Riley Blake Mystery block of the month - April

These blocks are easy and I love choosing the colors and prints!

I'm using so much pink, but am going to add a bold, bright color for the sashing and border.

April

March

February

January

I know that May's block will be incorporating selvages.

I am so excited because I have been saving mine for a few years :)

Kylie's Blessing Day

Kylie looks like a precious little pioneer baby!

This is Kylie's family :). My son Addison, my daughter in law Mabulane, and her big sister, 2 year old Neo. Aren't they a beautiful family?

My mother is visiting from Montreal, we were all really happy that she was able to be in attendance at our family activity!

My husband flew here just for Kylie's blessing :)

I am pretty happy today!

Look at Kylie's beautiful head of hair, it is so soft!

Kylie is so pretty! She smiles a lot but I wasn't able to capture any smiles!

I love this photo of Kylie, it shows off her big brown eyes.

She looks so cute in her slip with her little chubby baby arms.

She is the most cuddly baby to hold.

I sure will miss all of my precious grandchildren, I live a nine and a half drive away.

We took my mother's photo with all of her great grandchildren, except for Kylie who was sleeping.

Aren't grandchildren grand!!!

Pine Needles Quilt Shop

I want to show you one of my favorite quilt shops.

Pine Needles has relocated to a new building at Gardner Village in West Jordan, Utah.

I just love the butter yellow walls with the faux fireplace and pink upholstered chair. Doesn't this look inviting? It's the first thing you see when you walk into the shop.

I love chevron, notice all the chevron in the quilts?

Isn't the hardwood floor gorgeous?

What a cute quote!

Look at the vintage kitchen utensils, overflowing with fat quarters.

The store is so much more spacious, with eye candy everywhere!

Isn't this "modern asterisk" quilt lovely, it's being offered as a class.

This bed quilt is adorable! I bought a piece of every single bolt at the bottom of the bed, Tasha Noel's "Red Riding Hood".

My 5 year old grand daughter Kennedy came with me to the quilt shop, she loves to look at fabric! She is standing in the room where kids are allowed to play. There is a little wooden kitchen with play food, blocks and little wooden dolls to dress.

What sweet little aprons.

I've only shown you a little of the quilt shop, there is so much more!

If you are ever in the area, I would encourage you to visit! It is definitely worth it, there is so much to inspire you at this shop :)

Riley Blake Design Block of the Month - March

I am really enjoying the RBD block of the month.

This block was so quick to measure, cut and sew ♥

The name of the block is Simplicity.

I am designing all of my blocks in pinks.

I'm going to choose a totally different color for the sashing!

You can see the block on RBD's blog here.

February's block:

January's block:

That's a lot of pink!!!

April's block is simple also.

May's block will be using selvages.  

I can hardly wait, I have a shoe box full of selvages waiting for me.

A Winner!!!

Hi Everyone!

I have had such a great time reading all my emails, and seeing all the likes on my facebook page!!!

I want to thank all of you for following my blog and entering the giveaway.

A very special thank you to Nanette from Freda's Hive also :)

Nanette was so kind to send her readers to me for the giveaway.

I used the random generator, it chose #23.

Drum roll please...........

Anda W. is the winner of the giveaway!

Congratulations Anda!

A Giveaway!!!

March 12 marked my one year anniversary of blogging on 

 Dream Quilt Create.

I now have over a 122 followers, thanks to you!!!

 I am so excited that so many of you are interested in what I am doing.

I have made some wonderful friendships through blogging and hopefully I will have the opportunity to meet them someday :)
I am having a GIVEAWAY!

I am giving away 5 fat quarters.

They are from the line "Simple Abundance" 

by Bonnie of Cotton Way & Camille of Thimble Blossoms, 

by Moda.

I really love these fabrics!!!

I love everything these ladies do :)

To enter the giveaway, leave a comment and do one or more of the following:

1.  become a follower, "join this site" to the right of the blog.

AND/OR

2.  Like my dream quilt create facebook page here.

Your name will be entered once if you do one of these and twice if you do both :)

DON'T FORGET to leave a comment and tell me what you did,
 and /or if you are already a follower!

The deadline to enter this giveaway is on Sunday, April 7 @ midnight, mountain standard time.

The winner will be announced on Monday's blog, best of luck!

Kylie's Blessing Gown, Slip and Bonnet are Finished!

I embroidered Kylie's initials onto the back hem of her dress.

 I used a shadow embroidery technique.  
You embroider in such a way that there are "x's" on the back.
From the front, a shadow is cast through the letter as if you colored it in.  Then I embellished each letter with a vine, leaves and bouillon flowers.
Kylie's initial for her last name is in the middle, and Kylie Violet are her given names.  The idea is that when Kylie passes the gown on to her daughter, that Kylie will embroider her daughter's initials next to her own, and so on.  An heirloom is created :)

The initials are embroidered right above the pin tucks.

I posted photos of the slip on Monday, you can see it here.

This is the smocked bonnet.  I used the same pattern on the dress, and sewed some little seed pearls onto the bonnet.

I embroidered a bullion rose with lazy daisy petals to the silk satin ribbon.

I used a Milliners needle to stitch the roses.

The finished gown and bonnet, the slip is under the dress.

I will show you photos of Kylie on her big day which is April 14 :)