My quilter friend is looking for a pattern to make a flag for her garden.  She wants one that looks like a quilt block or quilting design.  Does anyone know where to find it?   I searched the web and couldn’t find any.

Also, what fabric would you use to make this out of so it would last long outside?

from Moda and Deb Strain!  Images of a bountiful autumn fill this quilt!

Just in time for fall.  This beautiful quilt is easy and uses a panel for the center!

Finished Quilt Size is 46″ x 64 1/2″.

Free pattern here: Salt Box Harvest

Purchase kits here:  Salt Box Harvest

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Counting Sheep by Heidi Pridemore.
Finished size: 51 1/2″ x 63 1/2″
12 star blocks: 12″ x 12″
Skill level: Beginner

Heidi pieced a perfect-for-tots charmer using the Newton’s Lullaby Dream collection by Leslie Ann Clark for Clothworks™.

Purchase kits here: Counting Sheep

The pattern is not included in the kit.

= OMG. 

All day is was dark and rainy – so my husband and I gathered up our chairs, rain gear and umbrellas.  By the time we got to the park the skys turned blue and it was a beautiful 78 deg!  We stood in a line that was 1/4 mile long  for about 30 minutes.  Everybody was in a great mood. We got to the park, which is located on Muskegon Lake,  found a place to set up our lawn chairs and waited to the show to begin.

Toby sure knows how to make an entrance,  right in a new Ford F-350 Super Duty pick up truck box.  It was built into the drum-set riser, it slowly moved forward and all we saw were a the bottom side of a pair of shoes!  Once the tailgate was opened, Toby sat up and started playing his guitar.

I knew all the songs and raised up my coke as Keith sang “Beer For My Horses” and “I Love This Bar.”  Other songs, such as “How Do You Like Me Now?” and “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,”  added to the party atmosphere and with singing and dancing. Keith even threw in a tribute to Michigan native Ted Nugent.  Lastly there was even a surprise guest appearance with David Allen Cole.  It was awesome!  At the end of the concert he did an encore to the American Solders singing  “American Soldier”.

What more can a quilter gal want then being sang to by a good looking, very patriotic, Ford pickup driving  cowboy singer - there’s not much more I can think of!

Here is a link to the “Muskegon Celebration” Facebook page so you can read about all the concerts: Summer Celebration

 WOW!!  They’ve surpassed 103,600 pillowcases donated to One Million Pillowcase Challenge! 

Click here for video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdH9otLtwUs

Abbi Mays Fabric Shop

 Summertime Summertime by the Jamies

It’s summertime summertime sum sum summertime
Summertime summertime sum sum summertime
Summertime summertime sum sum summertime
Summertime summertime sum sum summertime summertime…

Well, shut them books and throw ‘em away
And say goodbye to dull school days
Look alive and change your ways
It’s summertime…

Well, no more studying history
And no more reading geography
And no more dull geometry
Because it’s summertime

[Chorus]
It’s time to head straight for them hills
It’s time to live and have some thrills
Come along and have a ball
A regular free-for-all

Well, are you comin’ or are you ain’t
You slow-pokes are my one complaint
Hurry up before I faint
It’s summertime

Well, I’m so happy that I could flip
Oh how I’d love to take a trip
I’m sorry teacher but zip your lip
Because it’s summertime

[Chorus]

Well, we’ll go swimmin’ every day
No time to work just time to play
If your folks complain just say,
“It’s summertime”

And every night we’ll have a dance
Cause what’s a vacation without romance
Oh man this jive gets me in a trance
Because it’s summertime

[Chorus]

It’s summertime summertime sum sum summertime
Summertime summertime sum sum summertime
Summertime summertime sum sum summertime
Summertime summertime sum sum summertime
Summertime

It’s summertime!

or human because it’s 39 deg windy and rainy!

My ”Mothers Day Robin” that was tending her babies the other day

 is having a wild ride in her nest this morning becasue the bush was moving so much I couldn’t get a good picture:

My patio plants are waiting inside for a non-windy day to make their debut on my deck:

But, it’s Michigan and tomorrow its suppose to be sunny!

Check out this great video! It will put a big smile on your face

Notice the floor – it’s a very cute quilt pattern