Hi Everyone. I've missed posting to my blog and talking to my friends. Life is pretty complicated sometimes and that is the reason I'm taking an elongated break.
Happy Birthday to Lori Holt's Quilty Fun book. I am joining the FQS Jolly Jabber bloggers birthday party with my birthday cake block. Fun to make and super cute. You can make a cake yourself. Lori has the pattern at Bee in my Bonnet.
-nanette
I really like working with the people at Sew-It...today magazine. Recently they asked me to submit another project for the August-September issue. I made a kitchen project for the magazine. Picking out fabrics for my projects is one of my favorite parts of any design. I like to bind smaller projects by machine and keep my hand binding for larger quilts. I can't show you my finished items yet but I will post about it sometime in July. That isn't very far away. We are sliding into summer
Hello my friends. It has been too long since my last post. I've been busy working on other areas of my life but I'm really missing quilting projects. I'm excited today to tell you my picnic scrap quilt is featured in the latest Sew-it... magazine. It is fun to have my quilt featured on the cover. This is a great scrap project or a leaders and enders project. My friend Glenna is also featured in the magazine. It is nice to have a quilt to pack for a
Don't you hate when a blogger gives you a sob story about why they haven't made any new posts or how busy and complicated their life is? Well that is me. I won't bore you with all the details but I will say that I had my entryway quilt and table still decorated with valentine themed stuff up until this past weekend. That is so NOT like me. I feel like a nightmare lately. I blame my 2 kids on missions. I'm kind of superstitious about no good
"Doll House" Potholder Tutorial Because of lack of material I'm doing a rerun of one of my tutorials. I'm still not able to sit at my machine for very long. Recovery from bursitis isn't very fun. And I'm rather sick of myself not being able to do normal stuff. So I thought I would rewind to a time when I was my old creative self. This is such a fun house block. It makes me feel good to look backwards at all the fun things I've made.
I'm always so behind these days. My life continues to be kind of topsy tervy right now but I'm learning to be patient with myself. I love red and Valentine's Day. I love that it is just a sweet day and I take it with a no obligation point of view. I choose to celebrate in fabric because the prints for valentines look so happy. I have very fond memories of sending valentines to my classmates and enjoying the valentines sent to me. I used to keep the
The time has finally come for Mason to leave to have his missionary training in Argentina. Because of visa problems, his departure was delayed several weeks. It was a little disconcerting to him to have that happen but he handled it well and the time passed quickly. At least to me. Mason takes things in his stride and I know that quality will serve him well while he is in Uruguay and away from home for 2 years. I know every mother thinks her kids are special, and
I thought I had my Feb 2014 Sew Sweet Block finished but when I looked at my block compared to Clover and Violet's block, I realize I did something wrong. So I will probably be making another block. I looked at the pictures and directions on Clover and Violet. I am not a newbie when it comes to log cabin basics. I think I cut the strips out okay. But mine isn't exactly like the sample. Hmm. Oh well. It was fun to make with cute aqua and
I'm happy to be included in the block swap at Donna's Lavender Nest. January is Donna's month. We know Donna loves lavender so that is the color Donna chose and she asked us to use this Jacob's Ladder pattern for a 12" block. I had a pretty floral lavender fabric in my stash ready to make this block. I've got to mail it off (I'm late) to Donna post-haste. It was fun to just sew one block. It was a nice fast and complete project for me to
So it is tree week in Lori's blog tour. I really want to make some trees. I haven't yet but I think they are perfect. I'm still not sewing yet but I'm feeling about 35% improved. I'm working hard to make it back to my real life.
I swiped these from the Jolly Jabber. The tree is really well designed. Of course!
This is Fat Quarter Shop's notion of the month. And I want one!! I can think of so many times I've needed something like this.