So many projects so little time.....

I’ve been very busy here, finishing up projects and writing patterns. Sometimes I wish there were more hours in the day as I can’t seem to get everything accomplished that I would like. My sewing machine has been on night and day it seems. So what is the end result of all this? Hero and Baby Hero are very close to being done. Hero will showcase a simple pattern for all of our machine embroidery enthusiasts as well as an alternate pattern for our regular quilters. Baby Hero was suppose to be back from the quilter last week but didn’t make it. We hope it will be here this week. Then it will be pretty picture time. I have also been going full steam ahead on Halloween! My quilt top is almost finished and Brunhilda's Midnight Ride from Crabapple Hill is complete and is my favorite addition to the Halloween decorations.

“Special Delivery” is a new wall hanging for Christmas and shows really cute Santa on his way to delivering gifts for Christmas! This new wall hanging uses the machine embroidery designs by Sweet Heirloom Embroidery and once the designs have been embroidered, it can be finished in just a matter of hours. If you don’t have any empty walls to showcase these Santas, it would also make a darling table topper. If you would like your own set of Santas and don’t have an embroidery machine, I have 4 embroidered sets available and will be adding them to my website. You can also send me an email and I will reserve them for you. Add your own fabrics for sashing and the border and you are ready to layer, quilt and bind!

I am getting ready to start my fall decorating. As far as I am concerned Labor Day is the end of summer and its fall. To celebrate the season I have a new table runner and I am having a bit of a problem deciding where I want to put it. Harvest Beauty is a very elegant table runner just in time for the fall season. It won’t take you much time to complete this beauty and have your fall table looking stunning. Will it go on my dining room table or on the sofa back table or on the island in the kitchen? The dining room table is winning right now.  The pattern will be available on my website this week for pre-order. The runner is easy and you can use up your left over fabrics or choose the new lines that are coming out.  It would be just stunning using Mill House Inn by Fig Tree Quilts. Joanna designs the most fabulous fabrics! Well peoples…its back to the sewing machine as I have more to finish and get ready. To help you jump start your fall sewing, for a limited time we are offering free shipping on our website so start something beautiful for fall.



May your bobbins always be full

Robin
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Post Traumatic Printer Failure

I am not sure that there is anything more confounding than computer/technology problems. Everything here comes to a screeching halt when the technology stops. I have been nursing my printer along for about two weeks now. I was in denial that it was about to go to the big recycle bin. I loved that printer. It was reliable and it was an old friend. Yesterday morning as I was about to start a project and needed it, I am way too busy for this. The fatal error message comes up. Its “internal parts have come to the end of their service life, consult my printer documentation.” Interpretation: Go Buy A New Printer. So off to Best Buy I went to purchase a new printer. I found just the right one. AND on sale. That is a twofer. To the checkout I went and home.
After several hours, many references to the manual, I finally got the printer installed. Its wireless so no more wires! Yea! Printing is faster now and oh what a really nice job of printing it does. I am over the mourning of a passing friend Mr. Printer and have started a new relationship with Mr. New Printer. My grandma always said that “a new broom sweeps clean”. She was right… technology the newness (is that a word?) and coolness of new technology. I just want to sit here and print till the cows come home. Today starts a new day for printing madness. I need templates for my embroidery machine; I need to proof read patterns…the new ones coming out soon. So I am back to work, with my new friend to help me along the way. Hope your day is a good technology day and that all your electronics behave themselves. Robin

My Favorite Season

I am starting to get excited, summer is winding down, the kids are back in school and soon it will be autumn, my favorite season. The colors, the smells, crisp air, HALLOWEEN, Thanksgiving, what’s not to like about fall? Oh and did I mention Halloween? It also stirs the quilting bug in me – more so than usual. I can hardly get through a day without sewing of some kind. If I can’t sit at my machine then hand work satiates my sewing cravings. I am just finishing up a fall table runner and it will be available on my website very soon. I am also writing the pattern for “Hero”. You remember the quilty wall hanging I did for my DH? His 37 years in EMS. Well my quilter Kathy Viera suggested some time ago (I already had Hero in progress) that I do a pattern for machine embroiders. She has gotten a lot of comments that they wish there were more patterns to showcase the beautiful machine embroidered motifs that are available. I also thought that we should do a Hero quilt that didn’t involve machine embroidery. Its size and simplicity makes it a perfect fit for a baby quilt, hence “Baby Hero”. Baby Hero is at the quilter and should be back next week.
Barbara and I took a day and spent it at In Between Stitches just wandering the store and touching and imagining all the things we could make with the beautiful fabrics there. Both of us bought Halloween fabric and are now working on a Halloween quilt. I am not going to embarrass myself by telling you how many Halloween quilts I have. Let’s just say its significant okay? I don’t think you can have too many. I use them all over my house. You will find quilts on tables, chairs, baskets, couches, loveseats, beds, and walls. And I have closets bursting with them.
How about digging out a project and finishing it up or grab that scrap bag and make a wall hanging, baby quilt, table runner or a donation quilt and get those fingers limbered up for full fledged fall quilting. Leave me a comment and tell me what your plans are for quilting this fall. Are you doing Christmas gifts, Halloween or fall? Placemats, table runners, or are you just trying to clear out that UFO stack? Whatever your project list is made up of, jump and get your quilting fix and make something beautiful, stunning…make something!

May your bobbins always be full,
Robin