My state Fair Report

Every year I enter the Utah State fair.

This is my report on how I did this year.

I only entered seven things this year into the state fair.

I say only because I have been known to enter like twenty things before.

The problem with why so few is because Lala and Baby Sister

 are close to being in the same size category.

Also I was a bit lazy this year and didn't make Easter dresses.

I entered the girls Christmas dresses and Gowyn's skirt.

They all won blue ribbons.

 Lala's baptism dress 

Won a blue ribbon.

Her Other dress however got a red ribbon or a second place.

I was not at all happy about it.

I did in fact yell at the top of my lungs upon entering the building,

and seeing this perfect dress with a red ribbon hanging from it.

"How could that dress get a second place"

Good Looking had to calm me down.

It's true.

I only entered one costume in the fair this year.

It was Lala's Belle costume.

It took a third place ribbon.

It lost to another Belle costume.

I still think mine was better.

I only entered one quilt and it was this one that I made with Grandma Kath.

It got NOTHING, not even an honorable mention.

I know that I am new to quilting and this is a tough category,

 but come on throw me a bone or something.

I have said this before and it is true.

"I never thought of myself as a competitive person until I entered the state fair."

I know that I take it way to personally, but still a second place on Lala's dress.

Are they crazy? 

Did they not get enough sleep the night before?

OK

 OK

 I will let it go.

The four blue ribbons that I got,

 did bring me up to over fifty blue ribbons.

I guess I should look at the bright side. 

Have you ever entered the fair?

What is your ribbon count?

I thought you might like a little inspiration on this fine summer day.

Yes I know that they are Christmas stockings, and that the need for super cute

Christmas stockings is months away. 

I did make this very nice tutorial for you to make some of your own.

I am also currently having a Christmas fabric swap going on right now.

That way you can make these very cute stockings.

I had so much fun with this swap last year, and I know you would too.

At the present moment I have a grand total of

 three people signed up for my swap. 

I need at least twenty people to have a swap.

So that means that I need to have seventeen more people to sign up.

Here is the link to the sign up page.

Click there, put in your name, and go shopping.

I promise you will not regret it.

Have a fabulous weekend.

Christmas in July

Have you heard about this party going on?

I thought it would be so much fun to play along.

You may remember this post.

I did have my swap, and I did get my fabrics.

 They were adorable and just what I needed.

The only problem was that it was only 200 fabrics.

I know one would think that would be enough.

For a normal person that would be enough.

My quilt however requires 525 circles.

I really wanted 525 different circles.

I did finally start making my circles.

Aren't they adorable.

I made them this past week while on vacation.

They were used as the poker chips.

I hear that the red ones were worth the least, and the blue the most.

I finished the last of the circles last night.

I was at the hospital with Good Looking.

He thought it might be fun to throw out his back 10 days ago.

Since it wasn't getting any better we spent eight hours at the ER.

Good times....good times.

He has two, not one but two blown disks.

The good news is that the last of the circles are done.

They are air drying on the deck.

It shouldn't take long since it is 95 degrees outside.

I sprayed them with the homemade starch

It was faster then painting them with the starch, and worked fabulous.

One of my favorites, because with a name like Robyn...

I know you want some for yourself.

You may not have a need for 525 circles but you know you want

at least 200 4" squares.

The rules are as follows

Go to the store, or to your stash and get 10 Christmas fabrics

You will need 1/4 yard or a fat quarter of each one.

Cut them up into 20 4" squares.

I provided you with a tutorial here.

Show your love for me by sorting them into twenty separate piles.

Although I love doing these swaps, I do not love touching 2,000 separate pieces of fabric.

Place your precious cargo into a self addressed stamped envelope.

Send it to me, I will shuffle them around, 

and send you back 200 different fabrics for all of your Christmas crafting needs.

I know you want to do it.

Here is the link to the sign up page.

Click on it, leave your name and email, and I will send you more detailed info.

I am hoping that we can have more then one swap, so tell your friends and family.

I hope you have a great day.

Amy's Blogger Quilt Festival Entry

Are you playing along with Amy?
I thought I would share my Christmas quilts that Grandma Kath and I made.
Here is the story of how they came to be.

Last year I found out about Monica of The Happy Zombie.

I love her, her posts are so funny, and she knows her stuff.

Not to mention how CUTE her fabrics are.

Last year she posted her quilt called Rectangle Reverie.

I fell in love with it, I had been buying red and white Christmas fabric for years.

Every year I would go the Joann's and get whatever red and white fabric they had.

When I saw Monica's quilt I knew that I was finally going to put my collection to good use.

At this same time Grandma Kath wanted to make quilts for her daughter's.

She has never made a quilt and wanted to learn how.

I figured that this would be an easy one, with no corner's to match.

Since the pattern calls for ten fat quarters, and I had ten half yard pieces,

we made two red ones. Then headed down to our friendly neighborhood Joann's.

When we got there we found all the Christmas fabrics on sale 90% off,

add with Kath's teacher discount, are you kidding me!!!  

Kath liked the Debbie Mum's best, so that is what we got for the other two.

Did you want to see?

This one is mine, how cute is it!

Here is the back

My little back patch with all the fabrics from the front.

I love it and can't wait to make some more.

Here is the quilting, Picnik didn't like my pictures this morning, so I couldn't highlight it.

The red ones got snow flakes.

The Debbie Mum's got holly berries and stuff.

I am so happy with how they turned out.

Go on over to Amy's blog and see what everyone's been up to.