Happy Monday to everyone stopping by today! Continuing on with last week’s theme of cross-stitch suitable for any upcoming weddings you might be making gifts for, wouldn’t this make a lovely gift for the newlyweds to display in their home. To make it extra special, you could take last week’s alphabet and replace the leaves on the flowers with the bride’s…
The following tutorial will yield two 12 ½” (unfinished size) Maple Leaf quilt blocks from 2 fat quarters or yardage of your choice. The block itself is a simple nine patch made up for 4 half square triangles (hst), 4 squares (1 background, 3 main color, in this case red) and the block with the stem. The method I describe here…
Can you imagine what it would be like to have to leave your home with only a moments notice? You don’t even have time to pack a bag… not even so much as a toothbrush? When we lived in Florida, we evacuated several times for hurricanes and tropical storms. We lived in a double-wide mobile home. A nice double-wide but…
With graduation and spring and summer wedding season starting, I thought now might be a good time to share another Alphabet. Use them to stitch a set of labels for the grad going off to college in the fall. The labels could then be sewn onto linens so that they can be easily identified if something gets forgotten in the…
Happy Mother’s Day To all the mothers out there! And Happy Sunday! It’s a beautiful day here today so this mother is going to be visiting some garden centers and then adding flowers to the gardens at our new house. We have a lovely big yard here and lots of small gardens scattered throughout for me to play in. It’s…
Last week, I shared an adorable little boy singing his heart out in celebration of Cinco De Mayo. This week, that same little boy is on his way home. Oh and look… he’s picked a flower. I wonder who it’s for? With Mother’s Day coming up next Sunday it must be for his Mom! Vintage Workbasket Embroidery Pattern – Boy…
I was first introduced to the celebration of Cinco De Mayo the first spring that we lived on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Hawaii prides itself not only on it’s Native Hawaiian and Polynesian heritage but it’s cultural diversity. All across the islands on May 5th you’ll see people celebrating Cinco De Mayo with their friends and neighbors of Mexican…
I think almost everyone here in Southwestern Ontario was feeling as light-hearted and happy as these two children. The weather this past weekend was absolutely beautiful. For the first time in months, we’ve been able to venture outside without a jacket. In fact… if you weren’t careful, you might even have gotten a sunburn! Such an incredible change in weather…
Oh my goodness everyone… in all the busyness of getting ready for our move on the second of April and then cleaning the new house and unpacking for the past week and a half, I completely forgot to post that Blocks 5 & 6 of the In Our Garden BOM are now available. Doris over at The Quilting Queen Online…
Happy Monday Everyone! I’ve schedule this post ahead but by the time it goes live, I’m hoping to have the main floor of our new home mostly unpacked and organized. All the kitchen things are unpacked and put away. The master bedroom and guest bedroom are completely set up. But there’s one more box to unpack in the dining room…
