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Round 5 of the Traveling Quilts Bee has made it’s way to my house. I now have Amber’s beautiful QIP (quilt in progress). I wanted to carry on in a sewing theme after seeing Elizabeth’s beautiful ruler addition.

So one night at sewing circle (aka Yam time) while I was sewing on Amber’s QIP, a bee flew up my bum and I thought about adding something extra, extra special to Amber’s QIP. So I jumped on to some aerial photography equipment…

… and added a beautiful Yam border!

Mo, Traci, Gibby, Fini (Irene’s sister and Instagram rock-star visiting from Hawai’i), Irene, Jen, Shelly, Joan & Kristin.

BettyCrockerAss‘ wobble, but they don’t fall down.

My fo’realsies addition to Amber’s QIP includes a pieced spool (from Camille’s pattern)…

… and some appliqued “thread”.  I was just about ready to pack it all up and send it off to Dan…

… when suddenly there was an angry commotion amongst the staff.  And there were threats.  Turns out I wasn’t the only one who didn’t want to see this get quilt-top get sent on.

It was going to take some serious scheming and warfare to get past these guys.

Luckily I had help… but there was either a casualty or some narcolepsy.

Order was soon restored by the IT guy - the office/sewing room bad-ass. Amber’s QIP is now safely on it’s way to Dan. And by on it’s way I mean that it’s on my dinner table waiting to go to the post office tomorrow.  Ish.

To see who made what - click on the photo to take you to it’s flickr page, then mouse-over the photo to see the segments and their creators.

I can’t wait to see what Dan does next!

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Today is the Ron Swanson Along - Day 9. If you’ve gotten here by mistake… back up the bus and go directly back to Day 1.

My RonQuilt is absent… he’s on vacay in SoCal right now (with his godmother/tour-guide) - why I have so few photos of him. I just got sent a bundle of Wish You Were Here pics from RonQuilt and he’s having the TIME OF HIS LIFE! I’ll be showing those pics soon! For now, I want to show of Penny’s and Amanda’s pics.

Here’s Penny’s Ron Swanson quilt in her back yard. Penny got to jump ahead and make all the Days, and she wrote a really neat blog post about her “2 weeks of Ron” adventure.  Penny is freaking AMAZING!

Photo credit: Penny/sewtakeahike, used with permission

Not only did Amanda succumb to Ron’s quilty charms, her squares are the size of Charms candies! You can read Amanda’s “Resistance is futile” and read all about her miniaturized Ron awesomeness!

Photo credit: Amanda/My Sewcial Hour, used with permission

On to Day 9 and three quarters of the way done!  If quilting were sex - we’d be on 3rd base now!

Comments are closed this post and am referring all comments to Day 1’s comment section. This way they’re all together and tidy, particularly if questions arise in a comment (which I will answer them in that comment so that others may benefit. Answers are pretty in pink).

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Today is the Ron Swanson Along - Day 8. If you’ve gotten here by mistake… back up the bus and go directly back to Day 1.

<holy breakfast meat!> Two RSA Days in one day!</holy breakfast meat!>

On to Day 8.

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Today is the Ron Swanson Along - Day 7. If you’ve gotten here by mistake… back up the bus and go directly back to Day 1.

<begging> People are sending me photos of their progress, and while I LOVE seeing them - I know others would love seeing them, too! Please consider adding your pics to the flickr group. </begging>

On to Day 7.

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Today is the Ron Swanson Along - Day 6. If you’ve gotten here by mistake… back up the bus and go directly back to Day 1.

Dear Emmy nominating committee,
Really? Seriously? Snubbing Parks and Rec?    No Emmy nomination for Parks & Rec or for Nick Offerman?  Wow, aren’t we buckets of sunshine.

-x and -o,
Monica

All the more I want to blanket the shores, valleys, plains and mountains with Ron Swanson quilts.  What better way to protest the Emmy snub than with a Ron Swanson quilt!

On to Day 6.

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Today is the Ron Swanson Along - Day 5.  If you’ve gotten here by mistake… back up the bus and go directly back to Day 1.

So here we go… Day 5.

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It’s Where I Sew Month 2012 at Pink Chalk Fabrics, and today is my day!  I’m so very thrilled to be gracing the Pink Chalk Studio blog today.  Not only is it fun to see people’s sewing spaces, Pink Chalk Fabrics is giving away 50 (yes, FIFTY… OMGFIFTY) $20 gift certificates.  All you have to do is leave a comment (on the Pink Chalk blog) and be entered to win one of 50 $20 Pink Chalk Fabrics Gift Certificates.  I know, how crazy awesome! I’m a frequent shopper at Pink Chalk Fabrics - these gift certif’s are priceless!

So head on over and check out my day plus the ones before me. You can even show where YOU sew with the little ADD LINK button on the Where I Sew page (plus see what others have posted).  1, 2, 3… go!

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Today is the Ron Swanson Along - Day 4. If you’ve gotten here by mistake… turn around, go back in time, and go directly back to Day 1.

So I gave Penny a chance to go directly past Go and gave her a secret map to location of all the hidden Ron Swanson Along maps. She’s my secret pattern tester. SO SECRET that even Penny didn’t know it! So really, everyone’s gotta check out Penny’s finished Ron Swanson.

So here we go… Day 4.

What Ron looks like in my living-room:

What Ron looks like in my living-room on Skittles:

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Today is the Ron Swanson Along - Day 3. If you’ve gotten here by mistake… turn around, go back in time, and go directly back to Day 1.

Bam - a double day! I’m busy packing (hahaha, I kill me) and going to Sisters to sew with my Yammies at our Second Annual Yam Camp and go to the show, thought I’d post a two-for-one Day!  As well as sewing, we’ll be buying up every issue of Thursday’s Oregonian (particularly the Living segment).  Just saying.  So here we go… Day 3.

Comments are closed this post and am referring all comments to Day 1’s comment section. This way they’re all together and tidy, particularly if questions arise in a comment (which I will answer them in that comment so that others may benefit. Answers are pretty in pink).

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Today is the Ron Swanson Along - Day 2. If you’ve gotten here by mistake… turn around, go back in time, and go directly back to Day 1.

People are already getting started - you should see what Penny, Cat and Amanda have started!  This could be you, people!  Here we go… Day 2.

Comments are closed this post and am referring all comments to Day 1’s comment section. This way they’re all together and tidy, particularly if questions arise in a comment (which I will answer them in that comment so that others may benefit. Answers are pretty in pink).

The Ron Swanson Along
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