One World One Heart

I am happy to announce that I am joining the One World One Heart blog party. To find what it is all about and find the blogs that are participating (968 last I checked) click on the button below, or the red link above



Now for the gift you could win.
This is a hand made purse, made here in my studio.



















This all cotton, Crazy quilted purse measures 8 inches wide, is 8 1/2 inches high and the handle is a total of 40 inches. It has cotton batting between the layers.

The front of the purse has beautiful lace, buttons, beads and hand stitching.
(click picture for a closer look).















On the inside are two small pockets for your treasures, to help with a bit of organization.















The back of the purse has a pocket as well, perfect for your cell phone (Item shown in pocket is just for illustration).





















The particulars

February 14th at midnight (Mountain Time) is the deadline to enter. On February 15th I will use a random number generator to pick a winner.

Here are the rules...they're quite simple! 1. You must be a blogger, after all that is what One World One Heart is about...bring bloggers from around the world together! 2. You must leave a comment on this post. 3. You must leave a way for me to contact you...email address or make your blog open for me to find your email in it! If I can't get ahold of you I will draw again. So don't let that happen, leave your info.

I am excited to join in the fun. I hope you will also go and check out my daughters blog (#965) she is giving away 2 items.

Good luck to you all!

A Generous Give A Way

Over on Tales from an OC Cottage you will find a fantastic give away. Go check it out, enter your name. I am

Good luck

Pink Saturday

Pink Saturday is coming up.

What is Pink Saturday? Go here to see. Also check out my other blog.....Decorating my Tin Shack for my Pink Saturday post ( a wee early).

Log Cabin Quilt

The Log Cabin quilt is finally on the long arm, ready to begin the quilting tomorrow (I hope).














I began work on this quilt nearly a year ago. I had collected the fabrics months before and knew what design I was doing, it has just taken time to get all the blocks finished. Of course I did not work on it all the time either. The colors in this quilt were chosen to reflect the colors of the beautiful red bluffs around here and the green vegetation on them.














A close up, the colors came out pretty good in the picture.














The border, cool fabric isn't it.














The center of the quilt (goes in the white space in the first picture). I will add this after the quilting is done, I wanted this to be different, and did not want the stippling on the back of the quilt, so opted to add it after.

To see the backing fabric you can go here , it is really cool and will make the quilt reversible without making more blocks which might have taken another year. LOL

I will post the quilting when it is done, it is getting close to going on our bed.

Long Arm Work

The two quilts below belong to Judy, I was privileged to quilt them for her.

The inspiration for this quilting design came from the background fabric which has tiny
flowers.





for closer
detail click the
picture.






The border is quilted in a vine of leaves.














The whole quilt, isn't it a beauty?














The second quilt is a friendship star. The quilting on this one is
an all over design. No real inspiration, just wanted to do
swirls to soften all the lines and this is what resulted.






























Check out our Wyoming blog for some Christmas decorations.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND GOD BLESS

Crazy Quilting Tablerunner

Here is the finished table runner for DD, Samantha.




















Several of my CQ friends helped me do the stitching on this beautiful runner.
Below are close ups of the finished work. I love how it turned out and am hoping
Samantha will, too.







Be sure
to click on
the picture
for a close up.

































Thank you girls for helping me with this, it will be heading to its new home this next week.

Dakota's Quilt

Click picture
for a close up.








This beautiful quilt was made for Dakota, she is in high school and was involved
in a bad car accident. She spent a month in the hospital and we are thankful she
is recovering just fine. She has been home about a week now.

The quilt is filled with loving messages from her school mates and teachers.

I was honored to be asked to quilt this quilt for her. Marylou designed and piece the top.
Below are some detail pictures of ;

The rick rack border, which was paper pieced.















some of the siggy blocks















one of the corners















the back of the quilt. I am very pleased with the addition the quilting
made to the quilt. Get well soon, Miss Dakota.