UPDATE! New winner of Grandma's Lawn Chair pattern

Hi everyone! A short and sweet update. I never heard back from the original winner of the Grandma's Lawn Chair pattern from the recent blog hop.

So I had the Random Number generator redraw and the lucky winner is.....

drum roll please...

 

 

Congrats Janet! Thanks for stopping by I will be emailing your a PDF copy of the pattern. I would love to see what you make with it!

 

Happy Stitching!

Ginny

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back to School Blog Hop

Hi Everyone and Happy Sunday!

I wanted to tell you about a new Blog Hop that's happening right now. It is Ellison Lane's Back to School series.  Jennifer has lined up a great bunch of bloggers and projects for her Back To School Series. Have you checked it out? Lot's of great tutorials for handy items! Not just for kids either- lots of things for grown ups too! So stop over and check it out!

Here is the line up, I am guest hosting on 9/27, so please stop by and say Hi! I will have a great little tutorial on something that is so handy and so easy to sew up, you will be able to make several!  But today please stop by Ellison Lane and check out the adorable Pencil Pouch from Sarah
and yesterdays great Lunch Bag tutorial by my friend Lee!

9/21 - May Chappell (lunch bag pattern/tutorial)

9/22 - Fairy Face Designs (pencil pouch tutorial)

9/23 - Love By Hand

9/24 - Owen’s Olivia

9/25 - Clover and Violet

9/26 - Between Quilts

9/27 - Fish Creek Studio

9/28 – Ellison Lane

 

 

 

Happy Stitching! Ginny

 

Grandma's Lawn Chair Pattern Winner

It has been a hectic week here, both at work and personally! We are starting our "busy season" at work and on the home front, my youngest son just purchased his first home - very exciting! In between I did manage quite a bit of sewing but that is for tomorrow's post!

Did you see? I was so excited!! My version of Grandma's Lawn Chair was picked up and posted on the Aurifil Facebook page! I do love Aurifil thread and use it for piecing and quilting! And it was so exciting to see the link for Katie's 100 Quilts for Kids in this post! This quilt is being donated locally as part of Katie's charity drive. Have you made your's yet?

 

Thanks for the screen shot Diane! I really do need to learn more about how to do all of that!

I hope you are enjoying the blog hop with Diane's new pattern. If you missed it here is the schedule:

Mon 9th - Diane @ from blank pages...
Tues 10th - Julie @ Jolie Maxtin
Wed 11th - Ginny @ Fishcreek Studio
Thurs 12th - Kelleigh - guest blogging at from blank pages...
Fri 13th - Sara @ Sew Sweetness

Mon 16th , Diane @ from blank pages...
Tues 17th - Hilary @ Young Texan Mama
Wed 18th - Mike @ The Amateur Quilter
Thurs 19th - Rachael @ imagine gnats
Fri 20th - Courtney @ Mon Petite Lyons

Mon 23rd - Jamie @ Sunflower Seeds
Tues 24th - Alyce @ Blossom Heart Quilts
Wed 25th - Krista @ Spotted Stones
Thurs 26th - Cristy @ Sew Much Like Mom
Fri 27th - Diane @ from blank pages...

Lot's of fun and quilts to make you go ohhhh...
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And if that wasn't enough Diane also has great ideas for all the different ways you can lay this pattern out with diagrams on her blog! Amazing what you can do just by changing the color placement!

So without further delay here is the winner of the PDF pattern:

I will be contacting you by email with your new pattern!

***EDIT*** ThirdMargaret please contact me no later than Sunday night at 8pm Eastern for your winning pattern.  I do not have an email address for you. My email link is in my profile.If I do not hear back from you by Sunday at 8pm I will redraw and a new winner will be announced***

Thanks for stopping by and be sure and stop by tomorrow for some sewing updates!

Happy stitiching!
Ginny

Grandma's Lawn Chair Pattern and Blog Hop

Hi Everyone and Welcome to my stop on the Grandma's Lawn Chair Pattern Blog Hop!

This pattern is from the lovely and talented Diane Bohn who blogs over at fromblankpages    This is her first quilt pattern and I was lucky enough to be able to test the pattern for her - and Wow! I am so excited to share my results with you! And offer you a great giveaway!

 

Welcome to September with a New Pattern and Blog Hop!

Welcome to September! Wow the summer sure seemed to fly by! I hope it was a good one for you and your family - it was here in Indiana!

September is National Sewing Month and what better way to celebrate than with a new pattern?

Diane Bohn who blogs over at from blank pages has written and published her first quilt pattern titled Grandma's Lawn Chair. I was lucky enough to be one of her pattern testers! And so glad that I was- this is a great pattern! It is easy, fun and fast! I am so happy with the results - although I must say - I don't think my Grandma ever had a lawn chair like this! Just sayin'......

To celebrate and introduce her new pattern, she is having a blog hop! There are some amazing people on this blog hop and I'm so excited to be included and see all the wonderful quilts made from this great pattern! It begins on Monday September 9th.

Here's the line up:

Mon 9th - Diane @ from blank pages...
Tues 10th - Julie @ Jolie Maxtin
Wed 11th - Ginny @ Fishcreek Studio
Thurs 12th - Kelleigh - guest blogging at from blank pages
Fri 13th - Sara @ Sew Sweetness

Mon 16th , Diane @ from blank pages...
Tues 17th - Hilary @ Young Texan Mama
Wed 18th - Mike @ The Amateur Quilter
Thurs 19th - Rachael @ imagine gnats
Fri 20th - Courtney @ Mon Petite Lyons

Mon 23rd - Jamie @ Sunflower Seeds
Tues 24th - Alyce @ Blossom Heart Quilts
Wed 25th - Krista @ Spotted Stones
Thurs 26th - Cristy @ Sew Much Like Mom
Fri 27th - Diane @ from blank pages...

The best news about this, everyone will be offering up a free PDF copy of the quilt pattern to one of their readers, on their stop of the blog hop! That is 13 chances for you win a free copy of your own! So make plans to stop back on my day - Wednesday, September 11th for a chance to win and be sure and visit each blog and take a look at the gorgeous quilts and enter for additional chances to win the pattern!

Today is Labor Day in the US - so if you are home for the holiday, enjoy a few hours of stitching, or an old movie, or a great book, or laughs and giggles with the family - you've earned it!

Happy Stitching!

Ginny

Finally Finished!

Finally finished! I started this quilt and made the blocks last year after finding out a coworker had been diagnosed with cancer.

I found out that these are the colors in her house. Once the blocks were made I hesitated because they are not the typical color palette that I would choose. I did not like them together and could not see the finished quilt in my mind.  It was so hard to continue on with the project!! Have you had this experience?

Modern Mini Quilt Challenge with Ellison Lane

Hi Everyone! Yes, I know it has been a bit since I have had a blog post! But I have been sewing up a storm! Check out my Flickr stream to see what I have been up to! Lots of goodies - blocks, pillows, swaps! Also you can follow me on Instagram also-@fishcreekstudio. It's a little bit more "in the making" vs. the polished "finished product." I would love to see you! And I do plan on continuing to blog also!

Have you heard about Jennifer's Modern Mini Quilt Challenge over at Ellison Lane Quilts? There has been a blog hop the past week with lots of great mini's and there is still time to get your entry in! 

Here is my entry! It is my Schoenrock Cross Pillow from the SewSewModern swap that just ended!

 Front of pillow is paper pieced using the Schoenrock Cross pattern from Quilters Cache. I have been wanting to make this pattern forever! And I am so happy I did - while the block is 14in I added borders and  the pillow is 20in x20in.

                 Covered zipper back- Love it! I love this fabric-my thought was "from my home to yours."
                                  I used Svetlana's tutorial - amazingly easy! You can find it here.

                                               Close up of the chunky hand stitching and fabrics.

    TIP: This is the inside front cover of the pillow. Use plain muslin as the backing of your quilt sandwich. It prevents your batting from sticking to your pillow form or stuffing; and when the pillow cover is taken off and washed it provides stability for all your piecing and hand stitching. You can see all the hand stitching/quilting design really well here.

So hop on over to Jennifer's and check out all the quilty goodness and don't forget to link up a project of your own!

 

Happy Stitching! Ginny