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

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

Sneak Peek....

So, this is what I am working on right now but just a sneak peek as I cannot reveal it until it is finished! ;) I can tell you that it involves a jelly roll (Beach House) and a little Patisserie....I hope to be able to unveil it this week!

And of course this will be my March finish for the OPAM. April will be my month to work on the "To be quilted" pile since they really need to be done!

Well, I am off now! Just a little post for today as I will be back tomorrow to tell you about a little giveaway I will be having to celebrate my very first Blogoversary!
So Until then......

Family time.

This past week has been a pretty busy week with not a lot of quilting happening. My parents came to visit and we celebrated Baby Son's second birthday which was a blast! All I have to say is" pretend powers tools" and you know he was in his glory! Even though I spent some very good quality time with my family, I did manage to make a purse for my mum before she left. It is from a patten by Little Scraps, This and That flower patch and I used a MODA charm pack of "Portugal ". It is definitely a fave and I can't wait to make myself one! Mum said she used it all day yesterday!

Then yesterday after my family departed (:( boo hoo)...I went to my monthly 'Strip Club' at my LQS. Susan and Doris had the cutest samples made for us this month! A jelly roll bag and table runner. Just wonderful! Here are the pics of their samples...

This pattern is by Bunny Hill Designs and is called Jelly Bags

This pattern is by Cozy Quilt Shop and is called Diamond Medley

I bought both patterns and a Jelly Roll friendly book. Lots of great projects on the horizon so I am looking forward to getting more off my WIP list! (P.S. thanks Susan for modeling the samples for me!)

Grateful for a wonderful week... T.T.F.N!