This beautiful Patriotic Garden Path Banner was inspired by the Garden Path quilt block I designed for the In Our Garden BOM. It’s an easy to sew variation on a star block, making it perfect for the top of the banner. This is such a quick and satisfying make! Patriotic Garden Path Banner Instructions: In place of the dark…
Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here! When Cindy from Live a Colourful Life decided to revive The Name Game series on her blog, she put the call out for nominations for interesting blog or instagram names. I wrote to her suggesting Super Mom – No Cape! I was more than a little flattered when she wrote back saying she was…
From the time she hatched back in March 2013, Lexie the Hexie Turtle, her BFF Lanie and Rexie have been going on adventures with Dave and I. Some of those I’ve shared here on the blog. You may remember The Hexie Turtles’ Snow Adventure. And of course last week they helped me bake cookies. There are more fun posts to…
Last night while watching the movie Soul Surfer (a truly inspiring movie), I worked on hand-quilting my Christmas Mouse wall hanging. Quilting with #8 Perle Cotton is really making the quilting stand out; giving it almost a Trapunto effect. Once I finish the red stitching, I’ll switch to the sewing machine and stitch-in-the-ditch around the diamonds. I’m also doing a…
Vintage Embroidery Monday will return next week with another vintage Workbasket pattern. The last few weeks have just been so busy that I forgot that my last scheduled Monday post was last week. I’m also looking into adding something new starting next Monday that I hope will be fun for everyone who loves embroidery… whether it be vintage or more…
The year that Dave’s granddaughter was born… for Christmas that year I made her a stocking that was slightly different but in the same fabrics as the ones I had made for her mom, dad and older brother. I looked everywhere for a pattern for a doll to make that was small enough to pop into the top of her…