Garden Sunflower and Sunday Stroll

This gorgous quilt is Garden Sunflower by Brenda Yirsa for Bigfork Bay Cotton Company. It is so much prettier than the picture shows. Everyone who has seen it has fallen in love. I took it to our group that meets at Bighorn Quilts in Greybull, Wyoming last Saturday and it was a huge hit!

Sunday Stroll is a new one from Debi Hubbs for Bigfork Bay Cotton Company. This is one of MY favorites. There is something about Debi's quilts that just make me happy while I'm making them. For Patterns and Kits you can call Bigfork Bay at 866-245-5718 or visit your nearest Quilt Shop. If they don't have the patterns they might just get them in for you. I know that there are some of the patterns at http://www.bighornquilts.com/ . These patterns are also available at http://www.fabricdepot.com/

Two New Bigfork Bay Cotton Co Patterns

This handsome character is Romancing Red. He is one of the new pattern designs by Debi Hubbs http://www.artblooms.net/ for Bigfork Bay Cotton Co http://www.bigforkbaycottonco.com/. Bigfork Bay Cotton Co carries all the kits too and since they are the original designers, the fabric is the same as in the picture on the pattern. The kits are beautifully done too so they would make wonderful Christmas gifts.

Red is far more adorable than he looks in my poor photography. The Border is even in real life too. Do you think maybe I need a photography class. Nah. I'll stick to what I know best. Quilting. You just have to get the pattern and make him to see how wonderful he really is.

This little quilt is just adorable. It is called The Picnic by Debi Hubbs for Bigfork Bay Cotton Co. You know, you can purchase Debi's art work from her eBay store at http://stores.ebay.com/ARTBLOOMS-STUDIO-Artist-Debi-Hubbs Shipping is very fast. Yep, that means I've bought her art work too. And now her fabric line is out by Timeless Treasures called Blackbird Jubilee. I see that Julie has some of the new line at Big Horn Quilts. http://www.bighornquilts.com/ Guess where I'm going this weekend! We have Saturday Strip Club so I'm going to get the new Blackbird Jubilee fabrics while I'm there, among other things. She really has the most amazing shop. Her prices are wonderful and so is her selection.

I did some other quilts too but they are repeats so you have already seen them. If not check out my archives. I think I'm getting two more new ones soon. So, I guess the saga is "to be continued...."

Vince's First Birthday

I was informed that I hadn't posted any pictures of Vince's first birthday so I thought I had better get with it. Here he is getting some help with the new toys. He got so many noisy toys! Do you think it was some sort of payback? I think so.
Isn't this just wonderful. He LOVED the Barney DVD. The look on his dad's face was more like OH NO!!!! Humm, Aunt Jenny, is that why you bought Barney?
Mom and Dad bought him his very own birthday cake. He hadn't even started to have fun with it yet in this picture. He was covered by the time he was done. It was a good thing his mom laid down plastic before he started.

Chicken A La Carte Quilt

I just love this quilt! It is designed from the art work of Debi Hubbs
http://www.artblooms.net/ The pattern and kit are available from Bigfork Bay Cotton Co.
http://www.bigforkbaycottonco.com/ I think I need to redecorate my office in Debi Hubbs designs. She designed a line of fabric for Timeless Treasures called Blackbird Jubilee that I can't wait to get. Let me think now...pillows and a lap quilt for the couch, a new valance, chickens and crows on the walls....I would be so happy in my office!
Then there are the new designs from Tony Whitney for the rest of the house. Alan wants the horse Spring Storm. Wait until he sees the new designs! Wait until YOU get to see the new designs!!!! They are coming soon to a blog near you.

Perrito The Pug

Perrito at Market in the Batik Textile Booth.

Lee Anne, the owner of Batik Textiles http://www.batiktextiles.com/ asked me to make this 56"x66" pug quilt for her booth at Quilt Market in Houston using her absolutely lovely batiks. The pug was originally painted by David King http://www.pugcasso.com/.

Bigfork Bay Cotton Co. made a smaller pattern of this design that just came out at International Quilt Market along with several other wonderful new designs. Lee Anne loved this design and wanted me to make a larger version. I added borders which were designed by David at Bigfork Bay. He did such an amazing job of the graphics for the cover that I just used it for the border.

The new patterns from Bigfork Bay Cotton Co http://www.bigforkbaycottonco.com/ will be showing up on my blog as I make the trunk shows. Patterns and kits can be purchased from Bigfork Bay Cotton Co directly but you can ALWAYS ask your local quilt shop to get them for you! I know that Bighorn Quilts caries some of them at http://www.bighornquilts.com And by the way, the batiks from Batik Textiles are absolutely the most amazing batiks. If your shop isn't carrying them yet, tell them about them and have them look at the website. If I were a shop owner I would have the entire line.

I sound like a salesman, but everyone who knows me knows that I only promote things I love and that if I love something I think you need it too.

I had a great time making this quilt. I only wish the quilting showed up. Thanks to Traci Marvel at BBCC for all she does for me. I love you Traci!

Two More of Bigfork Bay Cotton Co's

Here are two more quilts I have done for Bigfork Bay Cotton Company. American Icon, the cowboy is pretty big. I was a little nervous about quilting it, but it wasn't hard at all. I posted a close-up of some of the quilting so you can see that I even quilted the eye, nose, eyebrow, and ear. I had to do the buttons, placket, and button holes too. It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be.

4 Ever Friends is the name of the quilt with the 4 horses. It was a lot smaller than the American Icon so I wasn't intimidated to do it at all.

I can't wait until the new line of patterns comes out at Market the end of this month. I am doing one for Batik Textiles that I can't wait to post on my blog but I can't post it until it premieres at Market in Houston.

Vince and Randy Mariners Game

We moved Randy's things to Washington for him the end of September and while we were there Randy got us all Mariners Baseball Tickets. It was the first Pro Baseball game for Shelly, Vince, and I. He and Alan had been to them before. Our friends, the Peranders, went with us. We were in row 14 right behind the 3rd base. It felt like being on the ground. We even did the WAVE during the game. I had my first Ball Park hot dog and being in Seattle I got a latte at the game too.

We had so much fun while we were at Randy's. He has such a nice house. It has plenty of room for me to go out for some of the wonderful sewing events that they have near him.

While we were there, Shelly, Randy, Vince and I went to the ocean and one day we spent walking around downtown Olympia. Randy took me to one of my favorite Quilt Shops, Bayside Quilting, where he bought me a logo sweatshirt, and we had lattes in a cafe on our walk. It was so much fun. We even went into Antique shops. Vince was a perfect child. Well, he was the perfect traveling child the whole trip.

I can't wait to go back. I guess I can probably wait until Spring though since it snowed hard while we went over the pass at Bozeman on the way home. I don't care to go over the passes in the winter. They just aren't fun.