All Kinds of Things to Share

              I finally went to the eye doctor after it took me 3 months to work up the nerve to call and make an appointment. I'm not kidding... I have a phone phobia. And guess what... I needed reading glasses.  I knew I did, that's why a made the call. So here are my cute new glasses. My husband says I look like a sexy secretary in them. hahaha. And my daughter says I look like a librarian.

I haven't done much stitching on 'Very Scary'.  My daughter said the moon wasn't scary enough so she drew me a new one. And of course I changed the color.

I've stitched a little on my August BOM.

I used 'So September's' pendant tutorial and made a bus pendant. I think my best friend and camping buddy will be getting this for Christmas. *wink

I started the new BOM at my local quilt shop, Quilting Adventures.  I fell in love with the Earth color way. ( They have 4 color ways available I think) I was going to go with a dark brown background, but yesterday I went in to the shop and spotted this cute batik. It is cream color and has daisy flowers all over it. LOVE.  So I went with it instead.

And last on the list to show.... I finally framed the wedding sampler I stitched up for our friend. The wedding is next weekend.... nothing like waiting until the last minute. LOL

EveryBus 2012

Have I told you lately that I love to camp? I bet I have. :o) EveryBus was this weekend!! The start of the 2012 camping season. Blog post on my camping blog~ Campin~Amy.

Wordless Wednesday

Tradition!

We picked up our Christmas tree in our bus, 'Rusty'. A tradition we do every Christmas season. It was much warmer outside this year then last year. We didn't have to ride with a propane heater in the bus to keep warm, just a quilt to sit on because the leather seats were cold. We go to the same little tree lot every year too and every year the old man running the lot tells us about the VWs he had owned in the passed. We get that a lot. :o) Hope every one is having a wonderful December, I sure am!

eye candy

I've been eye balling this girls work for awhile now.... and look what I found today. She has stitched the sweetest bus with Alice characters. You know the very cute movie 'Little Miss Sunshine'? It's based on that. And if you own or have owned a bus...you'll get it. LOL

Here is her flickr pictures so you can see more cuteness. And here is her blog/website.

Mini QT Swap 3D

I was in the Mini QT Swap again and this time the theme was "3D". The last Mini QT Swap I was in the theme was "Take Flight". Look at my sweet VW Bus mini I received from my partner Bahamadawn. She pegged me pretty good. LOL She also has a love for VW buses so she had a lot of fun making my mini and a hard time giving it up. I will treasure it and it will hang on my kitchen wall with my other camping and VW quilts.

Here in the 3D mini quilt I sent to bahamadawn. It is a mermaid sleeping and dreaming of all her favorite things. This are really bahamadawn's favorite things. :o)

Some on the 3D things I added to the quilt are the button crab and the sequins on the mermaid's tail. Here is another good full picture of it in my flickr group.

I love these mini QT swaps. The quilts are so easy and quick to make. But I didn't sign up for the next one. :o( I am just too busy this next month so I had to skip it. The theme is circles this time, head over to flickr and check it out. I am hoping to sign up for the next round though, theme not know yet.

some shade for the bus

When we are camping and the weather is so nice we leave the bus door open. But the sun likes to shine right in and heat her up. So we need shade.

BEFORE
Baby but Powerful magnets....
I slip a magnet in....

sew her up..... I did this about very eight inches.

And there you go.... Shade. The magnets just pop right on.

AFTER

My new knitted bus.

I have made the sweetest on-line blogging and flickr friends. One of them is Rebekah or Beetastic. I have been in a couple tea towel tours with her. She knits too. Look what she has knitted for me... our bus. Isn't it the cutest thing you've ever seen.

It has a little surf board on top. The tires look flat ,but they aren't. They are just squished right now. Rebekah took a picture of our bus and copied the colors.

Here is our bus. I just can't get over how cute it is and how sweet Rebekah is.

And here is what I have been working on this week...... scrappy stars, for my row robin.

2 finishes

I finished an embroidery for a "hoop up" swap I am doing. It's happening over at Flickr. My theme is " Sew-on-Wednesday" from the vintage sew patterns.

And I finished the commissions quilt. It's a wedding quilt for 2 VW bus owners. People will sign the boarders at their wedding. :o)

Did you see that Rob Appell posted a comment on my last post? OMG! Thank you Rob! And I would love for you to teach my how to surf if I am ever your way.

Goodbye to 2oo9...

More of the commission quilt I am working on. The "k" on the word "back" has not been stitched yet, LOL . I ran out of thread and just haven't gotten back to it yet. The large boarder is for people to sign the quilt at the wedding.

Look what I got to fold at work today..... Yummy Kona cotton fat quarters. And this was only a few of them. Eye candy I tell you.

I spotted this little guy in our front yard this morning and happened to have my camera with me. Isn't he cute? Wouldn't this photo make a cool quilt?

Talk to you in 2010! Happy sewing.

I am working on....

My cross stitch... called " All we are saying.."

And a commission quilt for a wedding that will be happening in May....

Christmas spirit

I know it's now even Thanksgiving yet, but I am in a Christmas mood. I've been watching Christmas movies on the Hallmark channel. I hung my " Welcome to the North Pole" quilt up.
I ordered our Christmas cards.... here is the picture that will be on it.

I've been making my own wrapping paper and wrapping gifts. We will exchange gifts at Thanksgiving with my husbands family. So I had to wrap some gifts really early. I think I will tie green bows on the packages.

And I started a new BOM. The December (Christmas) month. Phoebe, Jennifer , and I are doing the "Bareroots" BOM, " little stitchies". Look at those so cute reindeer.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

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.

VW Buses

Love them. You might already know that we own 3. ( plus 2 beetles and 1 thing ). But anyway. I am making this table runner with 2 buses on it to sell on Etsy. It could just a wall hanging. I'll show the whole photo of it when I am finished.
The 'Tea Towel Tour' is starting back up over on 'Craftster. It's # 5. I am in , and there is a few more spots open if anyone is intersted. Here is my towel to send out. A VW bus of course. I don't think that's going to be my 'theme' because I want people to stitch what ever they want on it. But more buses would be great. :o)

Send outs for the Tea Towel Tour start the first week of Sept, so I'll be posting the stitch work I do on each towel.

Happy sewing.

Look what I got!! I have been drooling over this munki munki fabric for about a year or more. I saw a lady post a photo of some of it on flickr and I commented on it. She wrote me and ask if I would like to swap for it. I WOULD LOVE TO. So I finially have a piece of Heather Ross munki munki vw buses. I love them. And you know I just love vw buses anyway. And Jenni, the girl who swaped with me, has her own VW bus too. I wish she lived closer to me ( she lives on the West Coast ) , we both have sewing and VW buses in common.

I finished up the Christmas tree skirt, but I think it needs a little more bling. It's a 'shop sample', so I'll have to ask my boss. But I would love to applique some things in the big green spots.

Have I ever told you I love paper piecing? I do. I think it's because you have this jumbled up mess, you iron the last fabric on it, cut the edges off and then you have this perfect little block. It is so cool.

Here is the paper pieced block I made. I can't tell you what it's for.... it's a secret. But I had fun making it.

Hey.... maybe I should add a little quilt to the side of my barn. :o)

My new blog

Is all about our camping trips. Campin~Amy. We camp once or twice a month from the months of April thru November.

We camp in our VW bus, and our new teardrop trailer. Here are the kiddies on the way to a camp trip.

This is in MD on the Shore. This bus is our old one. Her name was 'Papa Smurf'.

'Everybus', not sure which year. Some buses lined up. There is usually 175 buses at this campout.

I will just be posting about our trips and our buses. This weekend we are off to PA, hope it doesn't rain too much. I'll be taking some embroidery work with me to stitch on the way up and back. :o) Can't wait to show you.... later.