Jean's the winner!

Just noticed a new comment on the Make a Boob site, and it is Jean from Jean's Page.  Thanks for leaving Mrs. Moen a happy comment.  I hope you will make her some boobs, too, but in either case you are the winner of the afore mentioned quilting books, and as soon as I can get your address they will be posted to you.  I hope you like them, and make some awesome quilts from them.  If you have run out of relatives and friends to give your quilts to I have found it very satisfying to give them to Project Linus.  There are chapters of this charity all over - just Google it to find one near you.
Thank you, Jean, for being a follower and participating.  You made my day brighter!
Love to Jean and all my followers!
Terri

a closer look

Would you like a closer look at my Make a Boob offerings - they go into the mail tomorrow. Click on the pictures to get an even closer look.

Some of the paper pieced butterflies.

Some of the free pieced fabric - just scraps from the scrap bags.

Some of my boobs actually have birds or butterflies or crayons on them!

They are just basically fabric on two sides of a bit of leftover batting... Just like making a quilt. only round and small.  It's a good cause, and a way to reduce your stash or scraps. There is no set amount you'd have to make... Make one for every victim you know.  I have saved one out for my little vic.  She had her third  round of chemo last Tuesday, and just starting to feel better now - on Sunday. ~ Pause for a little cry. ~

That's it for me.  Come back tomorrow for a shocking reveal of my messy studio.

Love to all my followers and to all of yours,

Terri

Giveaway Time!!!!!!!

I am so happy! Elated, actually to have 10 followers now.  Thank you all for making that space for me in your lives. I really appreciate the vote of confidence.
So I told myself that if I ever got to 10 followers I would have a Giveaway.  What should it be, said she.  I think it should reflect recent blogs and be something from the sewing side... How about 3, no less than 3, quilt books!  I have A Constellation for Quilters, it's all kinds of star patterns by Carol LaBranche. Also, Flowers of the States most of the patterns are paper piecing the state flowers designed by Sue Harvey. The third book is Applique Made Easy, a Rodale book edited by Karen Costello Soltys.  So there you go, if you piece, paper piece or applique there is something for each of those disciplines, and if you don't but would like to learn, these books can help.  Now how to give them to one... Whoever of my followers is listed first on Mrs. Moen's Make a Boob blog leaving her a heartening comment after I publish this post, will have the books. You'll have to do some research for the link... that'll make it more competitive.  You will need to
e-mail me to give me your address, and I will ship the books right away.  Good luck!

Here are the offerings.
Lotsa love to all of you,
Terri

The big reveal!

Today, as promised, here are the pictures of my boobs.  I've been working on them during the Christmas events (after the gifts were made and shipped) and now I'm ready to share them with you.

I am diplaying my boobs as the Mother Goddess statue in a challenge to other sewing bloggers to make and share their boobs, for a very worthy cause that I will share later in this post.  For now we will go to the pictures:



Oops, this is the Goddess I thought had the multiboobs, but time has tricked my memory, and alas she looks more like my real self.  No, the Goddess statue that I wanted is this one:



She is just covered in boobs!  She is Artemis of Ephesus, a goddess of ancient Rome... Mother Goddess.
And here is my picture, a modern interpretation of Artemis:

The front boobs are made with leftover paperpieced butterflies from my #1 DIL's quillt.

The back boobs are  pieced from scraps sewn together out of my scrap bin... this was lots of fun!

Sew!  the challenge to other sewers is to make yourself into an Artemis of Ephesus and sew lots of boobs for Mrs. Moen's breast cancer charity. Before you send them to her, take a moment, pin them to your shirt and make yourself into the Goddess that you know you are!  You can find the directions and information on the Make a Boob blog at:  http://makeaboob.blogspot.com/

Remember to get your Mamagram and if you are younger than 40 and have pain in your boobs, fight with your doctor for one.  My family knows that younger women CAN get breast cancer, and that early detection can save you a world of chemo, surgery and radiation.  (I just wish I didn't know this.)

So that about wraps it up for today.

Love to all you followers!!!

<3 Terri



Welcome new followers! and bracelets!

You are the first new followers I've ever had that I couldn't identify... The mystery is delicious!  You are the reason I'm writing now, you've given me hope that I might, someday, have other followers... so thank you very much for signing up.  Welcome!
      Since all the gifts are now opened, I can now show the bracelets I made for Christmas gifts. I took 3 pictures of each set of bracelets, so I could show the 3 leaves on each cuff.
   

Sister's bracelets

DIL bracelets

Daughter's bracelets

These nine photos represent gifts to three dear ones.  I'll spare you the other 5, which would be 15 more pictures.  I made the cuffs starting with recycled shipping tape cores.  I am a pack rat, and have a hard time throwing away anything for which there may be a future use.... These bracelets vindicate me, and other crafting pack rats.  Anyway, to the core I added some quilt batting - using bits and pieces that have been saved from other projects. Then the 3 leaf blocks were made last year without an idea as to their use, so enjoyed the pattern and the making... without worry as to the recipients color choices. All were set on point and sewed together and then applied to the cuff and then sewed into the circular space.  They were made for this project and fit!!!!!!!!!!  Then to clean up the inside I glued a band of black to cover up the mess. Voila!  I was very pleased with the results, and that they were made in almost no time since the leaves had been made last year. I was also pleased that they represent a certain recycling bent I am on, not only for financial purposes, but from a very real worry about the planet.My grands should be happy about that. The paper piecing pattern for the leaves came from a QuiltMaker Magazine some time in 2009, I believe. I will be making more of them, and a few of them were made into boobs which can be seen on Mrs. Moen's blog.... see the address on my previous posting.

      The charm bracelets were my first attempt at making dangles or doing any bead work, and I loved it!  I had been amassing the charms and beads with my coupons to JoAnn's and Michael's Craft Stores for years.  I just had to work up the courage to make them. (I have a problem with perfection - inherited from my Mom, and if I fail to do as well at something as I would like, I usually abandon the effort. We are all still in the process of becoming.)  Well, this time I failed, and a few years later gave myself permission to practice... They turned out better than I thought!!!!!!!!!!  So I will be trying it again.  Beware! loved ones there are more bracelets and maybe necklaces in your future.

          Next time I work on anything I'll picture it in detail - if the camera will cooperate. 

          I'm off to work on a new quilt I have in mind for a very special person.  It is paper pieced from a recent QuiltMaker Magazine.  So those of you who get the magazine can look for the pattern... It has pine trees and stars on it.

Love you lotses and Welcome Mystery Follower,

<3 Terri



Amazes me every time!

It always amazes me how many are blogging, and I'm sure I've just scratched the surface. I started reading the quilter ones that I could find, and since then I have found Zentangle ones, recipe ones, and now there are the card and scrap ones.  I've just been on an amazing Blog Hop.  Hero Arts is coming out with new art rubber stamps, and is showing them off through their designers on their blogs.  I learned new techniques and had lots of fun seeing the new stamps.  If you like that sort of thing go to The Hero Club Blog at:
http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/
You'll find all the names of the designers to click on and go to see their creations. Lots of fun!

Well, I am now famous for my beautiful boobs.  If you'd like to see them, in two (no less) places on the web, just use these two links.  They are pictured there for anybody to see at Make a Boob.  http://makeaboob.blogspot.com/2010/12/boob-mail-terri.html
and at Mrs. Moen's blog
http://mrsmoen.blogspot.com/2010/12/boob-call.html
You can learn how to make some to send and share in the giving at this link to Make a Boob
http://mrsmoen.blogspot.com/2010/12/boob-call.html
I am enjoying not only the making, and sharing for a good cause, but also the naughty bragging!  Mine are now internationally known.
Well, I think that's enough naughtiness for me today.  Christmas is coming up, you know, and I can't get caught being too naughty by Santa.  He sees it all.
Love you all, you know. 
<3 Terri

Yup, I changed things up a bit

As you can see I changed the blog a bit.  I love the little doggie pictures, and Rodney, well he's always been one of my favs.  The header is a bit from a quilt I made a few years ago, and I've used the martian fabric to fix a "blankee" I made for a neighbor.  He "loved" big holes into it, and I used some fabric glue and fun fabrics to fix it.  He liked it even more then.  Now he's playing basketball every day in the driveway... it's been that long ago. Hard for me to believe we have lived here over 11 years already.  Seems like maybe 3. Time flies when you're... well, you know.
I'm having a cup of Acai Mango tea from Celestial Seasonings.  I love this tea... it tastes like dessert! It's a little hard to find in the stores... but keep trying. It is worth the trouble.
I got my QuiltMaker Magazine in the mail today.  There is a paper piecing pattern in there for a sailboat quilt that is cute as a bugs ear... bet you haven't heard that one in a while.  Here is a link to get the last 12 patterns they have created for the Linus Project. I love all those patterns, except 2 of them.  See if you can guess which 2 I don't especially like... for kids anyway.  www.quiltmaker.com/projectlinus
Got to talk to my daughter this morning.  She's as chipper as ever. What a little trouper!  Is it okay to admire your child?  She's like a roll model for me. I wish you the bestest of the best, Honey! Love you lotses!
And as for the rest of you dear readers, well, I love you, too! Thanks for stopping bye.
<3 Terri