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

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...!!

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....

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

                               

                        

  photo by Karen Griska

      







       
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photo by nancy creative

FUN!!

Barn Quilts

Our Cabin

I say.....Say It With Barn Quilts....being born into a painters' family and becoming #2 of 5 daughters and 3 sons sprinkled in like salt and pepper....some of us being spicy peppers!.....I just love to paint and wallpaper and also quilt....my Mom and Dad did Reproduction Porcelain Dolls after their retirement in the 60's and then after loosing Dad in the early 90's Mom threw herself into quilting and going to the basement to work on the dolls came less and less.....Dad always had his radio on in his section where he clean the bisque and then fired it....so many levels of work.....he got so good at painting eyelashes and brows....Mom was good at the blush too....they were such a team.....always and now forever, as Mom joined Dad in Heaven 10 years ago this month......so with that I say they would be ALL about what we do together as a couple too....we copy them!!.....and they would love the painted Barn Quilts and my longarm that quilts up things....I purchased my machine with my Moms' inheritance that was shared 8 ways....it is "perfect".....

BRRRRRRR!!!!

Then when I spotted Barn Quilts, I just knew it was in the "clouds" for me. My Dad named me...I was #5 and they had one girl and 3 boys and really wanted another girl......then they had 3 more girls!!! after me.....crazy love!!

Old Glory

Ohio Star

still working on connecting porch roofs!

It is a high climb!!

Work in Process!!

True Love!!

SWOONS!!!

Our Faithful Goldens Shiloh & Sunny

So, enjoy.....my hub is my soul mate from High School......my family and I are most blessed by God giving him to us for  our life journey

..... enjoy the pictures....of yes, you guessed it....the Cabin that he  (I Helped a little bit) Built......

Blessings!!!!!

Heading to Clean and then...

 Quilt!!

5500 Quilt Block Designs.....NO KIDDING!!

 Maggie Malone put together this awesome pattern book offered on Amazon....it has several chapters and each one has the size grid paper you will need to draw the pattern and then print and use.  It is the old fashioned way, no computer, but I wanted it for design ideas for quilts  plus to use with Barn Quilt selections too .

I am adventurous!!

  Also, another great idea I just ran across today and want to keep and share is Litte Miss Shabby  cute idea using squares and petals....very cool. Just visit her sight :)

 My other show and tell photos today are random....I am working on my Blog Around The World
showing for this coming Monday and then just some winter photos; reminding me how long our winter was here and how much I enjoyed our Summer here in Indiana...."not too hot and not too cold"....What kind of day are you having or planning.....?

 Blessings!!!

Miss Kate

Sneak Peak

I got busy today and did not post about the Blog Hop Around The World that Amy asked me to join.  I will be posting my
Quilting Journey on the 8th of Sept.....I will link to DeAnna for the day, who will post hers' on the 15th.

I see it popping up in different blogs and it is cool because you just share as much as you want too and what you would like to share....sweet.....

Just wanted to share a preview.....it is on the longarm now....becoming
what it was meant to be....a Quilt!!
Blessings!!

Just a PS: I LOVED reading this Novel
in High School, eons ago...and then seeing
the movie at our first time surround
stage cinema theater 60 miles from
our hometown!!....Please enjoy!!
Gone With The Wind: 

Always Good!

NO SEW.....Seriously

nicholeheady.typepad.com

How many of you quilters also do scrap booking?....here is a great video on how to make some no sew quilted looking postcards....I found it so pretty and so amazing!!

No Sew  She has a great blog....so many creative ideas and contributors.
Enjoy the video.....



Of course, you can do this with Holiday Prints.....etc.....your imagination seems to be the only limit.

Blessings!!!

Sam The Man

Sometimes people come into your life in an unexpected Way....Sam is one of those.  Our nieces' son.....precious 11 year old who is going to set the "world on fire"....someday.

My hub had wanted to have him over for a visit for awhile now..... now it is a memory, but they had fun together.

Sam got to ride the lawn mower last night and then mowed grass today.

They did target shooting and more would have happened but  the weather wasn't that cooperative, plus my hub had jet lag from several night shift work and battling the "cold" that is going around here rampant..... so, Sam shared.....
" I really want to make a quilt!" ....  I was floored and
thrilled at the same time.

Then last night my mind was full of ideas and always came back to the modern look and the straight line stitching.....so, this morning, he found a simple 4 block center pattern that was surrounded by longer pieces, etc.....he went to my bolts of fabric and came to his decisions of colors.

We cut them out, measured, figured out how to put it together and  away he went.

Indiana Sunsets!!

Yep!! he sewed the blocks together as he let me direct him and then while he mowed I hurried and loaded up the quilt.
 We then hurriedly did as many rows of horizontal of quilting and then I finished a bright binding on it that he chose.....he had to be home around 5pm so he could care for some animals of friends who got "away" for the weekend.

The quilt turned out "wonderfully good!!" and all in just 6 hours time and it was the first time he had done any stitching!!.....he is something else!!!.....a breath of fresh young air!!......

He has energy and imagination with a cooperative attitude and helpful spirit.

Blessings to Mama Emily you did so good with him!!
He is a keeper....now our keeper too!!

Thanks Sam the Man!!........We had a great time!!

A Blessing we were not expecting but oh, so take it!!! take you!!!

So Proud!

He chose all the fabs!  Perfect!

He did so awesome!

He loves the outdoors

Wonderful Memories!

Four Seasons Quilt Block/ HST

I am going to attempt to make a Half Square Triangle Quilt and I found several patterns here;  HST at Craftsy  
Decisions... Decisions
These are the patterns available.
All Pretty!!!


I want to share Jodi's Secrets 
 for success with HST.   It is short and sweet!!

So, of course, on my hunt I found a video to help me; (confuse me) in
picking out the pattern.......from Missouri Quilt Company......Four Seasons' Quilt Block...... quilt is behind

Jenny made NBS News!

On My Quilting List

Four Seasons won for me....quick and easy and.....free pattern!!!......

You Rock!!   Blessings!!!!

Angels' Pea Pods

 Today, I have more free motion videos to share by Angela Walters.

Pinterst: Angela Walters Freemotion

I am working on my House Fig Tree Quilt today.
It is going to rain for a couple days and my nieces son is coming for a couple days to spend time with
my sweet hub!!.....even if it raining they will have fun....

 Found Angela Walters Fat Quarters in her SHOP.....YUM!

outside doing things together.....

So! I will just longarm and since I made the Hugs Quilt top yesterday I have a bunch of already made HST to use in a small quilt top.....I am excited; it is my FIRST HST Quilt Top, seriously!!

For now, enjoy Angela! I always do!!!..........Angela's Blog





QUILTED BLESSINGS!!!!

Labor Day?........Quilting here.....!!