Show and Tell

 Here are some pieces that have been submitted lately. This great version of Hooty Hoot – I even believe that this is just another colorway of the fabric collection we used on the original quilt! And this was the first quilt this lady had ever machine quilted! How excitting!!

The next photo was submitted by our friend Laurel. This is somewhat like our Labarynth Quilt (done for RJR- many years ago) This quilt was donated to her granddaughters school for a fundraiser. What a great grandma! I really like what she did.

Thanks for sending in the show and tell photo’s. It is so nice to see what you do.

TWEAKS page

Do you know we have a tweaks page on our blog? Well now you do! A place were we post errors in our patterns. I just posted a new correction for ahead of the curve on our tweaks page. We try really hard not to make mistakes, but we are human! We appologize for any errors made in our patterns.

More PDF’s

These patterns have never been available in PDF form. I decided that it was time to offer them.

Calypso and Nantucket featured our Cape Cod fabric collection and girlie girl and all boy were quilts we designed for our completely kids fabric. (neither one is no longer available)

Be sure to check out our shop we have re-listed a lot of our printed patterns and the new PDF’s as well!

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Game over

Thanks to the ladies who pariticipated in my little “quiz” this week. All who left comments got a free pattern. Amy was the winner of the 2 free PDF patterns!!

ttys

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Fall Cleaning

Here we go…just doing some cleaning today and it got me thinking…how about some give a ways. It’s going to be simple, just leave a comment on our blog or on our facebook page, telling me which NEW items I posted in our shop yesterday and your name will be entered to win a $10 credit to be used towards any 2 PDF patterns in our shop!! PLUS there will be two bonus give a ways too. So leave your comment about which NEW items I posted! GO!!

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Diva

Yesterday this quilt came to mind. You want to know why? My daughter had “Formal Day” at school – a Jr. High thing! Go figure I have a daughter in Jr. High!! Anyway she was debating what to wear and like any girl her age she was wanting to wear a pair of my heels. She was walking around the house and they were not that much to big either – yikes. NO, she did not wear the heels to school, for no lack of trying. Anyway that got me thinking about our Diva quilt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see we used “elements: simple applque shapes”. I just love the “Judy / dress form”. BUT the best thing is really that the basis of this design is simple and lends itself to many other elements. For instance, how about the Paris theme? The eiffle tower replaces the judy, add a poddle, sunglasses and the heels can stay. What do you think? Stay tuned to our Etsy shop as we will be adding new items next week.

 

 

Astoria

Oh I have been waiting to post this quilt again…I had to wait for cooler weather, cause of the snow in the cover shot. As much as I have wanted to post this quilt, I am sad cause S*N*O*W is on it’s way in southern Manitoba. This is a very different quilt than the “usual”. This quilt is one of our most modern desings, using a combination of bias and swirl applique’s in solid white, black and one black and white print. What I like the most is you can come up with any layout and create a unique piece of art. The quilting creates a background texture so rich. I think that this quilt would make a gorgeous christmas quilt, using deep cherry red. I have had an idea for a table runner using the swirls and circles from this quilt…now might be the time! Coming next week this pattern will not only be available in a paper copy but PDF too! So be sure to visit our Etsy shop for more great quilt patterns. OH I just about forgot!! The center of this quilt is baby size!!! What an awesome baby quilt – ultra modern.

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Hooty Hoot

Announcing a new pattern in the shop. I just love this quilt! I made it last fall when visiting with Friends in Ontario – great memories! These fabrics are designed by Shari Butler of “Doohikey Designs”. We met here at a spring quilt market in Minneapolis. She liked our designs and asked us to use her fabrics. Hooty Hoot Kangaro was the perfect fabric for our design. Our window design was the perfect little perch for our feathered friend and a sweet place to hang the moon too. Be sure to go to our shop and check out the patterns. The owl is also available as an element here.

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Secret Messages

A hundred years ago, quilts were sometimes used to send secret messages. I am using this quilt to send a secret message to two people out there. They share the same last name…but they are not related…but they could be sisters. I think of both of them very often, and I love spending time with them up at a special place where quilters gather, and ‘chocolate’ is always looking for scraps.

miss you both….
myra

Hanging out with Pamela Anderson

Last weekend my daughter and I got to spend a really special weekend together. She has been waiting YEARS to be old enough to attend the mother/daughter reatreat at our local bible camp. We met up with old friends, and made some new ones, and the lovely lady in the bunk next to mine was Pamela Anderson. How cool is that! Of course it wasn’t the famous Pamela, it was another one, who was super sweet, and had a beautiful little girl as well. I hope next year we can meet up with these new friends again.

It does remined me of a documentary that I saw on the famous Pamela Anderson several years ago. They featured her beachside houes, and highlighted her quilt collection. Did you ever imagine Pamela was a quilt lover? She has several vintage quilts on her bed, around her room, and in her boys rooms. She may not be a quilt maker, but she does appreciate the finished quilt, and said that she will always have them in her home.

So that is my tale of the two Pamela’s. But it really fun going home after a great weekend, turning to my husband and saying “guess who was sleeping in the bunk next to me?”