Dare to Dresden Blog Hop

I have a love of Dresden, but not only the quilt block, but the city too.  In 2003, I spent some time touring Europe by myself and spent about 3 days exploring Dresden, Germany.  I have some very fond memories of my time there.  Now that I have started on this adventure we call quilting, I have fallen for the dresden quilt block.  When I saw the Dare to Dresden blog hop, I just had to participate. So today is day four of the Dare to Dresden Blog Hop hosted by Christine at Quilt Monster Closet!

My inspiration came from a small table topper that my good friend Denise made me last year.  It's currently, on my dining room table under a fall flower arrangement I have in an antique pitcher.  I just love the colors and the size is perfect. I have really enjoyed it this winter.


The last two weeks, I have been traveling for work to some very cold environments compared to what we have here in Southern California.   First I was in Montreux, Switzerland and then in New York City, where the temperatures were below 35 degrees (F).    This made me long for spring time and working in my garden.
Montreux, Switzerland


World Trade Center - Tower One - New York City, New York


 To make this long story short, I decided to try my hand at making a dresden table topper for spring time to put on my dining room table.  I also am trying to stick with my New Year's resolution to use up things that I have and not to add so much this year.I used up some scraps I had left over from making an apron for a secret someone!

So I made this table topper out of a 8" dresden pattern.  I combined two of my favorite things - dresdens and prairie points!  

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it.

  

Now for a fun give away! !

I will select one person to win two Moda "Butter cup" Charm packs.

 

 

Just leave me a comment below telling me 

what inspires you to sew/quilt/craft/create.

One entry per person

Giveaway ends Jan. 31th at midnight.

Winner will be announced Feb 1st.

   Here are all the other great blogs for today!

A Peach in Stitches

Nancy W @ “that Other Blog”

L3 Designs

Bungalow Bay Quilts

Quilted Delights

Quilt Crossing

Lixie Makes it

A Quilting Sheep

Charlotte's Creations

Quilt-n-Queen

Sew Much 2 Luv

A Quilt and a Prayer

Amanda Murphy Design

Little Mushroom Cap

Kathy's Quilts 

Sandra Kaye Design

Thanks to Christine from Quilt Monster in My Closet

and to Madame Samm at Sew We Quilt.

A While Back I WON!

A CSN Stores gift card for $60 from Valerie over at YarniGras. I thought I'd get a new rug for my bathroom - been trying to find a runner that is hook and loop that will fit and haven't been successful at it yet. Then today on Facebook, CSN posted about this Garden Tool Center. I fell hard for it. Like A Stone. My tools are kept outside (not allowed in the Garage per the Hubs) on the side of the garage all every which way. It drives me nuts. So I ordered the Garden Center today and used my winnings from Val. I am so grateful for her for posting that giveaway and solving my biggest gardening challenge all at the same time! Thank you Val!

Something Special to Share

On Friday night when I got home at 10pm from a Junior League meeting I found this envelope on the counter for me. It was from my friend Regena. You see she had this giveaway on her blog and I won! Don't you just love this Hello Kitty Hobo bag?


I'm gonna take it with me on my Vespa to the farmers market this morning. She also sent along a Hello Kitty Pez dispenser! I'm going to put it next to the one my friend Kimmie gave me and the Santa one my hubs gave me!



Then late last night after dinner, I started to play with some polymer clay. I had ordered a book off Amazon on "Create Anything with clay" and it came with a selection of clays to play with.

Here is what I baked up last night after dinner - I made 2 of each.

Completion

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Last night two things took place, I finished the cross stitch I was working on and a winner was selected for the give away!


Congratulations the fat quarters go to Candi from the QB - Candi, I will try to locate you through your blog and the QB.

Now off to finish up the apron for a cousin using this pattern that Karen posted and used for her daughters Christmas apron.!

Happy One Hundred Give Away!!!

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It's finally here so I can give it away to some creative sort! In celebration of 100 posts, I am giving away 7 lovely Petalicous fat quarters by Nancy Thias for Marcus Fabrics.

Just leave a comment and how you met me or found my blog and I'll select the winner by random number generator. The deadline to submit is 6 pm pacific time, Sunday, December 12th. I will post the winner on Monday, December 13.

Good luck and happy posting.


*Update, if you post on the blog or on my flickr page of the fabric, I will enter you into the drawing. This way you have two ways to comment. One comment per poster will be used.

Give Away Count Down - Almost There!

I am one post away from 100 and that means a Give Away.

If you can't wait for mine you should check out Karens!