Today was our daughter's birthday. Although she has moved out on her own, she still wanted to come home for her birthday celebration. When our kids were growing up, it was tradition that the birthday person got to pick the menu. Some of the menus that the kids came up with may have been a bit strange with things that you wouldn't normally put together in the same meal, but because it was their day, they were allowed to make up any combination that they wanted. So, today, according to our family tradition, our daughter got to pick the menu: tacos, orange fluff salad, cold cuts, lemonade, and carrot cake.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Today was our daughter's birthday. Although she has moved out on her own, she still wanted to come home for her birthday celebration. When our kids were growing up, it was tradition that the birthday person got to pick the menu. Some of the menus that the kids came up with may have been a bit strange with things that you wouldn't normally put together in the same meal, but because it was their day, they were allowed to make up any combination that they wanted. So, today, according to our family tradition, our daughter got to pick the menu: tacos, orange fluff salad, cold cuts, lemonade, and carrot cake.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Love Is... Redwork
This was today's finish - at least finished to the flimsy stage. This is a red work project called, "Love Is...". These patterns were released by Paula Stoddard of Pacific Patchwork back in 2010. The blocks were released every two weeks for the year by Paula on her Quilt Happy, Quilt Often Blog. Paula's blog has been discontinued, but the blocks can be purchased from her website:
Size: 38.5" x 50.5"
Seasons Redwork - Winter and Spring
I have two small finishes to report. These two wall hangings form part of a pattern called, Seasons Redwork that has been designed by Paula Stoddard of Pacific Patchwork. Back in 2009, these blocks were released by Paula as a BOM on her Quilt Happy, Quilt Often Blog. Paula's blog has been discontinued, but the blocks can be purchased from her website: http://www.pacificpatchwork.com/Seasons_Redwork_p/ppw-320.htm
Paula's pattern shows all four seasons as part of the same wall hanging. I preferred to stitch the four seasons individually and frame the blocks with fabric that relates to that season. My plan is to change out the wall hangings in my kitchen with the seasons.
Each wall hanging finishes at 10.5" x 26".
This is Winter:
This is Spring:
And finally because Joey just cracks me up sometimes, this is Joey:
We were watching a nature show on Discovery and he perched himself front and center in front of the screen. He will often do this during Animal Planet and he makes me laugh every time he does it.
Monday, April 09, 2012
Spring!
March 25, 2012:
April 9, 2012:
Signs of spring are everywhere. These pictures were taken in my yard.
Monday, April 02, 2012
Shop Hop
I spent Friday participating in a quilt shop hop--Quilt Tour 2012, "Sew Northwest". There were 13 shops participating in all, however, I only "hopped" to the first 6 shops in Lynden and Bellingham.
Each shop was giving away the pattern for a block. All of the shops made all 13 blocks and put them together in unique quilt settings. Seeing all of the quilts was like a mini quilt show. This was Tangled Threads' quilt:
I found some fabrics at Tangled Threads that go with some challenge fabrics that Cher sent each of the FABs last year. These three fabrics are from In The Beginning Fabrics from their, "My Sunshine" fabric line by Kathy Deggendorfer. http://www.inthebeginningfabrics.com/cgi-server/itb/displayfab.cgi?product=mysnshne
These are the fabrics that were in the "kit" that Cher sent last year after she attended the annual quilt show in Sisters, Oregon. This panel was the official fabric for the 2011 Sisters Quilt Show, and is called "Nature's Symphony", by Kathy Deggendorfer. Cher challenged each of the FABs to make a quilt using this panel and the other kit fabrics that she sent us.
The pattern in the photo is called, Field of Flowers, and is by a Canadian artist from DJ Richards Designs. The artist lives in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. http://www.djrichardsdesign.ca/
This is Calico Country's quilt using the shop hop blocks.
The third shop I visited was, Folktales, also located in Lynden. http://folktalesfabricshop.blogspot.ca/
This was Folktales' version of the shop hop quilt.
I also found small black buttons - a little bigger than the buttons that I had bought at Tangled Threads. This cute Easter stitchery pattern also came home with me--Easter Stack by Kassie Moen.
That was it for quilt shops in Lynden. I then headed down the highway to Bellingham where I stopped at Fabric Etc.
This was Fabric Etc's version of the shop hop quilt. They added the name of each shop that participated in the shop hop above the door on the house that featured that shop's block.
I found some fabric that looked like a box of chocolates at Fabric Etc. I plan on using this fabric on the border of a second Valentine's panel like the one I just finished. I also picked up a coordinating brown fabric as I don't have much in the way of brown in my stash. The gal in the shop called this a rich brown, not a "wimpy" brown. LOL
The next stop was Fourth Corner Quilts. This is the side of the shop that you see as you approach the shop from the road. You have to pull in off the busy street and park in the rear of the shop.
This is the view around the corner where you park and enter the shop.
This is Fourth Corner's version of the shop hop quilt. Fourth Corner's block is the Maple Leaf block. All of the blocks are arranged in the shape of a tree, symbolic of all the trees in the Pacific Northwest. You can't see it in this picture but the background quilting contained many images of things you might see in the Pacific Northwest like birds.
I found Mardi Gras fabric on the back Fourth Corner's sale shelf. When I was in New Orleans in 2010, I was unable to find a quilt shop. I believe that although some businesses have returned to New Orleans after the devastation of Katrina, quilt shops had not yet returned at the time that I was there. I will be using this fabric to make myself a table topper to remind me of my visit to New Orleans and Louisiana.
The last shop that I visited on the shop hop was Two Thimbles, also in Bellingham.
This is Two Thimbles' version of the quilt shop hop quilt.
A popular feature of this year's shop hop were the charms that each shop was giving away. These are the 6 charms that I picked up in my travels.
As you can see in many of the pictures, the weather was great--sunshine and blue sky. It was a great day for a drive and an excellent opportunity to visit some quilt shops that I don't get to on a frequent basis.
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