October mystery weekend

Hello, hello!

The Oct mystery weekend is coming!! YAH! Mark your calenders for Oct 15th &16th. You wont want to miss it. Jess has the best mysteries on the net (in my humble opinion :)  LOL )

Anyways, you can order the mystery pattern here, for only $9.95. And you can buy a beautiful kit here, if you want.

You don't have to use a kit though. All you need is five fabulous fabrics that go well together, one yard of each fabric.

These are the ones I am using.

It being Fall, Jess had Fall fabrics in mind when she made this mystery....but...well, this is what I had. LOL. I like Summery fabrics more than Fall ones anyways :) I'm sure it will look beautiful though, no matter what season you use.

I hope you all come over to the forum and join in the discussion and pictures when the weekend is here. You have to be a member of our forums to join to see the mystery threads though.

But we always have lots of fun things going on. So come on down and join the fun.

Happenings on the forum

Howdy folks,

Great tips of the day, thanks Jess!

We are having lots of fun this Summer on the form. Swaps and challenges, baby quilts and ones for soldiers.

Another mug rug swap. Here is the one I got from my friend Bobby in Australia. She sent a lot of little goodies too.

I can't show you the one I made just yet.

We are also having a "it's too pretty to cut" challenge. Here is my pretty. The pretty fabric I had to use is the white with blue butterflies.

And, we've started our annual Secret Santa gift too. Click here if you want to join in the fun (you need to join the Q&N forum too, please). This is one of the funniest! We all give our names and info to the hostess. She picks a secret friend for us. And we make a gift for our friend. Who wont know who her Secret Santa is, until late Nov/early Dec.

And, of course, this weekend is the mystery quilt weekend. And it's ALWAYS fabulous!! Jess makes awesome patterns.

Here is the fabric that I am using.

Jess made this pattern around some lovely fabric by Patti Fried, called Capri.

Jess is sold out of kits. But you can still order your pattern and choose your own fabrics.

Well, that's enough going on, yes? OH, on top of that, I am running my very first quilt a long on my blog :) would love for you to come and join me. It's a Lone star wall quilt design.


Have a great day! And thanks for stopping by,

Dorian

Another fabric swap top....and Summer mystery

Last Summer the Gals and I traded 10" squares of beach themed fabric. It's a lot of fun swapping fabrics. We haven't done it in awhile....Hmm, I think it's time to do it again! It's fun way to get new fabric.

I had cut and put together some HST blocks, big ones. And had a design made out. I cut some other triangles too, from different fabric. Then I stuck it all in a box and forgot about it.

SO, I finally got it out, couldnt' remember what design I was going to put these in, and couldn't find my pattern anywhere (I have quite a few notebooks with instructions/designs laying all over the place. LOL).

So I just stuck them together like this.

The prints were way too cute to cut up very much.

I love the children playing...

The wind was having fun with my quilt, while I was trying to take pictures.

This makes quilt top number 25!! That I need to quilt!!! And I am going to make another quilt real soon...lol, or quilt top I should say!

As the mystery quilt weekend is coming up soon!

The mystery is scheduled for July 30th and 31st. You still have time to order a pattern or a kit.

So tell me, how many quilt tops do you have to quilt? or are you good about quilting them right away, and they aren't piling up...like mine...LOL

Thanks for stopping by!

Dorian

A challenge...and a Mystery...

If you aren't a member of the forum, then you wont know what fun we are having! LOL. I have started a fun challenge. It's called "It's too pretty to cut!" challenge and you can read all about it here.

Basically, you find a pretty FQ or larger piece of fabric in your stash (or heck, go buy one!). You take a picture of it and post it on the thread. Then, you make something fantastic out of it. Your finished project picture is due by July 31st. And then the pieces will be judged. The WINNER get a $50 gift certificate to Jess's store, and the runner up gets a $25 gc to her store!! WOW, what generous gifts.

So hop on over to the forum and join in the fun.

And that's not all! Jess has the BEST quilt mystery's. She does them 4 times a year, and June is our next weekend. You sign-up, buy the pattern for only $9.95 each (or subscribe for the year, get all 4 mystery patterns for only $34.95).

Here's one of the mystery quilts that I made in 2009. 

It's an awesome weekend to have the mystery quilt going on too! June 25th and 26th......my birthday


We are always having fun, what between mystery quilt weekends...we have challenges, swaps, make charity quilts and baby quilts for members.

Hope you can join us :)

Thanks for stopping by

Dorian