Happy Fall Y'all!

This past weekend was my local quilt shop's annual Backyard Quilt show. This wonderful show is Doris's way of showing her customers appreciation of the many quilts we all make and is the premise of the whole show! We all get our favorite quilts out and submit them to Doris, she sets them up with numbers on them and we all vote on our favorites. The winner of viewers choice then gets a wonderful prize to spend in the shop! It seems like this year had many more quilts than last for sure! Also this year, since the shop had moved to their farm, she also had a nice selection of vendors for us to peruse. Our guild also had a booth to sell the tickets for our the raffle quilt that was made, there was a nice selection of pumpkins and Indian corn to purchase and of course she also had an awesome supply of munchies. It was a great show!

Here is a mosaic of some of my favorite customer quilts and the vendors at the show!

....and here is the Lil Country Shoppe in all it's finery! You can see why I love going there!

....and one of the other really awesome parts of the show is the trunk shows that Doris gets for us to view....well that brings me to my exciting news! I was very honored to be asked to show my patterns as a trunk show this year!! It was a wonderful feeling indeed! Here are the quilts I showcased and their respective patterns!

This one is the latest of my patterns, Bluebird's of Happiness, and is made with wonderful fabric from Lecien's Floral Collection- Pastels. It has blanket stitch applique (which can be done needle turn as well) and buttons added for embellishment.

The first one is Blooming Bouquets and I made this sample using Sweet by Urban Chicks for Moda. It is fat quarter friendly with large blocks. Then there is Rolling Pinwheels, which is a jelly roll friendly quilt made with Beach House by Blackbird Designs and Patisserie by Fig Tree Quilts. All of these will be available in my etsy soon and I will post when they are!

It definitely was a lot of fun to see them hanging there at the show! I am busy at work on a couple of new patterns at the moment that I will give sneaks of next time but I can tell you that one is using Lecien's fabric I got from Spring Market and the other is using a jelly roll of Simple Abundance!!! Can't wait to show them to you!

Until then....

Happy Fall Y'all!

Cara

Hexagon, hexagons....

A few weeks ago I had to have some minor knee surgery (I tore the meniscus in my right knee) and was laid up for a bit. This meant no sewing machine~ARRGG! So I cracked open my Hexagons that I have been working on....ahhh there is nothing like hand work to pass the time! I managed to finish every single one of these!!! Yippeee! I am finally starting to see some progress!

(9 hexagon flowers)

So now I am basting some background hexies to put around these and the bigger flower from before Shown here:

Once I have enough, then I will make more flowers! Although one again I am able to sit at Nina, so these have been put back in my car bag for long drives.

In other quilting news, I have also been designing up a storm! I actually am in the process of writing up 3 projects and making the samples for the new patterns, so keep an eye out here in the next few weeks as they hopefully will be finished soon! I am excited as a couple of these new patterns are using some of the fabulous Lecien and Moda fabrics I got at Spring Quilt Market!Well, I'd better get cracking~the quilting bug is calling my name! LOL!

Happy Quilting!

Cara

Introducing......

Hi all! I hope you are all having a wonderful summer! I know we have been. I wanted to write today's post to introduce a project that I have been sooooo excited about that has now come to fruition! A while back I showed this sneak of something I have been working on...

.....From this post here. Well I have finished it. Some of you may know that I started The Quilt Nook to design and make custom quilts for people. Well, I learned one of my favorite parts of my business was the actual design process....so since I had been designing for a while I decided to design a pattern for quilters. So here I am introducing the first published pattern by Quilt Nook Gal Designs!!!!

This quilt is called Rolling Pinwheels. I used a jelly roll (Beach House by Blackbird Designs) and some other yardage (Patisserie by Fig Tree Quilts) and pieced the backing.

I also opened an Etsy shop at http://www.quiltnookgaldesigns.etsy.com/ and the patterns are available there as well as some other goodies that I have been accumulating for quilters! Please check it out! I am excited to say that Doris, who owns Lil Country Shoppe quilt shop, has both the pattern and a couple of kits made up too. if you are in the Middletown (DE) area, the sample for Rolling Pinwheels is hanging in her store as well - stop on by! Below is the sample in her shop and me standing in front of it!

Well, thanks for checking out my new pattern and please stayed tuned as I am working on a few others that will hopefully be ready soon! So until then.....
Happy Quilting

Siggies are in da house!!!!

Well, this week these arrived in my mailbox!...

I was so excited to open the parcel! These are the result of the wonderful siggy swap organized by Connie over at Cootie Bug 2 . There are about 60 blocks in there from bloggers all over the world and I am sooooo excited to get them into a wonderful quilt! hopefully it won't be too long! Just wanted to say a great big thank you to Connie- I am sure this was a lot of work but in the end I am sure it is going to be well worth it! Thanks for letting me be a part of it Connie!

I know I was going to post more about market too! I am a little behind on blogging this summer. So I will try to be back soon and I will share some more pics- also hoping to reveal the finished product from this post very soon!
Hope you are all enjoying your summer so far!
Cara
P.S. Looking for a great giveaway? Head over to my friend Jennifer's blog and enter her awesome giveaway!!!

I'm Back!

Wow! I guess I took a little hiatus! LOL! We had family vacations, illness and of course Spring Quilt Market- but I am back now and hope the coming months are going to have lots to blog about!

First, I am late in posting this, but I wanted to share the Siggy blocks that I sent of to Connie of Cootie Bug a few weeks back. I was in group 1 so I had to make 60 of these! Whew! Can't wait now to get the blocks back and make my quilt! I know customs has given Connie some grief with receiving some blocks and I hope that she has now received them all!



In other news, last weekend was the Spring Quilt Market in Pittsburgh. My DH and I went fro a couple of days and made it back in time for our daughters ballet recital. It was a whirlwind but an amazing couple of days! Here is a sample of what we experienced....


We made it to sample spree (which is the lines of ladies from the top) and of course on the opening of the actual market we got to meet a plethora of quilty celebs! I will leave that for another post though and give some better pics! Lets just say that there is a lot of great things happening this summer in the industry!
Well, off to put supper on the table and get little ones to bed...my 5 year old graduates from pre kindergarten tomorrow- eeek! She is growing up too fast! I cannot believe she is entering kindergarten in the fall!... Well, more later!
Cara