FLANNEL JELLY ROLLS - HEART TO HEART from Moda

I couldn’t wait to try these and wanted to try the RAINBOW pattern from the book:

These strips are so much fun and fast to work with!

A few years ago, I was on a bus trip with my SIL and her group of quilters, and we were traveling from Baton Rouge, LA to the Houston Quilt Show. The first billboard I saw on the Texas border was “Don’t mess with Texas!” OK OK I thought,  I’ll leave you alone! I did figure out that the sign really meant -don’t litter - but I’m from the North - and have watched lots of John Wayne movies so I wasn’t going to mess with Texas.

{queue the western music from Gunsmoke}

When my friend Tammy asked me if I wanted to donate a few gifts to her quilt group Christmas party, I said sure and sent them a few things. Well, I guessed I messed with Texas because I got this box in the mail from the Medina quilt group. I opened it to find it full of thank you gifts all representing Texas!

The yucca (Tammy informed me it was a aloe plant) which is native to Texas, survived the trip and is doing quite well!

There were really great cook books with wonderful recipes and other
things that represent Texas:

THANK YOU - Medina quilt group! This was so much fun to get all the creative gifts you sent.

I like messing with Texas!

Snuggle Quilts!

The fabric requirments and instructions are on page 27. 

Flannel fabric for this can be purchased here:  for prints  More Baby Talk Flannels or  Solids.

BUILD YOUR STASH!!! 

 Abbi May’s is having a special sale -  50% off select fabrics. 

These fabrics are grouped into a total of 9 - 11 yards and will only be listed for my “bloggers” and “Special Customers!”

I was taking pictures of the birds at our feeder today and wanted to share them with you. 

It’s so cold their feathers are all fluffy!

Notice the bird in flight on the right!

Baby Blankets - Easy to make with Wrights Satin Blanket Binding.

Nancy, one of my customers, asked me ”Is there an easy way to make a pretty flannel baby blanket?”.  

  There certainly is! Just use two 1-yard pieces of FLANNEL (search for: flannel), wrong sides together, trim to 36″x 43″ ish, then BIND!  I always bind with Wrights Satin Blanket Binding  for that special touch.  If you have never applied blanket binding before, check out this great link for instructions.

TIP: Make matching burp cloths! Round corners for easier sewing!

KATMANDU

I had lots of emails and phone calls this past week about this new fabric collection KATMANDU - most of the questions were:

 ”What is it and what can I do with it?”

What it is: 

100% Quilters quality cotton designed by Mark Lipinski for Troy/Riverwood Fabrics.

What can I do with it:

You can quilt it, embellish it and decorate with it!

Click here to see the pattern designed by BOM Quilts

Click here to view the FLIP BOOK my daughter created.

Here are some pictures that we took from the Houston Quilt Market of quilts that were made from this fabric:

It’s time to add some color to our world and start off the new year with a new project from BOM Quilts!

Quilt Guilds - Do you belong to one?

 In today’s blog I was going to talk about belonging to Quilt Guilds and how much fun that is. But, I thought I’d tell you about last nights meeting. It started out pretty normal in our structured kind of way:

Secretary read last months minutes….

Treasurer reported our balances…..

Membership (wow 108 people here tonight)….

 Hospitality (new this year “round robin quilt”)….

 Newsletter…..

Baby Quilts…. it was my turn! “What! - I’m suppose to talk tonight!?” - eek - I grabbed my sign in sheet ran up there and said this: ” We received 18 baby quilts tonight - thank you - and please stop back and see how beautiful they are” and ran off the stage, whew! - got though that! I don’t like being unprepared so I’ll usually spend all day thinking about what I’m going to say.

 All was going well. The co-chairs were introducing all the new board members. We were to come up on the stage and show two quilts we made. When it was my turn, I showed my wall hanging and Melissa’s matching placemats.

 As I was coming down the stairs someone from the audience who was on her cell phone said “There’s a tornado warning for our county”. Oh my! - we don’t get tornadoes - ever! Everyone just sat there - we were all stunned.

 My cell phone was in the truck, I ran out in the pouring blowing rain to get it so I could call my weather - watching kids. All the lines were busy! In the meantime, our group moved out into the hall. I finally reached my husband who said it was just computer generated “dolper” rotation and no tornado was spotted. Back to the meeting.

 Time for a break! We always have something good to eat and drink and this month’s hosts made apple crisp and veggie pizza. yum! yum! About 15 minutes later my daughter called and said there was another line of storms coming.  I asked her to call me if we got another warning.

 In the meantime my co-chair (SIL Diane) and I packed up all the new baby quilts we received so we could to get them to the car before it started storming again.  We headed home to relax.

Nothing materialized out of the last bunch of storms (we say the lake “ate the storm” - Lake Michigan)

 Here’s a daytime picture of what our storms often look like.  I took this picture last summer.  The storm was just wind and rain because the lake “ate it”.