One Piece at a Time

My Heart is FULL...Give-away

I am still recovering from the last week of graduation activities and family visits. As I have been reflecting on this past week I realized that my heart was so full of gratitiude for pretty much everything in my life right now. To celebrate this I am having a GIVE-AWAY for this little ruler set. Isn't it cute? I have got to think of a little project to go with it some day!

To enter please leave a comment telling us something you are grateful for...it's cathy this gratitiude thing!

Have a wonderful weekend.

Wonderful...

Well, my the grandparents just left and my house is very quiet right now. I guess I had better get used to this. While I dream up more blog goodies I want to share this movie trailer with you. We went to see this last weekend and it was wonderful...just wonderful. Enjoy

 

No Design Wall this week....here is a shot of what I've been doing.

We still have family in town so that's it for now.

Mimi's Bloomers Block 4

Here it is friends...BLOCK 4..ta da!!!!

Download Block 4

Now I am off to watch my youngest child graduate from high school...I will probably blub and have red swollen eyes so there won't be any pictures...hopefully.

Design Wall Monday

 

Here is a shot of my design wall/table this morning. Doesn't look like much does it. I am hard at work on Mimi's Bloomer Block 4. I'm hoping to have that up on Friday.

Head on over to Judy's blog to see what others are up too.

The Final Push

I woke up to this note the other morning. Someone in this house stayed up all night working on a project for school. I think this note was written at 4am. Thankfully, the project was actually really good. Just goes to show you that you don't have very good perspective at 4am. Next year I won’t know it if someone stays up all night working on a project…a mercy I think.

Next up…graduation and grandparents. I’m so excited.

Where do YOU find inspiration?

The short list for me includes fabric, nature and color. So I just have to tell you about one of the most inspiring websites I just found. It’s called Design Seeds and the picture above is just one shining example of the glorious color inspiration you can find there. I even signed up for their e-mails and gorgeous pictures like this show up in my e-mail almost every day. Swoon. Swoon. Swoon.

I can think of dozens of ideas for each color scheme. I think it would be fun for a quilt group to have a color challenge. Each member can pick a Design Seed and work from that. Want more of a challenge, each member can bring a Design Seed and you can exchange them with each other. Then you have to make your friends color scheme and someone else makes yours.

Anyone else getting ideas?

A Dream Come True

Those two kids you see above really are my dream come true. They are no longer little, which breaks my heart just a tiny bit but they have both grown into wonderful and kind young adults. This fall they are both heading off to college (they aren’t twins, one took a gap year). This is another of my dreams coming true.

So you might notice that I will be posting a little less in the coming weeks and months. Not because I don’t want to write this blog (it’s my favorite thing to do) but because I need to start dedicating more of my time to my freelance work. Sometimes our dreams need financing and I am overjoyed to be in this position. The way I’m thinking about it is: same quality/ slightly fewer posts.

Speaking of which…I just realized that we are getting close to needing Block 4 for Mimi’s Bloomers…yippee!

American Quilter's Society...Blog of the Week

I saw this last Friday on Facebook. Swoon.

Thank you so much American Quilter's Society!!!!

Picture Added

Design Wall Picture added below...apparently I have not had enough coffee this morning.