Embrace Spring

As I embrace March Madness with a house divided by being born and raised always a Buckeye and now living in Indiana with a son and family in the Bloom pursuing his Masters' degree...we have to love the Hoosiers". So, I watch basketball, piece,  make Roses....and now even though it is March.. I must think ..... about..... April Quilting.

My Only Grandson...A=Awesome!

  I know it will include 3 of my precious Grandgals quilts, two for graduating teens (again, how can that be!) and one grandgal coming into her teen years this summer, wants to celebrate it with Roses!....the Grads' Dad would draw us a picture of a house every day in Kindergarten; one day I thought to encourage him to maybe be full of imagination with his drawing that day, and he brought home a picture of a house on one side and an Indian Tepee on the other!! That made us laugh and know he would always be dependable in life, always thinking of his family; and now at 40 it has surely been proven so true.  So their quilts will have a house on them and we want to add pictures of their precious growing up days onto the Quilt too. I also joined a Blog Hop to use Pompoms. I already have that idea set up in my head and last but NOT least is my Doll Monthly doll quilt to do for my new partner.  We are opting for Spring since, April surely does bring us that fresh Spring fragrance and flowers popping up, the first cutting of the lawn, early garden plantings as the Earth seems to Rejoice that is it awakened from it's Winter Sleep.  So, please enjoy my partners' blogBungalow Bay Quilts and encompass more creative Quilting by learning from others' designs.  How blessed we are to be Quilters'!!  Blessings! Karen

Blessing Flow LIke A River

EASTER!!

Eatin Bread on the Window Seat

DOBBIE!! We found you!!!

Love on that BABY!!!

Spring plans sometimes come to an end like winter plans, due to snow, and this Spring trip to see our daughter had to be delayed due to her amount of snow and wind, not ours.  We are further north, but this time the snow headed down I70....so!  her daughter who is a teen now, or soon, wanted a Rose Quilt for her room; growing up!  So, she never asks for anything, and her wish is my command as her Dobbie. So, with the last storm of this season, we hope, I do what all good quilters do..... QUILT!...

Roses for a very Special Grandgals' Quilt

 Last week the youngest Grandgals sat on my lap while we sewed up an outfit for dollies;  and they, at times,  got up and ran around or brought back my I Phone with a story running on it. They did lay their sweet hands next to mine and I do have a few picks of our hands together; sewing;  Oh,   They were SO PROUD of their dolly outfits that they HELPED to make.

It doesn't get much better than that, in my world!  Quilted Blessings!!  Karen

The Potters' Hand This Easter Week

THE POTTER: REFLECTIONS OF A MASTER ARTISAN - Day of Discovery

Laundry?

Laundry?....really?......yes, Quilters do laundry.....and mop and sweep and cook!!....so, I thought I would share a link to a Laundry Soap Recipe....for real.....The Beehive Cottage

Fresh Vintage Patchwork

So there!!  :)
I also found the quilts I want to do for our oldest Grandgals that are graduating in May and June.  They were born in the same year, to the same parents! One in January and the second one in December! Yep!  So, these two quilts from my new book With Fabric and Thread by Fig Tree Company is just so perfect!  I will put their photos of growing up in the blocks..and maybe a couple tiny ones in the houses.  I went to Joannes today and bought the start of my photo fabric to use, now to pick the photos!!....hard decisions....but God will lead me to the very best ones!!
I decided to make my Liz's Gift into a Queen size......fell in love with it, so it is going on our bed!!....so, I have to sew up 7 more blocks after our visit with our son and his wife and two sweet to the moon and back gals!!....
Oh, and getting a good styled up hair cut with highlights, never hurts a quilter.....it is all in a days.....worth!!
Quilted Blessings!! Karen

LOVE IT!

I knew I would love the Liz's Gift in these two fabrics.  I love the feathered blue from the 1850 period of Reproduction fabric and the background is also 1800's.

Do you like the background fabric? I love that too, and think it  would work up into  a wonderful tote that I found at Fig Tree Quilts in the book  Fabric & Threads.
 I also want my Liz's Gift a bit bigger than the pattern that I am following; so, I have 2 more units of 8 blocks to sew up tonight.
 I HOPE to post the top together sometime tomorrow.  Can you say YUMMO with fabrics?  I also got the go ahead to offer Jodi's Barrows technique in my shop!
 It has been a good day!!

Well, girlfriends,  I just had to share this block, even if it was taken with my phone and by my mess!! Enjoy!!  Quilted Blessings!! Karen
Oh, by the way have you looked for the Comet?

Just Imagine!

Come Ride With Me!

Scottie Basket

Quilt Retreat Barn

I am so excited! I got my Doll Quilt done for our Monthly swap.  I did both sides with a design, we had chosen Spring as the theme.  My partner runs a Quilt Shop and even does retreats as I have on my to do  Basket List!  It was a fun change with embroidery work on both sides. Clover & Violet I am still working on my Liz's Gift Quilt and think I will had two more colors to make it a little larger than the one in the instructions...just want it to be big enough to cover a bed....Anyways, enjoy the pictures; heading to the Post Office to send it out.  Spring Blessings! as you Quilt.....Karen

A Little Peak

Liz's Gift

I really like the way these blocks are going together....there will be 5 colors with 4 blocks of each in the quilt..I decided to use some 1800 Reproduction fabs from my shop....like my hub says, I am a lady with ALOT of fabric!  Chat Later.....Piecing blessings!! Karen