December 2012 Blog Posts (105)

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year!

Christmas was good, but my birthday, which started at a few minutes after 10:00 PM, which was a few minutes after midnight in Florida, where I was born many, many years ago, sucked! Well, this was supposed to be the "Big 70." It was, actually 70, but it was by far the worst birthday of my life, if you don't…

This was made for my daughter-in-law for Christmas-Wall Hanging

Hats made for grandsons in their school colors. …

can't wait to see the next ct fabric lines hint hint LOL.

Wishing all my qwu friends a very happy new year and nothing but the best of things in 2013!…

A Duct Tape Adventure!…

I was able to work on the pin cushion today.  I sat down and didn't get up until it was finished.  I think it came out so cute and I can't wait to give it to my sister on Sunday when we celebrate our Christmas together! :D

I know she's going to LOVE IT! :D…

Liam, Gustav & Percival,wee mini sock people or peeps even.

Teeny tiny sock people made of newborn socks.  These little sweeties are all hand sewn with hand embroidered features and teeny tiny little buttons.  Definitely NOT child safe, these wee critters are for children past the point of…

Good Morning all!!  I enjoyed quality time with my 9 yr old granddaughter, Macie.  I asked her if she wanted to make a quilt and she was very excited.  We sorted through scraps of fabric from previously made quilts.  This is the fabric that she chose for the first block.  Her quilt is going to be made of many different colored quilt blocks, mostly from…

Just wanted to tell everyone Happy New's Years even if I am a little early.

Things have been up and down in this house lately.  DD had the "HUGE" blood clot in the leg earlier this month and spent 5 days in the hospital.  I think my last post was about getting to babysit my DD.  I did spent a week after work and weekends visiting her and helping her get up and around abit. She had a visit with her regular doctor who told her to get up and move around more.  Her leg is now back to its…

Happy New year to all!

I'm usually a blog "reader" but I have a question regarding connecting thread fabrics.  I want to make my grandson a quilt using the fabric line Mastermind from connecting threads but find they no longer have all fabrics on the website.  This was the fabric with circuit boards/gears/and robots on it. Was hoping there was some way to find a selection of these fabrics to make a quilt for full size bed. Would like to…

Happy New Year and a belated Merry Christmas to all.  Guess I got stuffed in one of the pillowcases I made for gifts and couldn't get out.

Below I posted pics of all the cases I made; they were a hit!  Chose fabrics related to their jobs, sports, hobbies, etc.

Aaron the chiropractor; Mandy the nurse; Gail the…

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I had a fabulous time being grandma for the week before Christmas. My grandson was being bitten at his daycare and his parents couldn't get it resolved with the daycare owner so they pulled him out. I had lots of one-on-one time with the little guy and was in a coma by the time they got home from work. I was a lot younger when I was a toddler's mom. Great fun. My husband arrived a few days after I did. Older son arrived a few days later--then Santa. What a fun holiday.

Real life now.…

Things have slowed down now and I can finally get back to my sewing.  I have signed up to be a guest blogger at Buzzing and Bumbling on January 8th.  Many have signed up so there will be a lot of blogs to visit. We can make what ever we want and I am making a throw quilt.  Hope you mark in down and join in on the hop.

Christmas was nice, we had three friends over for a roast…

Well i got my sons quilt done . finished on christmas eve... had a little trouble with the kind of binding i did with bring the back fabric to the front . i think next time i will use regular binding way..since this was my first time doing it this way . oh well maybe i should just keep working on it practice makes better right.. i will post a big pic of it sometime soon.  they gave me a coach purse for xmas. wow first time i had a name brand in a purse.. last time i bought something fancy…

I have a few new things that are in the works and ready to launch in 2013.  Can't wait for them to get going...always a good time and lots to sew!

Coming in 2013…

Heavenly cotton

from Heavenly Patchwork Quilt Shop http://www.heavenlypatchworkquiltshop.com/  in Waconia…massive thanks to Kris for the gift certificate for some more fabulous hippy-esque cottons for the tacky hippy quilt I’ll…

This was made for a special lady in my life that I have watched grow up since she was a little girl and now she has a baby girl.  They named their baby "Variety"  and this is the Quilt that I made for her.  I appliqued the elephant and bird using needle turn and then embelished with the embroidery detail. Mommy was…

You can find the free tutorial here: christmas tree cinch sack