Birthday Celebrations!!

I just copied some information from two of our local shops on their upcoming Birthdays. I'll probably go to both, the Corn Wagon for sure, if you want to carpool let me know. We could even go to breakfast after on Nov 7th.


JUST SEW-
It’s Our Birthday!
Can you believe it’s been one year already? My, how time flies! Join us on Friday, October 23, to help us celebrate our 1st Birthday. The first 30 customers in the store will receive a birthday present from us! Come in and enjoy refreshments and enter our birthday drawing. See you there!


CORN WAGON’S 10TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION -
Saturday, November 7th.
Hard to believe that we have been in business 10 years. Thanks to you wonderful
customers that have kept us in business. It will be quite the celebration. Of course, we
will have our “FAT QUARTER FRENZY” beginning at 8:00 am for one hour our fat
quarters (any fat quarter in the store) are $1.25. Beginning at 9:00
am until 5;00 pm they will go to $1.99. Lots of other 10th birthday surprises going on
throughout the day. Be sure to join us for the fun and birthday cake (maybe cupcakes!)
Plan on joining us on November 7th.

October Tips

I was thinking about all of the great tricks people shared on Wednesday, and thought we should write them down. This is what I remember - let us know if there are any others.

1. Use those snappy hair clips (instead of pins) to hold your binding in place while you hand stitch the back.
2. Thread Heaven helps your thread not tangle up and break when you're hand sewing.
3. After you sew blocks into rows, iron the seams of each row in opposite directions. For example, iron the seams of Row 1 to the right, Row 2 to the left, and Row 3 to the right. That way, when you are sewing the rows together, the seams will "lock" in place and ensure that your corners match exactly.
4. Use a Tailor Clapper (AKA block of wood) to help set creases as you iron them. You can actually use any piece of sanded hardwood.
   
5. When doing machine applique, sew through the quilt top and batting together. The batting helps to stabilize the stitches. This only works with the thin cotton batting; fluffy polyester batting will get caught in your feed dogs.
6. Instead of using safety pins to hold your layers together for quilting, try a temporary spray adhesive.
7. Alli remembered another one: Make a tube of fabric the same width as the quilt, and hand stitch it to the back for a rod pocket. Having a full tube will protect the quilt itself from any chemicals or whatever that might seep out of the rod. And making it the same width as the entire quilt will distribute the weight evenly so that the quilt doesn't begin to sag.
   

Anything else?

Ghost Cookies...

Hi girls...I came home today from Sam's and made some of these "ghost" cookies.  I thought I would share them because I thought they came out quite cute.  I copied the idea from Martha Stewart...I'm definitely not creative enough to come up with them on my own.  They were fast and easy but unfortunately not low fat like Sam's banana bread.  All it is is Nutter Butter cookies dipped in melted white chocolate chips and then mini chocolate chips for the eyes.  I know they aren't quilting related but  I thought I would share them just in case you feel the desire to make them.  And don't they look so cute all wrapped up?  Have a good day!

Christmas Wreath Pillow

Our next project is a Christmas Wreath Pillow. This pattern makes a 20" square pillow. Here is a list of materials needed to make one pillow.

1/4 yard green for wreath
1/4 yard cream for background
1/4 yard medium bow color
1/4 yard dark bow color
1/8 yard gold for first border
1/2 yard dark green for second border and backing
one 8 1/2" X 11" fabric printer sheet for photo transfer(optional)
20" Pillow form
22" square of lightweight batting or fleece
22" square of muslin

Don't feel pressure to make a pillow. I personally will be taking this block and creating a table runner. Others have thought of making it into a wall hanging or table topper. Be creative, but remember your material list will change depending on your needs.
We will meet on Nov. 4th to start this project. We would like to finish the wreath block that day. Contact me if you need a cutting list.

Happy Material Hunting To You All!!

Happy Howl-oween!

Linda's

Jewelia's

Alli's

Teresa's

Sam's

I forgot to mention - that Banana Bread was low fat. So now you can feel good about yourself, if you ate 5 pieces like I did.

October Meeting

We will be meeting this Wednesday, October 14th at 9:30 a.m. at Sam's house.

Be sure to bring your Happy Jack wall hanging (in whatever state of completion). We'll help you get it finished, and then we'll take pictures of them all for our blog.

Jewelia is also going to share some ideas for our next project.

See you there!