Garden Party Damask

GARDEN PARTY DAMASK


My newest set on ebay for the Haute Couture for Kids 3rd Annual Runway Launch. You can click on the picture to go to the auction.
Many thanks to Jacqueline (amawhitmom) and Amanda from Petite Cover Girls for the modeling and photography!

Noteworthy links...


Hannah Bella Princess
My favorite boutique auction of the week.
I think this is absolutely stunning!
It makes me want to make another Feliz dress like it for someone, I have the same decorative stitch on my machine and a very similar blue print fabric in my stash...
Just gorgeous!

What I HAVE decided to make is a few skirts for Sewing Seeds. These little skirts will go to needy children in Costa Rica.
Find out more about it at "I have to say..."

Randi is also doing a giveaway to celebrate one year of being in business for herself. She sells delicious fabrics on Etsy under the name Fresh Squeezed Fabrics.

Week 4, Week 5 and part of Week 6

I went a little overboard this weekend with the nine patches.
Here is week 4

Here is week 5

Here is most of week 6

And here is all of them together so far.

I can't decide if I am going to do the full 70 blocks or not. I love that it would be a nice size quilt, BUT... I don't really have room to sandwich a quilt that large. It would also be a bit difficult to quilt on my machine, too. I am thinking I might stop at 49, then it would be 7 X 7 and would be about 5.5 feet square. I'm not sure yet. I could actually do two more nine patches at this point and it could be 7 x 6 and that wouldn't be bad either. It would be about 58 x 66. That's a pretty decent lap size. Hmm... that's a thought.

Happy 18th Alli!


My niece Allison is 18 today! Happy birthday sweetie! We love you lots!

It's nice to not have deadlines....

It has been really nice to not feel stressed by having deadlines that I need to meet.
I finally got the outfit done for the Haute Couture for Kids runway launch finished and off to the model and photographer about a week ago. I am very anxiously awaiting the pictures! I'll have to post some of them when I get them.
Now, I have no real pressing deadlines for any of my projects which means I can just sew at my own pace and enjoy the process. I have been working on more nine patch blocks for the quilt a long. I have a couple more to go to be caught up for Monday, but that should be easily doable this weekend. I also started cutting some fabric for a new project as well. I know, I need to finish up some old projects. I'm not doing so great with the finishing one old for every one new project that I start. I really need to buckle down on some of the old projects and get them done. I swear I have sewing ADD. LOL :)
I have been poking around Facebook some this week as well. I have added some friends that I knew from high school. It is sort of fun to reconnect, but it is a little weird, too. We are all very much different people than we were then.
I have a three day weekend this weekend and I am looking forward to not really doing a whole lot of anything. Just taking each day as it comes and doing whatever. It has been a little crazy at work this week. We have had people out sick all week and therefore have been short staffed. I am looking forward to a weekend without craziness. Jason and I are going to watch movies tonight. Tomorrow, I think I will do a little house cleaning and the laundry and of course some sewing. Sunday we are going out to dinner to celebrate our nephew, Andrew's birthday which is today, and my birthday which is Sunday. Monday I have absolutely no plans! :)

I hope you all have a restful weekend! I'm going to try to do the same.

Week 3 check in....

Here are my blocks for week 3 of Amanda's One-a-Day nine patch quilt-a-long.
I have a start on next week's as well, but we will save the pictures of those for next week. :)

Special Sale at my Website and Etsy!

I am running a special sale at my website and at my Etsy shop this month to benefit FARA (the Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance). The sale will run through the end of May in honor of my niece, Allison's 18th birthday. 100% of the purchase price of any item will be donated. Those of you who have read my blog in the past know that my niece is afflicted with this disorder and I have a personal mission to do what I can, when I can.

Friedreich's Ataxia is a rare degenerative neuro-muscular disorder that effects 1 out of every 50,000 people. It causes the loss of motor coordination, loss of mobility, slurred speech, curvature of the spine, heart damage and sometimes diabetes, deafness, blindness, and swallowing difficulties. Currently treatments are limited and no cure exists.

Recent research has yielded promising results for the future! Effective treatments and possibly even a cure could come in the very near future!

I have linked a video below which talks about FARA and their mission to fund research and promote awareness of FA.






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Week 2


Ok, I know I am getting ahead, believe me, it is probably a good thing because I know that I will fall behind at some point. LOL

Crazy Mom and her Quilt-a-longs....

My good friend Amanda is doing a one-a-day quilt-a-long over at her blog. I have to say that I am going to try and keep up, but I make no guarantees. Some weeks I only get a couple of evenings at my machine and I do have other projects that I HAVE to get done by a certain date. This seems like a fairly simple quilt-a-long, though. Just simple scrappy nine patch blocks. One per day. Lord knows I have plenty of scraps. :) I really would like to use up a bunch of them. I sometimes feel as though they will one day plot to take over the world. I am pretty sure that they multiply in those bins over night, too. LOL I hereby declare that unless it is really, really needed to finish a project, I will buy no fabric during the month of May and will only use fabric that I currently have on hand, be it scraps or stash.
Here are the first seven blocks for the first week.


Last weekend I did some more organizing in my sewing room, and the crazy cat did it again. This drawer was empty (and closed mind you) and she was sniffing around by it and the next time I looked over, this is what I saw...

Such a crazy nut!
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