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I wish this were mine
My friend Nancy (she does most of the piecing for Bunny Hill) brought over her Dear Jane quilt this week to share with us. She’s an excellent quilter so we knew we were in for a treat. It took her a little over 4 years to complete all the blocks and assemble the quilt. She sent the quilt to Ohio to be hand quilted by an Amish quilter, and she just got it back last weekend. The quilt has over 200 blocks and each block is quilted with a different pattern. I could look at this quilt for days and never see enough. These photos can’t begin to capture its…
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“S is for Stitch” Blog Hop!
Hi Everyone! Welcome to the “S is for Stitch” blog hop! I’ve been lucky enough to receive a copy of this book and I’ve had so much fun looking through all the embroidery projects. If you love embroidery, you’ll love this book! Kristyne over at Pretty By Hand, is the author of S is for Stitch. It’s her first book and it’s so cute! It’s perfect for beginners, teens, tweens, and everyone! With embroidery designs for girls or boys she’s right up my alley. S is for Stitch has 2 alphabets, along with embroideries for each. A is for Angel…or maybe an ant. Are you a ballerina or is baseball…
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Good Books to Read
I love to curl up with a good mystery book and I’ve been reading some really good ones lately. To those of you who told me about the J.D. Robb books, I can’t thank you enough. The only problem is, now I’m addicted. I’ve read them ALL and I can’t wait for new ones. When I hear she has a new book coming out, I schedule it into my calendar so I won’t forget. I was so excited when I saw her latest book, Calculated in Death! I wasn’t disappointed. It’s a good book and worth reading. Give me more books with her main character, Eve Dallas, and I’ll be…
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Prairie Cloth & “S is for Stitch”
I’ve added a new fabric to the website called Prairie Cloth. If you haven’t tried stitching, cross stitching, or wool applique on Prairie Cloth, you’re in for a treat! It’s a wonderful, slightly coarse cloth, that looks like linen and runs about half the price. It’s 100% cotton and comes in many different colors. Can you see the texture of it in the photos below? I think you’ll like working with Prairie Cloth, but remember it ravels a bit. If you have a serger, just serge the edges before you start your project. You’ll find 6 colors of Prairie Cloth along with the Jumbo Ric Rac for my new…
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A Jelly Roll Bikini
Did you know that March is National Craft Month? Yep, it’s a month to stay home from work and join us on a island retreat over at Moda. If I’m going to be on an an island for a month, I told Chelsea she could come along too. She got all excited when I let her try on a jelly roll strip for her Bikini top. I swear it almost didn’t fit! Now she’s waiting for me to make her a bikini bottom to wear on the island. She wants to look good if everyone is going, so I’ll have to take my “bodkin” on the retreat to pull the…
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Snowmen are made for wool
You know, don’t you, that I’ve got this thing for wool? I don’t want you to think I’m giving up on fabric, because applique is my passion and I’ve got new patterns coming very soon. It’s just fun to mix fabric and wool together sometimes, especially when those Moda designers keep coming up with such cute fabric. My booth happened to be right across from Lisa at Primitive Gatherings last market, so not only was I looking at wool all day, I was looking at her dang cute Snowman Gathering fabric! Who could resist that combination? I took a jelly roll, charm pack and some of that fabulous yardage…