collections....

If you'd like to see some more collections hop over to Meet me at Mike's. Wonderful blog. Here are just 2 of my collections. My VW bus / beetle cars.
Traffic jam.....

And my camper collection...

I have other collections but won't show them now. I am having trouble or feeling troubled about some people coping and using my ideas. I just don't feel comfortable sharing the other collections. The coping is mostly on "Flickr". So I may not be posting as many pictures there.

On a happy note.... Have fun over @ Meet me at Mike's looking at all the other collections.

My creative space.....

Working on another embroidery project.... this will be an on -going one.
Working on pillowcases for mine and my husband's bed..... this is just 1 of 2.

In my husband's creative space..... he is cutting up steel. Whistling to "Top Gun", playing really loud in his garage.

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Eat, sleep, sew.... Quilt Retreat

I am back from the Quilting retreat and what fun I had. I got so much sewing done. The food was wonderful, I slept great, and 2 1/2 days of sewing and quilting. I met the sweetest ladies, ( and few not so sweet, but I just stayed away from them). Here is a picture of my groups tables. We had the best view. Just gorgeous. Cheryl and Michelle from my quilting group went with me.
I'll show you some projects and progress I made on the trip. Some things I can't show because they are Christmas gifts. Here is a needle holder which will be a Christmas gift.

This is Cheryl showing off the scarf I made for my daughter, Her robotics team are called "Blue Cheese".

Me, sewing away. Having the best time.

I finished my 'Bareroots' "camping" quilt top. I LOVE how it turned out. Now I need to figure out how to quilt it. I may just stitch in the ditch....

Here is a closer picture of the embroidery, I changed 3 of the blocks. ( Sorry Barri) , she is the Bareroots lady ). We never see bears in the woods, so I changed that one to a bus. We never camp in a cabin, so I changed that one to a bus. We only camp in the VW bus. And we don't fish , so I changed that one to a lantern with bugs around it. We do use our lantern every night and have lots of bugs. :o)

I made some progress on my "Happy Camper" quilt too. I am using the 'happy camper' linen. And wonky star blocks.

I also made 2 casserole covers, this pattern is wonderful. It's by 'Among Brenda's Quilts'. And has the pattern for 2 different sizes in there. 8 X 8 and 9 X 13.

My creative space....

I finished another block for my sewconnected 3 group. I love her (Sara) fabrics she sent. I love any Heather Ross fabric. So fun to work with. I machine appliqued the little octopi on.
On my design wall..... in my creative space... I have the 'camping' quilt up. The 'bareroots' one.

Leaving for a quilting retreat tomorrow morning, so when I get back I hope to have all kinds of things to show off. :o)

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Embroidery

I received my very sweet and cute embroidery from Aneela of 'comfortstitching'. I was her secret partner for the swap, so I didn't know she had me until I received my embroidery. This was the 'Hand stitched' embroidery swap on Flickr. I think it's just the cutest thing, I am going to hang in in my sewing room.

Here is my next tea towel embroidery finished. She has a 'day of the dead' and kitsch religious them going.
Only 3 more embroidered squares to go, I LOVE this quilt. It is going to be so cute. I picked out the fabric squares and got them cut out. They are 2 X 2. I didn't do any stitching this weekend because we were camping. :o)

I usually take my embroidery camping with me, but this campout was our Thanksgiving campout. Everyone brings food and we have a big feast. So I was cooking to much to stitch.

My Creative Space....

I finished my daughter's robotics teacher's Christmas gift. I think it turned out so cute. Robot fabric came from Pocketful of Pinwheels.
Trying to pick out the fabric for my 'Camping' quilt. I only have 3 more embroideries to go until I can put the whole thing together.

Working on my next tea towel for the 'tea towel tour'. This isn't done yet, I still have to stitch the banner on the bottom. The pattern came from 'Urban Threads'.

In my husbands creative space.... he is rebuilding an engine for our camper bus. I don't know why, I think the one in it runs fine, but he says it needs more power.

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My creative space.....

I finished my stitching on Greenlightgo's tea towel. Her theme was nature. So I did a tree in the Fall. The embroidery pattern came from 'Urban Threads'. Great site to get cute patterns from.

I also got the machine embroidery pattern from 'Urban Threads' . I stitched it ( really my machine stitched it) on a T-shirt for my daugther who is into robots now.

On my table I am working on a Christmas gift for my daughter's robotics teacher. This adorable robot fabric came from Ariel.... who has an Etsy store. Yeah , so cute.

My husband's creative space..... he worked on Heinrich this week. My 1957 beetle.

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