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

Catching Up!

Hello again! I feel like December has just gone by so fast and I have not had the chance to blog much. A lot has been going on over the holiday (Merry Christmas to those who celebrated) including the ENTIRE family being sick...so needless to say a lot of my 'to-do's' for Christmas did not happen (including blogging). So I thought I would play catch up and combine what's been happening this past month.

First I will start off with the aprons that I made for cooking Thanksgiving supper with my Mother in law this year.

I used this book and the pattern was actually one of our strip club samples ( Happy Apron) from the last year. I don't have a pic of mine but hopefully I will get one soon!

Then my wonderful friend Shelli sent me this wonderful bundle of fabric for my stash- Thanks Shelli! I am already putting it to good use!

And last but not least is the latest customer quilt that I did for his wife for Christmas. He wanted a garden theme and to have a couple of verses embroidered. Also he sent the t-shirts that his wife had designed so I pieced them together and used them on the back. All in all I totally love the way the quilt translated from my original design to the quilt you see here! Word is she loved it so now I am totally pleased!

I named this design " Memories Among the Flowers" and there will be a pattern for a similar quilt in 2009 in my etsy!

Well gearing up for the New Years celebrations tonight and hoping to get a great start to 2009. Hopefully I will get my 2008 finishes recapped soon!
Until next time I hope you all have a wonderful time with whatever you do tonight to celebrate the changing of the year!
Happy New Year!- see you in 2009