simple dreams - - GIVE AWAY

I am finishing up a couple custom orders and decided to clean out my two shops and will be having a giveaway on January 1st. Just leave a comment on which item you would love to receive. I'll be giving away one item on January 1st and plan on doing this once a month as a way to clean, organize and share with others.........enjoy, Lisa

vintage mercantile

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21644375

simple dream2

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17241194

Click on the links for more descriptions. Leave a comment and I'll choose one on 1/1/10. Check back again as I plan to have a giveaway the beginning of each month. This is open to US residents as I can offer FREE postage with the giveaway. If you would like to enter as international please leave a comment and if you are chosen we'll work out the postage.

Lisa

Here's the vintage floral table cloth.

Vintage floral backed by green plaid.

The side zipper make for easy cleaning.

I just love this look - -

green plaid with floral star held on with twine.

If you choose not to use the star for the pillow

it makes for a great candle mat.

Doesn't the plaid side of the star

change the look of the floral side?

Here's the plaid side as a candle mat.

This pillow is now listed in my shop

simpledream2.etsy.com

I have enough of 1,2 and 4 to make more covers.

There's enough of 3 to make only "one" more cover.

projects waiting to happen...............

Take a vintage curtain panel, vintage table cloth and add some plaid gabardine and you get.........
You'll have to go to simpledream2.etsy.com to find out.

Greta's quilt

I've made another abi23 quilt, for Greta. Hope she likes it.

We're back to my favorite season - - Fall. My garden didn't produce the pumpkins that I would have liked. My son found that our (his) puppy was digging up the plants and gnawing on the baby pumpkins. So I made my own.

Goin' to the country, goin' to the fair..........

I have so neglected my blog. Never did get around to posting the photos from the Country Living Event. Will have to do that SOON. Right now I am finishing up some things so that my son and I can set up at the Bakers Creek event on Sunday. Even made this banner for the canopy with my Etsy shop name. It turned out rather nice.
My son Ian, and I worked on this bike bag, he picked some of my vintage double knit polyester and some vintage trim. Looks cute doesn't it? It's currently listed in my other Etsy shop - Vintage Mercantile http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27714545

Off to Bakers Creek http://streetsofbakersville.com/2009/hd/ . But I have to make a homespun apron because period dressing is required. I'll try to remember to bring my camera and get some photos and actually post this time. Check back...............

On to Chicago and Country Living................

Here is abi23 quilt. The original - - It has been sold and I've since sold another. The one that I will be bringing with me is one that I made as a gift, and am borrowing to take to the show.


This "forest" quilt has been sold and the buyer has been gracious enough to wait for shipment as I feature it at Country Living.

What to do with all those vintage linens I keep buying? Make a quilt...this is the yellow/green one. I have enough fabric to make several more of this color range and have pinks/green and yellow/browns also cut and ready to go.
This particular yellow/blue is made from two pieces of fabric that a friend, Patricia, gave me "to do something with", she had bought it some time ago to make curtains for a home that she has since moved from. As soon as I saw the fabric I knew it would make a darling quilt and added a couple pieces of my own to the back and here's what you get.

This is the stash of quilts I am taking with me to "Pitch" at Country Living. The last two quilts were made for my twin sons as lap quilts, which started this whole obsession of making quilts. Well, actually my Grandma Lena White was the one that inspired me. She was a quilt maker for many years and I have a picture hanging in my sewing room of her, when she was 51, sitting at her quilting frame handstitching a dresden plate quilt. I'm not too far from 51.......and will stick with my machine quilting. I have tried my hand at free motion quilting, on the last three quilts, one was recently given as a gift and I would not ask to take with me. I just LOVE free motion quilting..I am hooked.

Almost as exciting as attending the Country Living Event is the fun I will have the next week shopping all my old stomping grounds, thrift stores, in Chicago with very dear friends. I'm sure that I'll come back with more fabric and trims.

So much for making quilts to destash...........