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Announcements· Giveaway

Fabric Fest Blog Hop Fabric Winner

The winner of the Riley Blake Fabric Fest Blog Hop Fabric is:Hobby flunkyJune 7, 2013 at 4:23 PMI love Rocky Road ice cream! Congratulations!We will be emailing you soon. (And for more information about this dress and the cross stitched collar just click here:A Cross Stitched Dress) ... View the Post

07.01.13

Quilt

Indian Summer Quilt Along–Finishing your Quilt Top

Day One--Cutting Your Fabric Day Two--Making Your Quilt Block Today we are going to be finishing up our quilt top!  Wahooooo....it's always an exciting day to finish up a top. Let's get started....remember the pattern? The first thing we need to do today is to put your blocks together into rows.  Lay out all your blocks as seen above, but this time you will need to add your  7 1/2 by 2 1/2 white pieces that you cut on day 1 (they are your pieces shown on the right in the picture ... View the Post

06.28.13

Announcements· Skirting the Issue

Something Dear to My Heart Is About to Begin….Again

Last year Elizabeth and I started a project that was important to us.We called it Skirting the Issue.It was a month long event where we asked sweet seamstresses from all across blogland to share a skirt tutorial with us.  We then asked all of you to sew some skirts along with us and donate them to a local foster care closet. By the time we tallied the final numbers we realized that almost 600 skirts were made and donated to local charities along with over 100 pair of shoes and a variety of other ... View the Post

06.27.13

Miscellaneous· Quilt

Indian Summer Quilt Along–Making a Block

 If you are just joining us today, we are in the middle of a quilt along where we are piecing together our quilt blocks.  Day One of Cutting your fabric is here. Remember our pattern?  Today we are going to focus on making our smaller bocks.  The ones with 2 4 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches of fabric with the 1 inch strips in between and the 7 1/2 inch by 2 1/2 inch blocks (you will see it clearly in the photos below....don't stress yet ;) Let's get started....  Here is the layout of the ... View the Post

06.26.13

Uncategorized

Every Second Counts: More Minute to Win It Games!

You know that around here we love the games from Minute to Win It. We've posted about them more than once...like HERE with our $5 Summer Activities for Boys and then again HERE with our $5 Holiday Party Game Ideas.  So when we heard about a new season of Minute to Win It on GSN we were pretty excited.  And then when Simon heard that he was actually going to get to see a sneak peak of the new season he was over the moon....and it was serious business...sitting up to the counter with a beverage ... View the Post

06.25.13

Guest Post

A Tape Tree Painting Tutorial and Where to Look for Clouds

Hello! Today we are over at Kojo Designs participating in Kirstin and Delia's annual series "Color Your Summer".  We chose the color white again this year but decided to mix things up a little bit and share an art project instead of a sewing one this time.  (Just when you thought you knew us....)Summer means a lot of things around our house but one of those things is definitely art, art, and more art!  I've been teaching community summer art camps since before Simon was born and it's just become ... View the Post

06.25.13

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