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I'm so excited to be joining a Blog Growing Party! I can't wait to meet new bloggers and share in eachothers stories!

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Blackboard Fabric

Working with Blackboard fabric is very easy. We didn't need a Teflon foot or any special needles and they went through my Accuquilt cutter like butter.

The sewing girls made mug rugs and pillows and chalkboards for their mothers for Christmas presents. Don't they look so cute?

They added pockets to these chalkboards to hold the sponge and chalk. 

You can write anything you want on them with chalk and wipe it off with a damp sponge.  They just sewed a little bit of elastic to hold the chalk on these ones, by folding the elastic in half and catching it underneath at the same time as they zig zagged the blackboard fabric down all the way around.

This, new to us, fabric was really fun to play around with and I've seen many more applications surfacing on the internet. So If you were wondering about it, I'd say yes, have a go at it. It's fun!

Labels Labels Labels

 Well our left over Labels are not good anymore if they had the year of your quilt on them, It's time to make new ones!  I make all different kinds and I've been taught by many about how they make theirs. 
I get asked, often, about how I make my Labels so I thought I would show some and tell you about my 'go to' one that I make. 

 I used a paper-backed fabric that I can run through my printer and I printed my blogname on it and my actual name and the year. As you can see in the first picture (top right).
I do a zigzag stitch on each side and fold it in half, and iron.....

When I'm putting on my binding I put the raw edges of it even with the raw edge of the back of my quilt and proceed to sew my binding on as usual from the front first and then fold over to the back where this label will be.....Where on the back of the quilt do I put my label you ask? The bottom right on the side usually, but that's only because I always start my binding on the right side front so I just put it there to get the finaggling over with.

 This Appliqued Bumblebee was designed by: Lori Holt...I was part of her QAL in 2013. 

 This is a business card that we will hopefully be making a label for....One of my Sewing Girls (12yr. old) designed this for herself for she has big plans of becoming an Entrepeneur of Sewing and Crafting.

 This Label was made with my sewing machine and it's lettering capabilities....Be sure to back it with some stabalizer first....Make plenty and just tightly zigzag around the edges and applique it on....So Fun.

 This Label was right smack dab on the front of the quilt because it was actually one of the 12 embroidered blocks in the quilt. Isn't that Super Cool? 

And then you can totally just take one of the blocks from the front of your quilt and make an extra one...I stitched these with thread but you could type your story on a square like I talked about. And just like this one below. 

The complete story is typed on this one it just has alot of people's names on it so I didn't want to publish them. 

 So tell me which one or technique is your favorite of the one's that I did, And please please tell me how you do yours if you have a favorite way.

Because Label we must, so be diligent and try your best. Our future will thank us.

Small blog meeting

Lily's Quilts has a monthly Blogmeet, Isn't that just nice! We small bloggers can go meet and join others in this Wonderful Blogworld. Thank you Lynne! 

Now, if you are a small blogger you may join in the fun too. Just grab her badge, then submit your link on her blog.  Post on your blog about this nifty meeting. I've got a badge to the right there too.

Sewing room Christmas tree

My mom sent me a picture on Pinterest of a Sewing room Christmas tree. When I brought the tree into the room my sewing girls went crazy decorating it. I showed them the pinned picture and away they went~ There are bobbins and buttons, thread spools and thimbles. A tape measure is draped around for garland and even little sewing elves!

In the background is a cross stitch that I did a long time ago. Cross stitch is the first craft that I learned how to do around 30 years ago. I still enjoy it very much.  

The little sewing machine and table is a music box that was gifted to me by one of my girls.  It's really precious to me, and I love winding it up and listening to it all the time.  The thimble ladies are pretty cute too.....

Well of course I have more up and coming sewing girls to try their hand at decorating this little sewing corner, so hopefully we'll get lots more decorations to show you and enjoy. 

Inspiration for my sewing girls

Well this was super easy from Willow Bend Creations.  I think I can print this right onto my steam a seam....I traced this one onto it and then ironed it onto my batik fabric and cut it out......Im hoping the girls might think they would like to try something like this...You don't have to stitch it down if you dont want to. I think next time I'll hand applique it onto my background fabric after I iron it on.  The people at Willow Bend Creations were really nice to deal with. Give it a try, they have all different kinds, western, fairies, mountains, fishing, you name it.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

The sewing girls created these Turkey Crayon Holders

this week.  Aren't they adorable? You can get the pattern from here. They were quite easy and the girls were so happy to get to coloring.

 We had Pudding cups that day to gobble. 

 I wish I could be at all the girls' Thanksgiving tables to color and eat with them. Being with the ones we love and giving thanks to the Lord for all of our Blessings is the best!