Fancy Flowers is over but we are still having lots of fun in our video studio. Valerie and Sherri have a new Quilt Along called Make It Your Way which starts today and is sure to be tons of fun!
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January 2014
01/31/2014
01/29/2014
We Make a Great Team...Best Compliment Ever!
One of the best things I get to do at McCall’s Quilting (and there are tons of fun things to do at work) is work with great designers. Gerri Robinson of Planted Seed Designs has been one of my favorites from the get go. So, as you might imagine, when she asked me to adapt some embroidery patterns to appliqué patterns I jumped at the chance. It was so much fun! This quilt is the result! Gerri wrote a wonderful post about our collaboration that you can read here:
www.plantedseeddesigns.com/blog/2014/01/28/story-behind-baskets-and-blooms/
Gerri is offering these appliqué kits on her website as individual blocks, a table runner, and as a quilt.All of you who have asked for appliqué with fabric here is your chance!
Thank you so much Gerri, and let’s do that again!
01/27/2014
Design Wall Monday
Hello friends! Here is a shot of my design wall this morning. I hope I will be able to get the directions ready soon. I am currently in the final stages of getting everything ready for the McCall's Quilting Cruise so it may not get posted until I get back. So sorry about this but my life is just CRAZY right now. If you are going on the cruise be sure to let me know so I can be on the lookout for you!
Head on over to Judy's blog for a healthy dose of inspiration.
01/20/2014
Design Wall Monday
So, now that Fancy Flowers is all done I am starting to work on the Basket Quilt. Here is the block. I hope to have the directions up soon...and then we will start filling them with flowers!
Be sure to check out Judy's Blog for some more Monday morning inspiration!
"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants" Michael Pollan
Here is a little article about my new food regime that is very helpful.
I will have the recipe for my Roasted Vegetable Black Bean Tostadas up later this week!
01/16/2014
I'm ready for my binding...
So, here is my sweet little daisy quilt all ready for it's binding. Name ideas anyone? This will be in an issue of McCall's Quick Quilts later this year.
I just love they way my good buddy Karen, of The Quilted Moose,quilted it. I always get so ecited when she calls to tell me a quilt is ready. Her quilting transforms the quilt and some days I am speechless. Just look at her quilting in the background of these applique blocks!
Be sure to check back tomorrow so I can show you some fun quilting on the Fancy Flowers Quilt Along quilt!
01/15/2014
Eat More Plants...lunch
When I first started my healthy eating campaign it was spring and I ate LOADS of salads. Somehow, when it's cold and windy outside, salad doesn't sound that appealing. So this winter I have been trying to make a big casserole each weekend that my family can eat for lunch during the week. I am a little nuts for butternut squash so I came up for a recipe for black bean squash enchiladas that is perfect on a cold winters day. The trick to enchiladas for me is to not even try to fill tortillas and roll them up. I just cut them into quarters and layer them like lasagna instead. It's much easier! If you don't eat cheese, just omit it. It's still yummy.
Here is the recipe:
01/13/2014
Design Wall Monday
I have been playing around with these blocks some more and now I think I like this configuration. What do you think?
Head on over to Judy's Blog for some more Monday morning inspiration.
01/09/2014
Fancy Flowers Lesson 10-Putting it All Together
Here it is friends, Lesson 10. All we have to do now is quilt it!
