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As I kid I read a lot of book... A LOT..and mysteries were my favorite. From Agatha Christie to Nancy Drew, lady Sleuths ruled my childhood reading time! I lived in Europe as a child and learned to love the Army base library. Then when I was old enough.. I got to go to the REAL book stores and buy books of my own... swoon!
I am a fast reader of fiction. I'm all about the escape.. and a thick twisty plot.. I don't want to be able to figure out 'who done it' until the end!
When I spotted the Nancy Drew fabric from Moda I got so excited! Then I saw a blog hop and well.. all bets were off.. I'm IN on this one baby! This blog hop is hosted by Carol of Just Let Me quilt and Sew We Quilt ... fun fun fun!
So Let's see what is in that bundle... yummy stuff eh?
I decided to use a pattern from my "What a Novel Idea" book. I knew JUST the one
Another friend helped me sew.. because really I was OUT OF TIME, but want this quilt BAD
REAL BAD.. thank you Roberta!
Isn't she pretty?
My Nancy Quilt... ohhhh... and I have to tell you I got this between snow flurries the other day!
Sleuthing through the squares...
Maybe I need to write a story
This IS the best photo of books I could find...
Did you collect Nancy Drew Books?
The book ends MIGHT be my favorite piece in the collection
Might...
My Nancy was quilted by Shelly at Prairie Moon quilts!
I found this "Nancy Drew Sleuths' website with a photo of a Nancy Drew Quilt! What fun! CLICK HERE
I'd live to give away the FQ's from the collection that didn't make it into the quilt, plus some EXTRA goodies! To be entered leave me a comment telling me
"What was YOUR favorite Childhood Book"
I will select a name on March 26... let's rock and roll this question!
Now go visit the other blog hop sleuths of the day!
Melinda Quilts Etc
My favorite childhood books were always Shel Silverstein poem books! I loved the goofy drawings and poems :)
Posted by: Katie | Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 11:32 PM
I loved the Dick and Jane readers perhaps because I thought they were stories about me.
Posted by: Jane Brown | Sunday, March 17, 2013 at 11:23 AM
Any Judy Blume book, A Wrinkle In Time. Whatever sounded good at the time.I love to read, can you tell? lol Thanks for sharing and for the giveaway. vickise at gmail dot com
Posted by: vicki seals | Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 12:08 AM
Nancy Drew, of course! Had every book!!
Posted by: Erin @ Sew at Home Mummy | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 09:32 PM
I loved Anne of Green Gables- she was my hero when I was a child... Thanks so much for this great giveaway!
Posted by: Dana | Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 02:57 PM
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys were my favorites.
Posted by: Diane Jarvis | Monday, March 11, 2013 at 05:13 PM
Anne of Green Gables was my favorite book. I did read as many Nancy Drew books that I could get my hands on.
Posted by: Nicole Sender | Monday, March 11, 2013 at 02:39 AM
I did enjoy reading the books by Madeleine Le'Engle...like the Wrinkle in Time.
I've always like fantasy and fiction of that sort.
Posted by: Marlene | Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 10:40 PM
Hummm other then the Nancy Drew's , there was the Hardy Boys and the Black Stallion series. I really enjoyed the eye-candy that is your wonderful quilt. Thank you for the Chance to win this great prize!!
Sincerely,
Tricia
Posted by: Tricia M. | Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 03:20 PM
I used the Girls/Boys Club Library and "Nancy Drew's" mystery books were ALL my favorites.
Posted by: Della Buss | Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 01:23 PM
I grew up in another country and my favorite book was the Three Musketers. Love all their adventures.
Thanks for the chance to win. Felicia
Posted by: Felicia Hamlin | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 11:47 PM
I loved reading Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames and read them all at least 4 times! I so wanted to be just like Nancy Drew. They are all my favorite, can't pick just one. I have most of the original books that my mother and aunt read. Forty yrs later and I still like to curl up with one. My sewing and reading books have been packed up for the last 15 months while we have been renovating my quilt studio and family room.
Posted by: Cheryl Laplante | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 09:57 PM
I don't remember m favorite Nsncy Drew book but I read them all and loved them. Phyllis A. Whitney also wrote some mystery book for kids and I read them all to as well as the Hardy boys but my most favorite book had to be the very first chapter book I ever read "Mr Poplers Peguins". I so wanted that swimming pool in our basement along with those birds. I used to dream about them in techna colour. LOL.
Posted by: CHRISTINA MACKENZIE | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 09:01 PM
Nancy Drew (we had the whole series in the 1960's) and Cherry Ames, RN (again, the whole series)! Our mom believed in reading as a way of learning about things we could not go to see. I still love to "travel" by books!
Posted by: Bev Gunn | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 08:57 PM
I LOVED Little House on the Prairie, still do! I collected the mystery series for girls: Trixie Belden, I could read for hours on end as a kid and which I had all that lovely lazy time back now! Thanks for the great giveaway, your quilt is awesome!
Posted by: Ann Hudson | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 08:17 PM
i had 2 series of books I loved. Nancy Drew and Cherry Ames. Cherry Ames were mystery stories involving a nurse who solved the mysteries. I had the whole set of both books.
Posted by: MARY | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 08:09 PM
I loved reading The BabySitters Club series. I only remember reading a few Nancy Drew books from the Library, but gave up bc I had to read them in number order, and they had many missing :) Thanks for the chance to win!
Posted by: Karrie Smith | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 07:43 PM
I can't believe I missed these when I was growing up. Right now, I'm reading some that friends have recommended as their favorites . . . Old Clock, Jewel Box . . next up, Whispering Statue.
Wonderful books!
Posted by: Mary Garrett | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 06:59 PM
The Nancy Drew books were my favorite childhood reads. My Mom bought me one every month instead of getting an allowance as she knew how much I loved them. I kept them in a wooden crate on a rug in a closet that had a slanted ceiling and a bare light bulb. Whenever I didn't answer when my Mom yelled, "Annmarie, get your nose out of that book & do your chores!" she knew where to find me - laying on the rug in the closet reading a Nancy Drew! The fabric is AWESOME!
Posted by: Annmarie Tegen | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 03:49 PM
I loved any horse book I could find at the library. So....Black Beauty
Posted by: Ruth Wooden | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 03:43 PM
I just devoured anything by Enid Blyton
Her books were read at every available moment :D
Posted by: Mary Nemarich | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 03:03 PM
What a lovely idea to do a Nancy Drew quilt. I loved the mysteries, but another of my favourites was the Secret Seven series. I was intrigued and had my own clubhouse with meetings and detective/sleuth stories being told to all my little friends in the shed, and they could only enter with a special password. My childhood was such fun!!! Lots of blessings from Sharon Wright.
Posted by: Sharon Wright | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 03:00 PM
I would have to say I was a Little House on the Praire girl. I think Caddie Woodlong was another one. I love the homestead type books.
Posted by: Kris | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 12:44 PM
I have to say a memorable one was "Fun with Dick and Jane! Why an early reader..because it was my beginning to a love of books. Learning to read was and has been the best thing in life, next to quilting, lol. While I am an avid reader, so were both of my daughters and now all five of my grand-daughters also are avid readers. YES!
Posted by: Pat Derry | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 12:10 PM
I used to read Nancy Drew with a flashlight under the covers! I had a neighbor who had ALL the books and let me borrow whatever I wanted. Heaven! Love your quilt.
Posted by: Suzanne Tobey | Saturday, March 09, 2013 at 12:06 PM