Pineberry quilt

My grand daughter Lucy asked me to teach her how to make a quilt. I showed her a bunch of patterns and she chose Pineberry, a cute quilt designed by Lindsey of Pen and Paper Designs. I love this quilt so I thought it was a good choice. Then I started thinking about it....this quilt is going to take a year to complete!  Also, it's for advanced beginner!!!  Lucy will be 12 years old in a week and her fingers are very liable, she's able to do very fine little things.  She also has the mind of an engineer, so putting all those pieces together is an enjoyable challenge for her.

Lucy finished her first block! the colors aren't that true on the computer but you get the idea.  She chose all the fabrics herself.

I've got a pretty good selection of fabric for her to choose from! 😂

Lucy also cut all the pineberry pieces out herself, with a rotary cutter! 😳 She did very well and was very safety conscious.  

Now Lucy has finished two blocks!  We found out that it takes a little over an hour to make one block. This past week, we listened to Benson Boone sing while we sewed. Mystical, Magical!

School is starting up this week, and it's Mountain Biking season.  Lucy will be going to middle school this year, she is in 7th grade. It will be challenging finding time to sew but I'm sure that we can make it work. I'll keep you updated on Lucy's progress.  I'm considering sewing some of the flowers and leaves to help her out.

 

Halloween Doll panels

 Stacy Itse Hui has designed some Halloween dolls, the line is called "Home Sweet Haunt" by Moda fabrics.  I have sewn every single one of her panels for my grand daughters, some of them multiple times. They are fun and easy to sew and give a lot of pleasure to little girls and some not so little anymore!

I finished the ghost girl and the witch and just need to finish the ghost boy. 

Look at all the detail in her outfit and the sweet face!

The ghost girl has some spiders in her hair!

I'll have the little boy ghost finished by next week and I'll show him to you. I think they're so cute!!!

Playroom for my Grand daughter

In our new house, there's a little storage area in the basement, under the stairs. I put some vinyls on the wall of Winnie the Pooh characters, which happen to be Sabrina's favorite right now. 

Sabrina and her family are visiting right now.  She loved the playroom! I put fairy lights on the ceiling too, and bought her a Winnie the Pooh coloring block and bought crayon twistables to put in the little pencil pouch that I made for her, which I also posted about last week. Sabrina will be 4 years old in another month! She sure is a special little girl ❤️ 

Grandchildren Gifts

 We have finished our move to another state! It wasn't really planned, but happened within a month. Buying and selling our house! I finally got my sewing room unpacked and organized. My first day of sewing was today. My son and daughter in law and their two children are coming to visit next week, so I decided to sew some gifts for them.

Sarina is 3 1/2 years old and loves Winnie the Pooh, so I made her a pillowcase for a 12 x 16 pillow. I need to go back to Pine Needles quilt shop and buy some more fabric to finish it.  

I made Sabrina a pencil case with leftover Winnie the Pooh fabric. It's very simple to make, here is the tutorial. I've made quite a few of them.

I made Lucas a pillowcase also.  He's so adorable and is 10 months old, such a cute age!!!

I have lots more to show you in the coming weeks, so stay tuned :)

Scrappy Americana Flag Sew Along, June

I am loving this Scrappy Americana Flag sew along!  It's so easy to keep up because you only have to do so many blocks every month. The pattern even shows you which fabrics to use and where.

The pattern shows you how to make the quilt using foundation paper piecing, or just piecing the blocks. I had some of the foundation papers in the right size so decided to use it! It's very satisfying, tearing the papers from the fabric, and much more accurate.

It's an assembly line of half square triangles, they go together really well. I've been spray starching my blocks with Mary Ellen's Best Press.

Ta da, my blocks are finished! I can hardly wait to start sewing the red and white stripes together. This quilt is going to be gorgeous and really big! This month's blocks are called the Pinwheel Stripe blocks.

Thanks for following along, see you soon!

Village Quilt Pattern

Have you seen the Village quilt pattern by Miss Rosie & Co?

It's really cute!  I think it has 132 houses in the village!  I posted a link above, it is now a free pattern to download at Fat Quarter Shop. This quilt has been on my wish list for a long time. My friend alerted me that the Rusted Silo Studio on Instagram was having a block swap. The exciting part was that you could only use Heather Ross fabric. What???? I adore Heather Ross fabric and have a small collection that I've been hoarding, saving! I made 10 blocks of 10 houses for the swap which were 100 houses. I got my houses back and immediately put them on my design wall. They are all so cuuuuuute!!!!!!

I'm going to sew these little houses together and create a village.  Each door has a fussy cut which I love! I didn't take any close ups of my houses, but these are my friend's blocks. Aren't they the cutest?

Here's a link to a former post about the Village Quilt pattern, and my blocks.

Soon I'll be able to show you the finished quilt ❤️

Thanks for following my quilt journey ❤️

Calli & co Block of the month

 I joined the Callie and Co mystery block of the month in March. I cut all the fabric and caught up on my January, February and March blocks. I was on schedule for April and May. 

I used a fat eighth bundle that I've had since 2010!!!  It is called Miss Kate and was designed by Bonnie and Camille. I was really excited to have a purpose for this bundle!

Here is May's block which was just released on Saturday. 

Corey Yoder is the designer of this mystery quilt along. She is having us use up all the half square triangle scraps to use in some later blocks so that we don't have as much sewing and won't get burned out towards the end. I love watching Corey's you tube channel, Coriander quilts.  She has a soothing voice and is very creative!

I've got a few sew alongs in the works right now.  I'm making the Scrappy Americana Flag quilt and the Phoenix Modern quilt guild's block of the month. I also have a couple of quilts cut out that have been started. 

Thanks for following along :)

Scrappy Americana Flag Sew Along, Month 1

 The first month and it's the Four Patch Stripe blocks, super easy.

This fabric is so beautiful!

I'm going to love every minute of this sew along. Making the blocks just once a month is very relaxing. No weekly scrambling to get them done. 

Here are my blocks, 6 red four patch blocks and 6 low volume blocks.

I'll see you next week, and thanks for checking out my blog ❤️

The Scrappy Americana Flag Sew Along

This sew along is with The Fat Quarter Shop on their blog, 

the Jolly Jabber.

Lori Holt, the quilt designer, will also be doing the sew along on her blog, Bee in my Bonnet. Lori always gives the best details.

This is the most beautiful fabric, it looks way better in person. The colors are very vibrant.

This is the fabric after I've opened it and cut all the pieces.  I think there's enough left to make two more quilts!

I'm so happy that all my pieces are cut out! I'm doing foundation paper piecing with a few of the blocks, and the rest will be pieced.

The sew along begins on May 9 and continues through February.  With such a long time span, it will be doable to get the quilt finished on schedule.

Thanks for following along.  Come back on May 9 to see my first blocks, the four patches.

Regent Street quilt

I have always loved the Union Jack flag. It belongs to England, but also belonged to Canada until 1967, when Canada designed its own flag when they were 100 years old. I had to draw this flag in my young Elementary school years, and always had a difficult time. There are two or three different sizes in the stripes. I remember trying to get it even with a ruler, but it was just really hard!

I went to London from Paris, for one day, two years ago.  The first place we went, was Liberty of London. It's an incredible 3 story shop with the most beautiful things! One of their floors is devoted to Liberty of London fabric.  Some of it is tana lawn, a very fine, silky cotton.

I've been in love with Liberty of London fabric since I was 19 years old, in fashion design at Ryerson in Toronto. It has always reminded me of Laura Ashley.

When I was at Liberty of London, I bought some small fat quarter packs of their fabric, excited to make a quilt out of it. Over a year ago, I cut the fabric for the Regent Street quilt by Amy Smart from Diary of a Quilter. I'm going to a quilt retreat in another week and decided to make this quilt with my beautiful fabric!  This is how the first block turned out. After cutting the pieces for this quilt, I had enough fabric left to make the Snail quilt by Pen and Paper Designs. You can see it here.

I'm so excited to show you the finished quilt top in a few weeks!

Thanks for following along :)

The Americana Flag Quilt

 

I received the Americana Flag Quilt Kit in the mail from Fat Quarter Shop! It's a pretty big box full of fabric and the pattern.

Here is the fabric, two full bundles!  There are one yard pieces and some half yard pieces.  The pattern tells you which fabric to us with a little photo and the SKU number.  You can piece the blocks or use foundation paper.  I have foundation paper for one of the sizes so I'll use it and will piece the rest of the blocks. The quilt along beings in May.

On the stripes of the American flag, every rotating block is pieced.

This will be a fun quilt along!  Thanks for following me :)

Callie & Co Mystery Block of the Month 2025

 Corey Yoder from Coriander quilts is doing the cutest mystery block of the month. These are Blocks 1, 2 and 3, not necessarily in order.

I think that each block is so cute and scrappy, each piece being a different color and print. I know I can catch up! I'm going to make mine out of a "Miss Kate" fat eighth bundle by Bonnie and Camille, 2017. I always try my best to use what I have even though it's so tempting to buy more cute current fabric!

I'll let you know about my progress :)

Quiltcon 2025

 

Quiltcon is a national quilt show for modern quilts, held once a year. This year it was in Phoenix, just an hour from my home. A group of my friends got together and drove to the Phoenix Convention Center and we had a wonderful day! 

Our first order of business was to wait in line for the Ruby Star Society booth. We waited in line for an hour and a half! It was worth every minute. During that time, we got to meet the lovely and oh so talented Miss Melody Miller. She came up to me and asked if she could see my quilted jacket. Do you see her examining it?  I felt so special ❤️ She saw all the Ruby Star fabric and her name on one of the selvages on my collar. 

Here I am in the Ruby Star booth 💗💗💗 Thanks Nedra for capturing the moment ❤️

I also got to meet Elizabeth Hartman, eeeeeeeeek!!!!!! I've made and loved and admired so many of her quilts.  My grandchildren thank her!

Awesome Ocean, Fancy Forest, Penguin Party, Llamas, and more.

Our quilting friend group ❤️

Nedra made the quilt that is displayed behind us. Such an honor for it to be displayed for everyone to see and enjoy!

Here are some photos I took at vendor's booths.

I love looking at traditional quilts, but modern quilts inspire me even more.  I mean the ones that were displayed and some that won awards. I noticed a lot of straight line quilting.  I know I can do that on my sewing machine. There are lots of techniques I can take from those creative quilts and use it in my own quilting.  

I only went for one day, and walked my feet off!  It's the slow walking that makes me tired 😂 Maybe next time I'll go for two ❤️

Thanks for following me :)