February 4, 2010

Blog Keeping

2010 could be a really fun year or a really busy year. I have already taken part in the Friday Night Sew-in in January and signed up for the next one on Friday Feb. 19th. Soon after that I had fun playing with hearts at the Valentine Sewing Party with Kelly and Joan. They are already talking about hosting another one again soon. That's not all, I signed up for the Lazy Gal Liberated Amish 2010 Get together that Tonya is hosting and that wasn't the last. Ria and I are working on the Featherweight Challenge making the rail fence quilt which I posted here.

I pre-ordered Liberated Quiltmaking II by Gwen Marston before Christmas and it has finally arrived. I only had a chance to skim through it briefly and can't wait to read it from cover to cover. Don't you love that quilt on the cover?

If you have not heard of the Friday Night Sew-in, go on over to Heidi and check it out. Click on the above button and it will take you there. With Dear Jane helped I figured out how to post a hyper-linked, thanks Janey!
2010 is not only a busy year for me, but it's a lucky year too. At the end of 2009 I won a giveaway from Simone de Klerk, but with the slowness of postal service at Christmas I only received my gift this year. It's a pattern from Cinderberry Stitches of the needle keeper plus embroidery threads.Thank you Simone.

That's not all. In January I won the hand dyed silk ribbons giveaway from Debbie of Blissfully Stitching. What yummy looking ribbons! Thanks Debbie for the wonderful gift. I don't normally win in giveaways, but to win 2 in a couple of months, that's not like me. My luck must have changed for 2010, let's hope so!

If that's not busy enough for me this year. At Easter DH and I are taking our holiday to New Zealand and Japan. DH is originally from NZ and we regularly go back to visit, but we have not been to Japan before. We are both really looking forward to it. We are lucky enough that our really good friend Lesley (no blog) has been living there for the last 15 years. Lesley insisted that we spend half of our time with her so she can show us around her part of Japan in Kanazawa. I think that is all for my blog keeping for now. Not a lot of stitching these last weeks, but we did make a trip to see DG last weekend. More about that later.

16 comments:

Unknown said...

G'day sweet Nat ~ Oh, how I love that heart quilt header, it is just precious. You are 'sew' busy.
Done canning your fruits now?

Happy Valentine's
Have a beautiful week.
Hugs~Marydon

Anonymous said...

Wow, you're going to be busy!!! But what a nice kind of busy . . .

Regards, Sue

Sue-Anne said...

You have got a lot to look forward to in the coming months! Imagine all that Japanese fabric you will be able to bring home!!!

Jane said...

Who's going to be a very busy little bee then.
As to posting a pic with a hyperlink.
upload pic, click on pic and then click on the little button between the text color and the left align (The one with the green circle rest cursor on it and it will say link) a new box will open type or paste your link and click ok.- you can test it works when you preview your post. Any probs, just email me . hugs Janey xxx

antique quilter said...

wow you are busy!!!!
your trip to Japan sounds so exciting!
I can't wait to buy a copy of Gwens new book too
yes I love the quilt on the cover, I hear there are some great basket quilts inside too
Kathie

Béa said...

You are lucky & busy! I have the first "liberated quiltmaking" and hope to get II soon !

Queen Of The Armchair aka Dzintra Stitcheries said...

Hey Lucky Duck...congratulations of winning the prizes!!! Your holiday sounds awesome...looking forward to hearing more about it...more for you to blog about...Dzintra♥x

QuiltSue said...

You're going to be busy aren't you? Congrats on the wins too, and your holiday sounds wonderful, I bet you can hardly wait for that.

Little Lady Patchwork said...

You are one paryting girl! These parties are a great way to get all of those projects done. I might also sign up for the Friday night sew in but I need to make sure that I won't be out of town then.

Ok...now I need to get that book!

Needled Mom said...

You are going to have a fabulous year! You will also be busy. I'll have to check out that book. It looks interesting.

Anonymous said...

Congrats on all the nice wins. Can't wait to see the fence rail quilt when you get it done. Looks like it will be very pretty.

Willow

ria vogelzang said...

You're really busy!!!! All projects sound like very much fun! I also like the books by Gwen Marston.
Hope you receive my package soon. Can hardly wait for you to open it......!
Have a great day!

Mescrap said...

What a lucky year for you :)

Terry said...

Lovely wins I'm sure you'll make something beautiful.

Travel ahh is always so inspirational. ENJOY

Anonymous said...

Natima,

Sounds like you are going to be busy, but also having a lot of fun!!!! :)

Tonya Ricucci said...

Wheee, so glad you got Gwen's book!!!

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