Pumpkin Project

Here's a cute little pumpkin project from Sandy Gervais - click here.

Software Sampler

Margo completed this bottle apron after attending the September Software Sampler. Wonderful photo!

Great job Margo!

The Quilt Show

Are you a member of The Quilt Show? It's here if it's new to you. I recently joined for a year - hadn't joined since the early days when it first started and my free subscription ended. I enjoy the Bernina free video tutorials so figured I would go ahead and join for a year and see what I can get out of it.
This morning I see they have a free give away for a set of the Olfa cutting mats so I entered that. Last night I downloaded some free project instructions that look interesting. So we'll see how it goes.

After Software Sampler class yesterday I purchased several Halloween fabrics to use in making the Ambrosia bag I posted about yesterday. So I've added another project on my list. Yesterday morning I did stitch out the redwork designs from block 3 of the Raggedy Annie project. They are soooo cute! Stinkin' cute! Nnow to construct the block and I will have completed row 1 of the top! I'm amazing myself with this since I can't sit at the machine too long at a stretch. I'm going to post a brief tutorial on how I'm using the Bernina embroidery software to create these blocks. Watch for that in the next few days.

Ambrosia Bag

Isn't this a darling pattern?

And the best part is it free offering at Amanda Murphy's blog here.
This is a good pattern to practice your quilting on the top half of the bag. I like the fabrics too.
Just a note that one of the items are D rings and the size we have at the store 1-1/4" reads to be the perfect size. That's a difficult size to find but we have them at the shop! So I'll be purchasing a package of them today.

Software Sampler

This next Saturday (9/25) is time for Software Sampler.

Here's a shot of the image of one of the bottle aprons I created in the software. We're creating several different bottle aprons and it's a lot of fun. Plus exercises using more features  in Corel Essentials from the Art Canvas tab.

Hope to see you in class. 

I was hoping that Kaaren might have posted the next Raggedy block a day early but that was not to be!! Oh well, tomorrow is the 20th so hope it's there bright and early.

My Wagon

Want to see my wagon?

It's perfect to hold my 830, the embroidery module and plenty of other things. Pam's husband saw it at Costco and hoped he had a useful gadget for her. Hey buddy, I think you are on to something.
Anyway, I just checked the internet and found it at Amazon for more than it was at Costco.
Here's another use for the wagon

New Qulting Designs For Embroidery

Here's a new collection coming from Diane Gaudynski through OESD, Quilting Whimsy. Looks like a very useful collection so it will be added to my list to order! You can click on the photo to get a bigger picture for yourself.

Here's a close up.

We will always remember

I remember what I was doing when we first heard about the attack on the twin towers. Then how it worsened during the day with the Pentagon attack and then the crash of flight 93. What a horrific day in our Nation's history. Still very emotional personally to listen and watch  the recordings and all from that day. There was a special on Fox news last night that highlighted two men that worked themselves out of the debris in tower 1 to climb down the stairs all the way out of the building and went hand in hand straight to a church. To this day they remain in touch as they share something this strong between them. Very remarkable and something good created from this horrific event.

Autumn Blessings

Kaaren (from the Raggedy Ann blocks) has a new sampler available for download from her site. It's part of her First Friday of the month projects.

It finishes about 25" x 27" and looks to be a way to use up some of your wool scraps as Kaaren did or just use cottons - which is what I'll do. In looking at the colors I think I will draw from the stash I'm using for Annie blocks and the only new needed is the black. Again I'm thinking that the osnaburg fabric will be good for these blocks. Or a muslin or small print would be equally fine. I can also see this in some of the civil war era prints too. With the size of the blocks I'm thinking I should be able to combine more than 1 at a time in my embroidery hoop. So will have to start working on this now.
Enjoy your holiday weekend!

New Foot Has Arrived And Is Nearly Gone

Remember the new foot #46 for pintuck, etc? Well, we have 1 more left in the store.  Call the shop now to have us tuck it away with your name on it.

Raggedy & Friends Block 1

I finally got the block stitched. It was just too hot to do much of anything last week.

The block on the sides is the sashing. The cornerstones will be a red fabric of some sort. Kind of forgot to select something for that but have plenty of time since we're only on the 2nd block. I am going for a scrappy look. I am digitizing the artwork and so the large design above took only 13 minutes to stitch! I finally decided to use Isacord thread and I liked my choice after the first stitchout. If you haven't checked out the free BLOM for this yet look for the button on the left side of my blog. That's the link to Kaaren's site.