Halloween Quilt

Happy Thursday sweet friends!!

I woke up this morning thinking it was 

Wednesday. (ooops)

Hope you are having nice Fall like weather?

I am sew in love with this quilt.  My friend Kim

and I both made this quilt.  Sewing around the cut outs

was not all that bad.  

The pattern is by Buttermilk Basin and called

All Dressed Up For Halloween.

The boarder is an old fabric from 2007 called

Halloween Lane by Alexander Henry.

I sure wish I had some more of it (sigh) 

I plan on using the little bit I have left in 

another Halloween quilt and I will fussy cut

the sweet children.

Hope you have a spooktacular day.

Love and Hugs

donna

 

Making Memories With Skyler

Happy Hump Day sweets friends!!

I wish I could say it feel's a bit like Fall here,

but not sew much.  The exciting news is I finally

found some Pumpkin Spice Coffee Creamer.

I had the BEST WEEKEND!!

With my Great Niece Skyler.

I can not believe she is already 6 and in the lst grade.

She has been wanting to learn to sew for a bit  now.

We Started out practicing sewing straight

lines and following the guide lines.

Skyler knew what she wanted to make just

needed to be shown how to use the sewing

machine and help cutting things out.

She wanted to make a sleeping bag for her

Barbie.  Sew I cut it out and sat by her

and guided her on how to sew it.

This is the end result and she was sew happy

with the results. 

 It just makes a girl's heart sing!!

The next day she wanted she wanted to

make a Barbie outfit.

Sew with a little help from Aunt donna

this is the result.  The look on her face

says it all.  We had to do videos and send

them to mom she was sew proud.

I can not wait to sew with her again!

Hope y'all are having a wonderful week.

Love and Hugs

donna

 

Kim's American Flag Quilt and Free Tutorial

Hello sweet friends!!

And Happy Monday.

Geez it's been awhile.  Hope everyone

is doing well? I have been missing

everyone over here in blog land. 

I am sew excited to show you Kim's 

Flag quilt. 

My sweet friend Kim made her flag

quilt using my tutorial.  I am sew in

love with all the fabric's she used.  It

is sew much fun just picking the fabric's

to make this quilt.  You can even dig into

your scrap bin for this one.

I was sew Blessed to quilt her quilt as well.

(Was hoping you could see more of the quilting.)

Kim choose Troubled Seas for the quilting, she

want's it to look like her flag is waving.  If you

are InstaGram you should pay Kim a visit and

see all her happy make's.  She is one talented lady.

She is at kim_ann_rice

This is such a happy quilt to make.  Hope you

get a chance to make one too. 

Love and Hugs

donna

Happy New Year and My New Sewing Chair

Happy New Year!!

Hope everyone's 2020 has gotten off

to an awesome start?

I got a saddle chair as an early Christmas

present. 

  Since I sit at my sewing machine A LOT I thought

 I needed to give this chair some consideration.  

Since I have been sitting on it I notice it 

helps me to sit up straighter

and not slump over my sewing machine,

not as much pressure on my legs and

hips. I have trouble with my back and my

left leg goes numb.  Sew far this chair has

been an awesome find.

I have a friend that is a Hygienist

and she loves her chair.  She explained

to me how it has helped her hip.    

You kind of have to get used to it but once

you do I promise you are going to love it.

Here is an article about the benefits of a 

Saddle Chair

If you are interested this is where I bought mine

Saddle Chair from Amazon

That is before I knew Jo sold them.

Jo's Quilting Studio

What kind of chair do you use to sit and sew?

Love and Hugs,

donna

Sweet Birthday Gift

Good morning sweet friends!

Hope you have weather that feels like Christmas?

It is finally feeling like winter outside here.  My

hubby called me this morning to let me know

his truck said it was 27 outside.  Yeaaa!!  I do 

not mind the cold since it get's sew hot here.

Just wish it could snow along with the cold. But

we do have frost on the ground.

I am sew stinkin' excited to show you my quilt that

was gifted to me by a dear sweet friend. 

Kim @kimhouselrice (on Intsagram) made me this super

sweet star quilt for my birthday.  Just look at the lavender

fabric's she used.  

And the back!!

I have to say I am in love with pieced backs.

Kim hand quilted it with flowers.  Just have to say

her hand quilting is gorgeous.  And this quilt is one

of the softest quilts I own.  

When I grow up I want to be able to hand quilt just

like Kim.

I love the label on the back.  

Kim I love everything about this quilt.

Thank you sew much for such a super sweet

gift.  I love it with all my heart.

Love and Hugs

donna

Swell Christmas Quilt and Some Crafting

Happy Monday sweet friends.

Hope you are enjoying the Christmas

season.   

I love this time of year and I need to get

started on my baking and candy making.

I made this Christmas quilt out of Swell

by Urban Chiks  for Moda last year.  Every piece of

the fabric line was used to make this quilt

scrappy Happy.   There is nothing I love more

than a vintage Santa Claus.

This year Sweet Christmas came out by Urban

Chiks for Moda.  I do have a plan but just have 

not put it in motion yet.

This weekend I spent time doing a little crafting.

I have been wanting to make a Christmas wreath

for our front door out of vintage ornaments and

other little odds and ends that I have been collecting.

This is as far as I got because I ran out of hot glue.

Sew as soon as I can pick up some glue sticks I will

add a little more.

A few years ago I bought these mailboxes

at Target in the dollar bin.  This weekend I

decorated them up and played in the glitter.

Glitter hides sew many flaws I just love it.

Hope you are enjoying some Christmas

sewing and crafting.

Love and Hugs

donna

Happy December and Some Quilting

Hello sweet friends!!

Hope everyone has been doing well?

It is already December and the Most

Wonderful Time of The Year.

The weekend we got our tree up and decorated.

I put a few Christmas things out.  Today

I got the Christmas pillows and quilts out.

Everything is starting to look a lot like Christmas

around here.  All we need now is some snow.

Which is not likely to happen here in South Texas.

Over the weekend I got the opportunity to quilt one

of our Sew Sweet Bee Sister's quilt.  

Kim asked us to make her churn dash blocks out

of blue fabric.   As you can see the one in the middle

is backwards from what Kim wanted.  Well, that

is all my fault.  I made the block and realized later 

that it was not right.  Sew I decided to send it to Kim

anyway thinking she would make a pillow or something.

Kim got her quilt all laid out and sewed together at our

retreat in October and handed it off to me to do the quilting.

Kim choose Hearts n Bows for the quilting.  I am sew in 

love with how it turned out.

Love and Hugs,

donna