September Around The Garden

This weekend was kind of a lazy weekend. I did finish the quilt top of my Jacob's ladder quilt, but that was about it. My main focus this weekend was taking care of my baby. Mona (one of my dogs) got sick. I took her to the vet and she prescribed Mona some medications. So right now we are just waiting for the medications to work. 

This afternoon we took the girls (that is how we call our dogs) out to the garden to play and I took some pictures of how the garden is looking right now. The planting beds are starting to look bare and many of the plants are starting to die out. We picked some peppers and tomatillos (I might make some salsa tomorrow). Though, the lemon trees look beautiful; full of blossoms and promising a good crop for this year. The first sings of fall are beginning to show in the garden; some leaves are turning and my fountain grasses are giving a great display of fall colors already.

Martha.

A Picture... A Moment

Good bye summer... mornings have been cool, the air feels crisp and it even smells like fall. Summer is slowly slipping away and fall will be here soon.

Martha.

Work In Progress

It was really great  having and extra day off from work. I had been really looking forward to this holiday (Labor Day) for a few weeks already.  I was able to catch up on household work and  made a lot of progress on my Jacob's Ladder quilt. I got all of the cutting and most of the piecing done. I would had been able to finished the quilt top, but I had I minor set back... on a few of the patchwork blocks  I sew the stripped fabric in the wrong direction. Oops!. It can be easily fixed, and I was able to catch it before  I sew those blocks to the quilt. But it takes time to undo the seams and sew them back again in the right direction. I'm almost done fixing the blocks and I will be back on track. I hope to finish the quilt next weekend hoping I have no more set backs.

I hope you had a good weekend as well.

Update: I'm linking to WIP Wednesday over at Freshly Pieced
 

Martha.

August in the Sewing Room... A Recap

August sewing was great. Though, I didn't accomplished a massive amount of projects (as I had wished for) I'm very happy. I managed to finish the Alphabet Quilt for my goddaughter just in time for her birthday. Then, after much planning I finally moved my sewing room to a sunnier location in the house, covered some tin cans with fabric to use as storage and tried English paper piecing for the first time. 

I hosted my first giveaway and started a new quilt, which I hope to finish very soon. 

I'm looking forward to September and hope to get a lot of sewing done.

I'm linking to Fresh Sewing Day @ Lily's Quilts and Slow Bloggers @ Knotted Cotton

Martha.

Giveaway Winner Announced

First of all I want to say thank you to everyone who participated on the giveaway and left such lovely comments. It was very fun and I hope to host many more giveaways. 

The winner of the pincushion is #13 FarahLin Congratulations!

Thank you again for your support!

Martha.

Giveaway!

I'm very excited to be hosting my first giveaway! The giveaway is this little pin cushion I made  specially for this occasion. The word "Pins" is hand embroider (by me). 

If you would like to participate:

1. Please leave a comment on this post.
2. If you are a follower of my blog (existing or new) you have a second change to enter, just leave a comment that says "following"

The giveaway will be open through Thursday August 30, 2012 until 9:00 pm PST. Then a winner will be chosen at random and announced on Friday August 31. Please make sure you leave an e-mail address where I can reach you. I will be happy to ship internationally, so anyone can participate.

Good Luck!

Martha

A Picture... A Moment

 

Blue Plumbago from the garden. I peek out of my kitchen window and I see it being constantly visited by bees, butterflies and hummingbirds; so lovely.

Looking forward for the weekend... how about you?

 

Martha.

Starting A New Quilt

I started planning for a new quilt. I had purchased this fabric a while ago with a quilt in mind. But I had many ideas in my head and I just hadn't been able to decide until now. I found the inspiration from this book. The pattern is for a doll quilt, but I think it will also look great on a large quilt. I did some sketching to decide on the fabric placement and I think I'm ready to start cutting my lovely fabrics and begin and new sewing adventure.

Martha.