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$15 for a five pack of 60mm rotary blades!!!

Hey friends!  I just ordered a couple of packs of Olfa rotary cutter blades (60mm) at Fabric Depot... for $15!!  That is so cheap compared to the retail price of $57.  So I suggest you get your sweet little buns over there and snag yourself some.  I'm not sure how long the sale will last, it might be only a weekend thing, so hurry! 

I can't leave you picture-less, so here is a quilt made with my favorite star pattern.  You can find the tutorial for the block here. Let me know if you make a 'my favorite star' quilt, I'd love to see it!

xoxo -Sarah

 

 

Just a little new fabric lovin'.

Could ya just die?  I could.  I love new fabric.  I mean I LOVE new fabric.  It makes me happy; it's what I save my pennies for.  Some women love to shop for clothes and designer handbags.  I love shopping for new fabric.  It's just full of gorgeous quilty possibilities.  Speaking of clothes and handbags, I hate going into malls.  They give me the eebie jeebies, and I can't wait to get out of them!  Barf.  Anyhoo, moving on.  These Denyse Schmidt lovelies deserve closer views don't you think?  Of course you do, if you didn't, I don't think you'd be visiting my humble little blog. 

Oooooooooohhh... (I found all of these at Joanne's)

Aaaaaaaahh.. (These are all from etsy except for the top one, which is from Joanne's.  It sneaked into the wrong stack.  Oh, and apparently 'sneaked' is the correct past tense of sneak.  I feel like 'snuck' sounds better, but that would be wrong.  See, homeschooling can be fun!!

Some precious Pam Kitty Morning.  Love that Pam Kitty!

The ever charming Heather Ross.  I can't wait to jump into these.

Lizzy House!  I love all of her fabrics.  Every single stinkin' one.  These deserve close ups too. 

Oh ya.

You heard me.

A thing of beauty.  If all of this wasn't enough.  My sweet mama sent me a surprise gift.  It just arrived today. 

It's Lizzy House's new Halloween line, called Guising.  I'm in love with the little ghosts!  It seems every ghost emotion is represented faithfully. 

Let's see, what else....

Here are some lovely fabrics that I got while visiting family in Boise last week.  Ok, that's enough.  But would you like to see my new Cath Kidston Diamond Jubilee mug?  You would?!  Cool!

I bought two, one to keep pens and such in, in my sewing room.  And one for tea silly!  I also found this adorable little cottage tin.  It's teeny and cute.

Oh, I hear the kitchen timer going off, time to feed the natives.  Thank you for stopping by.  x

 

 

I'm a loser, but I'm still alive!!

Holy cow.  I can't believe how long it's been since I've updated this here blog of mine.  It's been on my mind, but the thoughts of blogging haven't made their way to my fingertips until right this minute.  I hope you are all well, my dear blog friends.  Please forgive me for being absent.  I know not what I do... ok, I know exactly what I do, but it's not for lack of loving you all.  I'm just a loser.  Moving on. 

My time as of late has been spent dilligently trying to get my girls school year finished.  We only have a couple of weeks left!!  I know there must be other home schooling mama's out there who are excited about the summer break, along with all of you wonderful teachers out there.  I've also been making dolly quilts and other bedding in my 'spare' (HA!) time for my shop.  I've been kept quite busy with my little Etsy shop which I am so happy about!  Here's a sampling...

Sewing for Blythe dolls is so fun.  I love their big headed, kooky eyed craziness. Now I've also discovered Pukifee dolls.  They're tiny ball jointed dolls that arrive bald and you have to buy wigs for them.  They're adorable.  I purchased one (I did Sabine!!) and found her a wig on Etsy.  It's a tad Diana Ross-ish for a toddler, and I love it. 

My husband is getting a huge kick out of all of this doll sewing.  It cracks him up.  Our conversations when he gets home go something like this.

Me:  How was your day you handsome hunk of man?

Him:  Computers...blah blah blah....blah blah blah.... How was yours?

Me:  Great, I bought a tiny two headed ragdoll and made little monogrammed pillowcases.

Him:  Of course you did.  You are amazing.  I'm so happy that you agreed to marry me....blah blah blah....you're all I could ever hope for in a wife...blah blah blah...

*The next week*

Him:  How was you day?

Me:  I made little dresses and took pictures of the dolls having a tea party.

Him:  With the double headed doll?

Me:  Yes, and with the tiny Kewpie.

Him:  Of course you did.

Fun.  And don't even get me started on the Vampoodle!  I'll save that little peach for next time. 

Now I'll leave you with a photo that was my dear husband and my topic of conversation yesterday:

Tiny panties?  Of course I did.  x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quilty Christmas Gifts

Happy New Year!  How was your Christmas?  We had the most wonderful time with family and friends.  I made lots of quilted gifts, but in my rush to get everything finished and wrapped, I failed to get pictures of everything.  I always do that!  But, I did get a few pictures of my gifts to Sabine.  I made her a little quilted needle case.  Inspired by this tutorial by Sew She Sews.

I love that it closes with a little snap.  I have a thing for snaps.  It's not natural. 

Open it up and it has little felt pages for needles and pins.  There are also two pockets trimmed with ric rak.  I also have an unnatural love of ric rak.  It's borderline disturbing.

The pages I trimmed with my new wavy rotary cutter blade.  I've been wanting one of these blades for my rotary cutter forever.  Thankfully, Joanne's had a 50% off sale on all cutters and such so I got a good deal.  Although the blades only come in 45mm size, and I only had a 60mm cutter....so a new cutter and blade it was!  But at half off I was happy.  I really wanted the scalloped cutter, but they were out.  The wavy one is nice though. 

Sorry, that whole paragraph was totally boring. 

I bought these adorable pins at our quilt retreat a few months ago.  There are lots of gals selling wonderful things at the retreat.  These are so fun!  I think the cherry pie is my favorite.

Machine stitching the binding made this project pretty quick.  I tend to machine stitch the binding on quilty projects that aren't actual quilts. 

Her other quilty gift was a little teapot quilt.

I thought she could have it on her table when she has friends over for tea. 

I also made a needle book for my mom out of dark Civil War fabrics...no picture.  There were also quilted pillows for my step-mom and grandma...no pic....wait.  I think I took a few 'in progress' pictures.  Let me look... A ha!  I have some. 

No finished pillow pictures, but you can imagine right?  I actually would like to make some pillows for my own couches.  I know, add it to the list... 

Ok, time to take down the tree.  Have a wonderful week! x

 

 

Can you guess what this is?

My great-grandma Crystal made it in 1982, when I was 7 years old. 

I remember visiting her cozy little house at Christmastime and staring at each and every piece of costume jewelry.  I thought it was wonderful.  And I still do. 

My great-grandma Crystal made all kinds of neat things.  She was always crafting something.  She wasn't one to sew though.  Go figure. 

My favorite piece on this jewelry tree is the little heart locket above, with the flower on it.  Because inside is a picture that was very special to her.  A picture of her little boy.  My great uncle, Elmer.  

Isn't that sweet?  It was a nice surprise to find. 

I think my great-gran was quite the fashionista!  OOh, look at the one with the coral roses!

She's propped up in my sewing room, for Stuart and I to enjoy.

You haven't forgotten about Stuart have you?  He's my little blue angel.

He's finally gotten his big bird feathers and has such a pretty yellow face.  He lost all of his striped baby bird feathers that went all the way down to his little bird nose, and the fluffy soft yellow feathers took their place. 

He even has his own Charlie Brown Christmas tree. 

Silly Stuart's favorite thing to do is grab this chain with his foot, and shake it back and forth, over and over...and over.  He loves the sound of the dice (die?) clanking against his perch.  It cracks me up. 

And now my friends, I will leave you with a photo of my wonderful Christmas gift.  You know the kind.  The kind that you purchase yourself on Ebay quickly because it looked so good, and there were only a few minutes left in the auction when you found it.  And it was such a great price you would be angry that some other lucky gal got her dirty paws on it and you didn't?  And theeen, you called your husband to tell him he bought you just what you wanted for Christmas?  (Or you wait till he gets home from work to tell him because you are feeling just a smidge guilty.)

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Here she is.  My very own vintage Singer Featherweight!  I'm in love with this little machine.  She is beautiful and sews like a dream.  She's so tiny, shiny and pretty; I love her.  Did I need another sewing machine?  Yes.  Yes I did.  So there.  I'll do a full post on her soon and tell you all about her. 

I drank the featherweight kool-aid.  And I blame all of the fabulous women who have them at our annual quilt retreat.  You know who you are.  (Karen, Connie, Robin and Mary!)

Until next time, happy sewing!  xoxo