Welcome to the North Pole SAL for March

After flying to Sydney and spending time in the city I have caught a cold. I will never fly again without dosing up with immune boosting supplements. I took them when I went overseas for six weeks and I didn't get sick once.
That said, I did enjoy my time in Sydney. It is just such a pretty town in places. The Queen Mary 2 was in the harbour.

I returned home to some exciting mail. I won the charm and charm holder on Let's Book It at Vrooman's Quilts last month. Join in at the end of each month with a project you have made from one of the many books you own and be in the running for a quilt charm.

There are so many lovely pins and charms at Pin Peddlers.

I have done a little bit on my North Pole table runner. I sewed down two stars and the moon and put some rick rack on Santa's roof. I hope to do the other stars and maybe start some windows. The windows look very tiny and fiddly.

If you are sewing along this year please link up your march blog post below. It was great to see some lovely work from last year linked up last time. There are some new people this year and some picking up from last year. Soon there will be lots of finished quilts.

I posted a giveaway yesterday. The prize is a free Craftsy Class closing 2nd April. If you are not into Craftsy it is definitely worth a look.

Happy Quilting and Crafting,
Val

An InLinkz Link-up

Give Away Craftsy class and Some Sewing

I had a lovely time visiting my mum. We get on so well together even in close quarters. I have a bit of catching up to do with my blog and my sewing.
Before I went away I had time to make two extreme;y useful draw string bags. One for my brush and comb and one for my teeth cleaning items. I now use floss, picksters and toothpaste and brush. I just love those picksters. They really stop the plaque.

I had several fat quarters of really bright fabric that I didn't really know what to do with but they were perfect for the bags. I made the first one and realised that I needed a label on the next one so one has 'Teeth' appliqued on it.

Also while I was away I got the email saying I could give away a Craftsy Class on my blog. There are some really great classes. All you have to do is click on the link and log in or sign up to be entered in the giveaway. It is free to sign up.
The giveaway will close on Wed 2nd April at 8am Australian EST. Craftsy will choose a winner at random.
Disclosure: I get a commission on each new member registration.

Enter to win a Craftsy class!

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Happy Quilting and Crafting,
Val

My Sewing Day

Not that I don't sew everyday but I just need a title that tells me it is not a BoM or linky day. I had a search widget on my blog for a while but it just seemed to stop working one day so I took it off. Sometimes I want to refer to past posts because they have links or ideas or projects that I want to look at again so instead of a search widget I have tried to sort out my labels into nice general specific groups like knitting or cross stitch or the name of a linky party. At least I will have a chance of finding what I need that way and hopefully it will make sense to visitors too.
So no linkies or sew alongs today. I can't guarantee there won't be an affiliate link somewhere. Only joking.

I went a bit overboard with the links on my Craftsy post but I was quite excited about it.

Today I have finished the pink granny bag I started some time in the distant past. It was so easy to finish with the round handles. I made two pieces that gave me a 3 inch fold over and it went together easily.

I have been wanting to make a start on a quilt project so I pulled out the Mrs Greenthumbs fabrics and panel. I was struggling to work out exactly how to show off the panels without just putting a sashing round them.
I decided on a square in square economy block. With the panel picture in the middle the block is 24" square.

I think I will put some green or black sashing between 4 blocks then add some hat fabric as a border and turn it into a lap quilt.

I rediscovered my quiltcalc app while playing with this block. I got the measurement for the hat fabric triangles with it but had to work out the big triangles myself. I am thinking I will make use of the quiltcalc and make some different sized square in square blocks and economy blocks. They always look so good. The app is by Robert Kaufman and is free from the app store for iPads and iPhones.

The other morning I was woken by the local bird gang. They really put on a show. That's the street light outside my place.

I wrote about my Hundred Days Calendar today in my organising blog. It is a great help with those resolutions we like to make. I finally feel like my yoga is a morning habit now.

I am off to Brisbane tomorrow and a bit of a holiday in Sydney. DH will be trying to console Stumpy while I am gone. He hates it when I go away. We bought him some special treat foods to distract him a bit.
I will be trying to look in on the blogging world while I am away but only if I get time.

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Happy Quilting and Crafting,
Val

February Round Up

After moving house and trying to find all my stuff I managed to get quite a lot of sewing done, quite a lot of blogging and even found time for some pretty decent cooking.

I collected together some of my photos for February in a PicMonkey collage.

I am also hoping to finish my pompadour bag soon. I have been having some trouble with construction basics. I will never learn to just follow a pattern. I always have to make changes.
Here is the barrel part of the bag. These are all my HST sewn together.

Today I am linking up with Lily's Quilts Fresh Sewing Day

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Val