Happy New Year, Old and New Projects

I wish everyone a healthier and happier New 2010 year!

I want to start the new year by showing this Snow men Quilt I pieced last year! :)) I had a lot of fun piecing it and I got a lot of practice measuring borders. Sorry for the blurry picture, I had my camera not on the right setting and I should take a better picture.

I also made a case for my new cell phone Droid that I love! The case is very practical as I can wear it on my wrist while caring stuff to my sewing room. It has a different fabric for lining.

Holidays for me are a lot of baking! I made this Coconut cream pie for Christmas. It was my first time baking a Coconut pie. I used a pie crust that I baked for the shell. It was pretty good, especially the fresh toasted coconuts on top.

Toffee Blondie desert that I called Brunetty, because I used part dark brown sugar instead of light.

And my favorite desert that I made for New Years Eve party was my Mom's famous Bulgarian Baklava. Everyone that had baklava before and tried mine loved it and so do I! My Mom always said that the hardest part of making the baklava is cutting it. She usually makes it in a circle tray and it's harder to make the ramb shape pieces. All the quilters can imagine it I am sure.

Here is my baked and surop baklava. I wish I could share it with you.

"Be Attitudes" is one of the New Year Projects I am gonna start this year. My mother-in-law got it for me and I just love it! I already started on the first block "Be warm". Baby it's cold outside...

I would like to join my blogging friend Myra in her PhD challenge. It is only 6 months and you get your PhD, sounds good?

Well, PhD means Projects Half Done. :))

Here is my list of PhD I would like to finish until June 30th 2010:

*Blue and Yellow Quilt

*The Coffee Quilt

* Halloween Quilt

*My Sister's Wedding Quilt

*Charity Quilt

*Surprise Table Runners

The list may look short to you but it's a lot of work. Wish me luck and if you would like to join click here.

Have a Happy New Year!!!

Have a Very Merry Christmas and Ornament Tutorial

On my last post I shared the Christmas Star ornament I made as present for my hubby a few years ago, you can see it here. I made a snowmen ornament this year and I decided to share how I made it.

I embroidered a snow globe ornament on my embroidery machine. Then to make it double faced I picked a fabric for backing. You need a just small piece so it's great to use your scraps.

I put the two fabrics face together and stitched close to the embroidery. I used a ribbon for hanging my ornament, cut around 14" ribbon and stitched it between the two fabrics. Don't forget to leave a 1,5 " opening for turning and stuffing.

I trimmed the excess fabric leaving around 1/4'' and clipped all the curves. Then I turned inside out and finger pressed and stuffed the ornament. Finally I hand stitched the opening. Here is the back side of the ornament:

I wish you a very Peaceful and Merry Christmas!

Virtual Christmas Quilt Show

I saw my friend Millie joined a Virtual Christmas Quilt Show. She inspired me to enter a quilt.

Here is a table runner I made for my friend Amanda. I got inspired by the red couch they have and it turn out to be a Christmas colors table runner. I used "Yuletide Floral Table Runner" pattern that my mother-in-law designed. She has a lovely blog you you can visit here.

I made this Christmas Star ornament few years ago as a present to my husband on my MIL Phaff machine. I used gold metallic thread as an accent. I remembered it was breaking a lot but I finished it! It was challenging to stuff the star also, but it was worthed!

Thanks to SewCalGal for for the great idea! To visit the Virtual Christmas Quilt Show click here.

I am still working on my Christmas gifts! How about you?

Have a happy holidays!

I Spy Fabrics, Hawaii and Obvious Store

I received the fabric from the "I spy" swap I signed in. Karen from "Sew Many Ways" organized it and I am very very happy I participated. Thank you Karen for organizing it! If you haven't visited Karen's blog you are missing her Tool Time Tuesday posts where she looks at tools and stuff around the house outside of the box!

Each person had to get 3 fabrics and cut 40 - 5'' squares and mailed it to Karen with self addressed envelope. I was so exciting when I received my fabric and was going through it like reading a book! :)

Karen was so sweet and make for everyone a necklace pin cushion! Thank you Karen! I love mine! You can store a small scissor and pins and on the other end you can skew a bobbin with your thread for sewing and then the nut will hold it there. Here is the tutorial of it if you would like to make your own.

I organized the fabric in few categories: food, sports, novelty, animals and sewing and knitting. The top row fabrics are the ones I sent: with lady bugs, chickens and bats. I can make a few very cute quilts with all the fabrics and I decided to start adding more novelty fabrics to my collection.

I wanted to share the picture of the Hawaiian coffee and chocolates we received from my sister-in-law and family. They are so good, that's why I am just sharing the picture. :) It was great seeing them and now they are on their way back to Hawaii. Have a nice trip guys!

Talking about family I want to give a shout out to my brother-in-law's "State the Obvious Store". If you are looking for a last moment gift to someone who has everything and likes humor you should check it out!

I am working on a couple Christmas gifts so I can't share pictures, yet!

Happy sewing!

Daisy Pincushion and the rest of the quilts

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday! I did!

Me and Heather finished the matching pincushions we worked on between projects. They are so adorable and pretty big, too. The pincushion is around 6"X 3". Heather picked the colors so the pincushion looks like a giant daisy!

The pattern for "Wild Flower Pincushion" can be found in "Bags, Pillows & Pincushions" Magazine:


I also did some Black Friday shopping. I got my first Honey buns from Greenfairyquilts.com These are my first honey buns. I don't know what I am doing with them yet. They might be good for a mini quilt since they are 1,5 ''.


I also visited my local quilt shop "Happy Sewing Room" and got these fat quarters. The red one is their Christmas present.


Here are the rest of the Eastern PA Shop-hop tour. The quilt below is the sample made by "Endless Mountains Quiltworks". This was a very nice shop and I like their quilt, but it was the fardest for us to go to. We were lucky and had a driver that day. Thank you Scot for driving me and Heather to the shops!
Here is the quilt at "118fabrics" shop. I like the border of the quilt.
Here is the " J&B Craft Supplies & Fabric" Store in Nescopeck, PA.

And the last shop we visited was "Quilting in the Valley". Their quilt is pretty, too.
I hope I got all the shops and matching quilts right! :) Me and Heather had fun during the shop hop and got a lot of fabrics for couple of projects! ;)

I also received my 5'' squares from the I spy swap I was in, but I will have to show you next time!

Until then, Happy sewing!!!