Happy Valentines Day!

I just wanted to share my Valentines Day with you all, I hope yours is as wonderful as mine!
First Aliya and I made cards, from left to right: Aliya's card made by me, chocolates for the husband and a lolly pop for Aliya from Mommy, "Be My"... card for my husband, and finally Aliya made a Valentines Day card for her Daddy!


When Aliya woke up this morning she got her surprise! A card and a lolly pop from Mommy!
Then Daddy gave us both a surprise, We each got a red rose for love, and I also got a yellow rose for friendship because he is not only my true love but my best friend! We also each got a card and a box of chocolates, what a loving father and husband! I love him so much!

I will leave you with this, I just think getting special things from that special person is always great; but its the thought not the price! I'm not the kind of girl that needs dozens of roses, I would rather have the sentimental rose that symbolizes our love and friendship! I thought that was awesome and so perfect!

I would love to read about everyone's Valentines Day, who is your special someone!?!

My favorite quilt!

No I did not make this one, my mom did!

Since tomorrow is Valentines Day I figured I would say how great of a mom I have! (no mom didn't get my birthday present yet...lol)

She is a great quilter on top of everything and she introduced me to quilting, although it took her a few years to get me really interested :) So far she has taught me everything I know, I have not taken a single class...mom lessons are free!

I just want to show you my favorite quilt she has ever made, its for my daughter's room and it could not have been any better! Perfect fabric, pattern, quilting! BEAUTIFUL!

Have a Happy Valentines Day! Happy Quilting!!
Wish you were here Mom!!

ETA
ALSO!! I am looking for a fun online quilting bee! Either one where we finish projects together, or exchange blocks, it does not matter. I am open to options, so please if you know of one, or know where I can find one let me know.

Allie's new dress

I am just going to apologize about the hair ahead of time...lol
She loves her dress! Me, not so much! Although I did learn that my Janome and buttonholes do not mix, at least I don't care for making buttonholes! I had to do that for the collar and it has buttons on the back also. I will be looking for patterns that do not require the use of buttons in the future...lol
I did have to take the dress in a lot, when I first fit her the dress looked more like a parachute than a dress.
Overall she likes it, I will be practicing on more dresses (ones that she can actually wear in public...lol) in the future.

Now, I am going to get back to sewing my blocks for the Star Bright quilt.

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Or you can just wash all my troubles away while you are here!
Found out yesterday that my other car broke down too... My husband has been driving my car to work lately because his car was in the shop this fall and $700 later something else is wrong with it and the shop refused to fix it. My husband has replaced the water pump and still something is wrong with it, we don't know where it is leaking water from.
Now, after 3 weeks with no car, my husband goes to change the spark plugs in my car (which by the way has less than 60k on it so this is ridiculous!) the spark plus is stuck inside the engine and he cant get it out...I think it may have broke off inside the engine. Anyways, looks like we might need major repairs to both vehicles now.

Sorry for the rant....as for quilting, I have not accomplished much this week. I did start the dress yesterday and I got most of it finished so hopefully I can finish it up today and post some pictures of it tomorrow.

And for the vehicle situation...
Prayer and thoughts are much appreciated.

Giveaway alert!!

This is a wonderful blog that I frequently visit, Kerri is celebrating her 100th post with a fab givaway! Go and check it out here! Become a follower today!

Have to get some quilting done soon

Well, I have some things I am working on and I haven't worked on anything really this week.
So far I have to.....

Make a Valentines dress for Aliya

Sew some more quilt blocks

Work on this months applique

Work on my show entry (haven't even started this yet)

Make a Valentines Day card for the significant other

I really have to get moving. I haven't been feeling that great this week, I hope I can feel better soon so I can get to sewing. I am going to try to start Aliya's dress today, then maybe I will feel like doing some other stuff.

I did take advantage of the Fabric.com sale this week. I ordered 15 yards of fabric for $50. Mostly for my stash, not anything that I plan on making out of it. Plus my Birthday gift from mom is on its way and that has to be full of tons of quilting goodies. She has been buying stuff for months now...lol. I love my mom!

Title goes here...

As for a title, does anyone (besides me) ever have a problem creating a interesting title? Sometimes I sit and think about titles to put on my blog and the only things that come to my head is "Finished block 4" or "Went Shopping" I really have a hard time being creative with writing, but when it comes to fabric look what I can do!!!

Ok, so I may not be the expert quilter, and I am definitely not an expert blogger but I do enjoy showing people what I am working on, and even more I love to see what other people are working on at the same time. I am really inspired by all the creative people out there and that's what keeps me moving.

I did manage to go shopping this weekend, I bought some items to make a Valentines dress for my Little Valentine.

......and my LQS was having a HUGE sale this Sunday. It was the Super Bowl Sunday sale and so cool. Every half an hour they would draw up a different sale and it lasted 4 hours. I only stayed for a little over an hour but I did manage to stay for 3 of the drawings, 40% off cut fabric, 40% off patterns, and 30% off kits. It was a great idea to have a sale like that and everyone was very nice to me and my daughter! I will visit again!

I really didn't see much fabric that I wanted. I kept pulling out bolts and trying to match them up but was never satisfied. Too bad, with such a good sale going on.

I have really been searching for some contemporary fabric but its practically unheard of in the LQS in my area so I have to keep searching, but in the meantime I did manage to find this pink fabric that I really liked and a purse pattern that is oh so cute.

One final note....my mother has her own blog and I'm sure she will be much better at this than me. She has been quilting for 11 years and is responsible for my quilting, well I will take responsibility for her blogging. Anyways, she has started her blogging days out with a bang
and posted a tutorial...does anyone have problems sewing curves...well she has figured it out. Read about it here
Hopefully more to come in the future. I am also thinking of adding a tutorial so what would you rather have me add...paper piecing or hand applique? Your choice!

TGIF

TGIF....because I get to go shopping tomorrow. I got permission from the hubby to go to any quilt store for as long as I want! Now to just figure out which one(s) I want to go to. I need some modern fabric but to date haven't really found a quilt store that has good modern fabric.

As for my quilting day yesterday I finished peicing block 2 or the Star Bright quilt, cute name right! I'm paper piecing so it takes forever to do one block but I have a goal to try to get a block done a day...of course thats not always possible but thats my goal.

Here are my first two blocks, I took the picture last night so the lighting isn't the best but you get the idea. Thanks for looking.

Finished Block One

Ok, so I finished the first block of the quilt and it only took me forever. I'm not sure if I like the orange on the outer corners yet and I may put yellow there instead that's why I haven't sewed the pieces together yet.. Overall I like it, the colors go well together.

Now.....I need to start on the next 5 or more blocks for this quilt, and I need to start cutting and piecing the quilt the might be in the show this year (key word is "might")

Oh, and here is my sewing space, I think it is set up perfect right now especially for this project. Now just picture me in the middle :)

She has been wanting a quilt, so...

My daughter (4 year old) has been asking me to make her a quilt so we sat down yesterday and picked out some fabric that I had already (I really need to start building a stash, I keep using everything I buy) and we sat down and she picked out some blocks that she liked. She picked 6 blocks to start with and we are going to see how that works and add more if we need to. Of course I made a couple changes to the blocks so they looked harmonious with each other.

Here is a preview of what her quilt will look like. I will be using some of the fabric I picked up last week along with some fabric that I had from a sale before.

So what is everyone else working on this month? I would love to know!