Hello Again...

...It has been a long time since I last posted.

I really should be vacuuming but I'm not!  :)

The past few weeks have been very busy...

...and full of fun!

My daughter and grandson came to visit!

We had a fantastic two weeks.

The photos above are from our visit to the

Long Island Game Farm!

What a great time we all had.  I remember taking the kids there many years ago and it sure has changed.

It was very clean and well organized and not too expensive either!

The best part was feeding the animals.

The time goes by too fast when loved ones come for a visit.

I miss them already!

There also was a lot of sewing and machine embroidery to do.

My grandson needed to have his name embroidered on his beach towel for Summer Camp.

The towel had large polka dots so I put a letter from his name in each dot and then flanked it with Seahorses in the outer dots.

It came out so very cute.  My daughter said that was a lot of work for a beach towel...

Nann will do anything for her little guy!!! LOL

And I did make my daughter some pretty pillowcases to match her newly decorated bedroom at home.

She didn't go home empty handed...well, not quite, my husband will be mailing these along with some other items she couldn't fit in her suitcase home to her tomorrow.

My daughter gave me a beautiful set of dish towels for Mother's Day.

So I just had to redecorate the kitchen hutch top with them.

Love this!!!

I have had these Rooster ceramics for about 8 years and never used them.

LOVE!

Now the plan is to redecorate the entire kitchen around these awesome towels.

A little retro will work for me.

I just had to make this little trivet to go under my teapot on the stove.

It's tiny.  About 7" around.  So cute!

There will be more to come for this room.

The Americana border paper will come down next month and my husband will be painting in August.

There won't be as much R/W/B in this room but I will always keep little touches of it!

There has been other sewing ~ everyday ~ some gifts and some shop samples.

I have been very busy!

Hope you are enjoying the end of Spring and the start of Summer!
Happy Sewing!
Colleen

Happy Memorial Day...

...and those who have fought for our freedom!

Another quilt...

...when, oh when will I get to finish a UFO!!!

Maybe never, because...

I stopped working on

Pulled out a floral from my stash (which I thought was ugly)
and made a fabric purchase (just a small one)

And started working on

I'm thinking of it as a more modern looking

Wedding Ring quilt for my nephew who is getting

married in August!

Happy Sewing!
Colleen

Quilting in Space...

Have you seen this article?

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18254269-first-quilter-in-space-nasa-astronaut-plans-to-turn-orbital-rags-to-stitches?lite

This is really interesting.

A Mother's Sew Day!

Yup, on Mother's Day my husband thinks I should do whatever I want.

Sew, that's what I did!

I pulled out a UFO and worked on it a little...

now this really only needs the borders!

The pattern is called Hanging Gardens (cannot remember the designer).

Started about 3 years ago...

Fabric line is Sanctuary by 3 Sisters for Moda.

The border in the pattern is a Seminole pieced border.

I will be doing a piano key border with the rest

of the jelly roll that was not used in the top.

Last week was the baby shower.

My niece loved the quilt.

It was recommended by two of the instructors at NEQF to wash gift quilts prior to giving them.

I did and was very pleased with the look of it!

Sorry these photos do not show off my free motion flowers!
They came out great and I was super happy with the final results!

I also made some burp cloths...I call them Burpies!

Sew much fun to make and add little touches to them.

My favorites are the pink polka dots and the black with the pink flowers!

In addition to the UFO that I started to work on again, this was a week of pulling out fabrics I think I might never use and making pillow cases for my house.

I don't know why but there never seems to be enough of them.

So far I have made 3 pair.

Hope your Mother's Day was Sew nice!
Colleen