Sew many distractions!

Summer is officially over according to the school calendar :) and I'm quite excited to be home with my 2 little people underfoot. I've done a little sewing recently, along with some roller coaster riding, anniversary celebrating (in-laws :) ), party planning, landscaping, phone shopping (haven't bought one yet), and preparing for school.
Sewing was by far my favorite.
(Roller coasters might be in the running too, shhh... )

I have a couple things I'm pretty excited about, first
-I'm finally making progress on my pif! I'm using every bit of my 365 days *blush*
-I did a great little embroidery for my in-laws for their anniversary! Along with 280 reasons we love them! It was their 40th anniversary so we did 40 reasons (or close to that amount :) ) we love them from each of the grandkids. They're all scrolled up behind a snap closing pocket on the back of the embroidery.
-And last this is a swap block I made a dozen of on the last day of summer!
They are a pattern of my own design. They had to go together quickly and I think I'm going to keep working on the pattern to fine tune it but I like the colors and design!

Prom time and a traveling gnome.

My gnome is really traveling :)

I've been working on my PIF's (no I haven't forgotten you) and I have another Pay it Forward session to start after that! So be watching! This is the start of my surfing gnome that I've added to a fun project I'm working on.

Aside from that it's prom season and there are always a few girls needing alterations and I've been building a mailbox because our old one rotted out and fell in the road! So I'm taking a lesson from those live and learn little piggies and I'm building a brick one. But those darn bricks sure cut into my sewing time.

Oh well happy traveling!

A Breakfast of Fat Quarters for Kelly!

I'm thrilled to let everyone know that Kelly O. from has won the giveaway of my "Broken Breakfast" mini quilt and FQ's.

She left several sweet comments (I think she got one into every post! Go Kelly!) One in-particular left me blushing :D

I'm sending you a little Jenean Morrison Mingle and some Sandy Gervais Fresh Squeezed... we can't wait to see what you do with them! I hope you enjoy your prizes!

If you'd like to get a special handmade treasure for yourself

you can still sign up in my pay it forward!

Pay It Forward

Check out this gorgeous "Nest" quilt!

I was lucky enough to sign up for a pay it forward under
lila mae quilts
aka Natalie
aka my sister!
Hehe :) I love the blessings of having talented siblings!

Seriously though isn't this the greatest pay it forward ever! I love it!
And now it's my turn!
I hope I can do something that will make my pay it forward friends hearts sing just as much as her's did mine!
So, here we go.

I want to pay it forward. Something nice was done for me, and in an effort to make our lives happier and the people in and around them kinder, I am opening this pay it forward to the first 3 people to comment on this post. To those 3 I promise that sometime in the next 365 days I will send you a special gift of kindness in some form. The only rules for you are you have to have a blog, leave me a way to contact you, and be willing to pay it forward to your own 3 people!

So, let it begin! Tell me if you want to play!

Great news for you!

My sister is doing a pay it forward and is still looking for a 3rd friend to do something nice for! She's a great seamstress and does lots of projects!
This is a pic of her FIRST quilt!
You can see some of her projects on the MSQC blog where she contributes. I was lucky enough to be one of her people :) she signed up under Angela at Moda Home Mom! Can't wait to see what she gets!! And I'll be passing on the favor to 3 more friends later!!!