French Country Finish

JBW Designs French Country Bunny

A non no-sew cube finish - YAY!!!  This was from my very first F&S Exchange with Michele.  It might have taken six years, but it did make it to our tree this past Christmas.

Two more finished finishes

Since I was on a roll with finishing, here's two more pieces I finished up from F&S Exchanges.

Winter Round 2009 with Renee K 

 

Round #23 with Shelley P

More on my blog here.

A *finished* finished from a 2012 Exchange

Hello?  Is this thing on?  Is anyone reading this blog, and more importantly, is anyone interested in participating in the exchange again?  I'd love to see this group reactivated.  I've met some incredibly lovely stitchers through this exchange.

I wanted to share a no sew cube I made with squares received in 2012 from Pokua. (You can see the front and back in that post)

This cube will be a lovely companion to another exchange I finished in the same manner, this one from Jeanie.

Daniela M's Round 31 Squares to Pokua Finished

Here's how Daniela's squares turned out when I'd finished them. Thank you, Daniela. Love it!

bridget c and corinna o valentine exchange

hello I am posting for both of us
from bridget to corinna

from corinna to bridget

finished bridgets to me into holiday bean bag

whew.....lots of pics

lots of fun

thanks bridget

smiles

corinna

Last but not least

I finished the squares from Linda B into a little pillow ornament:

And now I am officially caught up with my Fair & Square finishing :)

my squares from Ruth

These are the squares I received from Ruth. Aren't they gorgeous? 

I had to finish them right away into a pin cushion. Usually I use the signature square on the back of the pillow but this time I placed them both on the front.
It would be a shame hiding this lovely apricot tree on the back.
Thank you so much Ruth. I love my new squares.

Little pillow ornies

I was inspired by Daniela's post to do a little finishing over the weekend.  The plan was to get all 4 of my squares converted into little pillows but I only managed to complete 3 of them.

from Daniela T in 2011

from Nancy K in 2011

from Karen R in 2010

I have one more to do and am determined to get it finished this coming weekend.  Thanks, Daniela, for the kick in the pants  inspiration!

more finishes

This morning I felt a lot like sewing something. So I finished my remaining Fair & Square pieces into little pincushions.

Here is an updated picture of my Fair & Square basket. Soon I need to get a bigger one. The basket is the center piece of our dinner table and gets a lot of attention whenever we are having guest.

And these are the three pillows I made today:

from Linda B. in 2009

from Milly D. in 2011

from Pam K. in 2012

2009 Exchange finished!

Christmas 2009 Round From Christine R
Celtic Wreath by The Sunflower Seed
JCS 2009 Ornament Issue
Finished as a door knob hanger / ornament

Fair & Square finishes

I bought myself a new sewing machine just a few weeks ago and finally started turning my received Fair& Square pieces into finished objects. I've decided to finish them all into little pin cushions and display them together with my ostrich egg in a big basket. This basket is centered on my living room coffee table. It makes me smile every time when I pass by that basket and remember all those great exchanges I had (and still have) in this group.

Here are pictures of each single pillow (only the front with the main square, the squares with the names are on the back of each pillow, you can see those on my blog)

from Gillie - this was my very first exchange

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from Jennifer in 2009

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from Kathy in 2009 - I had my bicycle stolen that summer, so Kathy decided to stitch a bicycle for me. This exchange was very special too me.

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 from Kim - this one is completely stitched 1 over 1

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 the Summer Exchange from Malinda in 2009

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 from Marcy in 2011

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 from Renée in 2009

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from Suzanne in 2009

Round # 27 from Marie P.

I was thrilled that Marie P and I were paired up again for Round #27. Since there's no dedicated Christmas Round this year, we decided to do Christmas themed squares. Little House Needleworks is one of Marie's favorite designers, so I chose Fresh Fallen Snow from the 2011 JCS Ornament issue for her, which you can see in another post.

For me, Marie stitched a lighthouse. PERFECT!! I've been eyeing up this design at my LNS for a while now, and couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger, considering I have plenty of stash and not enough time to stitch it all. Luckily now I don't have to.

Christmas Lighthouse by Of Generations Past
Stitched by Marie P. (http://creativethread.blogspot.com/)

As soon as I opened up the package, I knew it would make a perfect ornament, I put it in the pile I've been working on and here, in record time, is a *finished* ornament, hanging on my tree!



Thank you so much, Marie! I love it!

Fair Square Wall Hanging

I thought you might like to see my finished Fair Square Wallhanging.

I love it and it reminds me of each of the special people who stitched a pair of squares and contributed to my hanging. Thank you all so much. I will take this home to Canada with me in April and it will hang in my sewing/stitching room.

Finished Fair Squares

I have collected Fair Squares over the last couple of year 2008 - 2010.
I had a plan in the back of my mind and now it has come to fruition. Check this out.

Do you recognize your squares?

There are two sets of squares that I did not use in the wall hanging. One was Melissa W. who's squares made a gorgeous bunny pillow and Karen R. whose gorgeous nutcracker squares will make an ornament.

What do you do with your squares?

Halloween from Linda B...

I received this wonderful exchange from Linda B this weekend and just love it. We decided to "finish" our square and did a great job. I just love this design from Brenda Gervais so she picked the perfect design.

Thanks again Linda for such a wonderful finish!

Karen T

Halloween Round from Karen T

Karen and I agreed to finish our exchange this round. Look at the very cute treat bag she made me with a Homespun Elegance piece she stitched for me. My picture doesn't do it justice - but there's also a pumpkin charm hanging from the beak of the bird. Really, really cute. And she included a handmade card too. Thank you so very much Karen.

Linda B

4th of July Finish

up-close front

Back

Front

I made this pillow from the beautiful squares Lenna V. made for me in the 4th of July 2010 exchange. Thank you so much Lenna! Your stitching is beautiful! The colors you chose go perfectly with the fabric I had.

A "finish" from previous squares rec'd

Hi! I have an actual "finish" of one of my sets of squares from last year. I rec'd these gorgeous squares stitched by Lynda A. and finished them off yesterday as a pillow. I am really pleased at how it turned out.