Settled and Soaked

Remember these?...

I think I've finally settled on a pattern to use for my next quillow.  I always pick up the flyer for Wal-mart's "Quilt of the Month" if I like it, but I usually pass on the fabric.  I pulled this one out and thought it might suit these fabrics...I'm still nailing down which fabrics to use where...

Of course, I'll modify it a bit, cutting off a few rows and columns and adding sufficient border to fit my standard quillow size of 44 x 72.....and one block more for the pillow, of course.

These blocks finish out at 15-3/4" so that will be perfect.  I think this one was from 2009...an oldie!  You can download the pdf here along with several other ones.

I've finally dug myself out from under yet another huge to-do list and backorders so I've had a little fun creating a new brother/sister outfit set for my etsy shop.      Whaddya think?

It's made with Michael Miller's Magical Flower Fairies toile fabric in apple and a coordinating brown mini dot.  I've also ordered the purple colorway and will offer that, too.

Last week was filled with lots of anxiety and (unnecessary) tears so I also celebrated with a wonderful bubble bath and the last slice of coconut cake - yes, I eat in the bathtub!

This weekend we're going to make homemade ice cream and try this idea for a topping - hope I don't blow up the house or anything!

A couple finishes

Back in May we returned from vacation and I had two quillow tops going together.  Remember these:

Well, I've finished both, including hand quilting and they are in my quillow shop!!

I'm just loving how they turned out!

Now, I've got to get cracking on another project because I hate being without any hand quilting.

Several months ago, I purchased these two bolts

and then found some coordinates online and purchased a few fat quarters.

Oh, and I almost forgot that I've got a bit of this fabric, too, also in the line.

There were several more fabrics in this line (Bryant Park by Exclusively Quilters) so it was hard to decide which I wanted to use - especially since I didn't really know what I was going to do!  I still haven't decided on a pattern so that's what I'll probably be working on tomorrow afternoon.  The Quilter magazine used it on their cover in May 2010 and I didn't even realize it until after I had purchased the fabric.  I don't think I'll be using that quilt pattern though.

So......I'm totally open to suggestions if anyone has one!

Anyway, I hope y'all have a lovely 4th of July, doing whatever you do!!  Be safe!

P.S.  I've got lots extra of the first two Bryant Park fabrics pictured so they're available in my etsy fabric shop.

MORE shop notes....

I know....yet another post about the shop....

It's neccessary for me to shut down production for a bit and clear the shelves as I attempt to catch up with things, so.....

EVERYTHING in the shop is marked down 25% and READY TO SHIP!

Pocketbooks

Notepads

Baked potato bags

Aprons

And so much MORE!

Please stop by and take something home with you!!!  (Click HERE to visit my shop)

A Corny Post

Not really what I wanted to be doing on a Saturday afternoon

But I can't complain...

...it's free and it will fill my freezer!

Thank you, PeeWee!

"Ick"-ing and rejoicing

 

OK....

 

Here's my thought for the day.

Or, perhaps it should be my statement for the day.

 

I don't like brown rice. at all.

Chewy little brown rubber nuggets....ick

 

I was trying to be all 'miss gourmet' tonight and tried a chicken dish with a dijon mustard sauce (the hubby liked that part) and since we're trying to eat more healthy, I fixed some brown rice to go with it.

 

Never again.  The rest of the box is getting donated to my mother who loves that crap stuff.

 

So, now the rejoicing part.....

 

I finally finished a HUGE order for a customer for like two thousand pairs of ruffled baby pants that have been hanging over my head for at least 2 months!

Actually it was more like 15 pair, but it sure felt like 2,000.

I've decided I don't like doing ruffles - at least not on such a grand scale.  I can't imagine being a seamstress in the early 80s!!

 

image found here

 

.....you'll also never find me working for Dolce and Gabbana

 

 

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Sooooo......now that I've shared my heart with you tonight, I'm off to the bathtub for a nice, hot soak and then dive into these babies - no ruffles here!

 

Oh yeah...these too....a friend of my 'flung a craving on me' (as we say in the South) for some Mary Engelbreit and I started these dresden blades that now need turning and pressing.

 

 

 

 

Summer Sale!

Just a quick shop note to let y'all know that all my Ready to Ship children's clothing items are now discounted 25%!  

 They won't last long at these prices so get them while you can!

 

Swamped

....that I am!

I don't know why I let myself get to this point.  I get lazy as the orders trickle in and I don't think much of it, plus I usually have some HUGE custom order lurking in the background that I keep putting on a back burner because I just don't really want to get started on it.

Then, all of a sudden, I'm swamped!  This realization always seems to hit on the day when I'm the most tired, for who know what reason (probably also why I haven't blogged much lately - my blogging batteries have been dead.)

Well, it hit me today....Monday....ugh.  I don't really dislike Mondays since quitting the 'working world' and starting my own business.   Most days are usually just the same with none really being worse than the other.  But today, I definitely feel the Monday Uglies.....

I decided I needed to just jump on things, regardless of how I felt, and it would abate - get started and get on a roll, get in a groove, and as Larry the Cable Guy would say here in the South:  "Git-R-Done!!"

I was right!  My favorite saying came true today:

"Begun is Half Done!"

 

Now, if I could just pry myself away from this computer and get back to work!!  :)