Quilting Goal for 2013

My son has needed a new quilt for quite some time now but I must confess that even though I love to sew I am not much of a quilter. I very much prefer to sew items that can be finished in a day or two at the most. So why am I setting this as a goal for 2013 you many ask? Well it seems Barbara over at Cat Patches is having a linky party and has invited everyone to post their quilt goal for 2013 so I decided to jump on the quilting wagon and give it another try.


After some searching on Pinterest I found a quilt that I think is simple enough for me to complete quickly and simple enough that my son will like it on his bed. I do intend to chance the colors to white and mostly solid shades of blue.

Pinterest link here

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway 2

WINNER WINNER WINNER I used a random number generator to select the winner. There were 24 comments left after I filtered out all of the no reply bloggers that didn't leave a e-mail :( I have never done this before and couldn't figure out how to post the picture of the generator so if anyone knows how to do that please let me know thanks.

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and the winner is Comment #17 from Laurel09 Congratulations Laurel09. I have sent you an e-mail.

Welcome to Breanna's Knit Bits

I am glad you stopped by.

I know you want to move along quickly so that you have time to enter all of the awesome giveaways so I will make this quick and easy.

A little bit about my blog: I have been absent for a long time but I am using this giveaway oportunity to get my blog started again. I love to blog about my family, sewing, knitting, spinning, crafting, cooking, baking, and our animals. Our new farm will be featured often as we learn to take care of this land and our new animals.

I bet you want to know what you can win :)

Up for grabs is a set of 2 lovely dinosaur themed burb cloths for that special baby in your life.

You have two opportunities to win but you don't have to do both :) I know you are in a hurry.

1. For one entry please leave a blog comment telling me about your favorite holiday tradition or a quick recipe that you can type from memory.
2. For another entry if you like what you see please subscribe to my blog and leave a comment telling me how you are subscribing. If you are already a subscriber that counts too just tell me in your comment(Thanks in advance for subscribing I would love to have some new readers!!)

Important information

This giveaway will remain open until December 7th 5p.m. PST.

Winner will be chosen at random.

The winner will be announced no later than Sunday December 9th. I will contact the winner via e-mail and I will update the blog post with the winner's name.

Don't forget to leave an easy way for me to get ahold of you if you are a noreply blogger

Don't miss out on all the other great giveaways this week at Sew Mama Sew

Open to US residents only Sorry

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day

WINNER WINNER WINNER I used a random number generator to select the winner. There were 49 comments left after I filtered out all of the no reply bloggers that didn't leave a e-mail and a few that had commented more that 2 times :( I have never done this before and couldn't figure out how to post the picture of the generator so if anyone knows how to do that please let me know thanks.

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and the winner is Comment #48 from Laura. Congratulations Laura. I have sent you an e-mail.
Sorry for the edit I spelled the winners name wrong LOL.

Welcome to Breanna's Knit Bits

I am glad you stopped by.

I know you want to move along quickly so that you have time to enter all of the awesome giveaways so I will make this quick and easy.

A little bit about my blog: I have been absent for a long time but I am using this giveaway oportunity to get my blog started again. I love to blog about my family, sewing, knitting, spinning, crafting, cooking, baking, and our animals. Our new farm will be featured often as we learn to take care of this land and our new animals.

I bet you want to know what you can win :)

Up for grabs is a lovely zippered pouch made just for you using this tutorial Open wide zippered pouch from noodle head.

Your pouch will be made just for you (not the one pictured); the winner(s) will get to tell me their favorite colors and I will do my best to make them a pouch that matches their favorite colors. I can also make another pouch like this one.

You have two opportunities to win but you don't have to do both :) I know you are in a hurry.

1. For one entry please leave a blog comment telling me what you like to read about on blogs. (I need to dust this place off and start fresh!!)
2. For another entry if you like what you see please subscribe to my blog and leave a comment telling me how you are subscribing. If you are already a subscriber that counts too just tell me in your comment. (Thanks in advance for subscribing I would love to have some new readers!!)

Important information
If I get more that 100 subscribers I will add another zippered pouch to the giveaway!

This giveaway will remain open until December 7th 5p.m. PST.

Winner(s) will be chosen at random.

The winner or winners will be announced no later than Sunday December 9th. I will contact the winner via e-mail and I will update the blog post with the winners name.

Don't forget to leave an easy way for me to get ahold of you if you are a noreply blogger

Don't miss out on all the other great giveaways this week at Sew Mama Sew

Open to US residents only Sorry

Creating Waldorf Dolls

I recently found the blog Windfall Dolls and after spending many days looking through their archived posts of beautiful dolls I decided that I just had to make a waldorf doll for my doll Annabelle. I will be posting my doll making journey right here for all to see. Even if it isn't pretty the first time around. So come back and check for some bloopers, I am sure there will be many.

Photo is from adirondak patterns on Etsy. See I told you their dolls were beautiful!!!


This is where my story begins...

I spent several weeks searching the web looking at many different styles of waldorf dolls as well as other hand made dolls but I kept going back to windfall dolls. I love their individuality; their faces, clothes, and personalities come to life on the blog.

So the next step for me was to find a pattern and the matterials to make a beautiful doll. I ordered a pattern (it is more like a full scale book of a tutorial with great photographs of each step and written instructions that are easy to understand) from the windfall dolls etsy shop adirondak patterns Their shop also has many sewing and crocket patterns for doll accessories. They have many other items for sale as well. Go on check them out I know you want to I will wait...........


You finally made it back, I almost gave up on you.

The next thing I did was start shopping for fabric to make the body and head. This is not an easy process and in another post I will give you some links to shops that have double knit and interlock fabric. I plan to make the doll clothes from fabric I have on hand and to order some lovely yarn for the hair (shop info to come soon).

Right now I am waiting for my ordered fabric to come in the mail and until then I am spending time trolling etsy for super cute inspiration from all of the waldorf dolls that are for sale.

I will see you back here soon for the next installment of creating waldorf dolls.