ALYOF Completed!

My November goal was to finish machine quilting in the ditch

on this quilt and to attach the binding.

(If you click on the pictures, they will show larger!)

I accomplished my goal with time to spare

by quilting so many blocks a day.

I'm so proud of myself this month.

I went on a road trip with a friend

and brought the quilt so I could do a decent photo shoot

along the way,

but the weather did not cooperate, 

so all I have is this clothes line shot.

This was a leader-ender project  three or four years ago.

It is my second one.

It has traveled back and forth to Texas with me all these years,

but I never got it finished.

The pattern is called Scrap-Tease, 

by Bettie Hammock for Stitch'n Kitt'n.

It is out of print now.

I embellished the centers by snowballing the squares,

appliquing hearts, and doing a little embroidery.

(The centers on the first one were left square

and signed by our quilt group members,

The quilt was gifted to a fellow member who was having health issues.)

Not only did I finish Scrap-Tease,

but I finished a Christmas gift, too.

Bright Birch Trees

by Crazy Mom Quilts

Talk about fun to make!

The solids are Free Spirit.

What a dream to work with!

I quilted it with organic wavy lines,

pretending it was the wind!

It was my first time quilting wavy lines,

and it went so quickly and smoothly.

I'm linking up to 

SewBitterSweetDesigns.

I've been having so much fun!

Hope you can say the same!

~karen

Hazel Goes to Indiana

Thank you for visiting my blog

and entering the give away

for the PiNS pattern.

The random number generator

chose Carol of Just Let Me Quilt.

Congratulations, Carol!

I've forwarded your email address to Karen.

PiNS can be purchased at

Karen's Etsy shop,

SugarFreeQuilts

as an instant digital downloadable PDF.

She has crushed walnut shells for sale, too.

I know that several of MY quilty friends

will be happy to receive a pincushion 

made from the PiNS pattern for Christmas.

Yours will, too!

On a quilty note,
not only did I find Dog Gone Cute
irresistible, the same was true for Hazel Hedgehog.

When Little Sister told me the story

of how my niece woke from her afternoon nap one day

and said to her mom, "Mummy, I was imagining I was a hedgehog..."

I had no choice, did I?

Especially since she was only days away from turning three?

It's almost bigger than my sweet girl!!

Hope you have a wonderful, funderful day.

Thanks so much for stopping by for a visit.

~karen

Too Dog Gone Cute to Resist

I tried,

I really did.

But....I couldn't do it.

So, I made one.

One turned into three.

They were just 

too Dog Gone Cute to resist.

I have three very special little friends

down in Houston

who will delight in receiving this year's Christmas gifties!

Thank you, Lorna, for yet another delightful pattern.

The Blog Hop was lots of fun.

The pups were addicting.

Wish I had more time, I'd keep making them!

What a great fundraiser idea for the SPCA.

May just have to revisit this pattern
for more quilty fun.

Linking to Sew Fresh Quilts linky party!

I'm also linking to ALYoF

I fly back to Texas for the winter in 5 short weeks,

so I'm designating my remaining time here

to finishing up everything I have started.

This quilt has been a UFO for a fair amount of time.

I decided to quilt it this summer, choosing to stitch in the ditch.

Oh, what was I thinking?

It's been sitting unfinished in a pile for a few weeks now,

but I'm back at it, and it WILL be finished and bound

by the end of the month.

There are no more butterflies to distract me!

Today is the last day to enter my give away!

Have a wonderful, funderful day!

~karen