Handmade blocks

My favorite Christmas gift this year wasn’t even for me.  Emily made my boys blocks for Christmas.  They are amazing.  Heirloom amazing.

First of all, what a neat package!  A clear paint bucket personalized with our last name initial on the lid.

And a heart on the flip side of the lid.  The [...]

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I’m posting this entry here under the Arts & Crafts section, although it really could have gone under any of the areas of Nothing Gets Crossed Out.

I wanted to share with you one of the gifts my sister Emily gave my husband Josh.  It’s partially homemade.

Hilarious!

That’s my husband on the [...]

Winners announced

And the winners are…

1. Jillisa

2. Momma Denise

3. Lois VanDusseldorp

Congrats, ladies!  Since I happen to know that Momma Denise also received the Food & Family subscription at Christmastime, I’m guessing she will want to gift this subscription to someone else.

Thank you everyone for participating!

Tostado casserole and a give-away

I have a lot of things to share with you here in the Arts & Crafts section of the blog over the next couple of days, but today, I wanted to share a recipe with you and give away a late Christmas/early New Year’s gift to three of you.  See the end of the post [...]

New baby quilt

Simple and stylish… with swirly quilting.  And did I mention reversible?!

I’m on a roll… I have bought no new fabric or batting for the last five quilts I’ve made.  I’m using the materials I’ve accumulated in the last five years of quilting and having fun doing it.

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Appliqué letteringAppliqué lettering

At the time I made this quilt, I posted instructions on how to make a snowball block and how to sew a quilt top together, but I also photographed the process I go through to make appliqué letters.

After finishing the letters on the aprons, I thought it would be a good time to post [...]

DoneDone

They are done!

These little aprons got the finishing touches the other day – little pockets with little initials on ‘em.

I’m working on an instructional post about appliquéing letters now – stay tuned!

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More aprons

Here is what I’ll be working on today:

Since I posted the first kids’ craft apron I made, I received a few orders for aprons to give as Christmas presents.

I still need to add the finishing touches like adding a pocket with an initial on each.

I’ve made a few changes from the [...]

Color splash in real life

Here’s the quilt I made recently for our cousins who had a baby earlier this year.  This baby boy, Daniel, has such blue eyes, that I took those baby blues as my inspiration for this quilt.

The white fabric is all the same and it has a subtle white-on-white, loop-de-loop print, [...]

Color Splash quilt blocksColor Splash quilt blocks

I’ve named the quilt pattern.   It shall be now and forevermore be known as the Color Splash pattern.

Today I’m going to explain how to make Block A for the quilt.  But first, let’s have a refresher.  This is the quilt we’re making:

And this is Block A:

The blocks for this quilt all [...]