Appliqué 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 [...]

Kids craft apron

After helping make an apron over the weekend, I had the idea to make another apron for a little girl who celebrated her birthday today.  This girl, well she’s not just any girl, she’s Jett’s girl.  Some how, some way, months ago Jude and Jett got the idea that they both had girls.  Jett says [...]

Funky dog

I finally got this quilt finished up last week.  Yesterday I washed it up, took pictures of it and got it ready to send to my customer.  I’ll have fond memories of this one: it was the project I was working on when I found out I was pregnant.  Also, because of that, I have [...]

Next quilt

Here’s a fun one for you:

My customer wanted a custom quilt to give to her brother and new sister-in-law as a wedding gift.  The family just loves their dogs and my customer wanted to include pictures of the dogs belonging to her, her brother and her sister-in-law.   She liked the look and style of [...]

The Wooden Bear

I have to tell you, friends, about my super-awesome new quilt designer friend.  Her name is Kelly and she is the owner of The Wooden Bear – a pattern design company she started in 2002.  I met Kelly at the Ladies of the Lake retreat at the end of October; she gave a presentation on [...]

Alison’s baby shower

 

Look at this beautiful, glowing pregnant woman!  Doesn’t she look great?  Would you believe she’ll be 30 weeks along with twins next week?  She looks so small!

And check out this score:

And this is what she got from me:

Her baby girl names, you ask?

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Baby Owen and his quilt

I had the pleasure of meeting baby Owen for the first time last night.  He’s so adorable!  Owen and his family are doing very well. 

Here’s the proud mommy and her precious babe:

Look at that hair!

I’ve started asking expectant moms for input as I design a baby quilt [...]

Finished Faith, Hope & Love quilt

My mom took the boys for a couple of nights this past weekend.  Josh and I got a lot done around the house, had friends over, finished my quilt, had a Dairy Queen date… good times!

Here is the finished quilt:

The design is not mine.  The design and pattern is from Susan [...]

Faith, Hope & Love quilt pattern

I have started the next quilt project on my customer list.  I’m still not done with the Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt; I am done with the quilting, though, a that’s a relief, it took a loooong time.  I’m in the process of hand binding it now, and that could take a while, too – I’ve [...]

Lovebirds (Circle Gets the Square)

I worked like a crazy person Friday and Saturday and I finished this quilt just in time give to our friends who got married over the weekend.  Literally, I finished the binding (by machine), soaked the quilt in cold water to remove the marking lines, ran it through the washer’s spin cycle to remove the [...]