this is my 600th post. i can hardly believe it. as a little thank you to you, my dear readers, i'm giving away a fat quarter of each of these prints. i'll pick a random name on monday evening, november 23. one entry per person please. since i like to leave a question for you to answer when i do a giveaway, i'd love it if you let me know what kind of christmas gifts you are making (or meaning to make) this year.
thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for reading, commenting and following along with me as i quilt. it means so much.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 400 of 943 Newer› Newest»Congrants on 600! I love your blog. This year Im making Christmas table runners and a stocking for my new baby
For Christmas I have made a quilt, a scarf, a children's cape, spa wraps, and am working on a couple of ikebana vase/containers. Plus, there's plenty of time for more ideas!
I was going to do either crocheted washcloths, or potholders, but...I'm running out of time.
I love your quilts! Thanks for sharing them!
Way to go AJ! 600 posts - wow! Nice fabric, too. I've got 2 possibly 3 quilts in the works as presents, as well as some curtains to go with one of them. (I am hoping I am not delusional as I've got no other ideas for these folks!) Hoping to get a few table toppers done, and I've done some embroidered cards for special folks
A new quilter who has stumbled on this blog- I'm loving it, so much inspiration! This year, I'm taking on a new challenge. I just married into a Jewish family, so for Hanukkah I want to make so blue themed place mats. (So I loved your last two blue posts!)
I'm sewing a baby quilt for my pregnant sister-in-law who is due January 3rd.
I'm also thinking of making a planner (a little calendar notebook) for a friend and incorporating pictures for each month from each month of 2009. We'll see, it'd be some work to put together. I'm hoping I find the time :)
Congrats on 600 posts!
Congrats on your 600th post!
I've already made a lap quilt for my Mom, using M.E.'s Recipe for Friendship. And I just need to quilt & bind the Dinosaur Uproar quilt I've made for my son.
Congratulations - and thank you for sharing your journey.
And thank you for offering such beautiful fabric! I will be making some fold-small, large capacity shopping bags out of rip-stop nylon this Christmas. They fold up and tuck in your purse, but are strong enough to hold a good quantity of groceries
hi, i love your blog. totally inspirational. in fact you inspired me to make a stacked coin lap quilt in pastel christmas fabric with a pieced back (!!) for my mom for christmas. the binding is red and pink polka dot to match the snowman hats. super cute. she taught me to sew and i've never made her anything of significance before, so i'm way overdue. keep up the great work!
Congratulations on your 600th post!! It's amazing how fast they add up, isn't it?
Let's see..gifts this year. I'm hoping to finish my daughters quilt before Christmas. It's a big quilt..lol. :)
I'm making some bags, aprons and hopefully a quilt or two
Well, I made a WI Badgers quilt for my hubby.
Congratulations on your 600th post! I am finishing up a flannel quilt for my 18 year old and MORE heating pad covers (did 8 last year) for his soccer team. I got the idea from Denyse Schmidt and they are a HIT! Love all the comments so far!
I love your site and have been inspired by it. I am knitting socks for granddaughters, plus letting them choose a quilt from the 14 I have recently completed. Thanks for all you do.
Remote control pillows from thrifted men's shirts; a fleece red-riding-hood cape; pj pants; fancy-schmancy scarves from embroidered drapery sheers; softy color books for my two grandbabies--and I _need_ one of those fat quarters!
Lets see, Hot pads, kitchen towels, dresses, more kitchen towels. Oh, and I really wanted to make a quilt or runner for my mom with the new Flora and Fauna from Patty Young, however, the fabric is not out yet so now I will have to come up with something else.
Thank you for sharing your sewing journey.
Love your blog and come by often.
cheers
Christine
I am making a quilt for my daughter, a quilt for our new baby, and superhero capes for my son and daughter. I also have grand plans of making Christmas stockings too. I better get sewing!
Love your blog!! This year I am making aprons and napkins for Christmas. So far I have two aprons and two sets of napkins done. Love the colors in these fabrics.
I enjoy your blog and I think your quilts are fabulous! I hope you continue way past 600 more!
I am knitting a few small 'add-on' gits, but nothing major. I had great plans for unique embroidered aprons for all, but... Oh well, there is always next year!
I'm going low key with making gifts this year. All I'm making (or meaning to make) is a Bible cover for my 6 year old to take to church.
Thanks for your blog. I love your stuff.
ltenhage@gmail.com
Dish clothes and dish towels, a table runner, and food related stuff like hot cocoa and pear jam, :)
Congrats on your 600th post!
Congrats on your 600th post! Love the fabrics, too! I am making 3 Advent calendars for my great -nieces and nephews. A feat for me b/c I am not of fan of repeat projects!
I'm making quilts for my nieces and nephew...that's the plan anyway, we'll see how much I get done between now and then!
I love your blog- its the first one I ever read regularly. I am (going to attempt) to make my boys fleece bathrobes. My daughter a small quilt (she's a baby) and my family bags. Lots of bags.
Congrats on 600 posts! I've read every one, I think.
I'm making pj bottoms for my sister and daughter, coffee cozies for 21 relatives, a lap quilt for my daughter, and placemats for my mom.
I've got three quilt projects for gifts. There's a blue Little Bits quilt from _Last Minute Quilted Gifts_. I assembled an Alex Anderson top for my mom, and I'm going to sandwich it and baste it for her to hand-quilt. I'm also winging three mini-quilt wall hangings for my sister. Oh, and I'm doing an Advent Calendar for my kids, using Elizabeth's pattern from Sew Mama Sew.
This was my plan to save myself from going crazy knitting socks. I'm such a supergenius sometimes...
I'm making a grandmother's flower garden quilt and after cutting all my hexagons out realized I didn't like a few of the color combinations with the rest of the colors. So I'm taking those flowers that got kicked out of the quilt and making trivets for family members.
Happy 600th! I have gotten so much inspiration from your blog. Thank you!
I'm making a couple of table runners for 2 different Christmas swaps. I'm making a quilt for my momma (just needs quilting and binding at this point) and one for my grandma (I'm using Moda precuts but really have no pattern in mind at the moment). And I'm considering making a throw for my in laws but we'll have to see if I get the others done first.
My plan is to make market bags for several family members...have had lots of other GREAT ideas...but not sure I'll get any done. Where does the time go??
Thanks for the giveaway, and congratulations on your 600th post. I am making Christmas Tree Skirts this year and using your tutorial! So thanks!
Happy 600th! Those sure are pretty fabrics. Hope you bought extra yardage so you can keep some for yourself. I'd sure have a hard time parting with them! LOL! :o)
600!!!! I'm on my 8th!:)
Way to go!!!! And look, over 200 comments already!!!
It is us who need to thank you...for all the inspiration and light-hearted fun you bring to our daily lives!:)
Christmas....since I just started quilting in June I have been moved to make stuff for my family so they are getting table runners and table toppers and maybe some quilted hotpads and applique pillows!:) I have 9 runner/toppers pinbasted and waiting to be quilted!:)
I'll be making 5 pairs of fabric slippers (used at home) for beautiful nieces which I've learned from a book lately...guess they would be very very happy!!
As for my sisters, I would love making them fabric braided rugs from sunshinescreations ;)
So cute!
I've done an apron and have three quilts ready to be bound. I have to figure out what I'm doing for the younger cousins, but I'm feeling pretty good about this year's production. Unfortunately, that will probably lead me to tack on another project or two, and then all **** will break loose!
CONGRATULATIONS!! I love reading your blog. SO many beautiful quilts , great tutorials and lots of inspiration!
This year I am making pot holders out of quilt squares and little quilted ornaments to dress up the packages.
Congrats Wow 600. I really enjoy reading your blog your work is beautiful. I don't think I'm making anything this year. Shocking for me. I'm not a big gift giver and my Dad is having open heart surgery in a week and I really can't even think about Christmas. I will be focusing on family and the spirit of Christmas this year. I might make some cards for my sister and mom but that's all.
Thanks Cynthia
Thank you Amanda Jean for your positive influence on so many of us in our quilting. You challenge and inspire.
This year, the gifts seem to be along the lines of table runners and hot pads at the Davis house. They are quick and go together in a few hours time, or minutes in the potholder case.
Thanks for a wonderful blog. I'm making Christmas pillowcases for my family to enjoy all season. They'll receive them Thanksgiving weekend.
Sue
Wow - 600! that's big! congratulations :)
for Christmas gifts I've made 3 aprons and I need to make a few more. I always make some pj pants for my boys, so I'll make some of those too. (I've been trying to use up 20+ yards of fabric I bought for $1-$3 per yard this year at a lovely sale.)
I have been so inspired following your blog! I started my very own strippy christmas table runner.My first big project. I'm doing a handmade christmas this year. potholders, dishtowels & zippered pouches!
I'm going to be making some of the Wonder Wallets and stuff $5 coffee gift card for teachers, bus drivers, etc... this fabric would work beautifully!!
Thanks for the offer, and have a wonderful Holiday season!!
Green and blue, such a lovely soothing colour palette :)
I'm making i-spy car quilts for my nephews, trivets for my mom, photo calendars for my mom and MIL and as I type this my 8 year old is nto knit in hopes of making scarves (better her than me, I'm hopeless with the needles!)
Congrats on 600 fabulous posts - can't wait to read the next 600!
600 - Awesome! And those are some wonderful blues and greens. I'm making some quilted water bottle holders, tissue covers, and maybe a mini or two.
ooo - handmade gifts! so far i've finished a shawl for my mom, a cowl for my aunt, and a scarf for my bro-in-law. 3 cowls, 1/2 a pair of socks, a toque, and a pair of slippers left to go!
I plan on making a quilt for my dad and one for my son. I also plan on making some garland and maybe an apron or two.
I've been a lurker on your blog for a long time. It's one of my favorites. You always inspire me. Thanks for all the great ideas and beautiful quilts!
600 Posts...wow you are a great inspiration to us all. I love to see all your quilts.
I am making picnic quilts for each of my 10 kids. Using lots of denim from old jeans and other fun fabrics. (trying to use mostly stash)
Congratulations!!! I'm sewing small cosmetic bags for my mother and sister-in-law.
I just love your blog! As a mom I can relate to your blog name.
I am a new quilter and have only taken a couple classes. So I am making two lap quilts for the grandparents for christmas. One is done still working on #2. Have a good weekend!
I made pumpkin butter to give to family this year, as money is tight, and we're just buying gifts for the kids this year! Thanks for the giveaway!! And congrats on your 600th post!!
Beautiful fabric! I'd love to add it to my stash even if it doesn't fit into my homemade Christmas gifts this year. I'm making a few tutus for my daughter and goddaughter.
Wow! I can't wait to read the next 600. I do "handmade holidays" every year. This year, I started in July with jam and made big batches as each berry came into season.
Those fabrics are so beautiful! This year is the first year I have homemade made anything as a Christmas gift. I just designed a table runner for my sister and can't wait to start it, but I have to finish a quilt and curtains for all our window's first.
lcjess@gmail.com
Congratulations on your 600th post!! I hope you have many many more great posts to come! I'm planning on making a Christmas lap quilt for my mom, but I haven't got around to starting it just yet. I also want to make some ornaments for my little cousins.
Congratulations on 600! I am making a butterfly quilt for my mom, who turns 90 in Feb.....butterflies signify hopefulness and good luck, both wishes I have for her. She's amazing. I'm also making appliqued dish towels. My machine is in repairs until the 30th, so I've been using the time to get some decorating done!
Jane @ mccrthyj@aol.com
Congratulations on 600! I am making a butterfly quilt for my mom, who turns 90 in Feb.....butterflies signify hopefulness and good luck, both wishes I have for her. She's amazing. I'm also making appliqued dish towels. My machine is in repairs until the 30th, so I've been using the time to get some decorating done!
Jane @ mccrthyj@aol.com
Wow! Congrats for your 6ooth post!
For christmas, I am knitting a scarf for my mother and starting a quilt for my daughter. The others will have some cookies! :) Thanks for the giveaway! Have a nice day!
Hi - I just started reading your blog a few weeks ago after finding you through sewmamasew. Your work is beautiful! and inspirational - I'm working on my first quilt as a gift for my husband - starting small, a wall-hanging. I've pieced the top so far. :)
As always, THANK YOU for sharing with us! CMQ was one of the very first blogs I ever read!! Way to inspire us all. As for Christmas... I'm knitting fingerless mitts, hats, neckwarmer, gloves, and sewing a purse, and a few other things. Most of the shopping is finished so it will be fun to work on all of these projects.
Congrats on your 600th! You've been an inspiration to me and made quilting feel more accessible. I've just finished my 2nd quilt and mostly because of ideas I've gotten from you. Thanks!
I'm making calendars for the grandparents and maybe aprons for our moms. My daughter and I did our first craft together last weekend and cut out some baked ornaments that she painted this week for Nanna and Gramma. She's only 22 months :) We live overseas so it'll be a special gift for them. I'm also continuing a family tradition of giving pj's for Christmas Eve, but I'll be making my daughters instead of buying them. And for me? Maybe an apron and some slippers :)
I plan on making an apron for a friend of mine and finish a Christmas quilt for my mother-in-law. I enjoy reading your blog. However, I do not have a blog yet but have added that to my New Year's Resolution.
Bridgette
Bridgette.R.Whittinghill@SSCGP.COM
Amanda Jean, you were one of the first blogs that I started reading, and I've so enjoyed visiting with you. Thanks for being so generous and sharing about your quilts and quilting! I am "hoping" to get three quilts finished for my children this year. Just not sure I can make it at this point, but I will try. Thanks for such a great giveaway :-)
I'm making a log cabin quilt in yellow and green for my Nana!
Congratulations on 600 posts!
I'm making an easy fleece blanket for my husband, pajamas for everyone to open and wear on Christmas Eve, a small quilt for each of my sons, a dress for my niece, and new Christmas stockings. Plus some Christmas-y decorations.
I just have to finish the quilt tops this week and get them to my mom to have her quilt them on the longarm and then I'll be down to just the Christmas stockings and the dress.
Hi,
LOVE YOUR BLOG! I hate to admit this on a quilting blog but I'm knitting mittens and hats for gifts this year. I am, however, just finishing up a wedding quilt for my nephew who will be married in June. Thanks for the gift offer, the fabrics are great!
Beth F.
I am going to attempt to make a table runner and matching napkins...if the sewing fairies come help me!!
Love your blog!
Colleen
Gorgeous fabrics! I'm making a few purses/bags, and maybe some other things I haven't thought of yet.
This Christmas I am making lap-quilts and matching pajamas (both made out of flannel) for all the children in my life. Each one is getting a differant theme, Fancy Nancy/Butterflies (for the only girl) Woodland, Pirates, Sharks, Space, Trains, and Dinosaurs for all the boys.
kbsteuber@yahoo.com
Thank you for creating and maintaining such an informative & inspirational blog! For Christmas, I purchased some silver-backed thermal fabric, and I'll be making some lovely potholders - pieced blocks on top with thermal backing.
Having been invited out to dinner which was served on place mats over the plain cloth......friend and I had made the place mats and runner for this friend's birthday a year or so ago I am now motivated to make mats and table runners and am having a guess the fabric give away on ones I have started on my own blog.
Having been invited out to dinner which was served on place mats over the plain cloth......friend and I had made the place mats and runner for this friend's birthday a year or so ago I am now motivated to make mats and table runners and am having a guess the fabric give away on ones I have started on my own blog.
Congratulations! Since I am starting so "late" and I'm not so fast I'll probably make a couple table runners, napkins and bags for sparkling apple cider...
Happy 600 AJ!!! Love that blue Jennifer paganelli in there!!!
I am making snack bags for the kids, they all have so many toys that I am hoping this is something they will actually use in their lunch or wherever.
I also right now am attempting to make a Christmas lap quilt for my brother-in-law.
Congrats on your 600th post! I enjoy seeing the things you do. I have made my two older sons (23 & 25) a quilt. I have made my mother a quilt. I will be making a fleece blanket for my daughter. I had hoped to get more made, but time just got away from me.
I am finishing a table mat (like a placemat but larger) for my mom. It's the same fabric as the quilt I made her last year.
Also, my oldest found a quilt top in my WIP stash - so I'm hoping to finish it for her.
I made 2 aprons and a skirt today. Hope to make more. Thanks for your inspiration. Love your blog. Here's to another 600 posts.
A flannel quilt for a very dear friend to show him how much we appreciate all he had done for our family this year. I just started quilting in September and decided on an easy pattern...yellow brick road. Just have the border to add and it will be ready for quilting! I love your blog and your BEAUTIFUL quilts! I come here for inspiration!
Wow, 600 posts - that's awesome! I made 4 coordinating pin cushions for my sisters. Each one is also a box to store pins in, and has a bag attached to catch clippings. There's a pic of them here: http://mnquiltaholic.blogspot.com/2009/11/halfway-there.html
So fun, congrats! I'm making so many things right now...3 quilts!
Sarah @ http://comeandseetheseitz.com
I am working on my second quilt ever...your zig zag quilt in various purples, pinks, and blues. It's actually coming along pretty well so far! It's a Christmas gift for my new baby niece! I'm starting your star quilt-along as soon as I finish this one! :)
Thank you for the lovely giveaway, and congratulations on 600 posts - that's amazing!!!
I have quite a few projects planned (and quite a few completed already!) for Christmas gifts. 3 quilts, zipper bags, totes, pillowcases, mixer covers, hotpads, tablerunners, decorated tea towels, oven mitts, knit dishcloths, aprons, beaded scissors fobs, fabric baskets, bibs ... that's all I can think of right now! Major stash busting is happening here, lol!
We can't afford much this year, but we'll be giving and receiving a lot of love!
This year I'm making placemats, coasters and table mats out of whole cloth Christmas print!!
I hope I get them all finished!
I'm making a quilt for my father. Tablerunner and placemats for my mother and Amy Butler's birdie sling for my sister. Not a single one of these is done :( Thanks for the giveaway and keep up with all the great posts!
I am hoping to make some thread catchers with the weighted pin cushion for some QFF - and some aprons for nieces - but I need more fabric -
sandi812@bellsouth.net
I just finished machine-sewing on the binding to a queen-sized strip quilt for my parents' Christmas gift. Each year, someone in my family/circle of friends gets a big quilt for Christmas. Now I've just got to hand-sew the binding down, finish up two small matching pillows and I'm done. All my friends are getting ornaments I've made from a pattern found online -- felt doughnuts. Who says Christmas tree ornaments can't be felt food?
Wow 600! That's amazing!
I have made 3 snowmen table runners, a end-table topper, an advent calendar, Christmas card holder, and 4 sets of 6 coasters. Lots of hand made gifts this year.
I'm only making the one quilt.Well, finishing the one quilt I've been working on for a year now, working on as in, glancing at the pieced top I finished before the baby and wishing I had some time to get to it already. I *will* finish it before she's one. Given that craft fail, I've let myself off the hook for any more this year.
How on earth do you manage more than one kid and all your wonderful quilts?
I suppose if mine slept, ever, I might get a little more done, but you are a powerhouse. Thanks for the inspiration.
600! Wow that's a lot! How lovely of you to give away such darling material! I am making up some fabric baskets and filling them with "spa" type items like a hand scrubber, rice bag and crocheted face cloths.
This year I am making some heating pads. The kind you put in the microwave and then snuggle up with. Either that or some decorative pin cushions to go next to my sister in laws sewing machines. We will see what time allows.
Neighbor gifts are going to be homemade vanilla sugar. Now to find the time.
You have a wonderful blog Amanda and I visit here often and sometimes go off to other interesting ones. I do not have a blog at this time. I made a contemporary lap quilt using one of your designs and now I love doing them.
Lime green and blue are two of my favorite colors so hope I win. Congrats. on 600 posts and your blog.
Jeane
Congratulations!
I'm working on tablerunners for several gifts AND my first quilted quilt (the other one I did years ago I tied) for my first niece.
Thanks for all your posts and sharing your work. It's very inspiring!
This year I am making snowflake ornaments for everyone. If I have time, I bought some great flannels for pillowcases and pajama bottoms.
Well, thanks to your inspiration I am making a throw quilt for my MIL and two doll quilts for my nieces. And we (my kids and I) are also making beaded necklaces for all girl relatives and friends. Fun, fun!
You do have such a wonderful blog! I can't help but keep reading!!
I am making a couple of capes, a felt crown, and a baby taggie toy. All fun stuff!!!
I am going to make 3 Ragged Square Quilts that you posted about here:
http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-ragged-squares-quilt.html
I figured that would be great for my first time quilting. One is purple for my 4 year old girl, one will be blues for my 12 year old boy and the last one will be greens for my 15 year old boy.
I've picked out the fabrics:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=24488&id=1004675299
but haven't started sewing yet! I'd better get started :)
I am making fleece scarfs and napkins - and I am going to try to make a few bags I hope!!
Maybe a layer cake quilt...we'll see! Happy 600th post - congratulations on a wonderful blog.
Congratulations on your 600th post! I am making a flannel quilt for my mom and scrapbook calendars for my husband and for my children's grandparents. I also have a list of a million things I would like to do, but don't think I will have time for. I enjoy reading what you are working on- thank you!
Kristina
kvogel@kentontrace.com
Congrats! I am making pillowcases for my little nephews and all of my kids. At least that's the plan as of this minute.
I just made 30 bottles of vanilla extract today!
Lovely fabric!
Rebecca
Wow, 600 posts! Thank you for all of your wonderful work; I enjoy your blog so much.
I'm planning to make a fireman costume for my son...cross my fingers.
Thanks for the giveaway!
I love reading your blog, such inspiration.
I am planning on trying to make some quilted coasters for Christmas gifts. I need to get started, but trying to finish the quilt I'm working on first.
Congrats to such a faithful blogger!
This year I'm making a Heather Bailey baby stacker toy, finishing a quilt for my 2 year old, and doing some fleece hand puppets too!
Congrats! I bought fabric and was planning on making the Oh Fransson Advent Calendar (one for me, one for my sister's family), but I just had a baby and can't find the time! Maybe next Christmas:(
Congratulations!!!! 600. WOW.
I'm the making a gorgeous crocheted (sp?) scarf seen here...
http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/80771AD.html
a little like anthropologie, but without the hefty price tag.
I made a quilt, and am meaning to make some bibs to give away...can't believe it's already christmas. whew, this year went fast!
I'm knitting some shawls for two of my neices. And if there is time left over I'll make an apron for my sister. If not, she'll get one for her birthday in January. =)
Congrats on your 600th post! Today I made two pair of pajama bottoms~one football and one basketball. I made by boys some last year and they keep asking when I am going to make them more! So I guess it has started a tradition...pj's every year!
Love your blog. You are an inspiration.
I made me a Christmas table topper. (Does that count?) I am making Whimsy Dolls for my granddaughters. I am also trying to teach myself smocking. If I have time, I will want to make potholders for secretaries in my husband's office.
I am making three Pocket Dolls for my three granddaughters.
I am making three Pocket Dolls for my three granddaughters.
I have made 3 quilts that will leaving for family in Utah for Christmas. Also making table runners, ornaments and baskets of homemade goodies like relishes, jams, syrups and vinegars.
I'm thinking about table runners. Guess I better get busy. PS. I love the colors in your carrot top quilt. You've helped me rediscover a passion I had neglected for a while!
I'm making Coffee Sleeves for everyone I know, plus doing them as a FUNdraiser for Relay For Life (American Cancer Society)...love the fat quarters you are giving away...LOVE your blog!
~ Kathy (Hillsboro, OR)
I love reading your blog! I am making fold & go shopping bags & covered journals this year.
CrazyMom - I just love you and your work! I look forward to your posts every day! Congratulations on your 600th! Wow!!
Number one on my sweetie's niece's Christmas list was a skirt made by ME! I have never sewn clothing, so it will be first, but who could say no?! Also on her list was sewing lessons from me. So precious!
I am making Family home evening boards for my sisters in law and christmas stockings for my sister. Oh, can't forge tthe photobooks for the grandparents!!
-Christine
I am a new reader of your blog....enjoy your quilts. I am finishing up 4 pair of pajamas for my grandchildren and an I SPY quilt as gifts this Christmas.
I love your fabric giveaways!!
I'm making a t-shirt memory quilt for my uncle. My cousin, his son, passed away tragically a few years ago and I want to give him this as a special keepsake.
Of course, like any good quilter, I've got a ton of other projects going too (Christmas pj's for my daughter, pillow cases for the hubby, etc.) but the memory quilt has priority!
christina dot mckinney at hotmail dot com
A couple backpacks, messenger bags, three wristlets, a box pouch and 13 gingerbread men ornaments. :)
wow! congratulations! all i know for sure is that I'm making my sister some art to match the duvet i made last year... I will probably try to squeeze in a lot more though.
I'm a beginning quilter, so all my projects take a really long time. I'm not sure I'll be able to get it done, but I'm going to try and finish a table topper for my granma-in-law!!
Your blog is what inspired me to start quilting, so thank you!!
Fun! I'm hoping to make some Birdie slings for my sisters and mom. Thanks for the giveaway!
Wow! 600!! That's awesome! I have made stockings for two of my neices, am in the middle of a figgy pudding quilt (my own pattern!!) for my living room and have every intention of making two or three doll quilts/pillow sets for another neice. With a hubby who broke his leg today, it may be more than I can sew this year...but I'm going to try!!
I'm making patchwork stockings that were featured on the purlbee. Love them. congrats on 600. phew
I am working on a Christmas fabric quilt for my daughter. I can only work on it when she is not at home so I am not sure if it will be finished in time. But I am trying!
I am working on a Christmas fabric quilt for my daughter. I can only work on it when she is not at home so I am not sure if it will be finished in time. But I am trying!
I wish I knew about your blog before earlier this year... I would've known about the first 100, then 200, then 300, etc. blog posts!! I'm making my quilty peeps some hot pads and coasters and my mother in law a sort of log cabin quilt. Thanks for all of your inspiration!!!!
Melissa
Memphis, TN
congrats on 600!!
i'm making 4 quilts, 2 banadana skirts, 1 bandana shorts, 2 oliver & s outfits (possibly 3) and a couple of little purses for the nieces.
Fabric (Christmas) postcards for everyone and possibly an ornament to go with. Depends on how much holiday fabric I have left over after the cards are done. :)
Love your blog -- thanks for sharing your quilts and knowledge with us! I am planning (and hoping) to get 2 children's Christmas quilts made from the Riley Blake Me Merry fabric.
I'm going to make my dd pajama pants and maybe the top to go with them. There are so many cute flannels out this Christmas season!
I'm not sure what I'll be making, but I know I will be sewing something--aprons, pillowcases.
Love your blog and looking forward to many more interesting posts and quilt ideas. Thanks!
Congrats on your big milestone! 600! Wow!!
I made coffee cup cozies for my son's preschool teachers. We are enclosing a Starbucks giftcard and some homemade biscotti as well.
I'm making flannel PJ pants for all the kids in my life!
I'm making a Christmas quilt, some 'perfect pouches', 'wonder wallets', and some coasters... and if I can finish that, a few more quilts in there too ;-)
Thus far I have made 3 house cleaning aprons. These are not the typical bib aprons but ones that cover you entirely, button in the back and have four large pockets around the bottom hem. I made and embroidered matching hot pads. I am in the process of making PJ pants. And I hope to make an embroidery/ fabric fused picture of robins. After Christmas it is on to quilts. Yay
hoping to do elf hats for the kids and frame some things for the grown ups. just had a baby though, so wonder how much i'll actually get done!
I love drouling over your handiwok on your Blog. Christmas gifts? I haven't even gone there yet, YIKES!! But ALWAYS something handmade.
Sarah :)
600 posts! Awesome! I am only making a few Christmas gifts this year and I am giving them out early, because I want the recipients to use them during the holidays. They will be Christmas purses they can carry them around for the holidays. I also want to make some of the journal covers that just posted on Moda Bake Shop. They are perfect. They posted that tutorial just in time for me. :)
congratulations on 600 posts! very impressive!
for christmas presents, i'm actually doing a bit of quilting, and i've made a table runner and a lap quilt so far. a tie for my brother is up next.
thanks!
Congrats on the post tally AJ! I can't believe how fast they add up (I'm almost to 400!)
I am totally off the hook this year - zero time to create for Christmas but I will make up for it later :) What are you making for Christmas!?
Actually, the thanks is from this side of your blog -- Thank YOU from the bottom of MY heart! You're so inspiring -- this giveaway is just another example of your fabuluous taste in fabrics. Here's to another 600 and beyond!!!
HAPPY 600!!! I'm making a couple bags - but I'm taking it easy this year. I totally stressed myself out trying to make ALL my gifts last year...
I hadn't planned to make anything but I am quilting a Chicken dresden plate, have sewn two flannel rag quilts, have put together one fleece throw and have another one ready to sew. I am also embroidering names on three Christmas socks. If I have time, I am making four string placemats, also. Not bad for someone who wasn't going to make any Christmas gifts this year, huh?
Congratulations on 600 posts! How fun :)
I love reading everybody's ideas! I may have to borrow some.
I am still trying to come up with a few more ideas for Christmas gifts to make!
So far I have embroidered two tote bags and made raggy-applique towels for my sister. I am making a twin size quilt for each of my boys and a couple of *secret* gifts no one knows about yet! lol
Congratulations on your 600th post!
Thanks once again for all the inspiration and quilting ideas.
I am making my mother a quilt for Christmas. She taught me to sew and I fear I was not a very easy pupil so I feel I owe her. There are 6 children in our family and we were almost all born in different states so I chose the state blocks and did them all in blue(her favorite color). The sandwich is ready for as soon as my machine stops acting up...
Rebecca O of Buffalo
Holy WOW. 600! That is impressive.
I am embroidering a tea towel for my mom with nesting dolls and wheat sheaves, and am making several doll quilts for nieces, and my daughter is getting something handmade too, I just haven't decided what exactly yet.
Love the fabric colors!
This Christmas I am finishing my 9-patch-along and giving it to my mother. I have to quilt it and bind it and it's DONE. The biggest quilt I've made yet. It's so colorful! I am also making a set of magnets out of vintage poker chips (for a friend), and I made my grandmother a ripple crochet blanket out of thrifted yarn. I still have 30+ days left to come up with (and finish?!) a few more projects!
Oh, thank you for the sweet giveaway, and congratulations on 600 posts! Blogging is a lot of work and a lot of rewarding. :) Your blog is inspiring.
To answer your question, this year for Christmas I'd like to embroider and sew a nativity quiet book. I'd also love to knit some socks or weave a wall hanging for my mom.
Hi! I've made scrappy napkins, I'm in the process of making 2 fleecy blankies, and have 2 bags waiting to be made. And an advent calendar! Not much time left for that last one!! :)
Evelin
Lovely fabrics.
I have nearly finished my christmas present making for this year. We have notebook covers, toddler backpacks, messenger bags, quilted coaster (not my best work) and puppets.
I have also started on a quilt for Jot wwhich will be her gift as long as I can finish it in time :)
I am making aprons as gifts this year.
Also finishing a quilt for my husband.
Six hundred!! Congratulations - your blog has taught me a lot and inspired me in more ways than one! Thank you!
For Christmas, I'm making ornaments, some felted pillows, a tree skirt, knitted socks and few more things I haven't decided on yet. :-) I've still got time, right?
I will be making baked goods.
Congrats on 600 posts.
daldak01@yahoo.ca
I'm a fairly new follower to your blog and so far I love it. Thank you for posting!
I'm going to try to learn to applique so I can make some Christmas towels. I'm also making some soap savers to go with some handmade soap I bought, and possibly a few french memo boards. I still have a crayon roll to make for an upcoming birthday.
I would love to make some handmade gifts this year but I am due with baby boy #2 on Dec. 4th so I am taking a year off from handmade. It is my goal to come up with a signature gift for birthdays next year so I am going to be brainstorming ideas for that.
Love your blog, here is to another 600!
Congratulations on your 600th post. I'm just getting started with my blog so I know that is an accomplishment. My Christmas gift is actually a Christmas project. My oldest daughter will be home from overseas for the month of December. This will be here first time home in two years. I just took up quilting a couple of years ago. Anyhow, she is looking forward to coming home and working together on some projects. So, I've worked it out to be off work quite a bit while she is home. I'm excited to have this opportunity to be at home with her during the holidays and to make a quilt together.
I'm just starting to get my act together and making gifts. I'm thinking some sock dogs, quilted placemats/coasters, knitted dish cloths and maybe more. Just depends on how fast I can work!
How sweet of you to do a giveaway when you inspire us all the time! I'm making a quilt for my sister, Oliver + S pjs for my kids, a Star Wars (pottery barn) inspired blanket for my nephew, and have already made canned marinara sauce and apple butter for other relatives! I have lots to do.
I am making fabric bird ornaments designed by Linda Lum DeBono, found in magazine from 2008. I'm using Moda's Merry and Bright line, and the birds are turning out very cute!
I am new to quilting and discoverd your blog! Thank you for making it so much easier! I have been scouring over your site for hours and just logged on to follor you Binding tut for my first ever quilt which also happens to be a christmas gift to my 6 month old nephew! Thanks and I love your 600th entry I would love those fabrics...I have always wanted someone to puchase or give me fabric to inspire me :D much love and Happy Holidays!! I am off to follow your binding tut I made it to the attaching it part :o wish me luck!
I made 3 shawls and I'm finishing some toys now and hopfully will be able to do an afghan I also am hopeing to quilt some wall hangings.
Holly
I'm planning to make flip dolls for my daughter and two nieces. (wish me luck...)
Oh, and I love that blue fabric on the left!
I LOVE to make all my immediate family gifts homemade...this year I am tackling the rocket softie from The Long Thread for my 3-year-old, a disappearing 9-patch for my Mom, new stockings for my sister and BIL and who knows what for my hubby, daughter, dad, brother and MIL! I'll be plenty busy though!
--kelli
kellbell_6@hotmail.com
fun to see what everyone's making! I'm making a scruffily quilt in Figgy Pudding for my women's sorority exchange, a disappearing nine patch in Sweet for family exchange, and a Brown Bear, Brown Bear crib blanket for my sister for her 2nd grade classroom.
I am making pillowcases and bags.I started them last year and hope to finish them this year.
Congratulations! Great achievement. I'm hoping to have DD's quilt done in time.
one of the gift i am making is barbie clothes for my daughter. my mother found the closet my grandfather had made me to fit my barbie clothes into and now i will pass it to her and fill it full of new clothes for her this christmad.
retro aprons with polka dots and Michael miller fabric- I wish someone would make me one!!!
I'm making a few things for Christmas this year. "boo boo bags"(small rice bags) for my mother-in-law's freezer, because the grandkids are always geting bumps and owies, and while a bag of frozen vegetables works, it is way too big for a 2 year old's forehead! I'm also making an ABC quiet book for my baby, and a quilt for some friends getting married the day after Christmas, so same deadline!
I'd really like to make a few table runners...however it's getting closed to Christmas, I hope I will have enough time to make them!
Thanks for the generous giveaway.
I already made a quilt for my niece and one for my husband. I'm hoping to also make a handbag for my daughter, a tote bag for my daughter-in-law & oven mitts for my mom.
Happy 600th. WOW!
I am planning on making my kids and are easel. Whew, I had better get started!
Gosh, so many comments. I have been making 2 rag quilts - one for my grandson that is extra long, and one for my grandson to be - also got to work on a quilt for my daughter who is clueless when it comes to quilting, and doesn't want to have a clue, but actually found a Christmas quilt she liked - yea.
Congratulations on 600 posts! I am a new follower of your blog but I am so so glad to have found you.
This Christmas, I am making a doll quilt for my little girl, and a purse for my Secret Santa. Possibly some ornaments if I have time (HA!).
Felicity
Wow. 600!! That's awesome. Did you know that it was your blog that was the VERY FIRST blog posting that I ever read that was on quilting??? You opened up a whole new world of inspiration for quilting. I will always be eternally grateful for "AmandaJean" blog. :-)
For Christmas gifts, I honestly don't know... I am moving Dec 22, and currently building my new house, so Christmas won't really happen around here. I have 2 little girls, so I will try and throw up some sort of tree on the 23rd, but it's too hard right now to do much quilting. But I am going to attempt to make a christmas wall hanging!! Wish me luck!
Well what haven't I made. 10 dolls, 2 dolly baskets with quilts, mattresses and pillows; 2 skirts, a lap top cover, 2 more doll quilts, 2 personalised quilts with names on them for babies. And yet I am not finished! So little time left. It's a hand made christmas this year. :)
Congratulations! Wow, 600 posts! I plan on making some curling iron sleeves for my friends among many other quilted projects!
I am making these cute heart potholders. I got the pattern at a quilt show and have visions of pairs and pairs of potholders under the tree.
Wow Amanda - 600 posts; you have such staying power! To add to my bought Christmas gifts, I'm planning to make appliqued Christmas cones to hang from a door handle, or fabric Christmas crackers,and fill them with little chocolates for a sweet treat.
first let me say I love love love those colors, my kitchen is blue and green.
I am making a quilt for a mom and one for my MIL. I am also making some potholders and napkins for my SIL and a doll quilt for a cousin. I need to get crackin!!
I'm actually thinking about those bibs that you had posted about a few weeks ago, for my three nephews. But it would be a stretch for me since I have a deadline of end of March for a picture quilt that I'm doing of those same nephews for my Mom's birthday (all hand piecing and quilting so it's a big probject for me- but it's already looking amazing - I'm so excited about it!)
Congratulations! I am finishing up the last of 4 quilts I am making - one for each of my grandchildren. Then I will make matching pillow cases for them. If I have time I hope to make a Christmas table runner for my sister-in-law. Thanks for the fun give-away!
Wow. Amazing. 600 posts! Inspiring and impressive. My quilting journey has been so much fuller because of you and your blog and all I've learned through it. No need to enter me in the give away - just wanted to say congrats!! As for gifts... quilts! And probably some pillow sleeves. Maybe some place mats?
Wow. Amazing. 600 posts! Inspiring and impressive. My quilting journey has been so much fuller because of you and your blog and all I've learned through it. No need to enter me in the give away - just wanted to say congrats!! As for gifts... quilts! And probably some pillow sleeves. Maybe some place mats?
Wow - 600 posts Amanda Jean - that's a long, long time and to keep it fresh and interesting - thank you.
I am making table toppers for Christmas gifts and trying to add some hand stitching on each of them.
Congrats - 600 posts is amazing! I am going to try and make some gifts - have some belated quilts to finish (my nephews are only 5 months old... so not too late) and some napkins and placemats for friends. Lots of stuff on my list!
I am hoping to make 3 baby blankets for 3 expected grand nieces/nephews. I hope to get them done this season.
Ooh! I'm making card/stationery sets, and tiny little wallets, and scrabble tile pendants, and a couple of princess and the pea playsets, and a new bed-sized quilt for each of my 2 kids. Going a little bit craft crazy, but I love it!
No... you have it all wrong! It's sweet of you to thank us, the readers, but we should be thanking you! I find your blog VERY inspiring-- especially when my hectic life doesn't allow me to get to my sewing machine. I wish I could share what I was making for x-mas gifts, but I haven't figured it out yet-- ah! Thanks for having a give away! And for all 600 posts! :)
Robin Chapa
welchrobin@Hotmail.com
i'm working on my second quilt, the first gift quilt! thanks for the blog. i've learned most of what i know from people like you!
Congrats on 600 posts! I love reading about all your beautiful projects!
I'm "meaning to make" aprons and some quilted table runners for Christmas gifts, but who knows which Christmas they'll be done by (2009, 2010?)!
I'm crocheting a blanket for my in-laws. Almost done!
katie.muirhead (at) gmail (dot) com
im making stockings this year, plus an outfit {maybe} for vmy newborn!
I'm making petti-skirts for my 3 nieces this year. I'd like to make pj pants for the boys, but the skirts are starting to kill me. 2.5 inches wide, 72 yards long, ruffles, ruffles and more ruffles.
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