In The Boon Docks

My ALYOF January Goal and Finish My goal this month was to finish the Noodlehead Super Tote , I started at Thanksgiving and now have! I am finally getting it in the mail this afternoon! I can't tell you how much I love this bag and hope to make myself one soon. It is so well made and the perfect bag to show off your favorite fabric and carry all your knitting, sewing, or books around in! I totally recommend this pattern! It has so many pockets inside and a big pocket on the outside! I am linking up with the ALYOF January Finish Post at Sew BitterSweet Designs If you are looking for the "Grow Your Blog Giveaway" please Click Here If you would like to enter "Blog Anniversary Giveaway" please Click Here Thank you for stopping by! Come back soon! Lisa

Giveaway Links are at the bottom of this post! If you enjoy the quilting and sewing blogging community please go vote on the Craftsy Blog by Wednesday, January 28, 2015, before 11:59 pm. No, I am not on the list but the are some really talented people who try and make quilting and sewing much easier for beginners to experts and are always willing to jump in and help you with a related problem. So, please take a few minutes and use the blue link above that says Craftsy Blog and vote for your favorites! If you don't know the blogs listed there go visit them. I am sure you will find at least one or two that can teach you something you didn't know. One of my favorite for all crafting is Author and new fabric designer Melissa Mortenson of www.polkadotchair.com I took a class with her a few months ago and she is a great teacher among other things! She deserves her spot among the Best! Next on my list is Rita @ www.redpepperquilts.com I once needed help on a block I had seen

This Giveaway has ended and both winners have received their pouches! If you click on my blog header above it will take you to my latest post! Thank you for stopping by! Lisa Welcome All to In The Boon Docks! Hi! I am Lisa, Christian, wife, mother, grandmother, veteran, and artist. In a rural area of West Virginia, USA, my family and I, live with 3 dogs, 7 chickens, a squirrel, and miscellaneous deer (they live in our woods). We grow, can, and freeze, both fruits and vegetables. I will admit I am a awful cook but my husband is a culinary genius. I love to blog, blog hop, swap, sew, quilt, crochet, knit, and just about any DIY project. I am a fabric and Aurifil thread lover! Hopefully, some of the things I write about here will interest you and keep you entertained. If so, please leave a comment occasionally and follow. Follow any way you like if I don't have it available, just send me an email. I love to do Giveaways! I would like to thank Vicki @ 2 Bags Full for putting this wo

If you have not signed up for the Blog Anniversary Giveaway $25 GC from the FQS (click here) The Fat Quarter Shop Sale is going on NOW! Thank you for Everything, Lisa

On the Jolly Jabber, the Fat Quarter Shop blog, are directions to enter the latest contest! Basically they want you to pick your group of 9 Cotton+Steel Fabrics and pin them to Pinterest! (Anyone else having trouble linking to pinterest in a post)? Ugh! The instructions tell you how to do Everything! So just click on this What's Your Remix? link to The Jolly Jabber and start pinning! Don't have a Pinterest Account the instructions tell you how to do it! Way to go Fat Quarter Shop ! If you want to see mine click on the red P On the top right below About me! Do you see it? Click on it! Red P And see my What's Your Remix? Have fun my wonderful friends! Lisa

2015 Sampler Blanket (Quilt) Block 1 January My friend Rie at Crafty Rie started this monthly get together. If you click on the blue link that says Crafty Rie you can read all about it. As you can see you can choose what you make and how you make it! My favorite way to work. I will be using Cotton+Steel Basics and Robert Kaufman Kona Solids on My Sampler Quilt. For January I decided to do one of my favorite blocks Scrappy Trip Around The World (Blue words are the link to pattern)! It is very simple and made out of 2 1/2 strips. You can make quite a beautiful quilt using these blocks but since this is a sampler blanket/quilt each month I will choose a different block with a link or directions on how to make it just in case you want to try a few new blocks! If you find you really like making Scrappy Trip Around The World blocks check out the flickr group Scrappy Trip Along - Bee , next signups will be February 1st. The mail date is not until April 15th, so it give you plenty of

This Giveaway has ended and both winners have received their pouches! If you click on my blog header above it will take you to my latest post! Thank you for stopping by! Lisa Blog Anniversary Giveaway It is hard to believe (at least for me) that In The Boon Docks is (3) years old and is still around! It is because of all of you! I am honored that you take the time to read what I say and look at the photographs I post! I sell nothing but receive so much from all of you beautiful people! Thank You! I am so excited! My friends at the Fat Quarter Shop are giving away a $25 Gift Certificate to celebrate! You can pick your own gift out! How fun is that! My Favorite new fabric is Mochi by Rashida Coleman-Hale for Cotton & Steel How to enter 1. Everyone gets a chance! Go to the Fat Quarter Shop - What's New (click here) and leave me a comment on what is your favorite new fabric that has been released! 2. If you are a "In The Boon Docks" follower you get a second chance

If you are a Blogger and would like to Grow Your Blog click on the photo above and signup with Vicki before January 17th and join me and about 200 other bloggers! I have done this for the last 3 years and really enjoyed finding new blogs to follow! I am planning a giveaway and so will many others but it is not a requirement! Hope to see you on January 25, 2015! Lisa

Quilter's Square Quilting Retreat (859)278-5010 March 5, 2015 - March 7, 2015 I am so excited to share the information about this retreat in hopes that maybe a few of you in the Ohio/West Virginia/Kentucky area might come too! Natalia Bonner of Piece N Quilt will be teaching there! Whether it’s working on an intense show quilt or a simple baby quilt, Natalia has become a real quilting addict. She has won numerous awards for her work and has been featured on Moda Bake Shop, in Quiltmaker Magazine and American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, and in books such as Fresh Fabric Treats, Modern Blocks and Sweet Celebrations with the Moda Bake Shop Chefs, Modern Quilts From the Blogging Universe. Natalia is the author of Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting and co-author of Modern One-Block Quilts & Cabin Fever Natalia will do a lecture/trunk show from her books, Beginner's Guide to Free-Motion Quilting and Modern One Block Quilts. She will also teach Beginner's

Update ! My Husband is doing much better and has began cardio rehab this week and he can drive again! Independence! I hardly ever drive and never far from home. For us both to be dependent on others for rides has caused us both headaches. After years of having a blog I decided to get business cards. They came in the mail today with my new logo on them! I got them from Vistaprint for less than $20. Vistaprint has a commercial out in the USA that gives you a code for $9.99 business cards. So if you been thinking about it Vistaprint does a great job for cheaper than the other guys. (My opinion, no money or discounts involved)! I also received this beautiful stack of 1/2 yards Wild and Free by Maureen Cracknell Handmade that I purchased from Quilter's Square ! Speaking of Quilter's Square in Lexington, Ky, they are going to have a retreat in March and I am going to go and see what a retreat is all about! It costs $350 which is less than any other one I have looked in

Happy New Year! Our household leave 2014 with our sickness and begin 2015 on a healthier note! Everyone here including myself are all feeling much better! I really enjoyed participating in A Lovely Year Of Finishes 2014 with Melissa of Sew BitterSweet Designs and her partner Shanna of Fiber Of All Sorts ! I admit I did not always make my goal but mostly it helped me keep on track! So onward I will go and join up for the bi monthly check-ins for another year of A Lovely Year of Finishes 2015 ! ALYOF January Goal My goal this month is to finish the Noodlehead Super Tote , I started at Thanksgiving as a gift for my Cousin's Wife Teresa, she is such a nice person, and like many of us is always carrying around a project she is working on. Poor lady didn't get a Christmas Present because I was to busy tending to my recovering Husband. My wonderful cousin went home after Thanksgiving and came back again to help us when my husband came home from the hospital and did my Hone