sewtakeahike

I've got your souvenir of friendship right here!

 

 

Goodness gracious am I having a ball with the travelling quilts bee. 

For April, I added to Monica's quilt start and I had such a blast thinking of ideas.  Her quilt "seed" started with the house block (and you can't see the house in the photo) and the embroidery that you see. 

Then Dan added some fantastic wandering geese he drafted up (sorry I didn't get that in the photo either, but you can visit the group photo pool to see his awesome addition!) 

And now my addition?

 

A play on Monica's heartfelt and sentimental embroidery. 

You all remember that saying on t-shirts back in the 80's or so that said, "my (family member) went to (California, Hawaii, Mexico, etc) and all I got was this stupid t-shirt!"

Remember?

Well Monica's quilt came all the way to Colorado and all she's getting is a (few pair of panties and) a stupid t-shirt!

Enjoy your Thursday everyone!

~Penny

p.s  I'm going to close the name the Juki contest tomorrow, so if you've waited to enter, don't wait any longer!

a debt of gratitude

 

 

The second annual Sewtakeahike weekend paper piecing workshop was a huge success!  We had a cozy group of 8 and sewed our hearts out.  Aaaaaand, to top it all off, everyone left with some seriously great booty.

Take a look at these two pics:

 

 

I was so humbled by the generosity of the sponsors for the workshop.  Tara worked her tush off to make it all happen, but these shops, designers, and businesses went above and beyond with their support and I am so thankful to each and everyone one of them!

Laurie Wisbrun who sent loads of fq bundles from her personal stash

Angela at Mama Said Sew who provided embroidery floss, a pattern, a sweetwater fq bundle, and that sweet Simple Home book you see up there and a discount for all purchases by the attendees

Randi at Fresh Squeezed fabrics who provided scrap packs and fq bundles of fabric (also, Randi has all her dot fabric on special sale this week!)

Olfa who provided a cutting mat and a rotary cutter

Kelly at Superbuzzy for the fab gift certificate

Kimberly at The Fat Quarter Shop for two awesome gift certificates

Warm and Natural for the batting

Fig Leaf for the discount to all the attendees

Kathy at The Inn at City Park for allowing us to workshop there

And of course the lovely Tara, who made the a pillow, a quilt as you go bag, and donated the Modern Patchwork magazine and made goodie bags for everyone and stuffed them chock full!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!  I am deeply indebted to each and every one of you!

~Penny

Pins (no needles) and QuiltCon

 

For Amber's month in Ringo Pie, she asked for sewing themed blocks.  I have some pins with button shaped heads, so my first thought was to do buttons.  After drafting the first pattern and getting feedback that they looked like Ninja faces (thanks Tara for your always honest, and humorous opinions!), I went back to photoshop and did some redrawing and decided to make them into button headed pins instead.  Don't know why I didn't of that in the first place??

 

 

And lets see a show of hands of those of you that are going to QuiltCon in Feb 2013? 

Yay!!, my hand is raised too!!

I'll not only be there checking out it's offerings, but will also be teaching a few paper piecing classes.  I'm completely humbled and totally out of my mind excited to be associated with the high caliber of stellar quilters/designers that will be lecturing and doing workshops there also. 

Happy Saturday to you all!

~Penny

Cover up your KitchenAid

Things are humming right along here this Friday!

I've finished and posted the 'Cover up your KitchenAid' tutorial

on Sew-Ichigo in preparation for our first pattern set release 'Kitchen Classics' which will most likely be available next week!

 

And here's my version of Kerry's coffee pot, which will be made into a pillow for one of the prizes at my paper piecing workshop in a few weeks.

 

 

Happy weekend to you all!

Sew-Ichigo talk

 

And we're off!  Our Sew-Ichigo is up and running!  Come on over and check it out!!