On Display

Back in January 2008 I showed you the way I love to display my quilts in our home and I wanted to share it with you again. I have always found it difficult to pick just one quilt to display and if you're like me and have many quilts, it's even harder! I took this picture in my sewing room this morning.

Hmmm … I wonder what this display idea would look like as a headboard in our guest room … I better get back to my quilting! LOL

Sweet Easter

Happy Easter!

I love Easter!! I remember as a child my Mom always made Easter so magical. She would create the most beautiful baskets and hide them in our house. Often snow was still on the ground so an Easter egg hunt outside was just not to be. She would start the day's festivities with an elegant formal breakfast in the dining room with the center piece on the table being all of the colored eggs that we had made the day before, and the day would finish with a wonderful Easter Dinner.

It was magical day filled with love and family, I have wonderful memories of this time. So this morning when my children get up and come down for breakfast the tradition continues. I hope that your Easter is filled with traditions and happy memories and that you spend your day doing what you love with who you love.

P.S. This year Easter is just a little sweeter for me becuase we celebrated my Dad's 82nd birthday this past Thursday and today it's my birthday. This will be a wonderful day for sure!

By Popular Demand

I know, I promised no more bird pictures but I've received several emails asking if I have any more so I thought I would share these with you. Here are the last "owl in the snow" pictures that Peter took on our property.

This owl is just spectacular! We are definitely going to frame these pictures.

Truly amazing!

A Gift from a Visitor!

This is my last posting about the birds in my garden, I promise! I just can't help myself!

A very nice gentleman by the name of Peter Tamas was in our area last weekend visting from Toronto, Ontario and asked if he could take some pictures of the birds that were on our property. He sent me these pictures this morning and they took my breath away.

What a wonderful gift! Thank you Peter!

Sweet Summer

Our daughter Jenny and her pony Holly

Summer has flown by, but it has been amazing! We have been so busy, days filled with lots of horse shows and fun trips to the lake, long evening walks, just oodles of time spent with our children. We have had a ball it has been a summer I will never forget!

I did find some time to relax and design some new patterns. They will be coming out in the next month or two and I am so excited about them. It's wonderful to be back in my quilt studio and am thrilled to be playing with some beautiful new Moda fabrics. I can't wait to show you my new designs!

My Sewing Studio

Here is a little peek inside my sewing studio

Margot

Happy Easter

The best way I can think of to spend this Easter weekend is with friends and family ... and of course FABRIC! I think all of the new fabric collections in the stores today are just amazingly beautiful. I love designing with them and I can't wait to get started this afternoon on a quilt design with the new Moda collection, Posh. If you have not seen this fabric yet you should have a look at your local quilt shop for it.
I'm so happy it comes in 5" charm squares because this collection is so beautiful it's almost too hard to cut up. Love it!!

Happy Easter everyone!
Margot

The Bunny Patch

Look who I found sleeping in "The Bunny Patch" this afternoon. What is it about Cats and Quilts? Rascal is my offical quilt snuggle tester. I adore that about him.

Rascal you are so sweet!

Wild Turkeys

We don't live on a turkey farm but if you came to visit you might wonder. Here are four of the flock of twenty-eight turkeys that we see on our property several times a week. They are so much fun to watch.

Amazingly, wild turkeys can fly!