Nook Tablet and Handmade Cover

My DH very generously presented me with a Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet for Christmas.

I found a pattern by Birdiful Stitches on etsy for a Padded e-Reader Cover.

Of course I used my favorite colors Scarlet and Gray!!!

It went together pretty easily a few hours.

It has 3 pockets inside.

My blog and Garfield look pretty good on the Nook Tablet!

Christmas is a Cakewalk and Vote!

I have enterd my Cakewalk quilt in the Quilting Gallery's Christmas Quilts contest.  You have the weekend to vote for up to 7 of your favorite quilts!

This is a pattern I tested for Barbara Chojnacki of Six Gables Designs back in the spring. The majority of the fabric is Robert Kaufman Holiday Flourish 3 by Peggy Toole. It's beautiful holiday fabric with gold embossing to give it a very rich look!!

I used EQ7 to help me to decide the fabric choices.

And Garfield tested it for softness!!

 

Christmas Tablerunners and Vote

I have entered a tablerunner in the Quilting Gallery's Christmas table runners contest you still have a couple hours to vote for your favorite.

In June of 2010 I started volunteering as a pattern tester. It gives me an opportunity to perfect my skills and create items from patterns that I might not have purchased.

 

This is the first pattern I tested, it was a tablerunner called Every Day's A Holiday An Artful Table Runner. She sent me the fabric, Benartex Noel, pattern and a return envelope. I tested this pattern for Sarah Whitney at Quilt Patterns from Sweet Clover Canyon. I used e-mail to communicate with her and send her comments on the pattern. Upon completion I sent her the table runner and a picture. She used my name in the pattern as one of her testers.

The Devil's Puzzle by Clare O'Donohue

I have always loved to read and the chance to combine two of my favorite topics, quilting and murder mysteries, sold me on Clare's A Someday Quilts Mystery series.

I'm part of the Quilting Gallery's Blog Hop with Giveaways, it runs from December 10th - 17th

 

If you would like to win this book do the following:



1. Become a Follower of this blog


2. Leave me a comment tellimg me if you will be giving
the book away or will it be a gift for yourself.

In addition to being an avid quilter, Clare O’Donohue is a freelance television writer and producer, who has worked on a variety of programs including HGTV’s Simply Quilts with Alex Anderson. She is still trying to use up the fabric she was given while working there.

Witchcraft in a small New England town typically harkens Salem, Massachusetts. However, amateur sleuth Nell Fitzgerald finds the upcoming anniversary of Archers Rest, New York drawing out the town’s own dark history of witchcraft, as well as that of its residents in THE DEVIL’S PUZZLE. Nell is thrilled when her grandmother Eleanor’s boyfriend plans a double surprise—restoring the rose garden of her old Victorian house, and a marriage proposal. However, Oliver’s plans are put on hold when a skeleton is unearthed in Eleanor’s backyard. Police Chief Jesse Dewalt launches an investigation, and for once, Nell vows to stay out of his way, instead focusing on organizing a historic quilt show as part of the town’s upcoming anniversary festivities. When clues lead to questions about Eleanor’s past, Nell is forced to uncover the truth. As the anniversary approaches, a chilling wave of vandalism strikes town hot spots, raising fears that witchcraft has returned, and revealing secrets that could change life in Archer’s Rest forever.

The Someday Quilts series includes The Lover’s Knot, A Drunkard’s Path, The Double Cross and The Devil’s Puzzle (Oct. 2011), and her Kate Conway series recently made its debut with Missing Persons. O’Donohue lives in Chicago, IL. Visit her website at clareodonohue.com and the Someday Quilts fan page on Facebook.