Moda Love Blog Hop - Day 5 - Winter's on the Way

We're not there yet but some brisk nights and mornings let us know that winter is just ahead.

And with Winter comes our 

Snow Friends.

This Snow Friend, made from my Castlewood fabric line designed for Moda, is available as a pattern right now from Jan Patek Quilts and will be available as a kit soon from Craftsy.

There's a little tutorial on inside points on the snowman's arms.  

You can watch the tutorial by clicking here.

It uses the Let It Snow quilt but the snowman and his arms are the same.  It's on special today only. 

You can get the kit by clicking here. 

Now lets hop and see what the other designers have in store for us.

April Rosenthal

French General

and

Minnick & Simpson

See you back here tomorrow.

Happy Birthday to Me :)

Thanks to everyone who sent me Birthday wishes. 

The weather here is beautiful. Been outside playing with bunnies, chickens and the garden. 

Now I get to clean my rugs (its my day and they've been driving me nuts post Dobby). 

Then we'll watch the Chiefs game and I'll stitch on one of my quilts for Market. 

And Pep's cooking a yummy birthday dinner for family and friends. 

Aches and pains come with being this age but right now it's great to be me.  I have a great sister, 3 wonderful kids, 9 stupendous grandchildren, some great nieces and nephews (and even great nieces and 1 great-great niece-wow) and lots of quilting friends.

Thanks again to all.

Moda Love - Day 3

And since this Hop is about "Love", here's an example.

Here's a pretty blurry picture of 3 of my grandchildren (Brooke, Lily and Gabriel) and Hunny.

And Wow - do I love them.

But who probably loves them even more is Hunny.  She let Lily put this headband on her and wore it for about half an hour before she tried to take it off.

That's a neat dog.

This is "The Heart of Home", one of my latest wallhangings made out of the Castlewood line.

You can order a pattern or kit by clicking here or watch the tutorial on doing the windows with shutters and hearts by clicking here.

The tutorial is on the house in "From My Heart" but making the tutorial led to this wallhanging.  The windows and shutters are the same.

Now lets leave home for a second and see what's going on with other Moda designers.

Basic Grey

Fig Tree

and

Pat Sloan

Have a great weekend and see you Monday.

Moda Love - Day 2

Pumpkin Days - pretty well my favorite time of year.

The days are warm and the nights are cool.

Halloween is coming -

Thanksgiving's not far behind - 

And then, of course - Christmas.  

But still plenty of time to plan for that - no rush yet.

Here Pep and my son Max help Cullen & Quinn carve some pretty neat pumpkins a couple of years ago.

And this is my Pumpkin Days quilt made out of Castlewood fabrics.

 You can get either the kit or the pattern by clicking here.

And this is 4 Pumpkins, a Turkey and Some Geese - a brand new wallhanging or table runner kit. 

 It's brand, brand new, the binding just went on yesterday while I waited for my car to get serviced.  

Quilting is so much fun - it saves you from the boring parts of life.

I've already had a good hop and am off to get ready for the tutorial we're filming tomorrow.

While I'm busy with that enjoy yourself visiting

Malka Dubrowski

Alma & Barb of Blackbird Designs

Lauren & Jessi Jung

and

Lella Boutique

See you tomorrow

Welcome to the Moda Love Blog Hop - A Day Late .....

There were 3 Sundays this week  - 

and the grandkids were here all 3 of them :)

  

It is actually only Monday right now.

Before I start the blog today, lets back up if you didn't hop yesterday and visit 

Janet Clare

Kate Spain

and Camille

You wouldn't want to miss any of them.

Now onward since it's really Wednesday :)

This is my Snowman Basket wallhanging made out of my current line Castlewood.  It's kind of "Christmas in July-ish".  You can get a pattern for the wallhanging by clicking on the name.

I put it up first because every year at this time I am ready for a hard freeze.  This year is no exception.  August in Missouri makes one yearn for winter.

And this is the mockup I made out of my Crossroads fabric line (I had the block left over from the tutorial on Snow Day :).  You can watch the tutorial on doing those stems and berries by clicking here.  

The last few kits of the Crossroads wallhanging are on sale today only.

Now lets hop

Amy Ellis

Eric and Julie Comstock

and 

Stephanie Ryan

Have a great Labor Day - full of family and food .......

........and of course - stitching.

This is our latest Mini Quilt - "Back to School".  

I'm really having fun with these.  They're small and I get to do some handquilting again.  The tutorial will be up soon.

Todays a good day to order the kit or pattern (or anything else you might want)  because it's the last day of our free shipping - just use the promo code LABORDAY.

One set of grandchildren has already come and gone this weekend.

Lily put it on her and Hunny actually wore this for about an hour before she tired of it.

Today is Labor Day and Kelly and Zoie are coming over to labor a bit.  We've already cleaned out the chicken house but we need to go back in and sweep out spider webs again.  They build them as fast as we sweep them out.

And somebody always has to babysit Bopper when I clean their house each week.  

I take the straw and use it to mulch the pepper plants and chard in the garden.  

(Bunny leavings are awesome fertilizer.)  But its tedious to put down the straw & stop and lock the gate to their yard every time.  If I don't, Bopper is naughty and pushes the gate open.   Then he gets out of the chicken yard and into the garden.  

Last time it took me quite awhile to get him back in.

And it's not a good idea for bunnies to spend the night out around here.

But after our labor, the fixings are all ready for a great meal - grilled chicken, pasta salad, deviled  eggs and a veggie tray, Pep's sour dough rolls and 2 desserts - chocolate cake and ice cream and Pep's awesome coconut pie.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for the first day of the Moda Love Blog Hop.

Tomorrow we'll visit Janet Clare, Kate Spain and Camille

See you then.

August 14th - an Auspicious Day

This is a picture that is on the inside front cover of Together Again,  a book of quilts by my friend Linda Brannock and I.  Linda is holding my baby grandson Jake, the son of our daughter Kelly.  (Linda told everybody that she had to hold him because  he cried if anyone else did :))

This is a picture of Jake this summer at the Smithsonian - such a good looking young man, even if I do say so - and I do!  :)

Yesterday was his 18th birthday - 8-14-14.
We all enjoyed a great birthday dinner cooked by my husband Pep (I did make the cake).

Now I'd like to introduce Amira, my grand niece, born on 8-14-14 at 8:52 am.  

She is my late brother Jim's great granddaughter.

It's pretty neat to have a birthday cousin.

Isn't she awesome?

Welcome to the world, Amira. 

And this is a Fat 1/4 bundle of Castlewood, my latest fabric line that started shipping to stores on August 14th.

All in all August 14th was a pretty neat day.