My tummy’s too fat with love.
Will, after I hugged him. Although I think this quote is perfect for any number of situations. Pregnancy, for one. After eating too many cookies, for another. And just a general state of pudginess.
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Disclaimer for family members and close friends: in December I’ll be posting pictures of lots of projects–things I’m making for swaps, things I’m making for Christmas gifts for family and friends, and a few projects that I’ll be keeping. If you want to be 100% surprised by your gift, turn around now and don’t come back until Dec 26th. 😛 If you keep reading during the month of December, it’s at your own risk, but I do promise not to say what any particular project is for…so you could be looking at your gift, but you could also be looking at a swap item, a gift for someone else, or even something just for us. 🙂 Now that the December admin is over, here’s what I stole a few hours to work on today:
At 9 inches high, The Cat in the Hat is the most ambitious free motion stitching / embroidery / applique / thread painting project I’ve attempted. He was worth devoting my precious preschool hours to!
Today I am the featured quilter on Gen X Quilters! To any new readers–welcome! Please leave a note–I love them, and always try to respond! I hope you’ll stop back often!
To celebrate, I’m having a little give-away of one of my current favorite things: an It’s a Hoot charm pack! (I love them SO much that even though I bought an extra for this give-away I’m having a very hard time letting it go!)
There are two ways to enter (CONTEST CLOSED): 1) Leave a comment 2) Post about this give-away on your blog or if you have a sidebar on your blog with links to other blogs, you can include mine (this is worth a whopping three entries) UPDATE: We have a winner of the It’s a Hoot charm pack! I assigned every entry a number (for people that either blogged about the contest or added this site to their sidebar they received 3 extra numbers) and then asked Will to pick a number between 1 and 81. He picked 8, so Elizabeth is our winner!
First, love your stuff! So creative and well done. Also, a comment that is more of a question about the shopping cart cover, did you create the pattern? Wow, awesome giveaway! Congrats on your feature, I’ve been following you on Flickr for a while and really enjoying your work, glad to find you blog too 🙂 And you are indeed in my sidebar! Just found your blog today through A.J. – wow, you have some seriously cute stuff on here – I’ll be adding you to my sidebar too :0) That fabric is so adorable – congratulations on being featured x What a great giveaway. I’ve added your blog to my sidebar. I’ve been looking at your blog since you posted your pillow in the Pillow Talk Swap. Love it (your blog and your pillow)! Hi there, I’m a new follower. Love your work! Your embroidery is delightful. Thank you for sharing it. oh i just love that you started quilting at 14…i was about the same age, also self taught! i could have learned a lot from a book! i taught myself my trial and error!! Hoot is such a cute line! love those dots! Great blog! I’m glad to have stumbled on you through the gen x site. I love the story of your duck quilts and your photography is great! Your projects are beautiful. Love the Charlie Brown tree embroidery. I’m finding you through Gen X — you made me laugh with your horse quote!! It’s fantastic to see self taught quilters making such beautiful work! And thanks for the chance to add owls to my stash — they are soo soo darn cute!! You are now in my sidebar! I’ve had to be good and spend my money on christmas presents. But it’s been hard to resist the Hoot temptation. Would love to win some! You have a lovely blog 🙂 Really loving your stuff . . . and the wonderful photographs of your work! You are now on my sidebar as well! Love this fabric! Would love to make a project with it 🙂 Great blog. Lots of great ideas…very inspirational. Thanks!! Congrats for being featured on Gen X Quilters, and thanks for the opportunity – I love the little owls. Thanks for the giveaway that fabric is too cute, and congratulations on being featured. I love that fabric line….thanks for sharing! Oh I have been wanting to get my hands on some of this fabric! I would love to play with the charm pack. I love your blog, Traci. I started reading your old blog before Will was born, then started following your photography blog and now I love reading this blog of yours. 🙂 I love your blog! I’ve been following since September ( : Saw you on Gen X quilter, and love your blog. Congrats! A perfect giveaway – your blog is a hoot! Thanks for the wonderful give away! Love your site! Your projects are SO very sweet! You are an inspiration! Found you through flickr’s Sew Mama Sew group. Love your adorable projects!! That Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Coin Purse. So sweet! SWEET GIVEAWAY ! A fan of your digi scrapping first, then your photography and now your sewing/quilting! congrats on your feature and thanks so much for the giveaway! posted the giveaway on my blog under fabrics fabrics! Pretty fabric. Charm packs are such a fun way to try out a fabric line. Your photos are beautifully styled. I need you to help me with my Etsy shop! 😀 I can’t wait to try a charm quilt, so this fabric would be perfect! I also posted your giveaway on my blog! I love me some Momo 🙂 I have been following you on Flickr for a while…your pics are so fabulous (now I know why!) Thanks for the opportunity to win. I found you through the Gen X site. Thanks for a great giveaway! Would love to win It’s a Hoot, that’s such a great line. Your blog is beautiful. found you on GenX- I love your owl bag. Thanks for the giveaway! Love this fabric! Thanks for hosting a giveaway! Super cute stuff on your blog, too! I can understand why you’re having trouble letting this go! I don’t have any of this line in my stash yet, but I’m seriously lusting over it. 😉 Ok, I’ve just been scrolling down the page and drooling. You have such a lovely blog! I will gladly put a link to it on my sidebar…it should appear shortly. And I’ll definitely visit again soon! How fun!!! WILL be blogging about this tonight : ) I love a good give away!! I’ve loved seeing your work on Flickr. Thanks for the giveaway. It’s a Hoot is on my list of current lines I really like, although I don’t have any of it yet. I’ve added you to my sidebar. Your blog design is wonderful! I have heard people raving about this fabric line – need to check it out! Ohhhhhh! I love It’s a Hoot! Thanks for the giveaway!! Love your blog! good luck with it and thanks so much for the giveaway 🙂 Wonderful giveaway Traci! Love that collection and I do not have any tiny bit of it, so if I won it will be more than wellcoming :D. I’m a first-time visitor to your blog (I saw your announcement on Flickr), but the Charlie Brown Christmas tree change purse has convinced me that you’re awesome. I’m excited to check out your blog. Thanks for offering the giveaway! I found you through flickr. Great giveaway! I found you via flickr (I’m part of the Pillow Talk Swap too). Great blog!! I’ll be back… : ) Oh my goodness! I just love this line. What a great giveaway. What a great interview at Gen X Quilters! I love them. 🙂 and like I said over there, it’s great to know a little more about you! I know I’m going to learn a lot from you. Love your blog and what a nice giveaway. I’ve added you to my blogroll! Cute! I just found your blog, but I’m looking forward to seeing all of your Christmas project posts. I love the little reindeer pillow in the post below. I have no idee how come you weren’t in my blogroll yet. Done that 🙂 I also have no ideea what ‘mountain’ time is now, if i’m still in or not, but I know I would love the charm pack 😀 Pick me! Choose me! 🙂 Love me! 🙂 Yippee, thank you so much Tracy! 8 is officially my new favorite number. Can’t wait to get stitchy with some It’s a Hoot! 🙂 I’m a little worried about Santa and Will this year. He doesn’t seem to be buying that he visited with Santa earlier this week, but he can’t articulate his concerns/doubts, either. I’m not sure whether to do some cool magical elf visits and push it, or whether we should play it cool and hope to skate through the year Truth-free. Being out of town for Thanksgiving really threw me off. It’s already December 2nd (a mom at preschool today told me it was ‘only’ December 2nd—don’t worry—I gave her the appropriate ‘what planet are you from?!’ look) and we aren’t anywhere near celebrating. No tree, no decorations…we’re still digging out from the suitcases and general ‘we left in a rush’ mayhem. I had awesome plans to make an advent calendar, but the special felt I ordered somehow disappeared last week. I LOVE Christmas, and I hate that it’s so short. Three and a half weeks is just not enough time for all I want to do! And since I’m working this year (last year I cut things off early, but this year I have two weddings the week of Christmas and I’m not saying no to any portrait shoots that come my way) it leaves even less time for jolly. I feel badly because I am very aware that my clever little boy might not have many magical years left. But I’m going to try to chill out and not rob the season of its joy in my effort to stress out about maximizing the month. We’ll get our tree when we get it, we’ll decorate when we get to it, and we’ll do some crafts and baking. Not as much as in my dreams, but however much we do, it will be the perfect amount. “Mom! I see a reindeer!” Will shouted. I looked up and saw a giant deer running along our house, just outside our fenceline—about 10 feet from our windows. He met up in the grassy field just on the other side of the driveway with two others, including one with a huge full set of antlers (the others had much smaller antlers). Will asked if we could take them carrots. I’m glad to see that living in Colorado hasn’t rubbed off on him too badly, or he would have asked to take them out and mount them on the wall! 😛 When we left for Seattle 11 days ago, I had a baby who crawled but in a limited way. She’d go a few feet, but that was about it. When I got home last night, I had a MOBILE baby. And worse, as we discovered minutes after putting her in her crib for the night…a baby who could and would fully pull up. Will did all these things at 6 months, so the fact that I’ve enjoyed 4 more months of relative ease is not lost on me…but dang it sucks to come home with a pressing need to baby proof! |
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Julia - I just love this blog and am envious of your talent with a needle and fabric, I think your designs are incredible, but this one just blew me away – how gorgeous is he!
Susanne - Traci, are you kidding me with that Cat in the Hat?? I mean, REALLY. He’s absolutely PERFECT!!!!! UH-MAZING!!!!
sohobutterfly - Wowza, great-fantastic-amazing job. I just picked up some Dr. Seuss fabric yesterday to make a birthday quilt for a special little boy. I love it, so fun to quilt with!!
Melissa - Super awesome! Wow. I don’t think the good doctor himself could have done a better job creating that cat!
Meagan - I LOVE all the free motion sewing you’ve been doing. I’d love to try it, do you have a tutorial you used, or maybe some hints you could pass on?
Thanks!!
Brooke - I love this! You must have a lot of patience…I’m not sure I could pull it off. Also, what’s thread painting? I haven’t heard of that before.
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