September 15, 2014

Loving It!

When life settles down a bit I am going to try this  Quilt As You Go .   
Contented
It is with Cori at Lets' Eat Grandpa.  The name really caught me as we use to call our Grandpa to supper atleast 15 minutes ahead of time....He had to take off his cap (I have hanging in the hallway on a hook) and scratch his head...put the cap back on...and "maybe" head to the back laundry room to wash up to eat.  He lived across the street in his own little home, but weeded our gardens and ate with and was always helping us with homework at the kitchen table....then he would put his cap back on and head home to sleep.....eat Breakfast at home...and return to help Mom with the 3 little ones she had born to our family in her 40's, make us 8....
Anyways!!.....the tutorial is great and I LOVE the way you just quilt it as you go, seriously....neat way to make hot pads...anything really that would come to your imagination!!.
We are heading to our son's in Bloomington tomorrow to take them out to supper and then run back home.....busy, busy!....everyone is busy!!

It rained all day today....OOOH, I smell popcorn popping...Hub just got off the phone with our son in Maryland....got caught up on all the Grandy news and he and his wife's.
I rejoice in Threads and Fabric and the satisfaction and contentment I find in Quilt Creations as
I share this calls colors and stitches in the photo above!......God bless!!!

September 14, 2014

Free Patterns

Grandys' Together May '13

Having fun on Craftsy this morning...finding free patterns for you to use....that is always fun!!.....

Craftsy Free Shabby
Craftsy Free Diamonds
This saying blessed me today!!.....thinking of our Grandgals in Bloomington today!!
First Day At School
  Hope to eat supper with them this coming week.....Kindergartner and Second Grader...does it really get any better than that?.....

Quilted Blessings!!

September 12, 2014

Crazy Inspiration

I want to connect you to Sweet Water Company!!  Yummo!!
I love their fabric and also Free Patterns!  I joined the Kit Club!! You receive a small pattern with labels to use on the pattern each month......easily comes in your mail.  LOVE IT!! I do want to make it ASAP.  For September it is a little sewing kit, a nice place for your sissors and threads and I am thinking Hexie's....It would fit inside my "bags" easily!!
  Sweet Water just came out with Boat House fabric.....gotta have it!!...it is just me;  well there are so many fabric choices this month.....Flower Patch with Bee In My Bonnie is a great one by Lori Holt.

  Hope you enjoy the little journey into Fabric Inspiration today!

Japan: Owl Button Blog
This Dear Jane is Amazing!!...just amazing!!....I love Dear Jane....I have 3 sets of the first 14 blocks done..trying to make my kids each one....yep....but I must need to make a blue one too!!! after finding this!!....

Pinterest Find.....just adorable!!


 Hope you enjoy the "finds" i found today. The free pattern....the free tutorial....and maybe Inspiration!!

 Blessings today.....even if it rains we can still "dance in the rain"!!














  
                    More Creative Folks....tutorial
Sew Sweet Violet Blog

September 11, 2014

Sisters

My Favorite Quilt....Ever!
Our Quilt Shop....Old Glory
yes, I am on Moms' Lap
Sisters?....confidants.....friends....know you so well because they know themselves?.....feel secure with them....laugh....cry.....show real feelings.....pray for each others...stand by each other.....teach them as they teach you.....love the same things....bring the same food to gathering unless a list is made ahead of time (funny)...buy the same shoes and purses....seriously....have the same hands and when you do dishes you look over and realize those hands are connected to your sister, not yourself.....yep!!.....having kids together and younger sisters having kids while your kids are growing up and now repeating it all with grandkids.....some like to sew and quilt...others would rather die than sew......SEW they clean and cook...the sewers say, cleaning?.....not so much....all like to eat so all cook....some even like to cook....some go to Heaven before they are really ready and the others aren't really ready to let them go, but God calls us all to Him.....sisters that love God...Loved our parents and their parents.....Love our kids
Moderncozy.com
....it is good....this brainstorming about Sisters......I even know that a fabric designer group only lives 25 miles from me near the Amish that are Sisters'.....pretty cool beans!!.....(a sisters' saying.)
1966....fun.....guess who I am
So, sew, there you are!!....I was thinking about them and sew I shared!!...like it or not......Bless them today, God......Bless yourself by counting them a blessing....
if you are at odds....get over it....forgive and don't waste any time getting a new perspective on Sisters' even on brothers; as you can see we were blessed!!
Sisters?....they are pretty cool and really do know you well.....that is a blessing.....


WINK~~~~~   HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LORI....THE 10TH!! YOU ROCK OUR WORLD!!! LIL SIS.....

God, Bless the families today too that lost sisters, moms, daughters, nieces, cousins and friends and just acquaintances on that horrific 9/11 disaster on our homeland..... Also,keep our troops safe and others who serve us behind the lines in jobs that only they "know about'......

9/11 Quilt Inspiration

Old Glory...may she find her way...and may God continue to use her is my prayer.......Bless you all today...!!




September 9, 2014

Quilt As Desired!

Enjoy these tutorials about design decisions....  It is FUN to free motion!!



and then we have just the stitching; which is an awesome lesson too






.....and I HAD to add Jodi at Quilt It.....



I almost forgot Leah Day!!.....yes, I love her first name....that is our daughters' name!!



Which do you prefer?......Just Quilt As Desired....HOW TRUE....do what you like and makes you ENJOY doing it!!

As you can see I have been doing horizontal quilting lately....one is straight lines and one is wiggling....the wiggles reminds me of seersucker fabric!

 BLESSINGS!!!!

Our Three Kids
Happy Birthday too STEVE!!  You light up our world for 42 years...(he is the curly haired guy in the picture below)....we Praise God for who you are....

September 7, 2014

Made My Day


This just MADE MY DAY.....no way to find web site .....just enjoy it half as much as I do....I LOVE barns.....I LOVE Quilts.....and I do LOVE Barn Quilts too
.....this is just something that makes your heart smile.

A barn with quilts hanging all over it.....so sweet on Pinterest.....HERE by Jennifer Overstreet

Hug A Quilt today!!.....especially if a giggly little kid that is ticklish is inside of it!!!

Ok, off to the Races.... Girlfriend!!!

ANDREW TYLER ....made our day!!....born just after Hurricane Fran at Ft Brag NC.....YOU ROCK!!!

Hopeland Gardens, Aiken SC
 HAPPY HAPPY 18th Birthday ANDREW!!  Our Only Grandson with 8 Granddaughter!! You are an awesome son, brother, cousin and best of all to us....GRANDSON!!.....so proud of you!!
Fishing in SC


Quilt As You Go

Craftsy  .
   I don't have to say much more than that!! Please enjoy the tutorial, very well done in photos of how to make a Quilt As You Go Quilt....you can adapt it to whatever quilt you have chosen to make...... I say that is AWESOME!!!......

Sew Take A Hike has a 4 part tutorial on
a log cabin Quilt As You go....it is REALLY COOL.
photo and work done by sew take a hike

                               

                        
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