Get On Board With Sewing Blog Hop, My Day

To celebrate National Sewing Month, Brenda @ Songbird Designs  and Melva @ Melva Loves Scraps  organized the Get On Board with Sewing Blog Hop.  I want to thank them for including me in this blog hop.  The entire schedule is listed below, as well as the giveaways.

The challenge was to " Sew something that ties into the theme and then write about it:  Your “something” could have a tropical or surf feel.  It can be clothing, a quilt, a bag, a toy, or whatever you choose!  It might include some tropical themed fabric or novelty print… or not.

About my sewing history:  When I started middle school I wanted to take choir.  My mother told me I could take Home Ec and learn to sew and cook instead, "I can sing anytime".   The Christmas of my 13th year I received this for Christmas.  

A Singer sewing machine in a wooden case.  I sewed on this until my husband got me a Singer Touch and Sew in about 1973.  During high school I made my own clothes, plus clothes for my mother and sister.  My mother did let me use her fancy dancy Singer when she asked me to make her clothes so I could use the zig-zag.  

Fast forward a number of years, and I was married and had my first child, and I still made quite a few of our clothes with the Touch and Sew.  When I married, I discovered my mother in law made quilts.  She would cut them out with scissors and templates and could hand piece and quilt a quilt in a month or maybe a little more.  I loved the quilts she made me.  In about 1994 I took some classes at the local quilt store and started my own quilting adventure.  My dear father-in-law had developed Alzheimer's and I figured with her caregiving of him, I wasn't going to get many more quilts.   Some of the first quilts I made were for my Auntie in Arkansas, my mother in law, and my mother.  

I have a funny story to tell about one of my other machines.  One time I visited my mother in law in San Diego and we put my father in law in day care and went to some quilt shops.  She was a great garage sale shopper, and they used to go out every weekend and check them out.  She could see a garage sale out of the corner of her eye and ask to stop.   I asked her if she had ever seen a featherweight at a garage sale, and she she hadn't.  We were driving home that day and she got to thinking about a machine she had found at a garage sale in the garbage.  She asked the sellers about it and they said she could have it for free.  She paid $65 to get it serviced.  So when we got back home she drug out a machine from the closet, and it was a featherweight.  She said since my birthday was coming up, I could have it.  So  I took it home on the plane with me as a carryon.  

My Project for the Get On Board with Sewing Blog Hop:  I decided to finish a quilt top I had made in 2019 as part of a mystery Quilt Along that was given by Partners in Design on Facebook.  This was a group of quilt designers/bloggers on Facebook.  Every two weeks we received a new block to work on.  It was called Sew Lets Quilt Along, and I posted about finishing the flimsy here on September 5, 2019.

So I finished quilting this top which has a quilting theme.

This was what the backing was.  My dear husband supported my quilting or any hobby I took up.  He asked me one time if I liked this fabric and I said I did.  I thought he was going to get a yard, but he bought the whole bolt on Amazon.  It is a Timeless Treasures fabric.  

I am offering a giveaway.  A yard of the above fabric, and a mug rug.  All you need to do is leave a comment.  If you are an anonymous  person, I will need an email address so I can contact you.  One of my quilting friends will draw a name on September 12th at noon.  

Grand Prize Giveaway:  One person will win everything, which includes a $25 gift certificate from Gardensong Fabrics, $25 gift certificate from Rebecca Page, Aurifil thread, a digital pattern from Melva – Pieces of the Santa Fe Trail, a book, Fabulously Fast Quilts donated by Patricia from the Faith, Trust & Breast Cancer Blog, three stash builder bundles generously donated by Island Batik, and a crib sized Quilter’s Dream Dream Angel batt from Songbird Designs. Just leave a blog comment, but you can earn extra entries by following the additional prompts (these help us build or followers for the blog, Instagram, and Facebook! Enter through the Raffle Copter here at Songbird Designs.  The Raffle Copter will close at 12:00 AM on 9/12/22. The winner will be announced on the blog and will be notified by email as well! Good luck!!

Be sure and visit the other bloggers in the hop below.  

Thursday, September 1

Anorina – Samelia’s Mum
Denise – For the Love of Geese
Cheree – The Morning Latte
Brenda – Songbird Designs 

Friday, September 2

Karen – Karen’s Korner 
Nancy – Grace and Peace Quilting
Sharon & Susan – Ms P Designs USA
Nina-Marie – Creations – Quilts, Art, Whatever

Monday, September 5

Karrin – Karrin’s Crazy World
Linda – Texas Quilt Gal
Yvonne – Quilting Jetgirl
Emily – The Darling Dogwood

Tuesday, September 6

Gail – Quilting Gail
Joy – Days Filled with Joy
Melisa – Pinker ‘n’ Punkin Quilting & Stitching
Carol – Quilt Schmilt     

Wednesday, September 7

Melva – Melva Loves Scraps
Tammy –Tamarinis
Leah – Quilted Delights
Patricia – Faith, Trust & Breast Cancer