Mother's Day Rummage Sale & Catching Up

We're having a Mother's Day Rummage Sale all of this week. May 6-9th.

 Each day a different set of kit's, patterns and books will go on sale.

Today two of the choices are the "O My Stars Kit"

and the pattern for Charming Posies.

Also on sale are Family Circle Kit, Farmers Market BOM and the Garden Dance book.

To go to the store and check them out click here.

Spring has finally gotten to Missouri - we hope to stay.

I'm not going to Spring Market.  Pep couldn't take off and it's too far to drive by myself.

I flew to Portland last year but that's enough flying for awhile.

Besides Michelle Oglesbee-Flores wouldn't move to Pittsburgh to help me out like she did in Portland last year.  So it's her fault I'm not there:)

Three of the new  Castlewood quilts will be in the Moda booth though so it's almost like being there.

And I also sent 5 of the Table Stand quilts so if you're there stop by and see them all.  They'll be in the pattern and notions section of the booth.

After the rush of getting the quilts and patterns off to Moda there was some much needed down time with the grandkids.  Brooke loves gathering eggs and feeding the baby chickens.  There was chicken feed everywhere in the brooder house by the time she got through :).  The chickens thought it was great fun.

Lily, on the other hand fed Dobby and Hunny dog food one pellet at a time.  They also thought it was great fun.

Every night the dogs and I go for a walk down the hill to the treeline - mostly all the way.   Sunday Zoie & Cullen & Quinn came with us.  They ran - I walked :)

Now, I'm taking it easy, stitching on the schoolhouse project which will be on the blog hop this fall - and coming up with ideas for pattern for the next line - Lillies of the Field.  

The years roll by in fabric  :) It is a wonderful life.

Oh my! oh my!

Most of you know by now that I have a bulldog named Spike.  He is the apple of my eye except when he tries to eat cars.  :) 

The 2nd picture is an Easter card that I got from my friend Jenny Doan.  I have never seen anything quite so hilarious in my life.  She said she just couldn't resist getting it.
Thanks Jenny.
I don't know whether Spike was amused or not but we certainly were.

And this is Jan and Jenny's Garden.  We designed it together before she started traveling all over the world - or at least most of the United States.

It's still one of favorite spring wallhangings.

Her card reminded me of it so I'm putting it on special - 15% off the pattern - for the rest of the week.

And I think you get a free scrap bag with any order this week.

Pretty good deal.

A chuckle to help with the rain and grey days and a bargain to boot.

Thanks Jenny.

Happy Easter

From the Patek house

to yours.

Hope the Easter Bunny was good to you.  :)

Busy, busy, busy .............Tutorials and phones & kids & chickens & stuff.

We had a new tutorial go live on You Tube on the 10th.  

The Table Stand block is April Showers

and the quilt is Parasol Princess and the tutorial will of course, cover both of them.

To see the tutorial click here.

To order kits or patterns click here or on the name.

Below is a picture of our phone at the office.  (I love my little antique primitive stand).  

Anyway, this phone has been a source of many problems in the past BUT WE HOPE THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED.

Ever since we moved the office to the barn years ago, if Tori (or whoever) was on the phone and someone called it would just ring on their end - it didn't go to voicemail, it would just ring.   They wouldn't get a busy signal so they would naturally think no one was in the office.  I have gotten lots of nasty comments about no one ever answering the phone during business hours.

We just discovered recently that it was doing that because we had call waiting.  WOW!.  So all we have to do is take the call waiting off of the line and people would get a busy signal if we were on the phone.

It took 7 days, people - 7 days of phone calls 

but finally - at last - if you call during business hours and Tori's on the phone you will indeed get a busy signal.  

We are here Monday-Friday from 10:00-2:00 CST, God willing and the creek don't rise.

Besides talking to the telephone company 

new baby chicks and grandchildren came.

We've been playing in the garden - lettuce and broccoli, cauliflower, kale & swiss chard.

And Grandma Laird's iris are starting to shoot up.  I can't wait until they bloom.

Jake had his Junior Prom.  He and Madison looked as awesome as they are.

Grandchildren are great.

And of course, taxes are paid!

Now I think we all need a little something for ourselves.   So we're having a sale - today only - Promo Code TAXBREAK.

Snow's over - we hope - and it's time for flowers and soft days.

Keep quilting ladies.

Freezer Paper Templates for pieced blocks - latest tutorial

Stars and houses and trees - and even snowman heads sometimes.

While my first love is appliqué, all applique can sometimes need a counterpoint.  A pieced block or two in an appliqué quilt can make all the difference in the world.

And I am particularly fond of pieced stars ( and trees and house and, and, and)  :)

To see my tutorial on Freezer Paper Templates click here.

This is one of 8 pieced star blocks in Little Houses so the kit will be 15 % off until midnight on April 4th.

I am so ready for real, live stems and leaves :)

It's been a week or two................

since I said I would post the winner of the Front Porch Dessert Roll tomorrow.

The winner is Janice Fowler and her Dessert Roll shipped with her March Hare blocks.

Hope you enjoy it Janice.  I really like this fabric line.

So why did it take so long to post?

First, I had to finish the patterns that will show at Spring Market.

My new fabric line is called Castlewood.

Here's a sneak peek of "Santa's Tree Farm" a pattern designed by myself and grandson Cullen.

As soon as the deadline was over........

I got the flu.

Only time in a couple of years and the worst was over in about 36 hours but that was long enough.

Then for 3-4 days I just wanted to sit around - no get-up-and-go.

So everything took about 3 times longer than normal.

I've mostly recovered now - enough to have Cullen and Quinn up for the weekend.

We made some great cupcakes - or I supervised (and helped with the eating part)

And they made them.

Then we all took a nap - - - -  you notice that Dobby has a sock nearby :)

It's finally feeling and looking a little like spring.

To celebrate, we put Farmer's Market on sale - both the kit and the pattern.

As well as the Tulips and Leaves Kit.  But hurry if you want the kit, we only have 2 left.

Here's a closeup of Lori's awesome quilting.  

From now on I'll have to go visit my Uncle Fred & Aunt Grace if I want to see it.

My sister Nancy and I spent a wonderful week with them last summer at their home in California.

Tulips and Leaves reminds me so much of the colors and feel of their home that I'm giving it to them.

I hope they enjoy it.

And it gives me a chance to go visit again - both my Aunt and Uncle and my quilt!  :) 

March Hares - Calendar Quilt, Block 1 or Table Stand Quilt - or both

Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest.  Hmmm - not when you're really sick of winter!

My Sunday afternoon was spent taking all of the snowmen, holly berries, winter quilts & rugs and lovingly storing them until next year.

Out came Spring!  - Bunnies & birds & Iris!

Audra's Iris Garden got to hang in the foyer this year - last year it was traveling.

(We still have a few kits left and of course we have the patterns.)

And Farmer's Market is home this year too and went to the back of my chair.  (For the pattern, click here and click on the name for the kit.)

I tell you ladies - it is SPRING here - at least inside anyway :).

Outside's doing pretty well too - for today - this is Missouri.

And today is the first tutorial on the Calendar Quilt/ Table Stand BOM.  

I'm really excited about this.  It's lots of fun.

Block One is March Hare.

It will include the Applique block each month and a log cabin block each month.
And every month on the 10th (or as close to the 10th as we can get) a tutorial on the block will be posted and then we'll ship the kits close to the 15th.

You can buy the patterns month by month for the table stand quilts and the kits too.  However if you want to make sure you have the kits for all of them or want to make the big quilt, you need to email Tori at janpatekquilts@yahoo.com and sign up.  We'll ship kits to the sign up people first and then put the rest in the store.
We all know by now that when we run out of fabric, we run out of fabric.

And speaking of fabric, all our existing club members and anyone new that signs up will be in a drawing for this great Front Porch Dessert Roll.

We were going to have the drawing for it today but since it's a Monday, we'll wait until tomorrow so everyone has a chance to sign up that wants to.

Good luck ladies.