Showing posts with label Valori Wells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valori Wells. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Keepin' Warm...

So it's another COLD wintery day here in PA...but I gotz my QUILTS to keep me warm!  
Last Wednesday, as my kids lazed around on their first snow of the year, a FUN package arrived at my door...


A FABULOUS box from Stitchin' Heaven FILLED with bits and pieces of BRIGHT, WARM, COLORFUL FLANNELS by Valori Wells!!!  Well it was JUST the thing I needed on that snowy day.

I looked at my machine and decided, it was time to CREATE something fun.  So I started whackin' up those bits of fabrics and sat at my colorful machine the rest of the afternoon...


And by evening, I had ALL the blocks done!

(They look a little dark in the evening light! Sorry...)

Does the pattern look at all familiar?  No?  It's our FREEBIE pattern 
"Baby, It's Cold Outside"!  
(find it under free project downloads on the right)

The next day I ventured out to find some flannel backing....


Cute or WHAT?  This simple pattern that Beth and I whipped up over Thanksgiving has been 
THE FAVORITE QUILT this season.  The kids fight over it.  Each one thinks it belongs to them.  Well, I'm not a stupid Mom (well, maybe sometimes!)...I knew another one was in order.  So when this package of flannels showed up on my doorstep, I was THRILLED there was enough fabric to make another.  And SO bright and cheery.  Who wouldn't want to wrap up in this on a cold, icy, snowy day such as the one I'm looking at right now outside my window????


Yesterday I got it pinned and quilted...


Just have ONE more corner to round on the binding before 
I can pop it in the wash to soften it up even more.   

Don't you LOVE that feeling of finishing something up?   

And the excitement of thinking WHAT you get to make next!

(and if you need help deciding THERE....don't forget our 25% off sale at ShopLizzieB!  Enter the code JANSALE.  Sale ends next week, so make sure you stock up on everything you've been wanting!)

P.S. If you want to be a winner of fabulous prizes from Stitchin' Heaven, join in tonight for Talkin' Tuesday on Twitter!  Stitchin' Heaven is sponsoring tonight!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

WELCOME 2011!

It's here, can you believe it?


....or as everyone is putting it today....


1-1-11

The first day of a new year.  How will you spend it?  What's in store for us all this year?  

Not sure what the answers are to those, but I'll tell you one thing....

It's gonna be a GREAT YEAR!
no...
FANTASTIC
no...
FABULOUS
no...
OUTRAGEOUS
no...
UNBELIEVABLE

Okay, okay...how about ALL OF THE ABOVE???


Because honestly....


or your YEAR!  Isn't that so true?

So how did you all ring in the new year?  I was at a very FUN, fast paced TWITTER party hosted by 

And the BEST part was....I was in my jammies!  Yep.  Ice cold Diet Coke in a festive glass in one hand, and my phone in the other with the Twitter app a'hoppin'!


Stitchin' Heaven were FANTABULOUS hostesses!  Amid ALL the chatter, twitter, tweets...whatever,  goin' on, they were busy handing out prizes.  And SO many fun prizes!
The chatter started at 11pm and I was "at the party" until nearly 3am!  
(I think my DH was seriously wondering if my "quilt party" was just a cover and that I'd found a new "friend" online!  LOL!)

Of course I DID find a new friend....LOTS of new friends!  This morning my inbox was FILLED with new friends on Twitter.  How FUN!

Oh, and guess who won a prize?

ME!

I NEVER win prizes! 
(Probably because I'm usually the one giving them away, I think.)

But how EXCITING it is to WIN!

And what were my winnings?  Not sure, EXACTLY, but it seems to be a bundle of flannel from 


I'll take it, I'll take it!

And when it comes, I'll take photos and share!  And then MAKE something out of it and take MORE photos.  How does that sound?

I'll tell you ONE thing....what a GREAT way to kick off the NEW YEAR!  

And while I'm still mulling over certain things I might like to turn into Resolutions this year...(sometimes I think that's a dirty word...resolutions...ugh!)

I HAVE picked out my motto for the year, taken from one of my all time favorite's....



May we all laugh, be strong, happy and pretty in 2011.  
And may every tomorrow be a day of miracles.

Cheers!
The Lizzie B's