tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-143476452024-03-07T16:12:08.650-05:00susie's country gardensusiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-8959478254565476982013-05-06T09:00:00.000-04:002013-05-10T22:14:39.301-04:00sew mama sew giveaway day!------------GIVEAWAY CLOSED----------
Randomly chosen winner is #25 -
Melissa Graham
said...
My mom and I always wanted to visit Hawaii and Egypt. She didn't live
to see either place but I hope to someday at least make it to Hawaii
with my family.
Congratulations, Melissa! Hope you enjoy your pillow!
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Once again, Sew Mama Sew, susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com173tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-60410681645702310942012-11-07T16:17:00.000-05:002012-11-07T16:17:33.799-05:00handmade holidays::christmas stockingEach year for Christmas, I love giving handmade gifts to our children, friends and extended family. I thought it would be fun to show you what I'm making this year, and hopefully inspire you to give a little "handmade" this year, as well.
It seems as if the seasons come and go at much greater speed now that our children are getting older. Hard to believe the youngest is alreadysusiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-61919116362272232092011-07-26T09:14:00.006-04:002012-11-07T16:17:55.643-05:00custom fabric camera strap giveaway!
My friend, Trudy, over at Mulberry Lane Photography is hosting a giveaway that begins today! I am participating by giving one of my custom camera straps to the winner. Take a look at my etsy shop and see what I have to offer. I also have many other fabrics, so, if you are the winner, you can just let me know what you like and I can make it for you. So, go to Mulberry Lane to enter.
The susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-16655021240234390582011-07-26T08:03:00.010-04:002011-07-26T09:10:39.264-04:00after the tornado...Where do I begin? My last post was April 23, and I had every intention to begin posting more regularly. I had just finished the quilt I was raffling off to raise funds for our mission trip, and had left it in the quilt shop where I work so everyone could see it and donate to our cause. That was Wednesday, April 27. That morning I had gone in to work to print the raffle tickets and leave the susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-23251373316288795372011-04-23T22:21:00.006-04:002011-04-26T21:06:12.063-04:00a chance to win this beautiful quilt!This summer, my daughter, Elizabeth, and I will have the opportunity to travel with a group of 11 people from our church on a mission trip to the island of Eleuthera, Bahamas! We will be assisting a local church in outreach to their community through a children's Vacation Bible School. Our family has been involved in missions for many years, but this trip is especially exciting to me because susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-23577601952438339302010-01-03T21:55:00.004-05:002010-01-03T22:28:22.963-05:002009 coin quilt piece along quiltI got the inspiration for making this quilt from the Coin Quilt Group on flickr. It has been in the process now for the last several months and just last week, I decided to finish it up. So, on December 29, 2 days before the deadline, I completed my Coin Quilt Piece Along Quilt. I love it! The colors, the snow white sashing, everything about it.It turned out to be a pretty decent sized quilt,susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-59224333559803146972009-10-25T20:49:00.003-04:002009-10-25T20:56:43.476-04:00sweet giveaway at marie-madeline studioThe sweet ladies over at Marie-Madeline Studio are hosting a sweet giveaway for a gracie ruffle skirt sewing pattern + the fabric to make their gracie skirt!This is such a generous giveaway! I just entered and sure do hope to win! You should do the same!susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-71964897843637130802009-10-20T22:56:00.003-04:002009-10-21T09:54:38.662-04:00busy with quilts!I have been super busy working and sewing! I have completed several quilt tops and just need to quilt them. I did finish this sweet baby quilt back in the summer for a friend who had a baby girl. The flash on the camera really washed this one out, but it is so soft and perfect for a new little girl! It is called rosebuds and is from the book, Baby Love.I have also been busy on a zig zag quiltsusiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-30768652645733942622009-06-01T10:39:00.002-04:002009-06-01T10:47:11.059-04:00we have a winner!Congratulations to Terrie of Bits and Pieces who said:They're all wonderful but I'd go for the Heather Bailey red tiled primrose. Thanks for such a great giveaway!Your strap will be in the mail to you this week!Thanks so much to everyone who entered my giveaway! I found lots of new blogs to read and inspiration from you all. Thanks also to Sew Mama Sew for hosting the giveaway!susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-58030205391938555332009-05-31T22:51:00.001-04:002009-05-31T22:53:27.841-04:00giveaway ends tomorrow morning!I planned on closing the giveaway today at 12 midnight, but as I am going to bed now, I am extending it until tomorrow morning. So...you still have a few hours to enter!Stay tuned for a winner!susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-27251869669646946462009-05-26T22:23:00.002-04:002009-05-26T22:48:21.813-04:00Sew Mama Sew's May Giveaway DaySew Mama Sew is hosting another giveaway day at their blog beginning tomorrow at 9am. I just love giveaways, and plan on joining in. Since I will be busy getting kids to school and won't have time to post tomorrow morning, I am going to go ahead and begin my giveaway tonight!To win one of my custom camera straps, all you have to do is visit my etsy shop and browse through my items and let me susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com199tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-84882796108748704602009-05-18T07:42:00.002-04:002009-05-18T08:05:01.917-04:00lizzie's market totes :: now in the shopMy 14-year-old daughter has been working diligently to make these bags to raise money for an upcoming marching band trip to march in the Fiesta Bowl Parade in December. I promised her if they were up to my quality standards, I would list them in my etsy shop and let her sell them there. She has done an outstanding job and wanted to let you all know they are listed in my shop. I am helping her susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-55290098290885184752009-04-27T13:59:00.002-04:002009-04-27T14:03:44.929-04:00a new batch of camera straps :: finally finished!It has been a few weeks since I began these straps, and I finally finished them this morning. I kept looking at them on my work table and finally squeezed in the time to finish them this morning! I have begun listing them in my shop, and should finish this evening after picking up kids from school and dinner. I think these would make terrific Mother's Day gifts! I can also do completely susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-59672312779686803622009-04-26T17:00:00.003-04:002009-04-28T08:20:31.304-04:00Spring Top WeekRae over at "Made By Rae" is hosting "Spring Top Week" this week, April 27-May 1.The challenge is to make a Spring top and post photos of it to the Spring Top Week Sewalong Flickr pool. At the end of the week, one top will earn the title of the "Best Top".I, of course, love a good challenge, and plan on making at least one Spring top. Hopefully more! I have tons of great fabric -- now, just need susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-19572805505784777652009-04-03T17:24:00.005-04:002009-04-28T08:20:49.690-04:00what i've been sewing lately...This has been a busy week as we are getting ready to go to Waveland, Mississippi on a trip with our church to volunteer with still-ongoing relief efforts from Hurricane Katrina. This will be our 6th trip there, and we have come to love many of the families we have met! But, I have been working on a couple of things. It's hard to keep me from my sewing machine!One is this cute "layer cake apronsusiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-19211298471562313902009-03-30T12:23:00.002-04:002009-04-28T08:20:49.690-04:00ready to travel!I just completed a tutorial for this cute passport/travel purse and put it in my sidebar for downloading. A friend of mine is getting ready to go on a cruise, and I thought it would be perfect for stashing her passport, itinerary and her small point-and-shoot camera. It didn't take long at all to figure out, and because I had bought 3 fat quarters, I had plenty of scraps left over to make thesesusiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-10432633909372261952009-03-12T21:12:00.002-04:002009-04-28T08:20:49.690-04:00lauren's quilt :: one of eightI just finished my first real quilt from start to finish! I have made table runners, placemats and a lap quilt for my mother-in-law, but nothing as big as this! This quilt is for my oldest daughter, who turns 22 in May! I had hoped to make it and give it to her earlier, but, I just got a sewing machine that could handle the machine quilting. It is the "Turning 20" pattern and was super easy tosusiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-25898518188121083852009-02-26T13:29:00.003-05:002009-04-28T08:20:49.690-04:00mountain baby blanketsI was so excited yesterday to "happen" upon Rachel's blog, rachelcoxdesigns. Rachel is a single mom who watched Diane Sawyer's "A Hidden America" a couple of weeks ago and felt the calling to do something to help teenage moms in rural Appalachian Kentucky who don't have enough money to even buy blankets for their babies. She is organizing a handmade blanket drive, Mountain Baby Blankets, so susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-1049306557129950122009-02-21T22:11:00.003-05:002009-04-28T08:22:00.764-04:00coming soon to the shop...These camera straps were all lined up in a row on my work table so I took a quick picture of them to give you a preview. They will all be listed in my shop as soon as I have the time to take decent photos of them.I just listed 6 of my new patchwork pocket aprons in the shop last night and today. And, I already sold one of them! Yay! I plan on doing more of these. They were so much fun, especiallysusiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-33868723968942397942009-02-11T08:01:00.004-05:002009-04-28T08:23:39.462-04:00new tutorials!I just posted two new tutorials in my sidebar for a bath mat and fabric-embellished towels to coordinate with my shower curtain. This was such an easy makeover I did for my kids' bathroom! Just a few hours, a few towels, and a little bit of beautiful fabric, and you can have the same results!The awesome thing about the bath mat is that it's soft and easy to throw in the wash with your other susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-7644068029265611422009-01-26T18:52:00.003-05:002009-04-28T08:23:58.451-04:00patchwork and linen :: a lovely combinationI put together this apron in just about an hour the other night! It was so easy and so much fun to do! I made it based on the apron in Denyse Schmidt's Quilts and love the simple style of the apron combined with the "log cabiney" pocket on the front.The best part is that it cost next-to-nothing! I bought a linen skirt from the thrift store for a dollar, the pom-pom fringe was in my stash, and susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-25872079498691576602009-01-15T21:25:00.003-05:002009-04-28T08:24:09.703-04:00patchwork shower curtain tutorialI just finished this lovely shower curtain today, and as I made it, I wrote a project sheet for it. You can find it in my sidebar in the tutorial section. It is made along the same lines as the one I made for my kids bathroom and posted here.I will be demonstrating how to make it tomorrow for my sewing show, Sew Simple. It really is simple to make and there are so many possibilities. You are susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-87427893789508939652008-12-04T13:50:00.003-05:002009-04-28T08:24:35.636-04:00and we have a winner!our giveaway winner is...Random Integer GeneratorHere are your random numbers:38Timestamp: 2008-12-04 18:50:01 UTCLisa at I Get the Green Swing! Lisa said... What a wonderful giveaway! My favorite one is the black toile stocking!!!Lisa, it's yours! I will try to contact you, but please get hold of me with your mailing address so I can pop it in the mail to you this week so you can put it to susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-61193510852456737052008-12-03T12:55:00.003-05:002009-04-28T08:24:35.636-04:00another day :: another giveawaySew, Mama, Sew Blog is having a Give-Away Day today, and I decided to participate to kick off the month of December. As a child, my favorite part of Christmas morning was always the anticipation of waking early and looking through my stocking with my brother and sister and seeing all the little treats tucked in, right down to the ones in the toe. There was always an apple, an orange and a few susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com126tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14347645.post-40543533885790622022008-11-03T09:17:00.004-05:002009-04-28T08:24:35.637-04:00another winner!Charlotte at Owl Love to Stamp said... That is the cutest tea cozy I've ever seen! I'd love to have it.Well, Charlotte, you are the winner! Number 75, was the winning number this time after using the cool random number generator once again. So, I'll be contacting Charlotte to get her cute tea cozy out to her right away! I hope each and every one of you are having a glorious Monday morning!susiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03746638586249799524noreply@blogger.com1