May Day Giveaway! Amy Butler and a Monster

Edited June 1 to Announce Winners!

Wow, thanks to all 911 of you who visited my site for giveaway day!

Melissa has won the monster
Mary (no blog) has won the Amy Butler triangles

Happy Giveaway Day everyone and I'll see you at the next one!


So what am I giving away? Well, first of all, this lovely monster designed and made by yours truly, all by hand, no machines needed. I made him up and I'm giving him away! He can't wait to come and lurk in your closet of the closet of your small friend.


He's just waiting for you to tell him where he's going to live so I can personalize him with his new mommy or daddy's name! Or, if you want to name your monster, I can sew his OWN name onto his back instead.


Secondly, I'm giving away some pre-cut Amy Butler fabric just itching to be made into a mini-quilt or table runner. There are 45 triangles of each fabric, totaling 180 triangles! The fabrics are from this quilt and this quilt, and make a 2 1/2" square when sewn together (so a 2" finished block size in a quilt). There are enough to make almost 90 squares! Or, you could pair them with white or another color and stretch them out into a larger quilt like redpepperquilts did.

To enter, simply leave me a comment on this post telling me what your favorite quilt on my site is. The main quilts are all lined up on the left side of this blog, and are all clickable to read more. That's it! Happy Giveaway Day!

I Won!

Thanks so much to Rebecca at blinkingflights for the gift of a free toy! Check out her cute blog and all the sweet toys I had to choose from. Thanks Rebecca, i'll be enjoying Francine (above)!

Sunday Stash and a Sweetie

Stash....
Today i'm featuring three of my favorite blues from my stash. I'm sure you recognize the Sandi Henderson in the middle, but the blue fish on the right is at least 8 years old! I love it and have used it in probably 10 quilts over the years. The one on the left looks great cut up in everything. I got a few scraps of it last year.


...and a sweetie! Gigi is into every single thing all the time. She's like a getting into things machine! Nonstop! As long as she's awake she will have everything you would ever not want her to have. She especially loves to peruse the garbage looking for interesting items that may be on top, that's why we call her 'our little raccoon'. My husband wants to dress her as a raccoon for Halloween this year!

We were making waffles and one got overly browned, so I tossed it on top of some newspapers at the top of the garbage can. A few minutes later I was on the computer when I turned around and saw this:

She LOVES waffles, and the look on her face was like, "Check out this gigantic waffle some idiot threw away! Yeah!" She was already nibbling on it. Since it was on top of clean newspapers, I let her keep it! She's used to dime sized pieces of food, so she was in heaven!

Cheers!

I Finally Dropped the Toys for Strangers!

Here are the two little chickies I made for the toy society toys for strangers project! I'm finishing stuff like crazy and crossing things off my list. Yay! I bagged them up according to the directions and took Wolf out to drop them. I'm trying to teach him a lesson in giving by having him give toys to strangers on his birthday.


I let him choose the locations. He first chose a low-income apartment house complex and we tied it to a fence. Some ladies across the street were watching us and when we left I saw one of them head over there! Next he really wanted to put one at his old preschool, so we did, though we were watched by a gaggle of kids in the front window. As we got in the car the owner came out with about seven kids and was reading it. I yelled, "it's safe!" and she seemed relieved. I didn't hang around to see how she'd split one toy among them all!

Yay for paying it forward!

Happy Birthday My Little Sunshine

The boy who made a mother out of me is turning six! Happy Birthday Wolfgang.
Seems like just yesterday...


First Halloween! Superbaby at 5 months old!


This is my favorite photo of him. I don't know why, I just love it. Double click to see it bigger.


Eating peaches at about one year old. I love the look on his face!


Silly two year old playing with his wolf tracks quilt.


Fierce three year old punching his power ranger training toy. Scary!


And a sweet five year old with his little sister Gigi. And wolf tracks quilt, of course.


And this was today! He got the scooter for his birthday. See how I sneaked the Amy Butler and Joel Dewberry fabrics into this post? My mom made that for Gigi.

Happy birthday my little love bunny!!!
Mommy

Going Batty

Okay, I'll admit, I've gone a little batty lately making toys, but I really like it! My 24 yo daughter Heather asked me to make this bat for her.


See, here is her sketch of what she wanted me to make.


....And here is what I made! Pretty close! I think it was drawn as a bat ninja, hence the sash tie on the right and the crosswise thing (a bow case strap?). I was going to add the cross strip in felt, but it interfered with the bat signal detail at the waist.


He's coming to get ya! The only thing I would improve is the stumpy wings. She had them drawn stumpy and I am running out of felt, so I only could make stumpy, but I feel like the body needs bigger wings to balance it out. Next time.


The end.

Enjoy! Wendy

Sunday Stash - Batiks

Today I'm featuring some beautiful batiks I picked up during my batik phase several years ago. I love the saturated colors! Double click to see them larger and bask in the glow.

Enjoy!