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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!

Kitchen Classics pattern set

 

Kerry and I are so excited to announce that the 'Kitchen Classics' pattern set is now live on Sew-Ichigo!

 

To get things going, Kerry and I each made a project using the patterns.  A KitchenAid cover for me:

 

and the #decisions tote bag for Kerry:

Both tutorials are posted here.

Also, we'll be having a little celebration with some giveaways soon, so make sure and check back!!

~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!!

 

National Quilting Month

 

 

Did you know March is National Quilting Month? 

The girls at SeamedUP are celebrating with twelve contests with fabulous prizes, three podcast episodes with can't-miss co-hosts, and guest blog posts. You can find all the details at the Contest tab of their website.   They are having a month long contest and the prizes are really cool, like a copy of EQ7, a $100 GC to Fat Quarter Shop, fabric bundles, sewing tools, Aurifil thread, Stash and Martingale books, Fabricworm, Robert Kaufman, and more. 

So if you want the chance to win some goodies, make sure and check it out!!

~Penny

p.s.  today is the day my sprout pattern and tutorial is up at Sew, Mama, Sew!