Flies and Dogs

As you all know, Grandma Coco has this on-going love affair with pre-printed panels. Everywhere we look we see more of them. We bought these beautiful dog portraits earlier this year from  Sew Sisters in Toronto. These dogs are called "Woof" and they're by Makower UK. The colours are warm and chocolatey and there's a tiny hint of gold. Gorgeous! but it's such a challenge to use them to their fullest potential.

Anna over at Ark Angel Creations is having a contest to celebrate the upcoming black fly season. Really, we're not sure "celebrating" is the correct word. However, she has a good sense of humour and so she's marking the season by inviting quilters to take the basic Shoo Fly block, and change it up. Winner takes all! 

We have exactly 25 doggie portraits left. (Of course, we can still buy more............)

Aren't babies cute?

We've been waiting patiently for the birth of our new great-niece and we are happy to announce that she she has arrived!! She is beautiful. And perfect. Her parents are thrilled and both sets of grandparents are pretty happy, too. Of course babies need quilts ... or is it that quilters need to make quilts for babies? And what's not to love about a baby quilt? They'll small and sweet, too.




Barnyard Roundup


You know we've had kind of a love affair going on with those pre-printed panels. But they're sometimes hard to incorporate into a quilt.

This is also the baby quilt we mentioned when we were gathering intel about machine quilting. We think it turned out pretty well. We took the "less is more" approach and left it puffy and sproing-y. We hope our little princess will enjoy sleeping under it.