Already February and Some Quilting

Hello sweet friends!!

February is here and Valentine's Day is right

around the corner.  Do you have your projects

ready for Valentine's Day?

This sweet heart quilt was made by my friend Carla.

Don't you just love the scrappiness of it?  The quilting

pattern I used is called Amethyst.  I love how it came

out.

If you are interested in having me quilt your quilt please

click under my header Long Arm Pricing.

Do you ever just need something simple to

do?  Well, I found these 2 vintage twin sheets

and quilted them.  I love Raggedy Ann and

Andy sew this was fun for me.  My sweet little

great nieces love them to curl under while 

watching tv when they are over.

If you are doing something you love you are

never working.

Hugs

donna

Love Letter Sew Along

Hello sweet friends!

Hope y'all are keeping warm?  Brrrr!

With Valentine's Day right around the corner I 

thought I would share a sew along with you.

On January 25th The Singer Featherweight Shop is going

to do a sew along.  They will be sewing a pillow by 

Ellis and Higgs "Love Letter" Super easy and cute.

You can buy the pattern here.

This is the Love Letter pillow I made.  You can purchase

kits to make the pillow in my shop.

Hope you will join us to make the super cute pillow?

Hugs

donna

Happy New Year and Some Finishes

Hello sweet friends, hope y'all had

a wonderful Christmas?  

Our son cooked us Christmas lunch 

this year at there house.  Since 

he and Erica have bought a new house 

they really love staying home and enjoying it. 

 I don't blame them at all I love staying home

in my house too.

I pieced this 50 Years Rudolph quilt a 

couple of years ago.  And I am just quilting it.

Hope you can see the little deer and bows I quilted 

on it.  The binding is on all I have to do is 

hand sew it on to the back.

I made this pillow a few days ago using Swell

Christmas by Moda.  The fabric's will be in my 

shop in May sometime.  I can not wait.  It

is the sweetest ever, I am just smitten for the 

Santa's.

Wish y'all many Blessings for the New Year.

Hugs

donna

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas sweet frineds!

Hugs,

donna

North Winds and Sew Sweet Bee

Hello sweet friends!

It is October and the North winds have

been blowing lightly since yesterday.  This

is a real treat in Texas, it is like having air

conditioning outside.  lol!  Just wish it would

stay this way.  It is so nice to be able to enjoy

a cup of coffee outside.

I went to retreat a couple weeks ago

for a week.  We all had a blast with lots

of laughter and great food.  So much got

done while I was at retreat.  I made these

doll blankets for Skyler and Sloan along with

some little baby wipes and diapers for there

dolls.  I also got a queen size quilt top done,

just waiting on the backing to get here.

I will show you soon it is a scrappy blue and

brown quilt for my nieces best friends 9 year old's

bed.  Hope that makes sense.  lol!

I finished this months Sew Sweet Bee Block for

@lindabick if you follow her on Instagram.

She asked us to make her a red scrappy Bear Paw block.

I am sew in love with scrappy so this was sew much fun

for me.  There is some new Lecien Flower Sugar that is 

new in my shop sew of course I had to use some for 

Linda's block.

This is a free pattern over at Fat Quarter Shop

Hope y'all are having a great week sew far.

Hugs

donna

Harvey and Sew Sweet Bee

Hello sweet friends!

Hope y'all are well?

I know it has been awhile, but things have been 

busy over here in my little nest.  Not sure really where

to start.  lol!!

We had a visit for Hurricane Harvey.   This is a picture

from our sweet neighbors across the street.  They kept an

eye on our home while we where away.  We are very lucky

and blessed to have just got water in our garage.   Our home

was safe from the flood waters.  Sweet hubby and I stayed

with our son and his bride.  Hubby and our son worked a lot 

of long hours as they both work for the local electric company.  

It feels sew good to have things some what  back to normal.

I have been doing some customer quilting,

so if  you follow me on Instagram you may have

seen some of the quilts.  Last month I bought a 

computer for my long arm, and even though I 

have worked on a computer with a quilt machine

before there is still some what of a learning curve.

Gracey from Burlap and Blossom Patterns

was Queen Bee last month.  She asked that

we make her a scrappy cactus.  (this is one

of her patterns.)  This block is 12 1/2 inches

unfinished.  If you would like to check out 

her cute patterns you can visit her shop here.

She has some of the sweetest patterns and I promise

you will not be disappointed.

Hope y'all had a wonderful weekend and you

that you get to do something you love today.

Hugs

donna

Free Tutorial Windmill's For Skyler Rose

Happy May Day!

Geez it is already May 1st, seems like

it was just the beginning of the year. lol!

For being May 1st it is a gorgeous day 

out and there is a cool breeze.  I may 

have to go do some work outside and enjoy

this wonderful weather.

May is my month to be Queen Bee in Sew

Sweet Bee.  So I drew this Windmill block

and have wanted to make it for a long time

 and name it after my sweet niece's little girl.

Windmill's For Skyler Rose

So this is the block I am asking my bee

sister's to make me.

This is what you will need to make a block

4 White 4 1/4 inch squares

4 Purple 4 1/4 inch squares

and 

1  3 1/2 inch square

The white and purple 4 1/4 inch squares

 are going to be used to make half square 

triangles.  You will need 8 HST.

You can find the tutorial on how I make my

half square triangles in this post.

The 3 1/2 inch square will be the center of

your windmill.

This is the placement on how to sew them 

together.

Your block should be 9 1/2 inches.

For the quilt I used 20 blocks.

20 different fat quarters.

25 - 2 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch strips to sew to 

the right and left sides.

30 - 2 1/2 inches squares from left over

fabrics for the corner stones

24 - 2 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch strips to go in between 

the corner stones.

I cut my boarders 5 1/2 inches and used

about 5/8 of a yard.

3/4 for binding, but I do my binding a 

little bigger than most.  I cut my strips

3/4 of an inch x wof.

4 yards for backing.

Size of my quilt turned out to be 56 x 66 1/2

 

Hope you enjoy making this block as much

as I do.

Try to do something each day that you love.

Hugs

donna