Monday Monday!

Our internet has been down and our weather has been crazy! Here's a few photos from my

world this weekend.

 

Twelve Days of Christmas wall hanging.

                     My entryway quilt.

            Central Oregon mountains.

                    Long john weather!

                  Pretty blue skies.

      Scandinavian festival with my family.

Happy Monday!

A Funny Thing Happened in my Sewing Room....

I wanted to share with you something a little comical but needed to add a pretty photo while I was at it.

My family room which includes my silly Pinocchio collection on the right.

We have an old Santa suit that my FIL used to wear when the kids were little. I found this sign at a holiday boutique perfect to hang above it.

Remember this stuff from this post? It was a flop! From my last post you can see I've been working with wool and onsaburg. I tried ironing cotton last night and my iron wouldn't slide it was so grimy.
So, I looked for the Iron Clean. (I'm all about second chances) My iron was on high and it melted the sheet as soon as I put my iron to it. Lovely, more gunk on my iron.

I grabbed a strip of muslin and started running my iron over it (as per the directions on the side of my ironing board) and low and behold it not only took off the melted sheet but it also removed most of the grime from my iron!

 

Look what's left of the cleaning sheet! Not much, but look at what is left on the muslin...... The buildup on my iron. I doubt that was how it was supposed to work. LOL

I thought you guys would get a chuckle out of that since I had posted that it was such a flop.

Have a happy Weekend!

Wool Applique

Thank you all for your kind words about my Christmas quilt. I'm still loving it! Small bits is a great way to get a complete quilt. I think that is why BOM's are so popular.
 I'm working on a few Christmas presents. I try not to put a lot of pressure on myself or do obligation gifts. To me, that isn't the reason for the season. Anybody that knows me knows I usually run a little late. I'm enjoying the stitching and I hope the recipients enjoy my humble creations.

Sometimes you need to label what it is just in case you can't tell! lol

I love wool applique on osnaburg background.

Here's another block of FLOWERS by Linda Brannock.

Here are the 4 I have done. I was hoping to get to the half square triangles, but I haven't done that yet either.

We had our first snow yesterday and now the temps are falling!! Happy Wednesday! 

Christmas Quilt DONE!

Here is the magazine photo I saw last year that made me want to make this quilt in 2013. My plan was to make 3 blocks a month from January -July and have time to quilt it or get it quilted and bound before Christmas 2013. Ta-Da!

 

Here it is. Quilted, bound and washed. If you look close most of the blocks are a little different. That was not done on purpose! That's why my blog is called Humble Quilts. I couldn't make a perfect quilt if I tried.

Here's a close up. It is on my bed and it makes me smile every night that I crawl under.

Happy December!

I just found out and am editing this to let you know Wendy has made the Tiptoe thru the Tulips pattern available. You can get more info HERE- Legends & Lace.

Tiptoe Thru the Tulips and the Knappenberger Quilt

Here is the center of a medallion quilt that 4 of us are making. It is called Tiptoe thru the Tulips by Wendy at Legends and Lace and can be found here. (Wendy will be making the pattern available as she has had requests for it. I will let you know when it is ready! Thank you Wendy!)

This is my friend Jill's center. The colors will be bright and vibrant!

 

Here is my center, which I've deviated quite a bit from Wendy's pattern. I couldn't help myself.

Here is Wendy's quilt. The pattern is available NOW! Click HERE>

And I believe this is the quilt she used for her version. I've long admired this quilt and you can see how I've followed my own path. (I have since been told by Wendy that her quilt was on a quilt engagement calendar and is not the Knappenberger quilt)

Karen and Janet are doing it and you can see their beautiful centers at Karen's blog-
Log Cabin Quilting.

A Danish Thanksgving

My son lived in Denmark for a year while he was an exchange student.  My son's host mom, Lene, was an exchange student herself in the 70's and is very Americanized.They wanted to surprise my son, Ken, with a traditional American Thanksgiving. They purchased a huge turkey and were planning on all the trimmings too.

There was only one problem. Everything in Europe is smaller (even the people!) and the turkey was too big to fit in the oven. So the host grandpa and cook, Iwan, used (maybe he had to buy it?) an electric chain saw and proceeded to cut it in half while raw turkey was flying all over his kitchen! The size of that turkey was not going to deter them from giving Kenny a Thanksgiving turkey meal.
They told me later they froze the pieces of turkey that he cut off and they were eating it for months!

Because this was a surprise, earlier in the day they were casually asking Kenny what he has for Thanksgiving meal at home, and he thought for a moment and said, "HAM"!


Happy Thanksgiving to all of you near and far. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading this blog and enriching my life with your friendship and comments.

Wednesday Update

Well, I am preparing to cook a large meal tomorrow for Thanksgiving.  There will only be 9 of us but it seems like the same amount of work no matter how many there are at the table. I am hoping to post a Thanksgiving story. It is a true tale of when my son was in Denmark for a year celebrating Thanksgiving. It is always one we retell year after year.

I do admit to getting a bit itchy to decorate for Christmas. December 1st and the first Advent is Sunday! The spare bed is holding the quilts ready for me to make the change from fall to winter.

 

There were a few things I need to get rid of that have been in a pile since we carpeted my room. 

I bought this hooked rug kit years ago. The burlap made a mess, but it is obvious by looking at the primitive angel's face I didn't quite get the hang of it. Leave a comment if you want it and I'll send it to you. The bag has all the strings needed to complete the angel rug.

This box is full of cowboy scraps. (GONE!) You readers generously shared with me and now I'm done with them.

This isn't a drawing, first person to give me a shout out, gets them.

If you are a no reply commenter I will not try to track you down. Go to this post and make the changes necessary to contact you.

PS, Wendy, P2P you are a no-reply commenter.

Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!

I made these awesome basket blocks this weekend. The patterns are/were free at Legends & Lace. You can find them under Baskets Galore. I won't mince words- they are challenging blocks!

 

And I got most of the fabric to make them from this big box of scraps I won from 

Cyndi at Busy Thimble blog. I had so much fun choosing fabrics from this. Thank you again Cyndi!!

 And I won this book from Jo of Jo's Country Junction. I love that this is pocket size!

 Look at the wonderful information at my fingertips! It is available from Landauer Publishing. I think you may be able to get it as a free download if you sign up to get their newsletter!

Now we are all winners! Have a fantastic week.

Elm Creek Companion Winner

I couldn't have a blog post without a quilt photo.

 

Here's my red and green quilt quilted and laying in the middle of my sewing room floor. Need to get a binding made soon! So excited to have it ready to display this Christmas.

Here's another section in the Elm Creek Companion. It really is a fantastic book.
Thank you Mary from Plume Books for offering it to me to review and a giveaway. If you are one of those hard to buy for women, put this on your wish list! It is available in book stores now.

On with the winner..........................

(PS there are still comments with no email associated with them and they are not eligible to win- go look and fix it! I show you how here. )

Thank you all who entered! I loved reading which book or character you liked the best. I have read more of them than I thought I had.

Susan, Material Girl, You are the winner of the book! Please email me with your mailing address and I'll get it in the mail to you.

Happy Sunday!

Are you a No Reply Commenter?

And what the heck does that mean, anyways?! This post looks long, but really it isn't. I tried to add a few photos to make it easier to change.

I have it set up so when someone leaves a comment on my blog it comes directly to my email.

See the from? If I want to send an email to this person, it is going out to cyberland and not "Quilter" who sent it.

Sometimes I can go click on the name where the comment was left and find an email. Most of time this is what I find: This is your blogger profile.

That doesn't help me at all!

Part of the joy of blogging is responding to comments, answering question and getting to know other quilters.  So, if you've ever wondered why someone didn't answer a question, it very well could be because you are a no-reply commenter.

Some of you suggested that because you were part of Google I would have your email address.

Sometimes this is all I get when I click on your name where you have left a comment. The crossed out area was someones name. You can edit your Google+ and put in as much or as little information as you'd like. My email can be found in the "About" area.  I find Google+ pretty worthless actually. (feel free to add me to your google circle, then we can email thru that if need be)

My Google+ profile

OK, so what to do to fix it? First off you may not know if you are a no-reply. I tried to add a reply right in my comments for those I could not reach. Go look and see if you are one of them on the book giveaway. Or leave a comment here and I will either send you an email, saying you are great, or I'll leave a reply in my comment section telling you that you are no-reply.
Sheesh, this is getting longer than it really needs to be. Let 's go!

The best way to do it is to disconnect from Google+ from your dashboard.(you can reconnect later the same way we are disconnecting)

 

Mine looks like this. In the upper right hand there is the gear icon, click on it and you will see an option to disconnect from Google+.

Now you will go to Blogger profile by clicking on the arrow next to your  name. Edit your profile.

Make sure the box is checked next to "Show my email address".

If you don't have a blog simply go to your profile, make sure the "show my email address" box is checked. If it isn't, make sure you enter your email address and check the box.

You should be good to go! Let me know if this was helpful or if I've made a mistake, or if you still need help. I am going to stall off the drawing until Sunday morning so the many no-reply commenters can give me their contact information.

I had great plans to sew this afternoon and decided to make this post instead! Now I'm going to sew something wonderful.