Happy Mother's Day

We're having a Mother's Day Rummage Sale and all the items we put on sale last week are 75% off today only.

And I added Audra's Iris Garden BOM pattern for today.

When I went up to let the chickens out and walked past the garden the first of Grandma Laird's iris have started to bloom.  Pretty soon the garden will be breathtaking for a week of two.  I do so look forward to it every year.

Anyway, it was Pep's birthday yesterday so children and grandchildren have been visiting for both of us.

Right now, I'm off to church - then a short trip to Walmart (I hope) and back home for a leisurely afternoon (again - I hope).

Pep's making a lemon meringue pie and putting some chicken in the smoker for the afternoon so I get to sit and stitch.

It's also Quinn's birthday, so 

Happy Birthday Quinn.

Have a great day ladies.

Day 3 of Rummage Sale - Bzy, bzy, bzy

My husband would throw a fit if he saw me using text language when I should have been using correct English.  We got him a T-shirt for Christmas that said

"Grammar Police - To Correct and to Serve".

And actually he will see it because he always reads my blog.  Sorry, dear.

 Wild Oak Kit

Anyway, we are having a Rummage Sale this week.

Cockscomb & Bird

and each day we'll take a %age off of 2 kits

 Cabin in the Pines BOM

a BOM pattern,

Birds, Berries & Baskets pattern

a regular pattern

Homespun Hearth

and a book.

I'm in the middle of 

1) Baking cookies and getting ready for Girl Gang here

2) designing patterns for the Fall Fabric line that shows at Houston

3)Dealing with all the things that go with living in the country during the growing season

4) Having 3 grown kids and 9 grandchildren

5) Having 3 babies (well only one is still a baby and he's growing fast) - Spike, Hunny and little Dobby.

Anyway, that means that it's hard to blog about it every day

sooooooo............

I put a Gadget on the left sidebar at the top that will take you to the sale every day.  Just click on the picture and you'll go to it each day.  Today it's 35% off. On the blog, you can click on the picture on the left side, the names or click here.

Have a great Mother's Day, ladies and may it include some stitching.

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 :)