Shop Hop Day 1

There was a Shop Hop a few weeks ago that I attended! There were five quilt shops that participated ~ It was officially known as the Shop Hop: Crusin’ the Texas Coast. For day one Shannon, K, myself and my kids went to two of five local quilt shops to participate in their Shop [...]

Secret Project Fabrics

Secret fabric all sewn together ~

Kids with secret fabric

I finished sewing together the secret fabric! There are eight fabrics and I have eight sets of them. I need to cut and sew and cut and sew and I’m sure cut and sew some more, but here they are. They came in [...]

New Sewing Machine

Remember how thrilled and happy I was when I got my last new sewing machine? I loved that thing! Looking back on it, I didn’t sew all that much really. Sure I made a blanket or two but no machine quilting. And I did sew a lot of Chris’ uniforms, a lot. But considering [...]

Sewing Military Uniforms

Ah I thought my days of sewing Chris’ uniforms were long gone. Or at least the vacation from them would be longer then the eight or so months it has lasted. But he called earlier and said the uniforms we casually talked about, and he wouldn’t need for a few more days, he really [...]

Finally a tshirt quilt

I think I’m reading to make a tshirt quilt. I have no idea how to start, but I have lots of tshirts to use. I’m finally ready to seriously give up wearing only old concert/college shirts and figure I better put them to good use. I have several Kenny Chesney shirts (no laughing, he’s [...]

Butterfly pillow cases

Another post from my wonderful Mom! She cross stitched/embroidered pillow cases for Alice to go with her quilt. The edge was raw and we found matching ribbon in my ribbon stash. I’m not sure if you can tell on the picture but the ribbon background is brown and the flowers are pink and orange [...]

Grandma’s Quilts

When my Mom came to visit she brought the kids quilts she made for them. I’m not sure when she started collecting the fabric for them but she collected various flower fabrics for Alice’s quilt and ocean fabrics for Jake’s. She got them done and quilted and they are now here and the kids [...]