Happy Christmas Eve!

Today is one of my favorite days of the entire year -- we decorate our Christmas Tree, put up the stockings, make cookies, and enjoy some quality family time. It's a time of the year that's so full of traditions and makes me appreciate my family. This year, especially, my thoughts are with those people who don't have families to share the holidays with...people like the foster children I've been working with this year.

I am so thankful for the outpouring of support from people all over the world who participated in the Stockings for Kids drive. I received over 250 stockings from all corners of the globe -- my husband was quite excited when a package arrived from Turkey -- for the foster children in Central Virginia. Due to the generosity of local businesses, churches, community service groups, and people like you, we were able to stuff the stockings and tomorrow morning many children will get to open a Christmas stocking.

 A snapshot of some of the many stockings we got this year.

Toys ready to be divided up into the stockings

Just some of the many games ready to be divided up into the stockings.

Thank you again for your love and generosity this holiday season!

Zig-Zag Quilt: A Wordless Post

Plus Quilt

The other day I realized I never shared this quilt with you. Back in August, I really wanted to make a plus quilt and when I learned that some of my good friends were expecting their first child this year, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to give it a try. Overall, I'm pretty pleased with the results. 

 

Quilt Stats:

Fabrics: Assorted blue, yellow, pinks, and kona white from my stash. 

Quilting: stitch in the ditch around each plus.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

So I recently hosted a giveaway of some purple fat quarters in conjunction with sew mama sews giveaway day (week). This allowed me to do some "market research" if you will. See, I was curious to see what colors people were sewing with these days.

And according to my completely scientific approach (i.e. tally sheet of color combos) it appears that most of you enjoy sewing with gray in almost any combo but especially gray and yellow and gray and purple. A lot of you also love orange. I have to say I haven't gotten on the orange band wagon yet, but I'm thinking about hitching a ride!

I am so amazed by how many of you guys entered my sew mama sew giveaway -- almost 400!! But after some tough deliberating by my friend Mr. Random, Gill was lucky number 86 and won the awesome fat quarters. Yay Gill!!

 gill said...

I love turquoise and grey!

12/12/2011 4:22 PM

**I haven't figured out how to successfully copy and paste my random number generator thingy. If you want to give me a suggestion that would be appreciated.**