Carnation Fields

The Utah Quilt Guild annual Festival is on now in Provo at the Marriott.  I used this occassion to debut my new quilt in the vendor mall at the Stitching Corners booth.  It's made from Northern Cardinals by Moda and is a simple and fun pattern.  Northern Cardinals was designed by Holly Taylor.  The colors of the fabric are very dark red and dark green.  It has a very rich look to it.  It's actually darker than the picture show.

It's done and I'm so happy with it. It's just screaming fall with those cute pumpkins and fall leaves. It makes me happy!!

It's made with Riley Blake's new line of fabric - Decadence. It was designed by Samantha Walker.

A new Quilt Preview

I thought it might be fun to show you my new spiral lone star quilt in progress. I'm having such fun making it. This is the center of course. It's from the Decadence line by Riley Blake and Samantha Walker Designs.

Krishna Temple

As I was taking a road trip yesterday I came upon the Krishna Temple in Salem Utah. I thought I would stop and take a picture and share. I was remembering the 60's and 70's when every airport and gathering crowd had lots of Hare Krishna missionaries there proselytizing the crowd. Not something you see often today.

Pink Hippo Trunk Show this Saturday Aug 20th

Picture extracted from the Stitching Corner newsletter. I'm excited to have been asked to show my quilts and look forward to meeting many of you.

Carousel

I finally got this bound and it's hanging proudly on my wall. I just love this quilt and had so much fun making it. It's called Carousel and the pattern was designed by Jill Finley of Jillily Studio. Click here to visit her blog. Her blog is one of my favorites.

5 New Quilts Released for Spring Show

Havin' a Ball

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Spring Princess

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Holly Jolly

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Flora Sky

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Buttercup Patch
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All 5 of these new quilts were displayed at Spring quilt Market in the Riley Blake Designs booth. The patterns are now for sale on my website. Wholesale patterns are now available at the Pattern Peddler (thepatternpeddler.com) and Riley Blake Designs (www.rileyblakedesigns.com)

Two new patterns released this week!

These are both personal favorites of mine. I love the Lucky Cowgirl pattern. Maybe it was all those rodeo's I went to in St. George or maybe it's just the fun I had in embellishing the quilt. This is the first time I tried to glitz a quilt and I'm afraid I'm hooked. This fabric was designed by my friend Samantha Walker and Riley Blake Designs. The line is called "Wanna Be A Cowboy 2".

The Child's Garden is in colors that I have not worked with often, but I love them. It was such a fun quilt to make even though it looks complicated it was easy to put together. It was designed with fabric from the "Penny Lane" line by Riley Blake designs. The fabric was designed by Deena Rutter for My Mind's Eye and Riley Blake Designs.

Pam Holland shares her inspirations

I watched an amazing video today on The Quilt Show blog. Pam Holland shares her inspirations from museums. She is widely traveled and she lives down under (i. e. Australia). I hope you can find the time to watch it too. I find her fun to listen to because of her wonderful australian accent. My favorite quilt is the Rhino which was inspired by Albert Durer's Rhino. Due to copyright I don't think I can publish a picture here but you can see it in the video.

The Quilt Show

Her website with galleries of her quilts is at

Pam Holland Designs

Lets Cowgirl Up

Great news! Announcing our new pattern Lets Cowgirl Up. What a lot of fun that was to make and great fabric to work with.

The fabric was designed by my friends Samantha Walker and Riley Blake Designs.

To visit Samantha Walker's Imaginary World see her blog at samanthaleewalker.blogspot.com.

You can read about Riley Blake Designs and their new fabric releases at http://www.rileyblakedesigns.com/blog/

It's a great snow day and a great day to sit home and quilt. I'm waiting to post some new pictures. I have 2 quilts waiting to be quilted and one more in the sewing room. Currently I am working on "Wanna Be a Cowboy 2" which is a new line from Samantha Walker and Riley Blake Designs.

Summer of Love

I'm excited to announce my first pattern for the new year - "Summer of Love". I designed it from one of Riley Blakes new fabric lines, "Feeling Groovy" by doodlebug design inc. I chose to accent the pink and brown colorways and incorporate hearts and daisies into my design. It's 100 % cotton. There's lot of applique there which makes me happy. The original quilt will be on display at the offices of Riley Blake Designs and Christensen Wholesale for the next several months as well as other locations.

Catnip

Thanks to the Quiltique staff for information on the cat pattern below. The pattern is called Catnip and it was designed by Sew Special Designs. Did I mention that Quiltique is one of my favorite quilt stores. When I lived in Las Vegas I stopped by there often to shop. Their selection of fabrics is wonderful as is the ambiance of the store. See Quiltique's website here

I love Valentines

I'm so glad February is here. I can now hang Valentine quilts. I started this quilt over Christmas vacation and finished it last month. It's now hanging as my first valentines quilt. I decided to decorate for the holidays with theme quilts on the walls. It feels so good.

The center of this quilt was designed by Cheryl Almgren Taylor. It's from a pattern called Garden of Hearts. It was featured in the January/February 2011 issue of McCalls's Quilting. But when I got to the border I got carried away making all those appliqued hearts and changed the rest of the quilt. The bonus was this all came out of my stash. So this is my first stashbuster for 2011.

Also hanging on the wall for Valentines is my favorite red cat quilt. I finally finished this last year and have enjoyed it on my wall ever since. I tried to find my original pattern so I can give the author credit, but did not succeed. I bought the kit at Quiltique in Las Vegas. If anyone knows the name of this quilt please contact me.

Sighting at Thimbles and Threads

While shopping at Thimbles and Threads in Salt Lake City I saw my quilt "Nature's Flurry" quilted in the red fabrics. I loved it and it looked wonderful in those colors.

This is one of my favorite stores and it's owner Cathie Zimmerman does a great job with new displays, fun fabrics and great classes all the time. To find her store or look for store hours visit http://www.thimblesandthreads.com .