Happy Mother's Day to you All

Just wanted to say I hope all you ladies have a wonderful and beautiful Mother's Day!!! 

Hugs,

Mary

TGIF EVERYONE

Hello everyone, Happy Friday, Doing the Friday Dance  :::::)))))  Well, even though this is a Quilting Blog had to just share some photos of ......."Cooper", Yes, it has been awhile and my handsome 4 yr old Doggie got a haircut today and shampoo and his nails clipped, so just am showing off here with some pictures....well, in this one he is sticking his tongue out at me, but what a guy....

First,

Here is Cooper's Domain, yes he even has two pillows with his name embroidered on them!  What a life.....

And, he is showing you all how he can give you his paw.....awwhh, isn't that cute, ofcourse, you can't see the milk bone I am holding.....but what's a pribe anyway...

Well, I just had to, I know I take toooo many pictures of Cooper but he is such a good boy!  Hope everyone has a Beautiful Weekend, here in Chicago, it is in the 50's, rainy and time for me to go to bed, so bye for now...

Hugs,

Mary & Cooper  :)

My Daughter, Kate is Engaged!

Hi everyone,

Check out this website by my daughter, Kate:

http://www.weddingwire.com/kateandchriswedding

Tells the whole story of Kate & Chris, really cute! 

Hugs,

Mary

Batik Quilt done!

Finally finished one small quilt...all batiks....for a friend!   

ANTIQUE QUILTS

Happy Friday Everyone,

Was out shopping with my Sister and we came across a Antique Store and looky what I found...

The green tree of life quilt (I think that is what it is called is 1860 circa all handmade, no batting so I think it was a utilitarian quilt, but I just loved how soft it looked so ofcourse had to buy and the second quilt - Carolina Lily was all hand made in Ohio Circa 1895!!  Can you believe it, I bought that one as well, so there goes all my "fun" money, but the Lily one I put on my bed and the green tree of life is displayed in my foyer!    I love to look at both of these and think "who made these" I wish I new the ladies the Green one had a tag that said Washington D.C. and the Lily was made in Ohio.....WOW  it is fun to go shopping when you find Beauties like these!!!

Hope everyone has a Great Weekend,

Hugs,

Mary

BUNNIES, BUNNIES....

More bunnies....and my first version of Love Letters...I don't likethe brown urn, soooo I made one in blue and I think I like  the blues better....

Happy Wednesday!!!  Hugs, Mary

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!!

Happy Easter to all....:)  Hope the Easter Bunny was good to all!   This pic was taken earlier in March in CA....what a Beautiful area!  Which we could live out there!  This is my whole gang...Hubby, Kate, Mike and Emily and Me  :)

My oldest, Kate, just got engaged (well about 2-3 weeks ago) so have been walking around in a Happy Cloud!  Wedding is planned for Oct, 2013!  Happy Day!!  Kate and Chris have been dating since High School , all through College and now (9 years), so am very excited for these two love birds!!  Chris is a wonderful young man and am so happy to be able to say I am getting a Son...God is Great!

Happy Easter and Happy Spring  :)
Many Many Hugs,

Mary

Another small quilt completed...

Hello everyone,

Here is my rendition of a batik churn dash small little quilt, what do you think??  I used the small dots as a border...colorful right???

Happy Tuesday, Happy Spring  :)

Hugs,

Mary

A GIFT FROM A FRIEND....

Look what I received in the mail on Saturday, a Beautiful Spring Butterfly all done in Batiks! 

How Beautiful, right????

Love the way it is quilted too!

Enjoy,

Hugs,

Mary

more blocks....

Here are a couple of more of those batiks...I am really liking these batiks...so colorful! 

Happy Thursday :)

Mary

More batiks and blocks...

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Just added two more blocks to the batik quilt.....well, one is sewn together the other is just pieced...what do you think??  The dotted redish batik really changes as you cut the fabric, WOW, I kinda like these fabrics!!  :)

Well, this one is sure going to be interesting putting together, stay tuned more to come,

Hugs,

Mary

BATIKS AND SUCH...

Hello Everyone,

I normally do not like Batiks...it's just a personal thing, but am making something for a friend of mine and all she likes is Batiks so I had to go searching....then buying.....because I could not find one batik I owned...so here is the first block:  now the next few blocks will be yellows and greens and pinks and more purples....so will keep working.... 

  Then, I want to make a queen size quilt for a very, very special someone in my life....(more info to come) and she likes "Bohemian Style furnishings".....so, YES I WENT SHOPPING FOR MORE FABRIC!  There I said it!!  I know, I know, after 1 1/2 months of cleaning out my sewing room you think I could have found Batiks and Bohemian Fabrics, but NO....so this picture is the quilt I want to make, although I don't have a pattern...but I think I can wing it...  So here are the fabrics that I picked, so far....the middle one is the background fabric and the surrounding fabrics are going to be the pinwheels, although I think I need more solids ...but this is what I have so far...I think the background is too dark, so may switch that, but I have a whole year, so ....what do you all think????  I bought mostly Kaffe fabrics (wow are they pricey), but beautiful,

Well, have a great day everyone and it sure it great to be back sewing in a room where I can walk around in,

Many hugs to all,

Mary

IT'S COMPLETE!! YEAH, JUMPING UP AND DOWN OVER HERE...

Hello everyone,

Yes it is true my sewing room is finally complete.   Oh I am so happy, I can actually walk in the room!! Now on to projects....more to come, 

Lots of Hugs

Mary

Yes, my sewing room saga continues...

Hi everyone,

I have missed not blogging these last couple of weeks, but I really had to get ahold of the mess in my sewing room...so now, everything is done, color coordinated fabrics....the only thing I didn't get done was my Sewing Desk!  That is the last to get done as I am trying to organize all the projects (namely 6)that are particially done...so more to come, but this is what I have done so far.  I even have a project cork board with the latest projects on....Exciting...

Yes, I even have some new flowers too!!!  All the bins have books on one side and magazines on the other. 

So, what do you think...

Hugs,

Mary  :)