Blog Hop, a Giveaway and Thankful Thursday # 7

Hi Friends
Today is a busy day for me. Well the past few days have been busy for me and with much more to do I don't see any down time in my future. Before I get to Thankful Thursday I want to tell you about the blog hop.

Michele over at Quilting Gallery has organized a Blog Hop. Everyone who is participating is also having a giveaway on their blogs. You can find the list HERE 

The "Hop" starts today November 21 and runs until November 26th so I hope you hop on over and visit some of the other blogs. Who knows you might even win something!

Now on to Thankful Thursday

Today I am thankful for food and shelter and basic things that we all take for granted everyday. This week I have the pleasure of making two green bean casseroles to take to my church and they in turn will add a turkey and trimming and deliver them to needy families in our community. 

You see as long as I can remember when I lived at home with my parents and ever sense my husband and I got married. I can never ever remember doing without. I have done without the things maybe that I wanted but never the things I needed.

So for that I am very Thankful! So if you would like tell me something you are thankful for this week.

So here are some better pictures of the quilt top that I finished the other day. The one I said I was going to give to my mom to quilt because I was so tired of looking at it.

I got a chance to take some pictures outside. I really like the way my quilts look outside. The only thing wrong with these pictures right now is that everything is brown. That is Florida living for you we go straight from green to brown here.

O.K. on to the part of why you are here the giveaway. I have always loved the mother/daughter duo of Bonnie & Camille. 

Camille Roskelley has just put out a new pattern and I ordered one. Well two actually. It is called round & round and the first place I really noticed it was on instagram. They were tagging or hash tagging (#) the blocks #roundandroundalong

Well I just fell in love with them so I decided I would buy the pattern and try my very own. If you don't win the pattern here you can buy it from Camille at here website HERE or you can check at your local quilt shop.

Here is how to enter to win this pattern.

 You must first be a follower of my blog. You can follow on Google+, Bloglovin, Feedly, or Feedspot. 
Comment and tell me what you are most Thankful for right now. That's it and you will be entered to win the Round & Round pattern. (Please comment only one time and make sure you are not a non-reply blogger or you can also leave your email address in with your comment)

I hope you all have fun hopping around blog land and thanks for stopping by here to visit with me and share what you are Thankful for. 
Have a great weekend!

Hugs and best stitches to you,

a.k.a. Mrs. Sew & Sew

Verse for Sunday

I hope you all have a great week!

Hugs and best stitches to you,
Michelle
a.k.a. Mrs. Sew & Sew

Verse for Sunday

This is a verse that I printed out on a card and is taped to my bathroom mirror. I have to remind myself of this all the time.

Have a great week!

Hugs and best stitches to you,
Michelle
a.k.a. Mrs. Sew & Sew

Thankful Thursday #5

Hi Friends 

Today is Thankful Thursday.

Today I am thankful for rest and God's beauty that he has created for us to look at. I am resting from my vacation and from working on our project of the shop/quilt studio. Let me just say I am going to try to get some things sewn up but this is my busy time of year so we shall see. (fingers crossed) 

What are you thankful for this week?

Hugs and best stitches to you,

a.k.a. Mrs. Sew & Sew

Verse for Sunday

I hope you have a great week!
Hugs and best stitches to you,
Michelle
a.k.a. Mrs. Sew & Sew

Hello I'm still here...

Well kind of...
We are still on vacation in Maggie Valley, NC and have decided to stay another day we love it here. Hope you all are well and quilting for me too. LOL

Hugs and best stitches to you,
Michelle
a.k.a. Mrs. Sew & Sew

Vintage Sheet Quilt FINISH!

Well I did get a quilt finished this week. I didn't think it was going to happen but I just had to finish it. We are taking our vacation Tomorrow!!! I need to take this quilt with me because we are going to the mountains and I am told it will be a lot colder than down here in the sunshine state! 

Believe me we need a vacation after working on my husbands new shop and my new quilt studio. Woo Hoo Yes you read that right he is putting me a NEW quilt studio in his new shop. I am beyond exited!! It will take us some time because we are doing most of the work ourselves. But I have no doubt it will happen. So here is a picture tutorial of what I have been up to.

This is such a soft quilt I am in love with it. If you follow me on instagram you know my husband is too. LOL

I love this sheet that I bound it with. I did have to cut it on the bias to get it to look this way.

I used one of my many decorative stitches on my machine on the binding. I plan to use this quilt a lot so I turned the binding to the front and stitched it down.

I made my own label. I found this method on Pintrest you can see it on my board labeled crafts HERE

Sorry this picture is blurry it is the back of the label. 

This is the back of the quilt with this beautiful daisy sheet.

Now I will show you what else we have been doing.

This is Darren's little shop before.

We had someone remove the siding.

We hired a contractor to put a pole barn over the shop he has to much equipment to store anywhere else.

The contractor is done now it's our turn.

This is the end my studio will be on.

All framed up for the concrete. 

We got most of the medal siding on.

Again this is the end my Quilt Studio will be on. Above where I will park my car. Now you can see why I am ready for my vacation!

I will try to keep you all in the loop this week with our vacation but the best way to follow along is on instagram. 

Linking up with:

Meg and Heather for Fabric Tuesday @ Quilt Story

Hugs and best stitches to you,

a.k.a. Mrs. Sew & Sew