Spring Quilt Market 2013

Favorite person I met this time at market!!

Carina reminds me of a cousin I truely love , my cousin Stacie. She was amazing and had the same quick wit about her. 

Sample spree, it's usual craziness. I got a great haul this time :) I'm excited to come back bearing fun fun gifts for my buds and mom. 

Funnest person Roxane, well she is just awesome and fun and oh my goodness smart lady here people!! She really makes me smile, I feel like her buddy and I loved hearing about her kids - my favorite part.

Just a bit of things in Riley Blake's booth

I have to say I do quite enjoy rainy weather, don't know why but it is nice :)

So I am back to it this morning and hopefully I will have a bit more to share, I was going to have a game plan but I had trouble with that yesterday, so I'll just wing it :). 

Amy's Creative Side

As always I look forward to Amy's Creative Side Quilt Show and I have a special one to share.  This is Passionlee!

I am a neebie-long-arm-quilter and I have wanted to make a modern-wholeclothish quilt for my little girl.  She always likes things to be stylish and bold.  I am a little bit more cutesy myself so this was a bit of a challenge.

I would love to be at the stage of just making beautiful designs free-hand but I still need a little practice. So for this quilt I decided to marriage a design with a little free-hand.  This is kinda the special thing about this quilt.  I love pebbling and I feel that it has a really modern look so I have a little bit of pebbling at the top and throughout the whole quilt.

I decided to pick out different parts of the design and accent it with a dense pebbling to make the quilt cohesive.

I have a tulip applique shedding it's petals.  I have used a turn-under appliqué technique which was very simple with the elongated lines.

I also used a small amount of decorative trim for the stemming swirls.

Of course I put my label on it :)

I have a great print for the back of the quilt.  It is so stunning and perfect for what my little one had in mind.

Then I bound it with a dark purple that shows up in the back of the quilt in color as well the same fabric on the front in the flower design.

So my little sweetheart is happy and I am happy too.  I had so much fun designing this quilt and I have taken it with me to Quilt Market so if you are here... check it out in Riley Blake's Booth.  Thank you so much for letting me share.  Also, PS - I will have this pattern available by the end of next week.  I just have to get my little butt home and get to work on the computer !!  I can't wait to see what everyone else has to share.  Be sure to check out the rest of the quilt show!

This little Quilter went to Market

Well, I wish I had more time to write all the great things that I have been up to but because there are too many great things I am running around like a crazy fast working machine this morning...  But I will share some of the cute things that I am taking with me to quilt market!!! I'm almost on the plane to Portland ;)

 Top of the stack - Bryanna's super super super awesome clothes!!  She is fantastic and I want to wear them to quilt market and not carry them especially the jacket because I have a few tanks that I am taking with me and I need more jackets :)  Anyway, then a stack of all the things I have been up to.  I have a post on friday with the quilt at the bottom.

Okay, well I don't have the patterns for these items quite yet but I will by the end of next week.  I am sharing Simple Block Play Quilt and Satchel Sass Bag.  I will repost about them next week with more pics but for now, thank you for letting me share.

Riley Blake's Sarsaparilla line!  It had the cutest prints ever for a little cowgirl.  Of course a cowgirl and cowboy need a satchel to tote all their cowboying supplies.  The boy version just subtracts the ruffle.  My kids are bitting at the bit to get these bags back for them to play with.

Yee Haw!!

We All Sew

Hi everyone :)  I just wanted to say that I am getting a chance to introduce myself today over at We All Sew!  I have to say that I probably could have picked out a better picture of myself but oh well ;)  Everyone KNOWS that Bernina has the best machines ever and I am so lucky to be able to guest post on their site.  Thanks and hopefully, I will have a few things to share tomorrow as well on here.  I just finished one quilt and am starting on another baby quilt as-I-write-this.

So I am going to include a picture of me smiling cause I do smile occasionally... lol.  Umm, I might need to work on my modeling capabilities for sure.

I feel Crazy

I feel a little crazy sometimes.  I think though that I am figuring out what that crazy means.  For example, what drives me, what I am all about, how I feel about other people.

I have to say that over this past year venturing through my life I have been disappointed in myself because I have needed great friends.  I have to say though that I feel lucky that I found (or I should say they found me) and had some.  They sure lifted my spirits.  I have been lucky to spend time with them lately and it gave me a chance to reflect on this past year.   We are nearing a year of my dad passing away.  These friends have given me so much!  It makes me want to be so conscious of  how much I want to be just like them in respect of being there for people.  I love being in that place more then in need.  I want to give a piece of myself to other people to show that I care and that they mean something to me.  I want to be what I needed to others always.  So after a year I feel like I am getting into a good place again where I can be that person that I use to be.

I think that life takes you through journeys and you get to pick up different perspectives of understanding life and meaning.  Although, I know that it is not good to compare but I can't help it sometimes.  I ask the questions like why can't some people get it?  That is where the frustration begins.  So the only person I can change is me and I am not going to worry about how people don't have a clue and that I'll be around when they figure it out and then everything will be beautiful and I won't have to be frustrated in them :)  So before that happens, I am just going to forgive some of the thoughtless things that were said or done.  They didn't know better and they will eventually.  Then I am going to say thank you again to the sweet amazing people that do.  Thank you with all my heart.

Okay enough said,

I have been luckily sewing for quilt market!!  I got the new line "Boy Crazy".  It is so so cute!  The prints are the best.  I will show you my favorite one.  And hopefully, this little quilt "Crazy Reel" will touch someone's heart.  Also, I got to make my most favorite pattern ever!!!  The "Tisk Task Apron".  It is a little child's apron/tool belt.  So be sure to check that one out too.  These are available in my pattern shop (tab #2) and in my Etsy shop.

(my most FAVORITE PRINT!!!, It is the one with the rainbow of colors and kinda looks like zig-zags)

(quilting was a fun loop de loop pattern and a swirl, fun and crazy)

(the quilt and apron together, both made form Boy Crazy line)

NOW for the APRON!!  This apron is super cute because it can hold whatever you want in the adjustable velcro strip.  It is ADJUSTABLE!!  So the idea is a tool belt but you can put all kinds of things in there like trucks, spatulas, snacks, snakes, all the good stuff you can imagine or the little child can imagine which could be really dangerous.  This apron is adjustable with it's parachute clasp so even adults can fit into these little babies :)

(okay so this would be my second most favorite print of the line because of the collection of boy items all laid out there, it is the back of the apron)

(It has three divided pockets in the front to carry things as well)

So thank you for your interest and hopefully the apron will catch someone's heart as well.