I can finally share these cute potholders I made for Accuquilt’s blog They are made using the GO Camper die and Marjorie Busby’s CUTE embroidery files! I also used the 8 1/2″ square die and the 8″ QUBE set First I cut out (2) 8 1/2″ off white squares and prepped them for embroidery by …
I had to squeeze in this blog post and post others to later dates (I have all of March blog posts filled already and I know there will be more I need to push out) Well what are you gonna do when you HAVE to be at home? Sew of course! Last Saturday I taught …
Did you see the new camper die?? It’s so cute!! I was asked by Accuquilt again to design a quilt around this new die and immediately I was thinking retro!! and since I’m now an ambassador for Michael Miller I found this cute fabric line called delight I prepped all the pieces with steam a …
Recently I signed up for another local craft show (indoors and one I haven’t been to before) At the last craft show I had the tiny owl keyrings/stuffies/pincushions but I used to have several larger stuffed animals, so I figured I’d work on a few here and there and not stress about it. First I …
For the end of year Christmas party for Sonja’s 2nd grade, the teacher had sent an email about bringing in treats or goodies for stockings for each child and for some CRAZY reason I decided to make little owls for everyone! Here’s 10 BOY owls 8 girls owls and one for the teacher (plus a …
Welcome to Carol’s Christmas Cookie Exchange hop How come we are already in December? November just FLEW by and I thought I had more time! Well, I’m not sharing a cookie recipe but a cake recipe and later at “special” cookie…. For my husband’s birthday and for Thanksgiving I made this Danish 7 layer cake! …
Pincushions, pincushions! After I showed the embroidered pincushion a few weeks ago and had one for a giveaway, I made the blue one on the left while I waited to pick a winner. When the winner was picked I made the one on the right in her color choices, hopefully she likes it 🙂 Here’s …
How fun to have a virtual craft show! I was super excited when Darlene (Quiltshopgal) asked for participants to this virtual craft show and joined right away! As you may know, I was recently part of my town’s yearly craft show and I prepped for months (on and off) for it, it’s a lot of …
 November’s theme for Island Batik ambassadors is TOOL TIME! no…. not Tim the tool-man Taylor! but a quilting tool!! I wrecked my brain and also asked about what is a considered a tool. My favorite “tool” is really the GO! cutter and all the dies and we have recently highlighted Accuquilt, but I can’t help …
Recently, I bought more embroidery threads from simthreads on amazon I bought this big pack of 63 colors look how fun! the cones are small-ish but that’s great if you want lots of colors but don’t want to invest so much for each color. When the threads arrived I had just gotten an email …