Showing posts with label For Pinks Sakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label For Pinks Sakes. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Back to Sewing - Yay!

I now have more energy (although it still deserts me occasionally) and I have rediscovered my quilting mojo! Something about deadlines brings out the overachieving procrastinator in me. I am currently working on a baby quilt for my little sister, Claudia (she's about six weeks further along than I am and all of a year and a half younger). We're having a joint baby shower in Michigan in three weeks, hosted by my brother's wife, Molly (have I mentioned how awesome all of my sisters are, related and in-law, I have another awesome sister on my husband's side, Rachel, and I'm about to get a fourth sister, Jess, once his younger brother marries). I also had to wait until last Friday to find out what Claudia's having, because she wanted either navy blue or magenta depending. I will not disclose what she's having and you'll have to wait to see the finished quilt until after she's ready to go public, but I can show you the pattern I'm working on and some of what I've done so far. :)

So here's my pattern, the elephant will have two birds on its back. And the stripes will either be magenta or navy. I'm using blue and green or magenta and yellow for the elephant and birds for some contrast. The pattern is based on a grey and white rug my sister bought for the nursery and also matches her grey and white crib sheets.

And here are all the grey pieces cut out right before I added the colored stripe pieces. I have now cut and sewn on all the white border pieces (each block is 8.5" unfinished) and have started joining the blocks into rows. The white makes things so much lighter and more playful. Just the grey by itself looked a bit somber for a baby quilt, so I'm glad that's working out.

I also managed to get started on the For Pinks Sakes quilt at my last DCMQG meeting. Finally!

I got so many great blocks, that I'm thinking a queen sized quilt is in my future. I have already managed to patch together the top right corner section and since that encompasses some of my favorite blocks, may end up building around that as a sort of center medallion instead of the layout I currently have on those design walls. There's more to the left of that as well. I tried to pull out at least one block per person, and will grab more as I need them. I've also trimmed and reassembled one or two "extra" blocks to make things fit, but for the most part I'm hoping to keep them intact. It was a great sewing project to work on during our September guild meeting, which was dedicated to making quilts for charities. I also made a wonky star block to contribute to a group quilt.

Yup, that's me in all my pregnant glory. By which I mean, you can't see jack all in this picture. :)
And last, but not least, I actually took pictures of my August Stash Bee blocks before sending them off. They were done well before the end of the month, but it took me halfway through September to actually send them off to the Queen Bee. Luckily most of the people in our group are not in a rush to get their quilts done.

Two heart blocks in eye catching shades of pink and purple with low volume backgrounds.

Hope everyone is enjoying the fall weather as much as me!
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Saturday, August 2, 2014

For Pinks Sakes Give Away

Thanks for stopping by for the Give Away of my For Pinks Sakes Blog Hop. I hosted the blog hop to raise funds for my mother-in-law's medical expenses. My mother-in-law is a wonderful woman, who has stayed upbeat and positive throughout her battle, but the medical bills from several surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy treatments have left her and her husband with a huge amount of medical bills and have put a major damper on her spirits and her joy at being cancer free after two years. It would be amazing, if you'd consider contributing towards those medical bills. There is a link here or on the right side of my blog.

The amazing ladies who graciously agreed to participate in this blog hop all made a pink block and sent it to me to make into a quilt to donate to the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion in Grand Rapids, MI where my mother-in-law has had all of her cancer treatments. You are still welcome to join in and make one too. Instructions can be found here.

Now to the give-away. I found some great sponsors: Pink Chalk Fabrics, the Fat Quarter Shop, and Pink Castle Fabrics.


The Fat Quarter Shop is contributing a $75 gift certificate, which I will draw for first to give everyone an equal chance at it.
In addition to the gift certificate, they are also contributing a bundle of Project Pink (how perfect is that?!)
 
Project Pink Fat Quarter Bundle Rosemarie Lavin for Windham Fabrics
 
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Pink Chalk Fabrics is contributing a color stack of Rosey Cheeks (apologies for the shadow on the picture, I took it real quick just before posting this).
 
 
And a color stack of Vibrant Rose.
 
 
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Pink Castle Fabrics is contributing a Crazy for Dots and Stripes Bundle.
 
 
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The give-away is now closed. I will be doing the drawing by writing everyone's names on pieces of papers because there's just too many comments for me to create otherwise. The gift certificate and the color stacks are open to all participants, the other two bundles are open only to participants from the US.
 
Please make sure to include the following information in EACH comment: 1) if you're an international participant and 2) your email address. If I can't reach you within a week after the give-away closes I'll choose another winner.
 
Now for how you can enter to win one of these amazing items:
 
1) You get two entries if you hosted the blog hop. I will post these for you.
 
2) You get one entry per pink block I receive by August 16, 2014. I will post these for you if you hosted the blog hop, and will get a list together of everyone else I've received blocks from so you can double-check and add a comment and leave your email address, because I don't have that for most of you.
 
3) You get one entry per $5 you donate towards my mother-in-law's medical expenses (link above and to the right). I will post these for you.
 
4) You get one entry per time you reposted the link to the GoFundMe page. Please write a separate comment for each one, with a link to the blog post, Facebook post, etc. where you reposted it.
 
List of Blocks Received:
(If you do not see your name and sent a block a while back, please email me. If your name is in italics, I will post the comment for you.)
 
Nola Larson (Kaysville, UT) - 1 block
M. Kennisan (Katy, TX) - 3 blocks
Heather Tompkins (Alexandria, VA) - 6 blocks (blog hop host)
Parsons (Bail Verte, NL) - 3 blocks
Shelley Michel (Rogersville, AL) - 1 block
K Yoakum (Winston Salem, NC) - 5 blocks
K.S. Roy (W. Arichat, Canada) - 2 blocks + $5 to help with costs
Terri Johnson (Orangevale, CA) - 2 blocks
Sandy Whitelaw (Fergus, ON, Canada) - 6 blocks
Kristyn McCoy (Ilderton, ON, Canada) - 1 block (blog hop host) (I'm very sad to say that I cut into your block trying to get the envelope open) :(
Debbie Yff (Athens, AL) - 1 block
Lyanna Anderson (Dover, DE) - 1 block (blog hop host)
Jenny Green (Pittsburgh, PA) - 11 block (will post, have email address)
Erin Davis (Evanston, IL) - 14 blocks (blog hop host)
Wanda Dotson (Glen Allen, VA) - 1 block
Cathleen Mauro (Falling Waters, WV) - 1 block
Underwood (Yellow Springs, OH) - 1 block
Allison Coe (Melrose, MA) - 3 blocks (will post, have email address)
J. Silcock (Wattle Downs, Auckland, New Zealand) - 1 block (will post, have email address)
Karen Burton (Plymouth, MI) - 1 block
Christy Hall (Bakersfield, CA) - 1 block (will post, have email address)
Jessie Aller (Mount Airy, MD) - 1 block (blog hop host)
Melinda Newton (MD) - 1 block (blog hop host)
Kimberly Francesca (Nunda, NY) - 5 blocks + 6 extra pieces of fabric + offer to supply binding (will post, have email address)
Melanie Vagnini (Medfield, MA) - 7 blocks + 9 extra pieces of fabric (will post, have email address)
Amy Sheib (MV, MD) - 1 block (blog hop host)
Carla Voohees (Silver Spring, MD) - 1 block (blog hop host)
Lynne Atha-Mackey (DCMQG) - 2 blocks (will post, have email address)
Sarah - 3 blocks (blog hop host)
Margaret (Leeds, UK) - 1 block (have email address)
Lisa England (Ashland, KY) - 5 blocks (will post, have email address)
Jessica Skultety (Phillipsburg, NJ) - 1 block (blog hop host)
Debra Henkel (Springfield, VA) - 1 block
Kathy Gordon (Blacklist, OH) - 1 block (blog hop host)



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Saturday, July 19, 2014

For Pinks Sakes - July 19


Thanks for stopping by for the For Pinks Sakes Blog Hop. I am hosting this blog hop to raise funds for my mother-in-law's medical expenses. My mother-in-law is a wonderful woman, who has stayed upbeat and positive throughout her battle, but the medical bills from several surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy treatments have left her and her husband with a huge amount of medical bills and have put a major damper on her spirits and her joy at being cancer free after two years. It would be amazing, if you'd consider contributing towards those medical bills. There is a link here or on the right side of my blog.

The amazing ladies who have graciously agreed to participate in this blog hop will be making a pink block and sending it to me to make into a quilt to donate to the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion in Grand Rapids, MI where my mother-in-law has had all of her cancer treatments. You are welcome to join in and make one too. Instructions can be found here. Everyone who participates either by contributing to my mother-in-law's medical bills, makes a pink block, or shares the link to the donations page will be entered into a give-away that I will be hosting on August 2nd.

Here is the list of participants, we've had one last minute addition, go visit our July 19 ladies to see what blocks they've made or if you haven't checked out what the other ladies have made, by all means, visit them too:

May 10
May 24
June 7
 
June 21
 
July 5
 
July 19
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Saturday, July 5, 2014

For Pinks Sakes Blog Hop - July 5


Thanks for stopping by for the For Pinks Sakes Blog Hop. I am hosting this blog hop to raise funds for my mother-in-law's medical expenses. My mother-in-law is a wonderful woman, who has stayed upbeat and positive throughout her battle, but the medical bills from several surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy treatments have left her and her husband with a huge amount of medical bills and have put a major damper on her spirits and her joy at being cancer free after two years. It would be amazing, if you'd consider contributing towards those medical bills. There is a link here or on the right side of my blog.

The amazing ladies who have graciously agreed to participate in this blog hop will be making a pink block and sending it to me to make into a quilt to donate to the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion in Grand Rapids, MI where my mother-in-law has had all of her cancer treatments. You are welcome to join in and make one too. Instructions can be found here. Everyone who participates either by contributing to my mother-in-law's medical bills, makes a pink block, or shares the link to the donations page will be entered into a give-away that I will be hosting on August 2nd.

Here is the list of participants, go visit our July 5 ladies to see what blocks they've made or if you haven't checked out what the other ladies have made, by all means, visit them too:

May 10
May 24
June 7
 
June 21
 
July 5
 
July 19
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Saturday, June 21, 2014

For Pinks Sakes Blog Hop - June 21


Thanks for stopping by for the For Pinks Sakes Blog Hop. I am hosting this blog hop to raise funds for my mother-in-law's medical expenses. My mother-in-law is a wonderful woman, who has stayed upbeat and positive throughout her battle, but the medical bills from several surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy treatments have left her and her husband with a huge amount of medical bills and have put a major damper on her spirits and her joy at being cancer free after two years. It would be amazing, if you'd consider contributing towards those medical bills. There is a link here or on the right side of my blog.

The amazing ladies who have graciously agreed to participate in this blog hop will be making a pink block and sending it to me to make into a quilt to donate to the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion in Grand Rapids, MI where my mother-in-law has had all of her cancer treatments. You are welcome to join in and make one too. Instructions can be found here. Everyone who participates either by contributing to my mother-in-law's medical bills, makes a pink block, or shares the link to the donations page will be entered into a give-away that I will be hosting on August 2nd.

Here is the list of participants, go visit our June 21 ladies to see what blocks they've made or if you haven't checked out what the other ladies have made, by all means, visit them too:
May 10
May 24

June 7

June 21

July 5

July 19
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Saturday, June 7, 2014

For Pink's Sakes - June 7


Thanks for stopping by for the For Pinks Sakes Blog Hop. I am hosting this blog hop to raise funds for my mother-in-law's medical expenses. My mother-in-law is a wonderful woman, who has stayed upbeat and positive throughout her battle, but the medical bills from several surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy treatments have left her and her husband with a huge amount of medical bills and have put a major damper on her spirits and her joy at being cancer free after two years. It would be amazing, if you'd consider contributing towards those medical bills. There is a link here or on the right side of my blog.

The amazing ladies who have graciously agreed to participate in this blog hop will be making a pink block and sending it to me to make into a quilt to donate to the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion in Grand Rapids, MI where my mother-in-law has had all of her cancer treatments. You are welcome to join in and make one too. Instructions can be found here. Everyone who participates either by contributing to my mother-in-law's medical bills, makes a pink block, or shares the link to the donations page will be entered into a give-away that I will be hosting on August 2nd.

Here is the list of participants, go visit our June 7 ladies to see what blocks they've made or if you haven't checked out what our May 10 and 24 ladies have made, by all means, visit them too:
May 10
May 24

June 7

June 21

July 5

July 19
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Saturday, May 24, 2014

For Pinks Sakes Blog Hop - May 24


Thanks for stopping by for the For Pinks Sakes Blog Hop. I am hosting this blog hop to raise funds for my mother-in-law's medical expenses. My mother-in-law is a wonderful woman, who has stayed upbeat and positive throughout her battle, but the medical bills from several surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy treatments have left her and her husband with a huge amount of medical bills and have put a major damper on her spirits and her joy at being cancer free after two years. It would be amazing, if you'd consider contributing towards those medical bills. There is a link here or on the right side of my blog.

The amazing ladies who have graciously agreed to participate in this blog hop will be making a pink block and sending it to me to make into a quilt to donate to the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion in Grand Rapids, MI where my mother-in-law has had all of her cancer treatments. You are welcome to join in and make one too. Instructions can be found here. Everyone who participates either by contributing to my mother-in-law's medical bills, makes a pink block, or shares the link to the donations page will be entered into a give-away that I will be hosting on August 2nd.

Here is the list of participants, go visit our May 24 ladies to see what blocks they've made or if you haven't checked out what our May 10 ladies have made, by all means, visit them too:

May 10
May 24

June 7

June 21

July 5

July 19
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

For Pinks Sakes - August 2 Give-Away

I now have three sponsors for the August 2 participant give-away.

Pink Castle Fabrics is contributing a bundle of polka dot fabrics.

http://www.pinkcastlefabrics.com/ 

The Fat Quarter Shop has very generously agreed to donate a bundle of Project Pink (fitting, I think) and a $75 gift certificate to their shop.

http://www.fatquartershop.com/

And our latest sponsor is Pink Chalk Fabrics. They have been very generous as well and will be providing two of their pink Color Stacks - one Rosey Cheeks and one Vibrant Rose.

https://www.pinkchalkfabrics.com/

I will also be providing a small gift certificate for the give-away. Store TBD.

This is how it's going to work:

On August 2, I will post a give-away post. You will need to leave a comment on the post to enter the give-away.

Entries will be tallied thus:
2 automatic entries for everyone who hosted the blog hop (I will post the comment for you)
1 automatic entry for every pink block I've received by then (I will post the comment for you)
1 entry for every $5 you've contributed towards my mother-in-law's medical bills (you will have to post the comment, since donations can be anonymous)
1 entry for linking to the contributions page on your blog/Facebook page/Twitter/Flickr/Instagram account at any point during the blog hop (your comment to include a link to the page where you've linked it)
1 entry for linking to the blog hop page at any point during the blog hop (your comment to include a link to the page where you've linked it)

Entries will close at midnight EST, August 9.
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Saturday, May 10, 2014

For Pinks Sakes Blog Hop

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Thanks for stopping by my blog for the For Pinks Sakes Blog Hop. I am hosting this blog hop for several courageous women who have fought the good fight against breast cancer. My Oma Fini (paternal grandmother), Doris (my maternal grandmother's upstairs neighbor/renter, whose son I grew up with), Ellen (my husband's aunt), and of course, Tina (my mother-in-law). Tina is a wonderful woman, who has stayed upbeat and positive throughout her battle, but the medical bills from several surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy treatments have left her and her husband with a huge amount of medical bills and have put a major damper on her spirits and her joy at being cancer free after two years. It would be amazing, if you'd consider contributing towards those medical bills. There is a link here or on the right side of my blog.
 

The amazing ladies who have graciously agreed to participate in this blog hop will be making a pink block and sending it to me to make into a quilt to donate to the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion in Grand Rapids, MI where my mother-in-law has had all of her cancer treatments. You are welcome to join in and make one too. Instructions can be found here. Everyone who participates either by contributing to my mother-in-law's medical bills, makes a pink block, or shares the link to the donations page will be entered into a give-away that I will be hosting on August 2nd.

Here is my block:

This is a 4" square paper-pieced block. The pattern can be found on Quilter's Cache, here.

Here is a list of the ladies who are participating in this blog hop. Please go check out their blogs as well. Now with direct links to their blog posts about the hop.
 
May 10
May 24

June 7

June 21

July 5

July 19
 
Pink Blocks Received in the past two weeks:
 From Debra, a fellow DCMQG guild member
 
I have also received blocks from Melinda (May 24) and Kathy (May 10), who will be participating in the blog hop as well, so I'm not going to spoil the surprise. You'll just have to go visit their blogs.
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Monday, May 5, 2014

For Pinks Sakes - Pink Block Specs


If you are interested in making a pink block for the charity quilt I am making to raise breast cancer awareness and funds for my mother-in-law's medical bills from her fight with breast cancer, the specs are below:

Use primarily pink fabrics, a little bit of pattern in a different color is fine, but the fabric should read pink.
It can be any pattern you choose - paper pieced, patchwork, improv, whatever strikes your fancy.
Size doesn't matter, anything over 4" is fine.
It doesn't have to be any particular shape, although I would prefer a rectangle or square.
If you do need a background color for your block, please stick to white or off-white. Low volume that reads white is fine as well.

You are welcome to make more than one. Every pink block made and sent by August 2 will gain you one entry in my participant give-away. To get my address, please email me at DamascSt@gmail.com or reply to this post with your email address.

Thanks!
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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Blog Hop Organizing and Awesome Con

Well, this blog hop is hopping along. I still have several spots open and have created a tab for the blog hop with the current list of participants. If you'd like to participate, please let me know.

I've been pretty busy with work, Awesome Con, and a little bit of quilting. It's also been just me the past two weeks, while my husband has been in Michigan taking care of his mom for this latest (and hopefully last) round of surgeries. I'm happy to report that she is recovering nicely and went back to work today. I also got my hubby back yesterday.

Awesome Con this past weekend was three days of nerdy fun! I played board and card games, bought games and dice and two prints, went to several panels and Q&A sessions, and got several autographs.


That's Raphael Sbarge (Jiminy Crickets from Once Upon a Time), Cary Elwes (Westley from Princess Bride and Robin Hood from Robin Hood: Men in Tights), Sean Astin (Samwise from Lord of the Rings), and Timothy Zahn (one of the writers in the Star Wars Expanded Universe).

There were other TV and movie stars there, but mainly from Walking Dead, which I haven't seen, and Firefly/Serenity, which I've only seen one or two episodes of.

My favorite parts of Awesome Con below:



Both of them were SO nice. Seriously. I've always kind of pictured actors as these self-absorbed people, but both were really friendly and you got the feeling they actually wanted to get to know you. Apparently Cary Elwes also won the Mr. Congeniality award from the staff and volunteers, so it wasn't just me. :)

Although I was a little disappointed by some of the sessions, I'm looking at you "Gaming Myths" and "Girl Gamers," the Q&As with Timothy Zahn, Sean Astin, and Cary Elwes on Sunday totally made up for it.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Blog Hop Give-Away

I will be hosting a give-away to go along with the For Pinks Sakes blog hop. I have already secured one fabric contribution from Pink Castle Fabrics, and one from the Fat Quarter Shop, and will likely throw in a gift certificate myself, along with some other potential prizes.

I will open the give-away towards the end of the blog hop. Anyone who participates in the blog hop will get an automatic two entries. Anyone who contributes a block to the quilt will get one per block, anyone who contributes to my mother-in-law's medical bills will get one entry per $5 donated, plus one entry if you share the link.

I still have at least one opening in June, and I'm happy to open up a third slot for all of the dates once I have June filled out.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Blog Hop Invitation

I am planning on hosting a blog hop May-July. If you are interested in participating, please let me know which date(s) work best for you. And please pass this along to anyone else you think might be interested.


Why I'm hosting this blog hop:

My mother-in-law, Tina, was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2012. She’s been through radiation, chemo, and several surgeries since then. All of this has resulted in enormous amounts of medical bills, despite decent insurance. She’s such an amazing woman, smiling through all of the treatments and staying upbeat. She is a medical technician and gives back to her patients when her medical issues don’t keep her out of work. 

The Details:

I am planning on hosting a blog hop called “For Pinks Sakes” every two weeks on Saturday from May through July. I am asking you to make and post a pink block (more info below), a list of the other participants, and a link back to my blog hop. A link to the donations page (www.gofundme.com/85ao94 would be amazing as well, although it's fine if you just want to link back to my blog.

The Pink Block:

It can be any design (original or not), in pinks, from low volume to high, any size over 4” square. If you could send me the block, I will incorporate it into a quilt that I plan to donate to the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion, in Grand Rapids, MI, where Tina has had all of her treatments.

Please let me know if you would be interested in helping out. And if you are, which Saturdays would work for you: May 10, May 24, June 7, June 21, July 5, or July 19. More info to follow as I determine the final roster.

Here's what I'm working on. You'll have to come back and see the finished block on May 10.

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