When I went to my quilt guild and met about our BOM’s for next year, they were talking about donation quilts and how they need more quilters. I used to grab some once in a while, but it had been a long time- or so I thought, so I grabbed 4, here’s the first 2 …
Yup, I’m a bag lady now! Though it’s not the first bag I’ve made I made this bag using a pattern by Karen West, purchased at connecting threads, called Totally Awesome Tote bag. I’ve made several of her mini totes in the past, but the big one was new to me. I’m actually having a …
When I saw this peasant dress pattern on sale at Peekaboo Pattern shop last week, I HAD to have it! it uses all cotton and fits 3m to size 12. AWESOME! My oldest daughter picked out fabrics for her dress and I had enough to make a matching one for Sonja, so size 18m and …
I got more fabrics in the mail! Here’s the pile all washed and ready to be ironed, the orange funky fabric I already used for backing for the Bowtie GO! quilt and the butterfly fabric above it I will use for my OWL quilt So I finally got all the owl blocks embroidered and finished …
All my owl blocks are done!! (forgot to take pics of the rest, but I’ll show them when the quilt is done) Meanwhile my little HELPER, was SUCH a great help is taking off the keys off my laptop keyboard and trying to put them back! I’ve also worked on the bible of the week …
I’m busy embroidering owls this week! They are AWESOME….. (Everything is Awesome, everything is Cool………. just wait and see what that’s about) These owls are from embroidershoppe.com search for OWL…. also there’s a FREE Valentine’s owl holding a heart, it’s adorable! I’m turning these into blocks into a new quilt pattern, wait and see! (and …
Here’s last week’s Women of the bible Quilt Block This is Rachel, I did FPP on this one and cut some triangles a bit too small so my seam allowance is small but it will work once it’s sewn into the quilt. The blocks are 3 1/2” so 3” when in the quilt This is …
I’ve had some machine embroidery fun lately! www.embroidershoppe.com has some REALLY cute OWLS!! You know I LOVE owls!! Here’s the link to THIS owl I had it stitched out on white a while ago and I’m working on a quilt pattern for embroideries but for ANY embroidery, wait and see So I had this owl …
The blocks for Anitagoodesign’s prayer garden are DONE!- well embroidered at least I still need to trim and sew the pieces together, and possibly COLOR them with copic markers. PLUS the blender pen, you’d get this cool watercolor effect! (I don’t have the markers but on my wish list, so you never know!) Should I …
The other day I went to walmart to get a few gifts for the kids (mostly clothes) as most of the FUN toys, we buy on amazon…. Carol at funthreads posted the other day about some towels she embroidered- with an adorable snowflake design WHICH I got on a pin cushion from her BTW… So …