here I am

It has been a long time since I blogged.  But I am writing to tell you a good news!

Sew Katie Jean is having a fabric sale!

25% off of all fabrics

Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6

Lincoln is celebrating the opening of a long awaited highway bypass.  And what a better way to celebrate than by doing a little bit of shopping for fabric!

I hope to see you there.

Shop hours:

Monday - Friday 10 am - 3 pm

Saturday 10 am - 4 pm

fab up

Isn't this a gorgeous little chair? My mom was going to through it out, and thought I just might like it! It was covered with different fabric of course. Very 80's country looking.

I had a bit of Amy Butler fabric that was just the right amount to cover it all nicely. And the colors just popped, when I put it by my newly painted shelves. Later it will be moved to sit by my cutting table. But I love it where it is just right now.

My shelves are beginning to fill up with new fabrics. This is DeLovely by Cosmo Cricket. I have made a few crafts with this, that are already up in my shop. Remember the embroidery hoops?

And this is Spring Street by Carolyn Gavin of P&B Textiles. I am in for some sewing fun! Soon I will be opening my doors and you can have some fun with me :)

updates

I have been working off and on this little quilt for a month now. After seeing my stitching on the quilt, my friend calls it Subway Tiles. Cute name! This quilt came to be from a Modern Quilt Guild Challenge. We were given a stack of Robert Kauffman charm squares solids, and I paired some of mine with a pretty Amy Butler print. When I am totally finished, I'll show you more. I'm doing the binding right now. It should be done by this weekend!

And I just had to share some of my Easter pictures with you! These are my 3 beauties. And every Easter our little church has this wooden cross, and during the service, everyone covers it in these gorgeous spring flowers.

Then it is taken out front for all to see. And I just can't resist taking pictures of our family in front of it. This one is of my mom, daughter, and me. I hope you enjoyed your spring holiday as well!

i'm back

So happy that I married someone with a ton of experience in IT (and he loves to cook!) It did take about three days to get my computer all cleaned up and back to work. Which was so hard for me. What am I supposed to do without my computer? I'm sure you understand.

Of course I got some sewing done! So happy with that. Got some things crossed off my list. Would you like to see?

Here is my almost completed quilt top for the SMQG fabric challenge, I told you about. I just love the array of colors in this Amy Butler fabric. It's hard to believe all of the different colors that are in this print, until they are separated out by these little fabric squares from Robert Kauffman.

I think I will just bind this up with one of my favorite solids, no sashing. And then back it in the same Amy Butler print. I will show it to you again, all finished.

And remember, I still have this bit to do something with. I separated out my stack to use with these 2 different fabrics. Now I am having so much fun fooling around with them, that I want a whole new pack of those charm solids.

Have you ever used one of these solid pack of fabric charms?

new fabric challenge

This last Saturday I went to my monthly SMQG meeting. And there were a few more new faces. Which I love that our group is growing. And a new monthly challenge was made!





The wonderful people of Robert Kauffman have invited all of the Modern Quilt Guild's to sew up something quilt related with one of their Kona charm packs. And the pack is all in solids.

So each person in our guild has been given one stack of these sweet rainbow of colors. Aren't they just gorgeous! I got to working on this challenge that very day, looking online for some fresh inspiration. I can't believe that I started sewing the next day after that. Could not help myself!

So I wanted to give you a peek at what I have come up with so far. Both of these prints are from Amy Butler. She has such a big range of color in both of these prints, I thought they would be fun to use!

To see what others are making, visit the Robert Kauffman blog. They have a ton of other links to visit. And you are always welcome to pop into the monthly meeting of the Sacramento Modern Quilt Guild too. And meet a nice group of inspirational ladies.

a little juice

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I am a little brain dead these days.  I need some R&R. 

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 So last night I stayed off my computer.  But today I was on, looking through my list of blog friends. 

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It is just what I needed. A little brain juice. 

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And a long phone call from my sister never hurts either!

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So here are some pic's that got my brain working again!  I hope they inspire you a little too.

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