Sneak Peak

Here is a sneak peak of a quilt pattern that I submitted to Moda Bake Shop....it is a goal of mine to get featured on that website and I'm hoping this is the quilt to do it!  Everyone please pray that they like it...I literally just emailed them about an hour ago so fingers crossed!!  Oh and if they don't put it on I'll still put the tutorial on my blog for ya'll!!  Thanks!

WOO HOO!

So, my 25th birthday was this past Saturday!  I just wanted to tell everyone thank you for making it such a special weekend!! Here is a photo of me and my AMAZING husband (sorry I cut your head off Jon).

This is me and my cutie pootie nephew Xavier at the zoo last week!  I tried to get a photo of us but when I said look at the camera he walked up to the camera :) Love that guy!!

Here is my family at my good friend Cody and Monica's wedding at the beginning of the month! Jon and I, mom, dad, and Laurel

This is just a photo of my pretty flowers in my front yard!

 Here is some of the fabric I got for my birthday!  WOO HOO...LOVE IT!!

oh my gosh!

Amy Butler's new fabric line is coming this fall!  I am SOOO excited!  Go here to see all the fabrics coming!  Here are some photos of my favorites (that will be available at SunFlower Quilts in September)!

Siggy Swap

I joined the Modern Siggy Swap that just started over at http://www.jaybirdquilts.com/.  I'm really excited to get everybody's blocks and see what fabrics people use!  I have a few honey buns in my stash and need to decide which one I'll use!  I have until July 1st to send my blocks....but I won't be putting it off until then (especially because this summer is going to be busy)!!

Hexagons and more hexagons...

Okay...so I have around 300 (I'm going to need over 1,000 to make a quilt) of these little 1" hexagons that I am totally addicted to making! Started making them, then found this fun group on Flickr hosted by Texas Freckles.  I want to start sewing them together but I have a dilemma....I can't decided on the pattern.  At first I was going to just randomly sew them together but I'm not sure I like how busy that was going to look.  So then I went searching around online and found this, this, oh and holy cow look at this one.  With soo many different patterns how am I going to choose.  I guess it will just come to me eventually while I continue to sew these little guys.

Cherish

Check out this cute block I've been working on with Moda's Cherish fabric!! LOVE IT!! Let me know what you think!

Machine Quilting Class

I am so excited because I've been wanting to dabble in machine quilting for some time now but didn't know where to start! I'm taking a class on quiltuniversity.com that starts tomorrow and I'm sooooo excited! It's a four week class and looks awesome. I've seen work from previous students who have taken the class and I think I can do it too! At least let's hope! I know it will take LOTS and LOTS of practice but at least this class will teach me lots of good techniques! I'll keep ya'll updated with photos of my progress. I don't have any photos that relate to this topic yet, so here are some cute fabric flowers that I made!

 

My Boys

As promised here are pictures of my boys since Izzy has been hogging the spotlight lately.   Ozzie has been helping me sew, he pretty much always sits right next to my machine while I sew. 

Then of course Gibby has to get in the action...nosey critter!

Okay...so besides being a fabric-o-holic I kinda sorta have been hoarding all my charm packs.  I love that for around $7-$8 I can get an entire line of fabric!  It's just nice to say "oh yeah I have that fabric"!   I may not know what I am going to do with them yet, but at least I have them right? Plus, they just look so cute sitting there on my table! Here are a few in my "collection" right now!

My newest charm pack that just came in the mail today!  Plume by Tula Pink!

Here are some more Marine Corps fabric for my friend Nathan, I also have some cool American flag fabric that I forgot to put into the photo.....now I just need to get to designing the top!

My next project that I'm working on right now is with these two jelly rolls....keep looking back for sneak peaks (I'll be posting them soon)!

Two things before bed....

Things I love....

1. Pedicures...I got a pedicure today!  WOO HOO....it's been a long time!  I was thinking when the last time I had one was earlier today and thought it was my wedding almost three years ago (3 years in July)!!  But then I remembered that I went with my sister-in-laws  Rachel, Katie, and niece Rylee for Aaron and Katie's wedding in June 2008....soo instead of three years ago it was only two (which isn't as bad, but still WAY TO LONG to go without a pedicure!)

You know how us girls are with pink! Izzy loves pink and looks really cute on this quilt!

2. I love sitting on the couch with my husband after a long day and having our kitties lay with us!  Izzy was needing attention again today.    Maybe my next post will need include my two boys Ozzie and Gibby :)