I have another project in the latest issue of Making Magazine, by Madder. The theme for this issue is Fauna, which is pretty fun.
My project explores a fairly simple idea–embroidered fish. But there’s all kinds of fun detailing and fabric possibilities to make it an enticing project to really get into.
I mixed a bunch of blue fabrics from many of my collections–Euclid, Friedlander, Botanics and Doe, plus some metallic Essex to add a little bit of sparkle before embroidering some hand-drawn fish on top. I hand quilted it to add even more texture and color.
Like the first issue, the second issue of Making is a beautiful book with loads of great projects and inspiration. Carrie from Madder was generous and sent me an extra copy to giveaway. To enter, leave a comment below about what you’re thankful for this week, and I’ll select a winner at random by November 27 December 4.
Love to win. Thankful , that the storm passed without damage.
I am thankful that all my family is healthy.
I love this very serene feeling swarm of fish, what a great use of embroidery.
Speaking of fauna I’m very great full for the loyal dogs in my life.
I am thankful for special time with my children (some grown and one in high school).
You project is beautiful! This week, I’m thankful for for my sweet and crazy children who fill my life with chaos and music and joy. Thanks for the chance to win.
I’m thankful for my silly four year old and sillier husband. And the woodstove. Never forget the woodstove.
I am thankful for my family, friends and the abundance of beauty and wonder of the natural world I see everyday on my walks. Oh, cannot forget my 3 kitties, I am thankful for their love and companship! >^..^<
Thankful for my mom (age 90) who continues to inspire me
I am forever thankful for my husband & daughter, my friends – especially my quilting buddies! The beautiful natural world I see on my daily walks, and my 3 sweet kitties who are the best companions ever! Thank you for the nice giveaway!
I am thankful for good health and the ability to get out in nature.
*I am forever thankful for my husband & daughter, my friends – especially my quilting buddies! The beautiful natural world I see on my daily walks, and my 3 sweet kitties who are the best companions ever!
I’m thankful that the weather has finally started turning chilly in MS, and for the pitter patter of fall rain.
I am Thankful for being healthy and for having a healthy dose of creativity! Not sure where I get this as my Mom and Grand were not. Thankful it skipped a couple of generations!
I am forever thankful for my husband & daughter, my friends – especially my quilting buddies! The beautiful natural world I see on my daily walks, and my 3 sweet kitties who are the best companions ever! ❤️
Thankful the weather is starting to feel a bit more autumn like – goodbye 80s!
I’m thankful for my family of course and to have found your work.
I am so thankful for my little family and for having finally found the peace and wisdom to accept my true self and to not try to live my life according to other people’s expectations of me.
I am thankful for free health care in the UK. With all of my health issues, I would have been bankrupt trying to get treatment a long time ago.
I am thankful for health, family and friends….and lots of quilt fabrics.
I am thankful still for being an American – because we have freedom of speech. Lindafdoyle@verizon.net
I am thankful for healthy children and for having a gaggle of creative, bright, driven, nasty women and men I call friends.
I am thankful for newest grandson Soren!
I’m thankful that I follow your blog. I rarely see any hand quilting anymore. I love your quilts. Makes me want to hand stitch again
On a lighter note- I’m thankful for the Thanksgiving feast and especially the pies…
Your project is beautiful! I am thankful that we live just a few miles from one of the top ranked pediatric cardiology centers–I hate that we need it, but I am so thankful for the doctors and nurses there!
I am thankful for everything I have got because there are so many people out there with so little. I am truly blessed!
I am thankful for a day off of work and pie! Beautiful quilt!
I am most thankful that my family is healthy!!
I am thankful for many things, but particularly for my group of quilting friends who I hvae been meeting with monthly for nearly 10 years. This group had been an amazing support network as we have each faced difficult times.
I’m thankful for my family (especially my hubby), my health and that I get to spend Thanksgiving with my dad and stepmom.
Love these fish! I’m thankful for family, friends, an amazing son and this wonderful community of makers we are part of!
OH, so much to be thankful for! A warm fire on this chilly night. Tired, sleeping dogs at my feet, a cozy chair for me, and a simple but fulfilling embroidery project to keep my fingers busy.
I’m thankful for the extra time with family this week. Truly!
Thankful for the opportunity to visit home and see my family for the first time in months this week 🙂
Beautiful! I am grateful for family and friends ✨
I’m thankful for my family, podcasts, and 4 hours to knit in the car on Wednesday.
I’m thankful for my family and anticipating moving close to our children in the next month. So exciting!
I’m thankful for having a loving family. They ability to travel and see our beautiful country.
I’m thankful that I will have a house full of family next week. Thanks!
I’m thankful I will have a house full of family this week! Thanks.
This book looks fantastic, and love your ‘Fauna’ quilt. I am thankful for the good health of my family. Thank you.
I am thankful that we will be traveling to spend some time with family far away and hopefully working out some aging parent questions.
I’m thankful for people who offer words of encouragement and acceptance.
I am thankful for the time I have to sew, it helps to clear my mind in amongst the daily chaos.
Thankful for wonderful family…love those fishies hugs, Julierose
I am thankful that we finally found and installed the storm windows in our old house. I was not enjoying the breeze that flowed through the dining room 🙂
Love the project. I am thankful for family and friends.
I am grateful for so much–good health, my family, work, home.
I’m thankful for my family. And living in Canada (despite the winters). Thanks for the opportunity!
Ian thankful for the peace sewing brings me in times of stress.
I’m thankful for cold air on a sunny day (although maybe not for the fact that I had to scrape the frost off my car this morning). Also for three days to sew this weekend. 🙂
I am thankful for good health, wonderful family, and the changes of seasons!
Those little fish are adorable. I am thankful for friends.
I’m thankful for my family and friends and the ability to pursue my new passion of sewing!
This is so pretty!! I am thankful for the health of my family and my incredible daughter.
thankful for my Maker
All of the above and this: that you share your creative life so well. ‘Savour Each Stitch’ became a life saver for me and your fabric lines woke my quilts up! Bless you!
I am thankful that another (wanted, hoped for, prayed for) child is on it’s journey to my daughter’s family.
I’m grateful for a family that appreciates and values creativity
I’m thankful for my husband’s continuing good health
I’m thankful for my wonderful husband, my family and my beloved cat Pickles. Also for the BURNING passion that never flags for all things fabric and sewing! I love your project with the fishies!
I am thankful to be part of a world community.
I am thankful for family, health, and living in a country where I have freedom to go where I want, believe in God and to be creative.
I am thankful for family gatherings this week (2 dinners) and a long weekend to quilt my heart out.
I am thankful for my good health which enables me to stitch each day
I’m thankful for my family’s good health. Without good health, not much else matters. The book looks fabulous.
lovely Book. I m thankfull, the storm passed without damage
I am thankful for my parents, who stood by me no matter what :). And today I was thankful for something maybe trivial: coincidently driving home thru the one dry spot in the day and see a beautiful rainbow.
Thank you for the chance to win. I love the quilt.
I’m thankful for my modern quilting community. It’s good to have people in my life who share my love of quilting
We learned today that a dear friend lost her old dog over the weekend. It was a reminder that last year it was us, saying goodbye to our sweet old friends. Right now I am thankful for the relative good health of our one remaining elderly dog, and the vigorous good health of the young pups who dance circles around him and us, making us laugh despite our creaky old bones.
I am thankful for the little things.
Hi, Carolyn :). Thank you so much for your wonderful work and your blog! I have to say I am thankful for everything I have from God, but especially the chance to change careers this late and go into Graphic Design. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I’m so very thankful for my family! I am married to a great guy, and have 6 grown children and 6 grandchildren. My dad is still alive and well at 88 yrs. old! I am truly blessed.
I’m thankful that I get to take a workshop with you at this weekend’s Modern Quilt Show in Sydney!
I was just thinking about thankfulness while taking a walk in the woods near my house yesterday. I ended up stopping a bunch to pick seed pods (particularly these little puff balls I love) ahead of a coming storm. I’m so thankful for the rain (and just a little snow) on our dry soil, for the ability to go out to the woods whenever I want, and to bring a little winter beauty back with me, and most of all for my family who are coming to share Thanksgiving with us this week!
I am thankful for my family and any time we can get together.
I am thankful for my sister that is traveling to my city to spend thanksgiving with my elderly parents so I can travel and spend Thanksgiving with my husband and visit our two sons that live out of state.
I am thankful for my husband who has been incredible through two of my recent hospitalizations.
I am thankful that I have the time and means to create – quilts, cross stitch, rug-hooking, garments, and especially crafting with my young daughter. Thanks to you, Carolyn, for sharing your creations with us!
I am thankful for a warm cup of coffee and the view out my window this morning . . . The precious present!
I’m grateful for family and friends.
I am so grateful for the health of me and my family.
This is beautiful, Carolyn! I am most grateful for my wife… Every single day I count my lucky stars that I’m standing next to her in these moments of doubt and fear.
I am thankful for another day, everyday; another day to love my family, another day to be loved.
I am most thankful for my husband who just retired after 38 years of working very hard. He is now able to enjoy life and relax…and I get to share it with him!
I am thankful for loving family visiting for Thanksgiving!!
I am thankful for my family and of course the fact that they let me create things for them!
What a great use of the small pieces of fabric! My husband and I trout fish, so I really love that you embroidered fish on the quilt!
This week I am thankful for me family but more than that, I hope that they are thankful for me as well. Thank you for the giveaway!
I love this quilt! And I’m thankful for my friends and family and political sanity in Canada …
Love this, I am thankful for my life.
I’m thankful for my hands and my inclination to make.
I’m thankful that this weekend has ended and children are going sleep :).
The fishes are beautiful.
What a lovely new project! I’m thankful for opportunities to help others, especially when I’m not looking for them. My husband and I were headed to a show tonight and passed a homeless man asking for money to buy dinner. It was a bitterly cold and wet evening, and we passed him with an apology because we didn’t have any cash on hand. Thankfully, there was a diner next to the theater, so we popped in and ordered him a hot meal, then hurried back to give it to him. He was so unbelievably excited about that burger, and it just broke (and filled) my heart. I was so thankful that I was able to help him in some small way and that we didn’t just keep walking. (Sorry, I’m sure you were looking for a quick one-line answer, but he really stuck with me.) Thanks for the giveaway!
Thankful for my children, my husband and my tenacity
Thankful I live where “freezing” is anything below 70 degrees F! :0)
Thankful for my like-minded, creative husband and our 4 furry family members.
Thankful to live where 68F is considered freezing! ;0)
I’m thankful for a cozy bed full of quilts to snuggle!
I’m thankful for a healthy family. And, of course, for giveaways like this! It looks like a lovely magazine/book.
Thankful for my like-minded, creative husband and our 4 furry family members. (my first reply disappeared, so this is a second try)
I love your designs and am currently making the everglade pattern. Great fun! I’m thankful to have my grandchildren live close by.
That my boyfriend from the states is here (definitely not that I have a cold)..
Thankful that my 93 year-old mom who lives with me is still vibrant though fading.
I’m thankful that my wonderful dog Zack is recovering well from a miserable tooth extraction surgery that took 4 hours.
I am thank that I have friends and family to sew for.
I’m thankful that it finally rained in Georgia. The drought and the fires have been horrible. My heart goes out to those currently in/near Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge.
I am so thankful for my loving family and good health!
Very thankful for friends and family. Looking forward to checking out Making.
I’m thankful that since I’m not working right now, I am able to help my daughter with the grandchildren!😜
Thankful that it has not been really cold, and no real amount of snow 🙂
I am thankful for my family–parents, children, one precious granddaughter, and the whole assortment of extended relatives. Most are (will be!) makers. To be a maker is to believe in inspiration, that something useful, beautiful, fulfilling, mindful can be created out of the scattered flotsam of life. In an age of uncertainty, being a maker spreads light during darker times and provides bountiful templates for bringing the pieces together again.
I am grateful for my health, family and friends and inspirational people like you. Also, that I finished piecing the raffle quilt, basted it with the Empire Quilters and got it on the frame.
Family and friends and time to be with them
This magazine looks so intriguing. I am thankful for our independent bookseller in our small town. She curates a great selection of books but magazines like this just don’t come in. Too much of a risk for her I’m guessing. Thankful too that our daughter and her partner are coming up here for a hike today. She’s been working with indigenous groups in the far north of Ontario for a couple of weeks and We haven’t seen her for a bit.
Thankful for friends and family. Would love to win! Very happy that you are having fun on your Australian adventure!
I’m thankful for a new appreciation of having breath!
LoVe this quilt!! My daughter’s bday is the 4th! :))
Thanks for the opportunity to win a magazine, but Overall — Thankful for warm shelter and a freezer full of food!
I’m thankful for famity and friends and the generosity of the members of the quilting community.
I am thankful for my wonderful granddaughter, Lucy.
Very thankful for the love of my family and friends!
I’m so thankful for my sons. They are growing up so well and I love watching them do that.
I am so thankful for my friends, online and closer to home, who lift me up and make me smile.
I’m thankful that I finally found my holiday spirit this year! Looking forward to spending a week with my family.
This week I’m thankful That I recently discovered the Danish concept of hygge. Though there isn’t a real English translation, it’s an intentional cultivation of coziness and comfort and safety in the company of people you care about. It’s been a hard year in many ways, and being mindful of opportunities for more hygge in my life over the past few weeks is making the end of the year a little better for me.
This week I am thankful for having the opportunity to travel interstate to indulge my passion for quilting/sewing!
I’m thankful for happy and healthy family and friends!
Grateful for my husband and two sons being supportive and loving men. Mostly that. And for my health and ability to live an awesome life.