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Shop Hoppin’!

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I had a blast participating in my very first shop hop!  It was the Rally in the Valley Shop Hop Tour 2016 and included 11 stores in the Phoenix Metro Area from October 7 – 15, 2016.

Me and my friends, Teresa and Kelly, hopped on Mon & Tue Oct 10 & 11.

Of the 11 stores participating in the hop, I’d only been to one prior and that was 3 Dudes.

Here is how we hopped.

Monday
3 Dudes Quilting – Phoenix, AZ
Cutting Edge Quilts – Chandler, AZ
Quilters Ranch – Tempe, AZ
Mad B’s Quilt and Sew – Mesa, AZ
A Quilter’s Oasis – Mesa, AZ
BERNINA Connection – Phoenix, AZ
Bonus stop SAS Fabrics Phoenix, AZ

Tuesday
The Olde World Quilt Shoppe – Cave Creek, AZ
The Other Quilt Shop – Phoeniz, AZ
You Can Quilt – Peoria, AZ
Arizona Quilts – Surprise, AZ
Sun Valley Quilts – Sun City, AZ
Bonus stop 35th Ave Sew & Vac Phoenix, AZ

I had a great experience and bought a few goodies…

…and a little bit of fabric.

Here’s a better view of my lovelies!

The only thing that would’ve made it better is if I was spending someone else’s money!

Thanks for visiting!

Until next time, God Bless.

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Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the everlasting way. Psalms 139-23-24 HCSB

Bloggers Quilt Festival Fall 2016 – Gossamer

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I love gifts. I love receiving them, and I really love giving them, especially quilty ones!   Last year I wanted to give a good friend an awesome gift. And of course it had to be quilted.  After brainstorming for awhile and looking online, I came up w/the idea for the best gift ever!
I came across Janeen at Quilt Art Designs who makes fabulous paper pieced patterns. I sent her a photo and asked if she could turn it into a  paper pieced pattern.  She absolutely could, and did! 
This is the photo I sent.  It’s a pic of my friend’s beloved classic bronco, whom he dubbed Gossamer.
This is the pattern she made.
Now all I had left to do was learn the fine art of paper piecing.  
I enlisted the help of my good friend and paper-piecer extraordinaire, Sue!  And for the next 5 weeks, I spent approximately 5 hrs each Thursday making Gossamer. You can read about in this post. 

And this is Gossamer!



I was so very pleased w/how he turned out so you can imagine how I felt when I found out he got an award at the Arizona Quilters Guild Quilt Show!  Yep! He got Honorable Mention! AND it was my first time entering an actual show! Can you say ECSTATIC?! You can read all about it in this post. 


Gossamer measures 22″ x 22″ and  is entered in the Small Quilt Category.  If he tickles your fancy as much as he tickles mine, I’d be over the moon if you vote for him!  Thank you!

This is my second time participating in the Bloggers Quilt Festival.  My first time was Fall of 2014. You can read about that in this post. A big shout out to Amy Ellis of Amy’s Creative Side for putting this lovely festival together! And huge thanks to the sponsors too for the fabulous prizes!

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Moving Right Along

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The Blogger’s Quilt Festival Fall 2014 has come to an end. A big shout out to Amy at Amy’s Creative Side for coordinating the event.  Even though I didn’t win this time around, I’m still super excited and very grateful that my quilt made it to Viewer’s Choice Top 20!  A HUGE thank you for all who voted for my quilt. You can see the winners here.

Here are a few of my faves from the festival.
http://www.13spools.com/2014/10/bloggers-quilt-festival-icy-waters.html

http://quiltsmyway.blogspot.ca/2014/10/light-of-stars-quilt-bloggers-quilt.html
  
http://pugmomquilts.blogspot.com/2014/10/entering-bloggers-quilt-festival.html
If you missed the Blogger’s Quilt Festival this time, don’t despair, it happens twice a year! It’ll be coming around again in Spring 2015, and I hope to see you there. 
In other quilty news…
I’m back to my countdown projects. I’ve been working on the double option star quilt which will be a Christmas present for my 3yr old sister. (my dad has a kid w/his girlfriend) 
Her favorite color is green so I chose this green from my stash BUT, it’s very masculine.
What could I put w/it to make it more appropriate for a  3yr old girl?  Her mom said she also likes blue and red. So I went back in my stash and chose this beautiful blue paisley which has red (and the same green) in it. 
This fabric opened the door for yellow and a few other fabrics…which worked out well because I quickly ran out of the green. 
The blocks measure 8.5″ square and originally I was going to make 42 of them for 6 across, 7 down. They are pretty busy though, so I decided to tone it down a bit by adding white sashing strips.
Here’s what I’ve got so far. Because of the sashing I didn’t need as many blocks after-all and settled on 24.  Four of these blocks (bottom row) are super scrappy because I used what was left-over from making the other sets. 
On Design Wall

 I’m calling it Spinning Stars. I’ve yet to add a white border and a 2nd border of the blue paisley.

Outside
Thanks for stopping by. Until next time, Happy Quilting!
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If anyone lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him. James 1:5
“One way to have more faith is to ask for it! If you’re like me, sometimes we don’t need more of anything. We just need the courage to exercise what we already have.  Other times we authentically require an increase to do God’s will, and He will not refuse it if we ask in Jesus’ name.
Jesus will never turn us away when we come to Him with gut-level honesty and request what we lack. Since it is impossible to please God without faith, you and I constantly have new challenges to believe God.  Let’s learn to confess our unbelief and ask Christ to empower us to overcome it.” 
Beth Moore’s Believing God: Day by Day

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