Canadian Thanksgiving

We had a beautiful Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. It was fun to spend it with family and friends eating lots of good food and enjoying the warmest Thanksgiving Day on record. The autumn color around us was at its peak - just spectacular!

We all watched as Jenny rode her sweet Apples and I captured this moment. We may have to frame this shot.

 What a memorable weekend it was.

Hope your weekend was just as fun!

My Big News!!

A secret I have been keeping for months and months is finally ready to come out. I'm thrilled to introduce you to my first fabric collection,

"Butterfields"

When Henry Glass contacted me and asked if I would be interested in designing a fabric line with them, the answer was easy ...YES! YES!! YES!!!

With six different patterns in three colors ways each, Butterfields is made up of 18 fabrics.

   

I’ve also designed a complimentary (free) pattern to accompany Butterfields. This pattern offers two different versions of the same design. One is called Color Burst and the other is called Sparkle. It’s the same block, but depending on the fabric placement the look is completely different.

I’m going to be busy designing many more new quilt patterns with Butterfields. I’m REALLY excited about my first collection and I’ll have lots of new quilt designs to share with you soon.

Color Burst

Sparkle

Butterfields will be out in Quilt shop May 2012.

It can be pre-ordered through   

Henry Glass Fabrics

P.S.  I will post a link to the free pattern as soon as it's avaliable.

And the winner is ...

To start with let me say thank you to everyone who entered.  I loved reading your comments!! 

We put all your names in a bowl and picked out ... 

Heather A

Maybe especially because I'm a "newbie quilter", I find it especially helpful to see a new fabric line made up into a quilt for inspiration. Had I not seen this particular fabric made up into such a gorgeous quilt, I don't think it would have appealed to me as much as it does now.

Heather, please send me an email with your mailing address and I will ship the fat quarter bundle and my Frosted Squares pattern out to you.

Thank you again to everyone who entered!

Only 3 days left until the draw!

On Saturday, September 10th I will be drawing a name from the post below and one lucky person will win a fat quarter bundle of

"A La Maison" by Terry Conrad 

as well as my pattern Frosted Squares. 

Leave me a comment and following my blog to enter.

Fat Quarter Bundle Give-Away

This past Spring Robert Kaufman fabrics asked me if I would work with one of their up-and-coming fabric collections called "A La Maison" by Terry Conrad.  I decided I would remake my pattern Frosted Squares in this collection.  Here it is featured in the October issue of Fons and Porter. 

To celebrate this beautiful collection I'm going to give away one  fat quarter bundle of A La Maison along with my pattern "Frosted Squares".  Leave me a comment below and follow my blog and you'll be entered to win.  I'll draw a name on September 10, 2011.  Good luck to everyone! 

Sweet Little Blossoms

One of my customers, Susan Bailey, sent me a picture of a quilt she made with my pattern

Sweet Little Blossoms.

I love the way this quilt turned out, and I thought I would share it with you.

Beautiful, Susan!!

Paper Flowers

I just couldn't wait for it to be completely finished before I posted a peek at my new pattern

"Paper Flowers".

 I have several new designs coming to my shop, but this one will be free to download from my blog! I’ll let you know as soon as it's ready.
 

Gathering Pumpkins

I'm holding on to every last day of summer but it won't be long before Autumn will be here.  

Welcome the upcoming season with 

Gathering Pumpkins

Quilt and Table runner pattern 

on sale!

Double Sided Binding

I posted this tutorial a while back but somehow it was lost in my blog with no link, so I thought I would post it again.  Come see how easy it is to make
Double Sided Binding!

Summer

I guess I'm in line for the Worst Blogger Award this summer. I’ve wanted to keep you up-to-date, but time just got away from me. I’ve been working all summer on a very exciting project that I’m looking forward to sharing with you, but I can’t spill the beans just yet … but very soon!

While you’re waiting for the beans to spill, here are a couple of highlights of my summer.

Jennifer and her pony “Apples” kept us on our toes with lots of horse shows. This year she competed at some International shows and they did very well together, bringing home lots of ribbons and wonderful memories.

Apples loves dogs! She spent about 10 minutes playing with this dog who was wandering around the show grounds. How sweet!

Although Jenny is very serious about all this Apples always made us laugh. She is one funny pony!

A week of this was easy to take. The coast of Maine was beautiful again this year.

And last but not least, our son William turned 16. Sixteen! Where has all the time gone?! I miss my little boy, but I love the wonderful young man he is growing into.

Summer is almost over for us and it has been busy
… but so much fun!

I hope you're all having a wonderful summer!

Paris

Here are a couple more promised pictures of my pattern, Paris.

I just added it to the NEW patterns page on my website.

Thank you for coming by for a visit!