Meet Lucie, our niece!

Our newest niece Lucie was born January 15th (one day after Jared's 2nd bday). Between Christmas, and Jared's birthday I almost forgot to finish this quilt!  If you remember I made the top back in October and I just needed to quilt it. I got it finished and Miss Lucie was born a few days later!! Here are pictures of the quilt and the sweet girl.  I longarm FMQ flowers all over it and I love the texture it created!

I know she is crying, but I love this picture!! She is just so cute!!

Welcome to our family Lucie, we love you!

More quilts and my cutie!

I wanted to share two more quilts that I've been working on.  The first on was a quilt I made for a craft fair back in November.  It was a simple quilt so I decided to do a lot of fun quilting on it! I'm pretty sure it took me longer to quilt it than piece it!

 

close up of quilting

 

backing

 

The second quilt was very special for me to make.  My husband's best friend's Aunt (still with me?) was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.  I'm on the board with MD Anderson quilt auction and we raise money/auction quilts for women's cancer research.  Until now, it never touched me so close to home!  She's started her treatments and during those two hour treatments at the hospital she gets cold.  What better way to stay warm than a new quilt!  I whipped this one up for her and gave it to her last weekend! We love you P, and continually pray for you everyday; your strength is inspiring!

 

close up of the quilting

 

backing

 

On a brighter note, my not so little boy turned one last month!!! I can't believe how much he's changed since those first photos of him!  Top photo he was 5 days old and bottom photo he was one year old!

 

Happy Monday, and have a great week!

500 Facebook Friends!

We've reached 500 likes on our Facebook page and as a THANK YOU we are doing a giveaway! We have lots of fun prizes and the more likes we get on our Facebook page the more prizes we will add!  So tell all of your friends to "like" our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter, follow either my Instagram or Pinterest, my mom's Instagram or Pinterest, or follow either my blog or my Mom's blog!  Leave a comment on this blog post telling me that you follow any or all of the different SunFlower Quilts pages. Here are photos of just a few of the items we will be giving away!

NEW COLORS Robert Kaufman Charm Pack

Fat 1/8th bundle of Independence Trail by Minick & Simpson for Moda

One special Facebook Fan will be randomly selected to win this Fat 1/8th Bundle!!!

Scrap Packs from our sewing room

PDF patterns of your choice

PLUS we will add more giveaways with the more "likes" and "followers" that we get!  Don't forget to leave a comment on this blog post telling me that you "like" or "follow" us at any or all of our pages and thanks for staying connected with us!  We will be drawing winners next Friday, October 5th; good luck!!

 

Links to ALL SunFlower Quilts Social Media Outlets!

SunFlower Quilts on Facebook

@Sunflower_Quilt on Twitter

SunFlower Quilts on Flickr

Jamie's Flickr

Jamie's Blog (you are here already)

Jill's Blog

@jamiemueller0522 on Instagram

@jillrimes on Instagram

Jamie's Pinterest

Jill's Pinterest

 

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!



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!



Giveaway Winner!

We're so glad that ya'll like our new MBS project! All of your comments are so nice! 
The winner of my giveaway is:

Cheryl!  

Congrats Cheryl, I've emailed you with instructions so be sure to check your email!  I just need to know which pattern of ours you would like and your mailing address! 

If you didn't win my giveaway be sure to check my mom's blog and see if you won over there!  

And just because I can't get enough of this little face, here are two new photos of my son Jared!  Have a great weekend!

Jared Logan Mueller

It's been a little quiet around here...sorry with Christmas and New Years and getting ready for baby I have no idea where the time went!  I will update more later, I just wanted to give a quick post to introduce our son!!! He was born 10 days early and we are all doing wonderful!

Jared Logan Mueller

born January 14, 2012 at 2: 14 am

7 lbs 4 oz 20 inches

photo courtesy of his Aunt Rachel! 

I'll post more photos later as well as an end of the year update! 

FYI: my next Moda Bake Shop will be up this Saturday January 21st and it's using the new Pezzy Prints fabrics!!!!

NEW Moda Bake Shop: Auntie's Diamonds & Giveaway!

Hey ya'll and welcome to my blog!  My NEW Moda Bake Shop project is up today and it's called Auntie's Diamonds! I am so excited to share it with you! If you're already a follower be sure to hop on over to MBS and check out the free pattern! And if you're new, WELCOME! 

This quilt was super fun to make and it uses one Layer Cake and half of a Charm Pack plus border fabrics! I used the fabric line Sophie by Chez Moi and let me tell ya, this fabric is so pretty! It measures 57" X 88" so it's a super cozy lap quilt OR you could even put it on a twin size bed! 

If you make one, I'd LOVE to see it, so please add a photo to my Flickr Group!!

Ok, now for the giveaway! 

 What is up for grabs you ask?  Well, you will win one of our $9 patterns from our website AND you get to choose which one you win!! AWESOME!! 

How do you win?

1. Become a follower of my blog. (If you already are just say so)

2. Sign up for SunFlower Quilts Mailing List for all of our new pattern info!

3. Check out our patterns and tell me which one is your favorite!

4. Become a  fan on facebook of SunFlower Quilts.

Don't forget to leave a SEPARATE comment for each one so you have MORE chances to win and a winner will be chosen randomly on Sunday December 4th in the afternoon!

Love that backing fabric....it was my favorite print of the entire line! 

 Gotta LOVE the Houndstooth pattern in all sorts of colors too, great basic to have in your stash!

This last photo is the reason I'm calling it Auntie's Diamonds.  I quilted my sister's name into the inner border (SURPRISE LAUREL!!!!!) and she doesn't know until now!!!  I plan on giving this to her after my son is born at his baptism because she is going to be his Godmother as well and his awesome Auntie!!  SURPRISE AGAIN LAUREL!!!!  :)  Love you!

Anywho....thanks for coming to my blog...feel free to look around and check out my other tutorials! Don't forget to sign up for the giveaway!!  Have a great week!