Christmas Coasters

On Tuesday we had a "fun" day with the extension clubs in the county. It is a social deal but one club always furnishes a little project to do. We have made jewelry and greeting cards plus other things. This year we made the coasters.
Have you joined the giveaway at Fall-into-fall????????? Don't know for sure what I will give away but have lots of ideas.

Fall Giveaway

I have joined Debi in the Fall into Fall giveaway. There are lots of bloggers joining- hope you do also. Deadline for joining is Wed. and you have a few days before telling us what you are giving away. Her scarecrow is on the right side of my blog.

What I've been working on!!

This is the quilt I have been hand-quilting. It is not moving very fast but when the weather is nice I like to be out in the yard. I also have several other projects that I am working on. This week-end I am going to play with my EQ7 and figure out the border for the Jewel Box. When I am blog hopping I see so many neat ideas I want to try- also want to do some Christmas sewing. Hope you all are having a good sewing day.

Worlds Only Corn Palace.

Today I am showing you a tourist attraction in our city. It is all decorated with corn and grains. There are also murals inside the building. The outside is decorated each year with different themes. Yesterday they hosted a senior citizen day and served over 500 dinners. Also had music for people to dance- mostly polkas and waltzs. Today the polka fest begins. It will go until Sunday with several different bands playing. They also have other activities in this building- Kenny Rogers recently had a show here and soon basketball games will start.
Click on the picture to enlarge it.

Sunshine Award

I have been chosen to receive the Sunshine Award. Thank you crazy'boutquilts. Now I get to nominate 12 others for this award. Since I am not a very active blogger it will be hard to chose 12 so I will just chose some of the blogs I check often. I have met so many quilters and gotten lots of ideas from other blogs that I sometimes wonder how I quilted before blogging. My choices:
1.Quiltdoodles
2.Quilting can be fun
3.Mountain Home Quilts.
4.Little Lady Patchwork
5.Quilt Hollow
6 Happy Cottage Quilter
7. All Things Vintage Sheets
8. Crazy Old Ladies
9. Bejeweled Quilts By Barb.
10.Grannys Sewing Room
11.Quilt Mom
12. Kansas Trouble Quilters
Now you are to: Save the image and post it on your blog
Choose 12 other bloggers for the award
Let the bloggers know they have been given the award
Share the link with whoever you rec'the award from.

Ruler

This is the ruler I used to cut the second block

Playing with Tube quilting

I made a couple blocks from scraps- the first one I did the way they tell us here-( google- you tube +tube quilting). It is a tute by Missouri Star Quilt company and she uses the 45 degree line on a regular ruler.I used 2 -2 1/2 inch strips and 1- 4 1/2 inch strip- all are wof. The second one is cut into 6- 2 1/2 in strips and my friend showed up with a special ruler so I used it on the bigger block. Both rulers worked good. The blocks are not squared up but you get an idea of what I did. Hope this helps if you want to try it.

Tube Quilting??.

It is sooo nice here that I just sat outdoors and enjoyed it. I have to give a lesson at our next guild meeting and am looking for something simple. ( a teacher I am NOT) I found tube quilting and made a couple blocks and I think that will be it. Wish me luck. Also I am still hand quilting my quilt. I promised a picture but that will be later. Happy sewing.

Izzy's ( Bridget's) Garden

I came across this wall hanging while looking for my fall decorations. It is a HGTV BOM from several years ago.

Hope you all had a good Labor Day. We had a dreary rainy day but had a college age GS visiting so it was a good one. Today I hope to get some sewing done.

ABC quilt

Good morning, 50º degrees here and it feels like fall (my favorite time of the year). I was looking through my supply of quilts and wallhangings so I could change what I have on my quilt hangers. Thought I would show you a small quilt that I exchanged the squares on a HGTV swap a few years ago. We each picked a letter in the alphabet and exchanged squares. Haven't been getting alot done but am hand quilting. Will show that one in a few days. Have a safe Labor Day weekend.