I Won, I Won, I Won

What a great way to start this blog!  Actually, I won in two giveaways!  One I just found out today, in the Fall Into Fall giveaways I won a pattern for a fall table runner and a hot pad from Mary Grace at Hooked on Needles.  That was my excitement for today. 

And yesterday, another win arrived.  It was from Kelly Mueller of the Wooden Bear on her The Bears Blog  .  In her giveaway I won this:

It's Kelly's book Fresh off the Farm with patterns for a wall hanging, pillows and several bags, and 24 fat quarters + a panel of her Fresh off the Farm fabric line.  This is the best.  Her patterns are adorable and the fabric is so cute.  I want to make everything in the book which means I will have to buy some more of the fabric!  I am thrilled with this.  Thank you Kelly!

As for what I have been doing the last couple of weeks, we have had company on and off.  My son came by two weeks ago on Monday.  He flew out on Tuesday to visit his best friend from college in Hawaii ( it's always great to have a friend who lives in Hawaii).  So we dropped him off at the airport at dawn.  He left his dog with us while he was gone.  Sadie is a 2 year old, 120 lb, Greater Swiss Mountain dog.  She is well behaved and was no trouble to watch, except she sheds a bit and smells like a dog.   Then on Thursday that week, my step daughter flew in from Florida for her friends wedding.  She was busy playing with Sadie, visiting friends and running errands, then flew home before dawn on Sunday morning.  This past Wednesday, my son returned from Hawaii so our fourth trip to the airport in two weeks was to pick him up.  Sadie did a happy dance to see her boy returned.  He stayed overnight, then drove home on Thursday.  I cleaned the yard of doggy droppings, vacuumed up dog hair, washed the guest towels and bedding for the third time in two weeks and cleaned doggy slobbers off of the sliding glass door.  It was lots of fun having kids in the house again, at least for a little while.  We rested up and today went for a 220 mile ride on the motorcycle to check out fall colors and a beautiful fall day.  We are suppose to have rain coming in a few days, so gotta get out while we can.  Now I would love to take a nap, all that fresh air and sunshine!

In between all of the house guests, I did manage to get some sewing done.  I have all of the blocks finished for Two Piece Puzzle:

There are 16 blocks with blue stars, 12 blocks with red stars and 28 hourglass blocks.  Now to square them all up, stitch into rows and put the quilt top together.  I don't know how long that will take, but the end is in sight.  After the blocks are all together, there is a narrow red border, then a wide blue border to be added.  Then, the quilting can begin!

I have the October snowman for Snowbound finished:

It is so cute, if I say so myself.  I embellished a little extra with the bow and bell on the sheep's neck and the heart shaped button in the star.  There are only two more months of snowmen left in this BOM and it has been so much fun. 
I have more swap blocks to show off:

These are from Theri.  They actually arrived weeks ago but the vacation and house guests kept me busy.  We finally got pictures of them.  I love the fabrics, they are just fantastic.  Thank You Theri, I love them!

And these came from Karen:

I love the bright red borders and the fun prints.  She also sent the cute little tote bag, isn't it pretty!  Thank you Karen!  I can't wait to start putting them all together.
In my "free" time, I made Trick or Treat bags for the three littlest grand kids.  I have a bunch of panel fabric, so I used a panel for the front of each bag, a Halloween print for the back, another for lining and made black handles with orange polka dot ribbon stitched on.  I mailed them before I got the camera out, so no pictures of them.

I guess that pretty well covers the last two weeks, they have been busy.  I have lots of projects to work on, which reminds me, I am hand quilting the Halloween wall hanging from the patterns I got on the shop hop last month.  I have the individual blocks all quilted and am working on the inside border now.  Once that is done, I have the outside border to do, then bind and hang.  I hope Halloween isn't done before I finish the wall hanging! 

Take care and happy quilting!


Oh, Oh, I almost forgot!  When we got home from our ride today and were putting everything away in the garage I noticed this across the street:

These are pictures of a roadrunner that was in our neighbors front yard.  It ran across her yard, jumped up on her front wall, then up on the roof.  I love watching these birds, they are so fast and fun to watch.