I Piece 2-Mary: Holiday Lane

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Updates and Holiday Lane

A couple of weeks ago, Quiltmakers magazine had their 100 Blocks Tour Hop. Talk about creativity! These quilters design some of the most awesome blocks.

Most all of the participants have a chance to win the magazine, and sometimes add additional prizes.

I got lucky at Whistlepig Creek Productions. I won the magazine and these fun patterns, and wonderful fabrics. I have several of their patterns and fabrics in my stash. Looks like I will be busy creating!

The next week I was the lucky winner at Quilttaffy of these 2 charmpacks, Cotton Chevron, by Riley Blake Designs. I would not believe my good luck. I have a couple ideas of what I might make with these wonderful fabrics.

Back in October I entered a contest that Madame Samm had that was for this brand new book, Home Sweet Quilt, by Jill Finley, of Jillily Studio. Jill is the creator of the darling pattern we are using for the Holiday Lane Blog Hop.

Don't forget, her is the lineup for the remaining week.

Tuesday November 27

Cindy's Crafty Creations

Scrapbook-Chickadoodle

Stitching by the Lake

A Stitch in Time

Wednesday November 28

Quilt n Queen

Keep your fork There's pie

Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Peach Patch Quilts

Cherry's Prairie Primitives

Mary Jo - that other blog

Thursday November 29

stitch, stitch, stitch

In Stitches and Seams

Hooked on Quilting

A Reformed Heath'n

Elaine - that other blog

As Sweet as Peaches

The Learning Curve Quilts and Such

Friday November 30

Marjorie's Busy Corner

Kris Loves Fabric

Linda - that other blog

Dora Quilts

Shedding the Wolf

Quilting, Sewing Granny

Creative Notions

Chickadees Country Cottage Crafts

Madame Samm @ Sew We Quilt

Have a great rest of the week. Happy Sewing.

Mary

Sunday, November 25, 2012

New week for Holiday Lane

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. It was quiet at our house. I got a small turkey breast that I cooked for our dinner. Did not make quite all the trimmings, as Andrew was not able to join us this year. He worked on Thanksgiving Day. We will have a special dinner soon. Turkey is his favorite dinner.

Did you get out and shop until you dropped? I did not get up at an awful hour to shop. When I did go out, the lines were too long to stand in for just a couple of things.

I decided that it would be more productive to play at home. I did some handwork for pincushions. Worked on pillowcases, and blocks for a quilt. Caught up on a bunch of television shows I had recorded.

Now it is time to work on Christmas cards. I have several of the fronts done in iris folding, now to make them into cards.
Can you tell I like to keep busy.

Monday November 26

Living Life One Day at a Time

Luann's Loose Threads

Till We Quilt Again
13 Woodhouse Road

Tuesday November 27

Cindy's Crafty Creations

Scrapbook-Chickadoodle

Stitching by the Lake

A Stitch in Time

Wednesday November 28

Quilt n Queen

Keep your fork There's pie

Rose Prairie Quilts and Farm

Peach Patch Quilts

Cherry's Prairie Primitives

Mary Jo - that other blog

Thursday November 29

stitch, stitch, stitch

In Stitches and Seams

Hooked on Quilting

A Reformed Heath'n

Elaine - that other blog

As Sweet as Peaches

The Learning Curve Quilts and Such

Friday November 30

Marjorie's Busy Corner

Kris Loves Fabric

Linda - that other blog

Dora Quilts

Shedding the Wolf

Quilting, Sewing Granny

Creative Notions

Chickadees Country Cottage Crafts

Madame Samm @ Sew We Quilt

Here is the lineup for this week for Holiday Lane. Check out these wonderfuly creative ladies. Your will be inspired!.

Have a great week. Happy sewing.

Mary

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Holiday Lane

Good Morning! May I present my version of Holiday Lane. As soon as I saw the wonderful pattern that was going to be the focus of this hop, I fell in love with it. Jill Finley of Jillily Studio Designs provided it. I converted it to a wallhanging. Candycane Lane is its name.

When we lived in Roselle, there was a street block near us that outdid itself for the holidays. All the homes on both sides of the street decorated to the nine's. It drew so many people to see it that the police had to set a route for cars to drive through to see it. It was so much fun to drive by and see what the homes had added from one year to the next.

The houses and borders are machine stitched and quilted. All of the door, trees, windows are stitched by hand and made with wool. I then added all the dodads.

I love to add fun things to some of my quilts. This is one of them.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing how I worked with the pattern. Jill did a great job on providing this pattern. It was clear and easy to follow. Pauline has been a wonderful cheerleader. Madame Samm is the ultimate cheerleader. Visit her site for the top picks of the day.

Keep on hopping! There are going to be a lot of great ideas.

Have a great Day
Happy Thanksgiving.
Here is the lineup for today and the rest of the hop.

N

Thursday November 22

Apple Avenue Quilting

Hill Valley Quilter

Celtic Thistle Stitches

Tink's Mom

Friday November 23