Little Bit's First Communion

I just remembered I haven't posted about Little Bit's First Communion! She received the Sacrement a few weeks ago.
For those who don't know First Communion is when a person received Eucharist for the first time, often done at age 7-8, so grade 2.

Our new parish doesn't have the entire class, she goes to a Catholic school, do their sacrements all at once, but spread out over several weeks. This is way nicer because it means Mass isn't super long because of the number of kiddos.

Little Bit picked out her dress herself and was so proud of it! She looks gorgeous and I can't believe how grown up she is getting! What happened to my baby??

LOL she looks so tiny compared to Shane and I but my little girl is really growing up!

Shawna's doing it again!

That crazy Shawna over at 1 Choice 4 Quilting is having a crazy huge giveaway on her blog! Go check it out to win all sorts of prizes and fabric!!

Bloggers' Spring Quilt Festival 2011

This is my third time participating in the Bloggers' Quilt Festival and I love visiting and seeing everyone quilts, and even more reading the stories attached to the quilts.

For me so much of quilting is about storytelling, everything from why you choose the fabrics and pattern to the process of making it to the person it goes to, is interesting and fun.
Some stories are short and not particularly significant, others touch your heart, but they are all interesting and speak about the quilt and the quiltmaker.

This quilt falls more into the short category. I made this quilt for a pattern, the fabrics provided by the manufacturer. I'm absolutely in love with basicgrey's Max & Whisker's for Moda. It is such a crazy fun line. Perfect for a boy or a girl and not overly cutesy.
However the quilt didn't come along well, the original pattern wasn't working out and I put it aside.
One of the things if you know me is that you know I can have confidence issues, and lots of health ones as well.
Something I have been trying to do is work through and above those. And that means scaring myself by pushing through when things aren't going well.

In one of my moments of resolution I picked up the fabric again and started working and re-imagining the quilt design. It came easily, used up an entire charm pack and jelly roll! Here is Snowball Fight!

The pattern is still waiting to go to the printer, a small issue with bar codes, but other then that it is ready and I'm thrilled with it.
Some friends are using it for the block instructions to make a charity quilt for the tornado ravaged South, and even the beginners have been able to follow the instructions and that is so satisfying for me as a writer.

As to where it's going, well that's still undecided.

So thanks for stopping by and reading my ramblings! Enjoy the festival!

Layer Cake Winner!

Thank you to all who entered! I loved reading your choices for a layer cake, a really diverse group!

The winner of the layer cake from 1 Choice 4 Quilting according to Random Number Generator is....

Congrats to my fellow Canadian and blogger Flo @ Butterfly Quilting!

I'd hoped to hit the 400 followers mark so I could give away 4 charm packs too but unfortunately that didn't happen. But because Shawna is so awesome she said I could still give away 2 charm packs!

So Karin and I am Just One Mom are getting a charm pack in their choice!

Email me at caraquilts @gmail.com to claim your prize, and let me know the line you want.

Keep your eyes out for another giveaway in the near future from 1 Choice 4 Quilting!

And for those of you on twitter, tomorrow night's Talkin Tuesday (#talknt) is being sponsored by 1 Choice 4 Quilting so you can imagine what we have for prizes!

Layer Cake Giveaway!

Shawna over at 1 Choice 4 Quilting is sponsoring a giveaway here on my blog!
I really just adore Shawna, she is a fun, sweet woman who is so generous with her time, knowledge, and anything else she has to offer.
We've been friends since before she opened her online shop, having met through Talkin Tuesday.

But you want to know about the giveaway!

The winner gets a Layer Cake of her/his choice from 1 Choice 4 Quilting!!

All you have to do to be entered is go over to 1 Choice 4 Quilting and look at what layer cakes are in stock. Come back and let me know which one you would like to win!
And don't worry, if more lines are added during the course of the giveaway I will check with the winner to make sure that is still the line they want.

The only catch is you have to remember to come back and check if you won, I'm not a fan of having to chase after someone who only visited my site to enter a giveaway, so I'm not going to do it.

I will draw on May 9th and the winner will have until May 16th to contact me. If no one does then I will redraw.

Hyggeligt Fabrics

 I'm so excited I found another fabric store here in London!

Hyggeligt Fabrics is a great store that carries all modern fabrics and has a HUGE collection of Kaffe Fasset. Chantal also has Liberty of London prints and organic fabrics.
You can find her on Facebook as well.

It's at 515 Richmond, in the plaza, you have to go through the walk way in the middle to find it.

Chantal is the owner and she is just such a wonderful, fun and nice person. I've gone in there and talked to her for hours. Which just tells you how much patience she has!
She's also the one behind starting the London Modern Quilt Guild! Which makes me happy!

We're going to be starting a Modern Block of the Month quilt program. probably in the fall. I'll give you more details when I have them.

I'll also most likely be teaching a few classes on techniques.

I'm so happy that I've finally found one of those awesome, friendly local quilt/fabric stores that so many people seem to have and just love.

Inaugral meeting of the London Modern Quilt Guild!!

Tuesday we had the first meeting of the London Modern Quilt Guild and it was a great time! There were about 15 of us, all different ages and background, and I am so excited!
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We talked about wanting to be an open, friendly and teaching/learning guild, which is awesome.

Huge surprise I did a lot of talking!!

I can't wait for the next meeting!!