Blog Hop Day 7

Hello, welcome to day 7 of the Cross Country Quilt Designer Blog Hop. My goodness the days are just flying by.

Kari Carr from New Leaf Stitches is the featured designer for the day.

I can't wait to see what she has designed. Hop on over and check it out.

Topic for today is: Decoration/ornament, something you love/loved or were given.

Waaaay back when before I designed greeting cards, patterns or fabric I designed and sold finished craft items to a few shops in our area. The Cottage in Ft. Dodge Iowa (a fabulous shop but no longer in business) and The Hen House in Spencer, Iowa - still in business. I did this "crafting" in the basement of our very old, cold and damp unfinished basement. Daughter Abby spent a lot of time sitting beside me while I made my products.

I made dozens and dozens of these little cuties.
Wood and calico.
It was the thing back then.

When Abby was about 10 years old she made this Santa all by herself.

I can still remember her drawing the pattern free hand on unprinted newspaper.

She hadn't quite grasped the concept of right sides together, stitch and turn.
I don't know if you can see in the picture
but she used a stapler to attach all of the various body parts together.
(Click on picture to enlarge.)



Now there's a face you gotta love.
She drew it with color crayons.


Abby's Santa has some neck issues - it is unable to support Santa's head.
He always has to sit in front of my little red cubby
so I can tack his hat to the cubby.

Every year I display this Santa with the rest of my Santas. Each Santa is special in a different way. Someday I will re-gift him back to Abby.

Although I do not do a lot of Santa dolls, (that is my sister's specialty) I have designed several Santa quilt patterns over my 15 years of designing.
Here are just a few.

#192 Santa's Christmas Card.

This pattern was designed in 2001

and it is still one of my best selling patterns.

Second only to #230 Trees Up! Lights On!

#155 All Things Christmas

#195 1890 Santa
I use this as a rug in my living room at Christmas time.

Now hop on along to the other designer's blogs to see what ornament or gift has found a special place in their heart.
GE Designs, Pieces of My Heart, Atkinson Designs, Pat Sloan, Anka's Treasures,
Pam Kitty Morning, New Leaf Stitches, Whimsicals, This 'N' That, Miss Rosies,Rosebud's Cottage, Linda Lum DeBono

Tomorrow Day 8 Terri from Whimsicals will be the featured designer.

Make sure you stop by her blog. Don't forget to leave a comment.

The topic for tomorrow is: First Christmas on your own.

Happy Hopping,

From my heart,

Sandy

The Designer Is?

The winner of our "Guess the Designer" contest is: Vickie E. More people than Vickie guessed right so I went to random.org to pick a winner.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the fun.
We designers also had a little contest amongst ourselves.
I only had 4 correct answers. :(
Hop on along to each of the designer's blog to see how many you guessed correctly.

And the designer is:
Roseanne from Rosebud's Cottage.

The winner will receive a little bundle of fat quarters

from my Frolic line, to be released in January.
Hop on along to each of the designer's blogs to

see how many you guessed correctly.

And this little "angel" was me. :)

Check in tomorrow, Monday November, 9th as we officially start the 12 Days of Christmas Cross Country Blog Hop.

Gudrun of GE Designs is tomorrow's featured designer. She will have free project posted on her blog. Check it out at: http://www.gudrun.typepad.com/

The topic for the day will be - a childhood memory from the holidays. All 12 designers will be blogging about this topic so be sure to check each designers blog.

Tuesday I will be the featured designer. My project will be a small table mat.

Be sure to tell all of your friends about this event. Blog followers will not only get 12 free projects (one a day), but you can be eligible for the grand prize.

If you comment on all 12 blogs, you will be entered in a drawing for the following gift bags, filled with fabulous quilting goodies from all of us:

GE Designs, Pieces of My Heart, Atkinson Designs, Pat Sloan, Anka's Treasures,

Pam Kitty Morning, New Leaf Stitches, Whimsicals, This 'N' That, Miss Rosies,

Rosebud's Cottage, Linda Lum DeBono.

1st Prize A gift bag worth $250
2nd Prize A gift bag worth $70
3rd Prize A gift bag worth $40

Many of us will also be having individual prize drawings so there will be many chances to win. See you tomorrow!!

From my heart,

Sandy

Quilt Designer Blog Hop

I am very excited to be participating in my first Blog Hop!

Myself and the eleven designers listed below will be participating in a
12 Days of Christmas blog hop which officially starts November 9th
and ends 12 days (of coarse) later on November 20th.

Each day we will all blog about a different topic. Each designer will have a project posted on her designated day.

Mine is the 2nd day of Christmas which will be Tuesday November 10th. Topic for that day is: Special food/cookie you made as a kid or was a tradition, plus a recipe.



However, to get the fun started we will be having a "Guess the Designer From Their Baby Picture" contest. On Wednesday, November 4th each of the 12 participating designers will post a baby picture of a designer (someone other than themselves) on their blog. You will have until Saturday November 7th to make your guess as to who is who. So on Wednesday hop on along from blog to blog to check out each picture.

At the end of the twelve days there will be a grand prize drawn randomly from all of the people who commented on each of the 12 designer's blogs.

You must comment on all 12 blogs to be eligible for the Grand Prize worth $360.00.

(That is pretty grand!)

Here are the participating designers and their given date:

Nov. 9th. Gudrun from GE Designs: http://www.gudrun.typepad.com/
Nov. 10th. Sandy from Pieces from my Heart : http://www.piecesfrommyheart-sgervais.blogspot.com/
Nov. 11th. Terry from Atkinson Designs : http://www.terryatkinson.typepad.com/
Nov. 12th. Pat from Pat Sloan & Co.: http://www.patsloan.typepad.com/
Nov. 13th. Heather from Anka's Treasures : http://www.ankastreasures.wordpress.com/
Nov. 14th. Pam from Pam Kitty Morning : www.pamkittymorning.blogspot.com
Nov. 15th. Kari from New Leaf Stitches : www.newleafstitches.com/blog
Nov. 16th. Terri from Whimsicals : http://www.whimsicals.typepad.com/
Nov. 17th. Sherri from This 'N' That http://www.thisandthatpatterns.typepad.com/
Nov. 18th. Carrie from Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. http://www.lavieenrosie.typepad.com/
Nov. 19th. Roseann from Rosebud's Cottage. http://www.rosebudscottage.typepad.com/
Nov. 20th. Linda from Linda Lum DeBono http://www.lindalumdebono.blogspot.com/



Come join the fun.

From my heart,

Sandy