Get On Board With Sewing Blog Hop Final Day!

Join in the fun! Here are the blogs participating for the final day of this event - go see what everyone is up to and see below to enter for prizes!

Melva at Melva Loves Scraps

Tammy at Tamarinis

Leah at Quilted Delights

Patricia at Faith, Trust & Breast Cancer

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Get On Board With Sewing Day 4

Join in the fun! Here are the blogs participating today - go see what everyone is up to and register for prizes! You may enter for the "grand prize" at the link at the end of this post, and be sure to come back tomorrow for a new list of participants and another chance to win!

Gail at Quilting Gail

Joy at Days Filled with Joy

Melisa at Pinker ‘n’ Punkin Quilting & Stitching

Carol at Quilt Schmilt

Come back tomorrow for the final day bloggers!

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Get On Board With Sewing - My Day Kitchen Garden Quilt And A Giveaway!

Did you know this is National Sewing Month? In 1982 President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation declaring September as National Sewing Month “In recognition of the importance of home sewing to our Nation." Pretty cool, huh? Thanks to Melva at Melva Loves Scraps and Brenda at Songbird Designs for organizing this fun event honoring National Sewing Month! See the end of this post for a list of the other blogs participating today. Go to the end of this post for the link to the grand prize drawing, PLUS I am also hosting a giveaway!

My first quilting project

I learned to sew in my junior high Home Economic class - I loved it. I made a dress, from buying the fabric to cutting to sewing it together. My favorite part was hemming it with a slip stitch. I continued to sew, using my Mom's Singer, and made myself clothes through college and into young adulthood. Now I quilt! Although my Granny pieced and quilted many quilts, I had to take a class to learn the basics in 2010 at Oklahoma Quiltworks when we lived in Oklahoma City. You can click right here to read more about my class and the resulting table topper pictured above, made with classic blocks.

"Get On Board" is the theme of this blog hop. To decide on a project related to the theme, I started thinking about the surfboard in the blog hop logo, and that made me think of Hawaii, and that made me think about the plates gifted to me by my Mom in the 1990s. Mom visited Hawaii a couple of times, and raved about the lush bright flowers there. She loved Danbury Mint plates and gifted me with five treasured, floral plates - these plates are precious to me. The flowers and colors have a tropical feel, which fits with the theme.

With a floral palette in mind, I needed a design. Last year my husband made a plate shelf for my "special plates", and these hang above the little table in our kitchen. The space above the door just begs for something to hang there, so a wall hanging seemed the perfect choice. Our kitchen doesn't have a color "theme", but it has light gray walls and color is welcome here, so I made Kitchen Garden!

We were unable to hang it up above the door frame yet, but you get the idea

how it will look! I will update with a photo once it is property hung.

Kitchen Garden Quilt

Riley Blake's Indigo Gardens was my inspiration for colors, and I ordered the navy and yellow floral yardage to use in my project, and I used coordinating fabrics from stash. I chose a pattern from my files by Margot Languedoc called Sunflower Seeds and used my bright colors instead of fall colors. I reduced the size from 4 x 4 blocks to 3 x 3 blocks, and I left off the sashing to fit my space. The final size is 32" x 32". I added a navy with yellow pindots binding and quilted a simple meander. I named this little quilt Kitchen Garden!

I think these fabrics will certainly brighten up the kitchen!

Backing is an I Heart You Panel by Moon Cookie for In The Beginning - I've had this panel since 2014!

Be sure to visit these other blogs today - get inspired, make a friend, maybe win a prize!

Karrin at Karrin’s Crazy World

Yvonne at Quilting Jetgirl

Emily at The Darling Dogwood

And now for my giveaways!

I am giving away a charm pack of I Believe In Angels plus a sampler pack of Magic Pins! Just leave a comment below for your chance to win. If you sew, let me know how/when/where you first learned to sew. Comments will remain open through midnight, September 12, then I will let the kitties randomly "paw" a winner to be notified by email.

Please include your email address in your comment.

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Get On Board With Sewing Blog Hop Day 2

Join in the fun! Here are the blogs participating today - go see what everyone is up to and register for prizes! You may enter for the "grand prize" at the link at the end of this post. Be sure to come back Monday for my post! And there will be a new list of participants and another chance to win!

Karen at Karen’s Korner

Nancy at Grace and Peace Quilting

Sharon and Susan at Ms P Designs USA

Nina-Marie at Creations – Quilts, Art, Whatever

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Get On Board With Sewing Blog Hop Day 1

September is National Sewing Month and Melva of Melva Loves Scraps and Brenda from Songbird Designs are hosting a blog hop September 1-7 with the theme “Get On Board With Sewing” as well as a photo challenge on Instagram. My hop day is on Monday, September 5, and I will have a little giveaway of my own, so be sure to come back!

Join in the fun! Here are the blogs participating today - go see what everyone is up to and register for prizes! You may enter for the "grand prize" at the link at the end of this post, and be sure to come back tomorrow for a new list of participants and another chance to win!

Anorina at Samelia’s Mum

Brenda at Songbird Designs

Cheree at The Morning Latte

Denise at For the Love of Geese

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