Long?

Block 1

Block 2

I swore I wasn't going to do it (I need a long term project like a fresh hole in the head) but I jumped anyway. I am using a combo of Weekends by Erin McMorris, scraps, and Kona cotton. My first scraps are Midwest Modern of course :) I decided to add a bit of challenge, I am not going to use white in the blocks. For me that is a huge challenge because I love white. I am hoping that in the end I will be able to do the setting (lattice) with white. We shall see how that works out :)

I also finished up the "C" blocks for Alphabet Sampler Quilt Along my guild is doing.

The top two are "Colored Wheel" and the bottom two are "Cain and Abel" ... on to the D blocks :)

I hope you all had a chance to do some sewing lately... but I know how summer time is... so whatever you are doing I hope it makes you happy.

Talk soon!

Quilt Alongs....

HI Everyone,

I know you haven't heard much from me this week.
I started a quilt along with my Modern Quilt Guild I showed you a couple of the blocks on Saturday. Above are some of the fabrics cut out to make my next two blocks... the "B" blocks. Below are all four of the "A" blocks that I have made.

The top ones are "Alaska Homestead" the bottom ones are "Algonquin Charm". I have a special love for anything that is a variation of a Churn Dash or a Farmer's Daughter block... these both fit the bill.

I so want to start the Farmer's Wife Quilt Along but I am just too afraid that I am so far behind. Maybe I will do it anyway.

Have you started any new quilt alongs lately?

Come back tomorrow for Friday Fun Day and the newest Giveaway (I promise you don't want to miss this one.)

Yay! Quilt Guild Day

Hi Everyone,

I am off to the Bay Area Modern Quilt Guild today. We are doing a mug rug swap (I used scraps from my Pillow Talk Swap stuff) I love it :) I hope whoever gets it does too. Then we are also doing a quilt along. It is an alphabet quilt along where we pick blocks that start with A, B, C etc... These are my first blocks (don't ask why but I decided I wanted to do two quilts at once) Ruby on the right (my traditional quilt) and LouLouThi on the left (my modern quilt) The block is called Alaska Homestead. The colors probably won't always match they just happened to this time.

Hope you all have a great Holiday weekend. See ya on the flip side :)

Talk soon.

Off to the Guild...

Okay maybe not at 5:49 in the morning but at some point today...

I am a member of the Modern Quilt Guild for the west side of the San Francisco Bay Area. There is an East Bay guild too and they have some amazing artists.

I have so much to work on today it is almost counter productive for me to go, but I just have to, it is one of the highlights of my month.

LouLouThi is in the shop and I have it at a great price so go take a look if you have been wanting some. I also have marked all of my sale items down to 30% off that includes Sherbet Pips, Silent Cinema, Happier, and Kumari Garden.

Meet you back here on Monday. Have a safe and happy weekend.