Patchwork Times UFO Challenge #4 for April 2011

| April 30, 2011

My UFO Challenge Quilt #4 on the Patchwork Times list is an  Eleanor Burns pattern that I called Eleanor Burns Strippy Scrappy Quilt#3.   (This is her pattern where you make 3 quilts out of one jelly roll….pretty cool.)   The top is finished and it is with one of my long arm quilters as […]

Grandangel Excitement

| April 28, 2011

OH MY GOODNESS – exciting times.   LOOK – LOOK – LOOK – grandangel Harry is driving…..it makes me want to move back to CALIFORNIA so he can take me on HARRY’S NIGHT OUT (I used to take the grandangels on GRANDMA’S NIGHT OUT – and when Harry was 4 he told me that since […]

Grandangel Fun

| April 23, 2011

One of my favorite things (yes it is on my LIST OF FAVORITE THINGS!) is sewing with my grandangels. Sarah made MAY (her little webkinz lamb) a sundress and bonnet for Easter…….she used the rotary cutter alone (for the first time) and she also used my Brother Duetta sewing machine – ALL ALONE!   I […]

My Road to Brownwood Fabric

| April 23, 2011

Judy Laquidara (Patchworktimes.com) has designed a quilt – while in the throes of packing and getting ready to move from Missouri to Texas.   CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?    I love her MY ROAD TO BROWNWOOD quilt and have decided to join her in the fun of making it……   I have my fabric picked […]

Sew Sew Days April 2011

| April 23, 2011

It is that time of year – spring break – and that means time for a few SEW SEW DAYS!  It was really lots of fun. Catherine and I spent parts of three days sewing up a storm……with a little help from a few cats and Ruby!     We took out a little time […]