Quilty Fun Birthday Cakes and more!

It's Kylie's birthday today, she's 3 years old! 

 I made her a Quilty Fun Birthday cake, the pattern is free at the

Fat Quarter shop's blog, the Jolly Jabber.

Kylie loves little cutie mandarin oranges, she can eat 5 or more at one sitting :)

I made her this cake banner for her birthday.

I also wrote a tutorial for appliquéing the letters and adding a border, you can see it here.

This is the back of Kylie's banner.

This is cute little Kylie today, on her birthday :)
She looks very grown up!

I made a mosaic of all the quilty fun birthday cakes I've made :)

I made one for each grandchild, Lindsay is my daughter, and "Celebrate" was created for Jordan and Kim, my son and daughter in law. 

(Kim reads my blog)!!! Thank you!

The idea is that each child will display their birthday banner for their birthday week (or month...), every year.

If you want to see the banners close up, you can just search my blog for "quilty fun birthday cakes", I've posted about them a lot!

The ones without names, I made into a beautiful table runner.

It's really long!

I have an update for a quilt I made for Christmas for my daughter, Vanessa.

You can see the finished quilt here.

As an update, here's Vanessa and one of her little dogs Walter, with her quilt.

Sometimes it's fun to see who the quilt that I've spent so much time on, goes to!

I hope you enjoyed seeing some of my creations :)

Farm Girl Vintage Silo Barn

I made another silo barn from my Farm Girl Vintage book by Lori Holt.

The six inch block is called "peas and carrots", so I used green and orange fabric.

I bought a Craftsy class, it was machine quilting with your straight foot, by Jacquie Gehring.

What  a great class, I learned so much!

This is the first time I attempted crosshatch or square machine quilting, and I just love how it turned out.

I find it easy to machine quilt a mini quilt, because it's so simple to maneuver.

I made this mini for my friend, she loves pink and aqua colors together.

I used a Miny Moo back, it makes me feel really happy with all the colorful owls nesting in trees.

I bound the quilt in orange accentuate the orange in the block.

EOS lip balm Christmas gift

I found a great idea on Pinterest that I want to share with you :)

I can't send you to my Pinterest board, because it's a secret one!

Here is the link to Simple as That, making every day beautiful.

All teenage girls love EOS lip balm, so I thought this would be the perfect gift!

I priced lots of stores online and found that Costco had the cheapest price, and the balms come in a 5 pack.

Aren't they just the cutest?

Maybe you can make some for Christmas, they're quick and easy.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!

Not enough time!

To say I've been busy lately is an understatement!

I just arrived back from visiting family in Florida and Utah for three weeks, and my daughter and her two little children drove to California to visit us 2 days later.

What a wonderful time we've been having together!

We saw the sights in San Francisco :)

Saturday, my husband was scribe for 5 year old Maisie as she told him what she wanted to do for the day.

We completed everything on her checklist!

I was making the "dwell" quilt by Camille Roskelley, before all my travels and adventures.

I laid the blocks on the floor and took a black and white photo to make sure the contrast in the colors was pleasing to the eye.

I think it looks pretty good.

These are the blocks in living color!

There is sashing between all the blocks, and I added 9 extra blocks to the quilt.

I'm also working on a quilt from the magazine Love Patchwork and Quilting.

I thought it was a pretty simple pattern, but the cutting was so time consuming!

I love the low volume prints, especially the text ones :)
I really think they add a lot of interest.

I just have to sew the rows together, and will machine quilt a radiating circular pattern.

It will be my first time, but I bought one of Jacquie Gehring's Craftsy classes on machine quilting with your walking foot.

It was well worth the money, I highly recommend her classes!

Hopefully I can show you my completed "Dwell" quilt next week.

Wish me luck, I'll be sewing like one of Santa's busy elves!

Stacked Windmill quilt

I really love this book!

I made most of the blocks for the quilting bee I was in a couple of years ago.

I finally finished my quilt, it's machine quilted and bound.

Every block has the same theme, but each one is different.

I love the slate grey, I think it frames the blocks really well.

Each post has a different black and white print.

I love the little mustaches on this one!

Notice the beautiful all over swirl that my quilter/friend Cindy Paulson used when she machine quilted it.

The background is a Free Spirit purple with drops of yellow and white.

I used a different purple for the binding and I love how it contrasts against the slate and the purple back!

I made this quilt as a gift, but am going to have a very difficult time parting with it...

Farm Girl Vintage, Country Fair quilt

I posted about this "Country Fair" quilt a few weeks ago, when I finished the top.

My wonderful quilter/friend, Cindy Paulson, machine quilted it for me, and I just finished binding it.

These are my favorite blocks from the book "Farm Girl Vintage".

I love making star blocks, the one on the left is called "Autumn Star".

The "Scrappy Maple Leaf" block reminds me of Canada, my home and native land!

"Mama Hen" reminds me of two of my children who have chickens who lay eggs, but they're not golden :) Ha ha! 

"Canning Season" is a great block, I used to love canning when my children lived at home and I had a garden.

"Old Glory", because I became an American citizen seven years ago.

"Milking Day" reminds me of my daughter, because she owns a share in a cow named Patience.

She milks her once a week :)

"Scrappy Strawberry", I love a juicy red California strawberry!

"Penny Pig" is adorable, I made my granddaughter a couple of stuffed pigs for Christmas last year.

"Baking Day", I do a lot of that!

The blue bowl represents a beautiful blue Fire King bowl that my daughter Rebecca gave me for Mother's Day one year.

The green bowl represents Jadeite, my daughter Lindsay has quite a collection.

The "Simple Star" block is not that simple, I sewed a 6" postage stamp block in the middle.

I love the numbers background too :)

"Pie Cherries" is my husband's favorite pie and my favorite fruit.

"Woolly Sheep" was so cute, I just had to include him :)

See the gorgeous flower that Cindy quilted all over the quilt?

She's the best quilter!!!

I've always loved this Alexander Henry print, and it suits the Country Fair quilt perfectly!

I didn't have enough pear fabric for the back, so I added some Heather Bailey stripes which match the colors perfectly.

I really like scrappy backs too, don't you?

Happy Thanksgiving my friends!

I'm thankful for my Savior Jesus Christ, for my wonderful family, including my thoughtful husband, my darling children and their spouses, my sweet grandchildren, my health, my talents, my wonderful friends, and so much more.