What Santa brought me

 Well, not really Santa, my mom. She gave a yard of each of the 3 fabrics above. She had previously given me a fat quarter of the bird fabric in October. The purple and green are also part of the same fabric line (I think it is Northcott).

Here is the panel that goes with it. I have decided what I am going to make with these fabrics so I have washed them and hope to start the project next month.

My month also sent along these 4 fat quarters. Thanks mom. I love them.

In November, I won a giveaway from Jacquie at Tallgrass Prairie Studio. She sent these fabrics but I decided to wait until Christmas to open them. I have been eyeing the owl fabric for some time and was so happy to see it in the stack she sent me. Thank you Jacquie.

My gift to myself. I have been waiting for the right time to buy a charm pack and jelly roll of these fabrics. I bought them from Green Fairy Quilts on Cyber Monday but made myself wait until Christmas to "open" them since I knew I would play with them instead of finishing other projects. Thank you me.

Come back tomorrow when I will be posting my final finishes for 2010 and give a grand total of OPAM projects. I am still undecided whether I will join OPAM 2011. I will be joining Judy's UFO challenge for 2011, so I will posting that list tomorrow too, I hope.

Sneak Peak revealed

 Remember this challenge fabric I showed you this fall? My sister had bought a yard, split it in half and challenged each of us to do something with it. That was over a year ago. I refound the fabric this fall while reorganizing and decided I would try to make my sister something for Christmas with it... and I did but wasn't able to show the finished product since she reads this blog.

 So, here it is. This table runner pattern was in the July/August (2010) Fons & Porter magazine. I only added the black fabric. I gave the runner a hanging sleeve in case she wanted to hang it on the wall instead. Go back to this post for closer pics.

I have also finished my sweater and am almost done a lap quilt - just a little quilting left to do in the border and the binding. Hope to post pics of those this week.

Hope everyone had a good holiday. I'll take some pictures of what Santa left me under the tree (fabrics!). Hope he brought some goodies to your house too.

Knitting Progress

Front of my sweater - Done!

First sleeve - Done!

Second sleeve - Started!

I've been focusing on finishing my sweater for Christmas but I have been able to add to the scarf a little bit. Once I finish the sweater I'll be focusing on finishing this scarf and making myself another pair of socks before starting the socks for my sister. Next year I will be knitting more for others than for myself; although I have really enjoyed treating myself. I think one of my favourite presents each Christmas was opening the sweater my grandmother knit me. Each grandchild received a sweater until they were a teenager. It definitely felt like something was missing when I no longer opened sweaters from her. I'm glad she was able to knit baby sweaters for both my kids when they were born.

Christmas is coming!

 Our gnomes are watching over all the gifts that have arrived from our family.

 But with the gifts she sent, my sister added some gifts for to play with a little early. First was this quilt top. I think she said she won it last year but hasn't done anything with it yet. It's baby quilt size and it came with binding. However, looking through my stash I found 3 fabrics that I could use to add another border. Hmmm... we'll see.

 She also sent along this one that she put together. My son claimed this one by lying on top of it when I laid it down. I let him go through my stash with me and decided to add some other fabrics to it. It is wide enough for a twin but would need to be a little longer to fit his bed. He's pretty excited about it being his... one day.

 She also included this extra fabric from the quilt. Pillowcase?

 A couple more goodies were included. Sarah bought some sock yarn. But it's not really for me. I am suppose to knit her a pair of socks for her birthday in February. She was kind enough to include a pattern too.

Thank you Sarah! I'll get started on your socks in the new year.

Friday Night Sew-In Results

 I had a lap quilt basted and ready to go for Friday night sew-in, but I got distracted by these snowmen blocks. They are part of Bunny Hill Designs BOM Snowbound quilt. This is number 4 and 5, which I finished last night.

 I did the first 3 blocks this summer while we were driving from Michigan to Idaho. Blocks 4 and 5 will be squared up and added to row 2 today and then I can put rows 1 and 2 together.

Here are blocks 6 and & ready for all the handstitching.

 I also started this scarf for myself. The yarn is incredibly soft. I'll be working on this over the next week while watching holiday movies with the kids. You can find the pattern here.

Go check out Heidi's blog to see what everyone else was up to last night.

Giveaway Winners!

Winners of the Sew, Mama, Sew! Giveaway Day giveaway's are:

Baby Quilt winner - #88 kerrykatiecakeskeb43 said...

I would love to win the baby quilt - It looks so sweet and cuddly!

Hugs,

Kerry

Fat Quarters/ selvages winner - #99 Jenny said...

comment 2: would love FQs and selvage...ive been saving selvage for a very short time, your pile would double my stash of them!

I have sent Kerry and Jenny emails. Please send me your addresses so I can mail your prizes to you.

Thank you to everyone who left a comment. I am humbled by your kind words.

Now, back to Friday Night Sew-In. Come back tomorrow to see what I was able to accomplish tonight. 

Giveaway Day!

COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED.

It's finally here - Sew, Mama, Sew's Giveaway Day! Welcome to Rachel's Quilts. Today I have not 1 but 2 giveaways for you. 

First up, is this baby quilt. Made with cotton fabrics and cotton batting. It measures roughly 35 inches square.

Closer look. The binding is a vintage fabric.

Here is the back. A lovely bird print with some vintage fabric at the top and bottom.

Second giveaway is, 2 holiday fat quarters that have been in my stash too long and need to go to a new home and a bunch of selvages. Some selvages are about 12 inches, while others are a yard or more.

To enter just leave a comment. Please leave 1 comment for each giveaway that you are interested in, or leave 2 comments if you are interested in both (i.e. leave 1 comment about the quilt, and another about the fabrics/selvages).  I will leave comments open until midnight (EST), December 17th,  when I will use a random number generator to pick 2 winners. Good luck. I am willing to ship internationally so everyone is welcome to comment.

I'm off to look at the other giveaways! Leave a comment here and then you should go to!