For Mother’s Day my children surprised me with pictures and poems and a beautiful painted washer necklace for the days preceding the big day. Well – Mother’s Day happened to coincide with my husband’s birthday and I knew it would be a pretty low key day since we had a big party for him the […]
Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day, May 2014
Yeah! It is Sew Mama Sew’s Giveaway Day’! I LOVE Giveaway Day! (well..technically week). It’s a great opportunity to take some time, check out bloggers, and of course – win some goodies in the process! Before we get to the giveaway I want to tell you WHY you want to follow my blog and […]
American Brand Solids– Farm to Fabric Challenge Bonus Bundle Challenge with Fabrics N Quilts
I love a good challenge and I’m really excited about this one! My friend Shannon from Fabrics N Quilts contacted me when she heard about the challenge from American Brand Solids – Farm to Fabric. Have you heard of the new American made solid fabrics from Clothworks? Fabrics N Quilts stocks the entire line of […]
Finish It Up Friday–May BOMs
I actually have two more really amazing quilts that I have finished – binding and everything that I’ve been wanting to share on a Finish It Up Friday post. Unfortunately – I need an opportunity to get some decent pictures. It keeps being too windy or too rainy for me to get out and photo […]
Shoofly Chickens Block Tutorial: 52 Twisted Tradition Block Quilt Along
Since I switched back to blogger I created some issues with the photo’s that I had uploaded when on wordpress. I’m manually re-uploading those images as fast as I can – thanks for your patience! The good news is – I have all the photo’s back on the tutorials for the 52 Twisted Tradition Block […]
A Day of Adventures
photo by Karmen Linder Photography I had planned for a day of adventures today and it went better than I ever expected (you truly never know what will happen with a 3 year old in tow). I needed to go up to Ardyth’s Sew-N-Vac Shoppe to pick up some new feet for my Janome 1600P […]
Poynette K-8 Art Fair
On Thursday, May 1st, the Poynette K-8 art teachers put together an amazing art fair at the elementary school. It was a fabulous event and showcased at least one piece of art by EVERY student from Kindergarten to 8th grade. How cool is that!? They also arranged to have ‘guest artist’ set up their work […]
SewJo
I love that my friend Kim of My Go-Go Life is encouraging us to get some quilting in on the weekend – and then share what we worked on with you all. Saturday was pretty much a NoSew day for me…I had a garage sale instead! It was one of the first beautiful days we’ve […]
A Lovely Year of Finishes–May Goal
I’ve been contemplating my May Goal for the last five days. I would LOVE to finish another big WIP quilt top for May…but I also want to be realistic. It’s going to be a BUSY month with dance recitals, gymnastic classes, choir concerts, field trips, birthday parties and weddings to go to – let’s not […]
May 2014–Project QUILTING Off Season Challenges: Can You Measure Up?
I don’t want you all to get uninspired during the Project QUILTING off-season…so here comes another challenge. I was drawing a complete blank as of yesterday so I asked my fellow ‘Challenge Quilt’ members for some ideas! Before I knew it – I had LOTS of ideas! Lucky you! We’re going to start with the […]