AURIFIL Ornament Hop

Woohoo! It's our turn to give you all a lovely ornament to decorate your tree, or house, or workspace, or....wherever!

Don't you ADORE ornaments? I bought a little sparkly white frosted tree last year, can't wait to get it out again and splash it with colorful ornaments.

Raise your hand if you already have Christmas decorations up and holiday tunes cranked up?!

We've been running around like crazy getting our ornament ready for the blog hop. Of course we had to get a tree just to hang it on! Thankfully, we had a little help from a couple of our Aurifil friends...

LOLOLOL! That just cracks me up every time!

Okay, now you're ready to ROCK with our Aurifil ornament.

We stitched this SWEET little winter mitten!

For the pdf, click *HERE*

And don't forget to check out these other two Aurifil Designer blogs today:

Victoria Findlay Wolfe

http://www.bumblebeansinc.blogspot.com

Pam Kitty Morning

http://pamkittymorning.blogspot.com

Make sure you leave us all some fabulous comments to be entered to win some Aurifil prizes!  We'd love to hear what YOUR favorite ornament is...was it stitched? Handmade? Store bought? Given as a gift?

We would love to know!

Meanwhile, I think I need me one of these:

Just to display all of our cute Aurifil ornaments! Don't you think? 

Have a Rockin' Holiday...

Liz & Beth

P.S. Want to come join us for some FUN? Check out our NEW Dream Laugh Create Studio website and sign up for our Studio Event featuring Amanda Herring of The Quilted Fish and Becki Crosby of Whippy Cake. It's going to be a rockin' good time for sure!

 

Last Days of Summer - Aurifil BOM - and GIVEAWAY!

How is it possible that we're coming 

to the end of summer?  

This was a big summer for me.  One of the reasons you haven't heard much from us on our blog!

Last week, I took my girl off to college.

You know.  The one that wasn't supposed to grow up but did anyway? For rude.

I spent the summer making quilty things for her dorm room.  

(Spent some fun screen printing, creative days with Amanda Herring, The Quilted Fish!) 

And made quilty things for my girlie's friends too!

In essence.  I've spent my summer quilting!

Pretty perfect, huh? And there may be a few 

tears mixed in with some of those stitches, but I'll tell you this much.  Thank goodness for a hobby that doesn't let you wallow.  Too darned busy for that!

I loved that I was able to send my daughter and her friends off with special hugs from Mama Hawk.

SO.  As a final salute to summer, let's knock it out with a big BANG shall we?

We want to know what YOU have been up to all summer!

Have you been quilting? Vacationing?  Both? 

Ready to win a Last Days of Summer giveaway? 

(details at end of post!)

Have you been stitching your amazing 

Aurifil Blocks of the Month?  If you've missed out, now's the time to catch up.  Still chances to win our FAV thread!

Check out the blocks by these fab artists:

AUGUST

 (click HERE)

JULY

(click HERE)

JUNE

(Click HERE)

 If these blocks don't SCREAM summer, 

I don't know what does.  

And DON'T forget to check out the flickr group and upload YOUR finished blocks to be in the running to win some thread.

GIVEAWAY DETAILS!!!

As promised, we're ready for a last days of summer giveaway.  What better way to say goodbye to summer and kick off the fall?  

I have a candy dish FILLED with 

samples of AURIFIL thread

I'm going to DUMP these into a grab bag and send them off to one lucky winner! Oh there's at least 10 good different color, type, weight, yummy spools of thread in there.

Want 'em?

Then show or tell us what you've been up to this summer!  Leave us a comment on this blog. Or click HERE to upload pics of your projects on our facebook page. 

(We LOVE pictures!)

Tells us if you've been stitching Aurifil blocks, what fun summer reads you've been devouring or if you've just been putting your feet up.  We want to know!

We'll announce a winner one week from today;

Friday, Sept 7th.

Can't wait to hear from you and say goodbye to summer together!