300th post giveaway!

So I just realized that my last post was my 300th post and I have over 300 followers!  WOW, ya'll are awesome and thank you for following my blog!  Sorry it's been a lot slower around here since Jared has been born (and a little before).  I promise that I will start blogging more, especially now since my little man sleeps through the night and I feel like an actual human being again!

So in honor of my 300th post and over 300 of ya'll being my super rad followers, I thought I'd do a little giveaway!  What's up for grabs?  Your choice of a PDF version of one of our patterns!!!YEAH! Go HERE to check all of our patterns out!   Which one will you choose?

Baby Chains?

Baby Blocks?

Hello Baby?

Can you tell that I have baby on the brain?  The examples of patterns I picked all have baby in the name (hehe oops). We have more than just baby quilt patterns...check them out!

Anywho, how do you win? I'm having a really good day and Jared is napping so I will give ya'll a bunch of ways/chances to win! 

1. Leave a comment telling me what kind of tutorials you would be interested seeing on my blog.  I'm in the process of updating my blog and I've got a few tutorials in the works but I would love to know what ya'll want to see/learn!

2. Become a follower of my blog and let me know you do!

3. Follow SunFlower Quilts on facebook!

4. Follow my Mom's blog!

Okay that's four chances for ya'll to win! Make sure you leave a separate comment for each one and that I have a way to contact you if you win!  It's Spring Break at our house next week so I will leave this open until next Thursday!  I will announce a winner on Friday March 23rd after noon. Good luck!

Oh and because I just can't resist and it's March Madness here is a photo of Jared being really excited about basketball!

New Pattern!

Introducing our newest baby quilt, "Kitties 9 Lives"! The quilt is 50" square and has 9 appliqued Kittie blocks. Choose your favorite method of hand or machine applique. Kittie applique template is provided along with all instructions. Click here to order a PDF Download or paper version today!

Here is Jared on his quilt today at two months old! He is getting so big!

 

STLMQG Pouch Swap

Tomorrow is my STLMQG meeting and I am participating in a secret pouch swap! Everyone that wanted to participate put their name and info into a pouch and we all drew names for our secret partners!  How fun?!? Here is what I came up with...I hope my partner likes it!

I did a little smocking in the main fabric and totally fell in love with it!  I wouldn't go smocking an entire shirt or dress or anything, but this little pouch was fun!  It was relaxing to do some hand work, I wish I had more time to do so! The top fabric is Amy Butler Soul Blossoms and the bottom is a Moda fabric (can't remember what line).  I just came up with the pouch shape myself, I free handed the shape and was please with how it turned out!

Close up of smocking

Inside peek

Close up of the zipper!

If you're in the St. Louis area, come by our meeting tomorrow!  Our meetings are aweomse and inspiring and I guarantee you'll have a good time! Meeting info is HERE.

PDF Patterns!

Hey y'all!

I am so excited to share with you that all of SunFlower Quilts and SunFlower Seeds patterns are available in PDF form! That means for $5 you can purchase our patterns and a copy will be sent to your email for instant sewing fun! There is no shipping charge and the cost for a PDF pattern is only $5.00 each! That’s right a quilt pattern for only $5.00. You can save it on your computer to keep it safe and have it forever. We love this new way to purchase patterns because it is so easy and fast! Try ordering one today, you won’t be disappointed! Check them out!!  If you make something from one of our patterns, please add a photo to my Flickr Group, I'd LOVE to see it!

Click HERE to go directly to our PDF Patterns!

And since it's Rodeo time in Houston and I can't be there this year (insert super sad face here) I thought that the next best thing was a cute cowboy picture of Jared!! Enjoy!

Sweet Nyla!

LOTS of babies being born in the Mueller Family lately! Congratulations to my Sister-in-law Rachel and her husband Matt who welcomed Nyla Kathleen on February 19th!  She has two brothers, Xavier and Jordan, who I'm sure you recognize as I talk about them a lot on my blog!  Nyla and Jared are only five weeks apart! How fun is that going to be? I can't wait to watch them grow up together!

Here are some photos of my adorable niece and her two quilts!

Photo courtesy of her Mommy Rachel!

Here is the quilt that I made for Nyla!  Her nursery is sock monkey themed and this is the fabric that Rachel chose to go with it!  It's MoMo's Wonderland!  I stocked up and hoarded this fabric line from when it came out a few years ago just waiting until Rachel had a little girl because it reminded me so much of her! Doesn't Nyla look absolutely adorable on it?!?!



Here is the scrappy backing of her quilt!

And here are some closeups of the quilting that I did on her quilt!

Here is Nyla's second quilt that my Mom made for her!  My mom pieced the top and I quilted it for her!

This quilt is called Sugar and Spice and the pattern is available HERE! And if you would like the pattern ASAP, it's available in PDF form HERE!

Welcome to the family Nyla!



Thank You!

HUGE SURPRISE AND THANK YOU!!

This past Saturday was my annual STLMQG meeting!  I love this guild, it's so much fun and everyone is awesome! If you live in the St. Louis area and love to quilt and sew, or you're interested in learning please come!  Find out all the info on the STLMQG Blog!

Anywho...there are 9 of us girls that go out to eat for lunch after every meeting and this month (which would have been last month if I wouldn't have given birth on the day of our meeting) they gave Jared a baby shower!  Which was probably more fun this month anyway because then he actually got to be there! How sweet is that? To my surprise, they gave Jared this AMAZING quilt!  I was soooo shocked! It is a double sided Swoon quilt and it's gorgeous!! Thank you so much Cara, Kristy, Mary Claire, Grace, Lynne, JuliAnn, Laura and Jessica, WE ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!

Look at how GREAT it looks in his nursery!  I can't stop looking at it!  Thanks so much, ya'll are beyond amazing and talented!



Jared's Dresser

So I found this dresser at a thrift store for like $15!  It looked a little scary, but I figured that for $15 I could totally fix it! Here is what is started out looking like!

Gross stains all over it.

Gold handles.

And here is what it ended up looking like after lots of sanding and painting!! My awesome hubby said I should paint the drawers different colors and I'm so glad I took is advice! Those gross gold handles....NO MORE...a little spray paint does wonders!

Here it is in all it's glory in Jared's room!! I'll post photos in the next day or so of Jared's entire nursery! I love his nursery so much and he seems to have fun it in too! Have a happy Monday!

Christmas Quilts

Here are a couple quilts that I made for Christmas!

  The first one was for my one year old nephew Grady! His Daddy coaches football and basketball at Parkway Central High School and their colors are red and black with the colt as their mascot.  So I came up with this quilt for him to use at games!

The second quilt was for Grady's big sister Rylee!  Rylee just turned 11 (WOW when did that happen?) and she is awesome!  When she was at our new house I had her look through all my fabric and pick ones that she liked and these are the ones she chose!  She had no idea why she was picking them either so it was fun surprising her with this quilt for Christmas!  I raw edged appliqued the circles so they would fray the more it gets washed! I love how it turned out and it totally reminds me of my super rad niece!



Swoon

This week I'm going to attempt to update ya'll with all of the sewing I was doing during December/January for the last month or so while I was pregnant!  That last month really goes by fast and plus I was sewing like a maniac to get everything done that I wanted to!  So keep checking back this week for more quilts and sewing projects!

This Swoon quilt was made for a customer as a Christmas present for her mother in law!  She told me what colors and I went with the Swoon pattern!  This block was super fun to make and by using different fabrics it really made the blocks look completely different!  She told me that she wanted it to fit on a king size bed! This is the largest quilt I have ever made, it finished around 110" square!  I'm 5'3", so you can see how big it really is!  My husband and brother in law who are both over 6 foot had to stand on chairs to hold it up for this photo!  (Thanks guys by the way!) Also, thanks Rachel for the photos!

 Look at that belly!  I miss feeling Jared fluttering around inside my tummy, but I am SO glad that he is out!

Cuteness

Sometime this week I will update my blog with all of the sewing I did for Christmas and the month before Jared was born.  For now I will just share a couple photos!

Jared will be three weeks old tomorrow (WOW that went by fast) and I finally got back into my sewing room today! YEAH!! It felt so good to sew again, and I was very thankful that he likes being in there with me! I embroidered this for my mom right before he was born and I finally finished making the block and framing it today!  So I thought I'd take a photo with my cute little man in it!

I also thought that I would share a couple more photos of my little boy just because I can :)

Here he is sitting up during tummy time, he was a little over one week old here...this boy is super strong!



And here is Jared looking at how handsome he is in the mirror in his crib!  Love him!

Hope ya'll have a great weekend!