Paper Piecing Vintage BOM

This  video on paper piecing is very good.....it is in parts of instruction and free.....please enjoy it!
 I love to paper piece....I plan to do a Geek Glasses soon and also a Vintage Bike to make shams to go with the Grandteens Quilts I just made...Got to ship them soon!!

Please visit  Sew Hooked 
for the detailed instructions from size of needles to paper and so forth....

Also, you may want to Visit
Craftsy  for the pattern for the Sew Hooked BOM....it is sweet, don't you think?  

Quilted Blessings!!

His Lap Now and Forever....

His Lap

Is Anyone struggling today?..........From my home to yours...... I am posting this again due to the news of a friend of ours in SC husband passed on Friday.  They run a wonderful natural foods and bakery in Aiken.  They help anyone and everyone they meet.  John passed in a treehouse that he built and designed for friends. Please pray for Rebecca and her family; it was sudden; she had been asking for prayers for just a couple weeks.  God is our Great Shepherd and Great Comforter.....  Keep our focus on Him Alone.....

Picture yourself as a child, crawling up on Jesus' (or your Heavenly Father's) lap. He welcomes you, and holds you securely with one arm–his left arm.  With his right arm he is conducting all the affairs of your life and indeed, the whole world, as a conductor would conduct an amazing symphony.
In this picture he is also singing. With you on his lap, he is singing about how much he loves you, how delighted he is with you. He is singing, "You are my beloved son/daughter, with you I am well pleased." He tells you to rest, since he has done everything that needs to be done. All you have to do is receive all he has for you. He is bursting with joy at all the gifts he has for you..

He also rejoices in his own ability to conduct the affairs of your life and the whole world, how he will make sure everything is OK. Every atom in the universe is subject to him, and he is Love, and wisdom, and he is the mighty warrior who has conquered everything and will one day finish what he started, to make all things right and all things new.
He has already begun that work, in you. He is shining his light into all your dark places, he is working all things together for your good, he is straightening out the bent places and smoothing out the path before your feet. His life-giving light shines all the time, and it brings complete healing, peace, and right relationships with him, with yourself, and others. His life-giving light brings peace, and joy, as he fills you with his love.
Listen to him singing; feel his love and delight in you, as well as his quiet confidence in his ability to save and to conduct the affairs of the whole universe. From the smallest subatomic particle to the details of your life to whatever it takes to keep the heavenly bodies in place, he is quietly confident in his ability to take care of anything and everything and to work it all into a beautiful harmony.*

This Blessed Me.......

Trapunto?

Tell me the truth....do you trapunto and do you trapunto
feathers...and even backwards?.....Well, take a look at this video with Leah Day....it is short
and sweet.....

Trapunto

This  2nd video on hand quilting will "take you back"....Simply
Quilts with Alex Anderson..( 2011)....she is now on The Quilt Show if you weren't aware of that.....

I have to admit Every time I hear the music on these old videos I am with my Mom watching Alex!....Mom passed
10 years ago this fall.

Now, Please enjoy this video too... Try it you will like it!

 Hand Quilting

Have a blessed Saturday....promise of rain here so this stain-lady will be piecing......Quilted Hugs!!!

Civil War Friends

I ran across this great pattern by Bonnie Blue Quilts.....a person could do this pattern in Civil War or you could use Vintage or even the bright Camille or Fig Tree fabric too....never limit yourself because of how you see a quilt put together with some colors or prints that are not you....please "be you"....  I am me ....so You be You!....ok, the sun and stain is getting to my brain....I need thread fiber!!.....Keep it up Girlfriend!!....wanted to post this for you ....please enjoy....wink!!

Tavern Blues

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Swirls & Fearless Feathers

You know what I am up to.....still staining....but when there is a final "stain stroke" this is something that I want to do...swirl on my neighbor in SC Nautical Quilt.....so give it a try while I am outside getting sun while I work.
  God Bless You this July!  Quilted Blessings!!  Free motion or not. :)


 Just hit the tab to see Angela's Free motion.  She takes the fear out of free motion for this chickadee.......
Swirls Video
Fearless Feathers

Star Blossoms

Others may have this pattern but I know it is on my project to piece lined up for this week, after Wish Upon A Star....:)

Here is the link to .....Star Blossoms    !! 
It can "light" up your world.
See You Later!! heading to the stain and my brush!!  So, I can piece later!! Goal is front and back porch logs today.
 It is All Good!!  Quilted Blessings!!

Do Over?

Here you go girlfriends!!
 We have a new door :)....old French ones are going upstairs off a deck that needs new doors.....we have that deck roofed now.  Auction coming soon....well, August or early September and that seems soon to this chickadee!!...but enjoy the pictures of our winter pond now summer....dogs Golden heads bobbing up each with a wet ball....the new door is great...more practical to get out onto the porch with a arm full of picnic goodies too.  I am sewing on my Wish Upon A Start tonight...so fun...back to the Staining Maniac tomorrow.  God Bless!!...Just wanted to share our little bit of "do over"!