BOWLS STACKED WITH a FREEBIE or two

Okay first of all I APOLOGIZE for being late, techinical issues with my old laptop, rural wifi and an inexperienced Iphone user (me) are to blame SO SORRY
Next the THANK YOU'S:
Thank you to Regina who gave us the beautiful bowl pattern
that I started with.
A BIG WHOOT! WHOOT! to REGINA!
I had FUN with this pattern, maybe a little too much.
Sometimes a girl's gotta do what they gotta do.  And I had to do it before my head expoded!!
I wrote this post before my project was complete.... at the moment it is still in about 35 pieces or more and I am allowing myself till midnight to finish said project. And I apologize beforehand, pictures quality
may not be the best, or even good....my room is not well lit.
SOOOO, hopefully the picture gets inserted below before that time. I haven't tried it from my phone before.
Next a big Thank You to Madame Samm, Events Coordinator,Great Keeper of the blog hops of SEW WE QUILT for organizing all the hops and providing a place for non-bloggers to play! This is this first time I have jumped into one of your blog hops as a participant. I had seen quite a few, okay lots and lots of blurbs, shout outs and posts about them here and there and visited quite a few hops lately and when I noticed the one about the bowls I thought why not..........I should have checked into this a little deeper before jumping into the fray, imagine my surprise when I found out it was paper pieced.......oh my, that is not my favorite thing to do!! But I had had committed myself to your hop, and so this is my best attempt at Regina's paper piecing., bown up in all sizes But keep in mind I had fun and Thank you!!
Lastly I want to thank Carol of Just Let Me Sew, Cheerleader, Event Supervisor, coordinator of the crazy quilters!!! Oh SEW Great Carol, whom I have conversed with frequently and laughed heartily with, Thank you for your support and for putting up with my zaniness!!
I am dedicating my stack to you......
I started with a few and they looked so lonely, ..... it kind of bothered me, I had to think about it.   What would make it work where I wanted it to hang...... I wanted big, and bold.
But first I had a turtle to figure out so I ignored them while they hung there,
so lonely and small.
This is what it was looking at.........

Then I had other things with deadlines, there was a quilt back I had to piece together and a table runner to work on and the bowls just hung there. They stared are me, questioning me......."when are you coming back to us?" Well after after I got my turtle drawing done, the back pieced, and the quilt top all packed, ready for the quilter, I pulled out my bag of scraps

and set to work again, holding up scraps, sizing up colors, Rachel Ray's, " a Week in a Day" playing in the background, bowls running through my head......... then it hit me I knew what I needed to do, I tell you I work best with a 48 hour deadline, but sometimes that deadline gets the best of me and I don't finish. That 24-48 hour deadline is great for ideas but terrible for sewing time. But at least I think I have something good, something I will enjoy and maybe others. At this writing I'm not sure how finished it will be????
But, here it is.
A Weeks' Worth in a Day..... or Two Bowls!
finished at 12:05 8/15/12 CST USA
I apologize for the WET upper and lower corners, there was blue marking pen from squaring it up, It was midnight and I did not have a hair dryer.

it measures 27.5" by 43"  :)
bwhahahahaha Carol, I can hear you laughing now.
I know I'm crazy, always have been always will be. But that aside, This was fun.
I 'm glad I jumped on board and will probably do it again one of these days!!
Here is a shot of the middle, is a wet corner not a shadow.

MORE FUN FOR YOU BELOW!!

Two FREEBIE GIVEAWAYS below to anyone that wants them, one for FM ,
and one for STITCHERS
for any of you who are interested in Free Motion Quilting.. stop here first, IF NOT, jump to next paragraph........I do not do FMQ but designed a turtle anyway. I needed it and could not find a " cute"  one, only realistic looking ones....... SO I am giving away  my FMQ continuous line turtle I worked on so hard that I think part of my left brain/right brain thing had a small skirmish,  but at last one side finally won because I got thing on paper..........I tell you, my hat is off to you free motion quilters.........It took me forever and a day to figure out how to draw a continuous line turtle for a baby quilt.
But it is done & stored on google docs, and am sharing it with you.
It is for your use on your own quilts or quilts you do for others. Just do not sell the pattern, I gave it you free, pass it around free to your friends with credit back to me please. My favorite quilter, Claire, is going to do the turtle quilting on a baby quilt I made for my daughter's best friend with this turtle, the MOM2B will be thrilled! And I am glad to not have to have quilted it!!! LOL! There's a link to google docs below the picture.

You can probably print the picture, But if you would like a PDF instead, click HERE.

Not into Free Motion Quilting......here's another giveaway....for stitchers
Below is "Baskets of Plenty"
(and there are more on blog look for label "freebies" way way down side on right,
there are quite a few!)
Its a set of 12 Baskets I drew for our Quiltin' Chicks redwork group years ago.
Click on the link below the picture.

Baskets A' Plenty
a set of 12 baskets for various reasons or seasons, enjoy!

Glad you hopped by Check below for a new place to hop!

Bowls with Borders Blogs that Carol STACKED UP for
today August 15th

hop by the following to see how they stacked theirs

BINKS

ROBIN S

TRISH

QUILTING ALONG THE WAY

SEW SOMETHING GOOD

QUILT DOODLE DOODLES

HAPPIER THAN A BIRD QUILTS

DIZZY DAZE

You are here at (Stitch, Stitch, Stitch) aka Bee Tree Designs. Hope you had fun!!! Cyndi

DAISY DAYS

A QUILTING SHEEP