Marie Antoinette Crazy Quilt Block #9 Continued

I didn't have a lot of stitching time yesterday but some.  Scott took me to a flea market yesterday morning where I found some porcelain doll heads.  I'm going to dress them with Crazy Quilting.  Are you surprised?  LOL!

When we got home, I got my paperwork all caught up and straightened up my stash a bit.  I think I enjoy organizing my supplies more than anything else!

Anyway, here is an update on the final block of my Marie Antoinette Crazy Quilt:

Mom and Dad are coming today for grilled chicked, salad and fruit salad.  I think Mom and I are going to run up to Michael's for a little while and see what they have in the way of new glitter and new paper.

For now, I think I'll do some silk ribbon work on this before I straighten up my house.

Have a great holiday everyone!

Marie Antoinette Crazy Quilt Block #9 - Finally!

I finished up the little kitten cellphone pouch that I was working on and decided that was definitely time to get the final block of my Marie Antoinette Crazy Quilt.  Here's the block with the trims:

And here it is with the seam embroidered:

I'm looking forward to putting this quilt together!   I had all the blocks laid out on the floor this morning and it's very sparkly!  Well, what I could see if it when the cats weren't trying to walk on it!  LOL!!  I'll start on the beading tomorrow.

Here is the little kitty cellphone pouch:

I'd like to sew these up tomorrow but not sure I can squeeze anything else into my day.  We're trying to get the yard in order and constantly working around rain!

A Little Crazy Quilt Eye Candy

I'm all over the place these days!  We're working on getting the yard and house ready so I can teach classes here at home.  I'm doing some simplifying around here too.  Cleaning out some things, rearranging and organizing my stash (something I always love doing) and mom & I just started to put together a couple of cookbooks.  Mom's will be doing a compilation of her best recipes which go back to when I was little! 

Mine will be a collection of my muffin recipes.  Since I like to experiment with different ingredients, I've really come up with some great and unique muffin recipes.  So we're starting work on putting these together which means mom will be cooking more and I will be baking more (thank goodness our neighbors love what we make) so we can have good photos of everything!

Of course I'm stitching too.  Here's a little Crazy Quilt eye candy:

This is a little cellphone pouch.  I plan to sew this up over the weekend.

This too will be a little cellphone pouch.  It's ready for beading but I wanted to share it at this point so you can see what my seam treatments look like using my waste canvas technique.  Perfectly sized and spaced stitches, everytime!  I'll start the beading on it today and I should be able to do the finishing over the weekend.

Elegant Crazy Quilt Seam Treatments Volume 2 - Now Available!

It's been many years in the making but I'm pleased to announce that Elegant Crazy Quilt Seam Treatments Volume 2 is now available in our Boutique!!!

This volume has 180 all new charted borders for working crazy quilt seams with my Waste Canvas Technique.  There are no instructions in volume 2.  The instructions are available in Volume 1.

Stitching on crazy quilt seams with waste canvas creates perfectly sized and spaced stitches everytime!  And there are no limits to the beautiful borders that can be created!  Enjoy!!!

Crazy Quilt Gatherings Issue 2 is Now Available!

Good news everyone!  Pat Winter has released Issue 2 of her Crazy Quilt Gatherings magazine!

I did a page of all new Elegant Crazy Quilt Seam Treatments for this issue! 

Be sure to order this Summer 2011 issue of Pat's magazine!  Whether you're a crazy quilter or you just want a magazine full of beautiful embroidered eye candy, you will love this gorgeous magazine!