Home from Vacation !!!

After a very wonderful relaxing time in Mexico we are back to work.  With the super Iowa weather these days John is working on getting the machinery ready to go to the field.  Me - I'm hitting it hard working on new patterns for --- you guessed it, spring market!

WELCOME SPRING

I have also been pondering about Easter & making plans for that holiday which is right around the corner.  In doing so I was thinking about how spring is about color in our world, in our homes, in our work & in our play which led me right to the Child's Coloring Apron. 

How those little girls would love the coloring apron to wear while drawing & coloring - taking their crayons right along with them.  I'm sure you can find at least one little girl to make such an apron for.

Go to www.clotheslinequilts.com for the pattern or call me at 712-362-3022 & I'll get one out to you.  There is still time to sew it up for the Easter basket!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Isn't this the sweetest little valentine card.  I just got it off a friend's blog. 

Thanks, Tara!

 

Don't you just love these old cards; they're the best! 

 Have a great day, everyone, & I hope you get to spend it with those you love!

Back to sewing!

It's Snowing in Northwest Iowa!

Really!  We're getting snow today!  We've had such a mild snowless winter so far, it's hard to believe but everytime I go upstairs, I see snow & it's such a surprise.  I don't think it'll turn into a problem which is good.

I'm still excited about my Pea Ridge quilt on the front page of this issue of Quiltmania.  It's my first front page, so I guess that's what's done it for me this time. 

Do you get this magazine?  I hope you can find issues near you; I know some friends find it difficult to get a copy of this magazine.  It is truly a beautiful magazine; printed in France & I think that their photography is exceptional.  The quilt itself is still in France & I'm missing it;  should be back soon, I'd think, as they should be done with it now.

It's time to get serious about new designs for spring market which is in Kansas City this year; really close for me so that makes it a money saver - fewer than 6 hours travel.  I'm so thankful for that - so mid-May I'm off to Kansas City!

So, what are you working on in your sewing room these days??  I've been machine appliquing these little 5" Union Star blocks; I just love them.  I'm sure they'll be making their way into a new Generals quilt before long. 

Have a great day!

A Great Visit to Back Door Quilts!

      Ready or not, here it is - 2012 !!! I hope you had as wonderful a Christmas as we did.  It truly is a blessing to have family & friends to enjoy the holidays with & to be able to travel to visit them or have them come home.

Teri & Linda of Back Door Quilts
showing Clothesline Quilts - Chancellorsville, Chattanooga,
& Gettysburg on the stand between them

       We went to Kentucky over New Year's & stopped at my friends' shop in Greenwood, IN on the way back home.

- Back Door Quilts! 

     What a lovely shop Teri & Linda have there; I truly enjoyed seeing them & meeting their employees & Marilyn, who has done some proofing for me as she sewed all the battle series quilts for their shop. 

     They had so many of the Clothesline Quilts on display, it boggled my mine. 

     Thanks so much, gals; you are truly amazing.  I got lots of pictures there to share -

Marilyn with Linda -
hanging behind them are Bull Run & Pea Ridge!

   
     Their displays were awesome. 

     Right here where Marilyn & Linda are standing is like a miniature general store with a glass case in front of them.  I was looking for an antique cash register. 

     Love that black standing clock in front of them!

Atlanta from the Battle Series

   This is the last of the Battle Series quilts "Atlanta" covering the table with all the snowmen & stitchery on the table.

The tan & blue one below with

the border print is Savannah Six!

It features 6 different 6" blocks in rows;

you make 2 of each of the 6 blocks!

The blue & white quilt to the right

is gorgeous, too!

It looks like an antique quilt!

Savannah Six with the border print

Shiloh from the Battle Series!

Windham Sampler

Their Windham Sampler (to the right)

caught my eye the minute

I walked into the shop. 

 Isn't it cute & just so striking!

As much as I love new fabric,

sometimes I think it's a shame

 that we can't get some of these

fabrics for a longer

period of time, so shops can

continue to packet their

good sellers just a little longer.

Table Cozees - love them!

They even had
coloring bags & a coloring purse!

So they bid me farewell & we got back on the road

Can't wait to go back!

What a great group of gals!

Don't miss Back Door Quilt Shop in Greenwood, IN,

just south of I-74 going through Indianapolis