Been A While

It has been a little while since I posted. After my daughters surgery and then a 5 day stay in the hospital with my husband after having chest pains, we are settling down. Thanks to everyone who purchased items to help. I have been in touch with you all and your items are on the way shortly. Thanks for your understanding and patience.

I have been sewing like a mad woman the past couple of days. Boy have I missed my sewing machine!!

I found this tutorial of how to make a Dish Rug. I made 4.

Remember the Beefing up the Stash post?? Here are the blacks, whites, and grey's this lady already had cut.

I sewed them together and here is what I got, then bordered with red.

I also pieces this backing out of all the red fabric pieces I received.

Been busy here!! Now trying to catch up on some swaps. That's the goal and will post more as I finish!!

Pinterest Concerns...ugh

Why cant things be just fun and not all this legal jargon? I have to say I am guilty of not reading all the fine print.  Unfortunately I will be deleting my account from Pinterest. I certainly cannot afford to be in trouble because  I use the site. Here are a couple of links to information about why people are withdrawing from Pinterest.

http://rettspace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/why-im-currently-not-using-pinterest.html (this link is now dead..sorry for the inconvenience)

http://www.pleasant-home.com/2012/03/saying-goodbye-to-needle-little.html

Beefing Up My Stash

A member of our guild passed away and the family wanted her quilty family to have all of her sewing stuffs. Oh My Gosh, She had so much stuff. I think she was a quilter for over 50 years. We have all taken what we wanted and there is still three full bookshelves, 50 bolts of fabric and sewing notions of all kinds. We decided that it would be used up with our charity quilts.

I have to show you what I ended up with. I just picked up 1 bag and three of the smaller boxes.

One box is completely full of Black and White fabrics. From sizes of 5 in all the way to 1/2 yard pieces.

There where 15 red fabrics probably a half a yard each.

These 4 sweet little blue fat quarters.

All these Strings.

A Dollar General bag full of 1.5in pieces...YES!!

All these nickles.

There are these sweet blocks. I think they are a form of Log Cabin.

These two stars.

These three ready made star blocks

Im not sure what these are called but are all 30's fabrics.

Red Diamonds, All different shades.

And lastly, these blocks. I think these would make great pillows.

I also picked up 7 pillow forms and 8 large spools of thread for piecing, and 18 large spools of 40 weight quilters thread. My head is swimming with all the fun I can have with these fabrics....Whew!!

I Spy a Quilt Finished!!!

Finally finished the I Spy quilt I started back before my shoulder surgery in December. I followed this Tutorial. It was a really cool way to make a really cute quilt. I started out with 6.5in blocks and cut them into 4 smaller blocks and use those to make the 9 patches.

MARCH 3RD YARDSALE

Its yardsale day again hosted by Bonnie Hunter. This has become a once a month thing on the first Saturday . Postage is not included so please email me with your zipcode and I will figure postage for you and send you a request for payment through Paypal.

1.  I am clearing out some stuff starting with these Fabric Flags. A neat way to keep up with how much yardage you have of one fabric. I cant use these because of the way I store my fabric.  $2.00 Sold

2.  This is a corner marking tool. A great way to make sure your corners are perfect. $2.00 Sold

3.  Magic Star Rotary Cutting Template. This makes some really cool stars. $10.00

 The unique new way to make perfect eight point stars with NO raw edges...fast and easy!! Comes with two unbreakable mirrors and ultra fine point turners.

4.  Love and Laughter Pattern by Friendfolks. Finished size is 20" by 27".

5.  Mini Iron. This was only used once, and I am so used to the iron I was already using that this has just sat on my shelf. $12.00

 6.  This is just a cut little sewing kit, never opened. perhaps someone has a child that is just learning to sew. This would be perfect for them. $2.00

7. Large Priority Box of Scrap material. $25.00 Sold

8. This one originally was 19.95. Will sell for $5

9. The original price for this was $29.95. Sell for $8 Sold

10. Sell for $3.00

11. This one was originally $13. Sell for $3.

8.  I also have some shirts I need to get rid or that are just sitting here. I need to dig them out. Ill post shortly.

Everything payable by Paypal, You may email me at gigistreasure@gmail.com . Be sure to include your zipcode so I can check shipping cost. Ill get back to you as quick as I can. Thanks for looking. Ill add more things as I find them.

Leap Day Blog Hop Winner

I have to say that I had the most fun yesterday visiting all the sites that joined in Such a Sew and Sew's blog hop! I entered a few of the drawings as well! So many cool things offered yesterday! But I guess you really don't want to hear about all that...LOL. You want to know who won this cute little bag, yes??

First of all , I must say, thank you to all of you who are following my blog. Without readers, what would be the point of sharing our special works of art, right? 

So with the help of Random.org to help me choose a number, here is the lucky winner. Random.org has chosen lucky number................49. Yeah!! This is Kris Gray, who posted....

krisgrayFeb 29, 2012 06:48 AM

I am a new follower!

Congratulations!

I will be in touch with you by email Kris to get your mailing info!! Thanks Everyone, It was Fun!!