BEE-utiful Friends!

I am so very blessed in so many ways.  I have the most generous and wonderful bee-mates!!  We had bee on Monday at Linda’s gorgeous house.  Look what my phenomenal bee-mates gave me!!

And I was feeling sorry for myself during summer school as they were all off and going to quilt shops around the country (Keepsake, Hancock’s of Paducah) and to Quilt Odyssey in PA… and I was working summer school…

Aren’t bee friends the BEST???  MINE ARE!!!

Thank you dear friends!!  :-)

 

Pets on Quilts Show 2011

I LOVE this fun activity that Darlene, aka Sewcalgal, organizes for us every summer!

If you read my blog much, then you know how much I adore my Westie, Yogi.

He is my constant companion in my sewing and quilting adventures. 

He has a permanent bed on my sewing table in my studio.  He is is sooo many pictures and posts here on my blog. 

My two sons are grown and Yogi helped us with a quiet empty nest!  He is our third “son”!!

If there is a quilt on any piece of furniture (which there is a zillion of in my home)

or even any piece of block of a quilt in the making that Yogi can get to, he is soooooo ON it!!  LITERALLY!!

And not only does my camera LOVE Yogi, Yogi is a camera hog, too!! 

A romance made in heaven, don’t you think!?!  This was last year’s photo in the Pets on Quilts Show. 

Here is this year’s photo-

The quilt is my own design - “Four Squared”. 

We hope you are having a fun summer and staying as cool as possible in the heat!  The sewing room is the perfect place to be in all this heat, right?

Well, Yogi and I sure think so!!  :-)

Make sure you check out all the other pets on quilts in the show.  We all love our pets!!  :-)

 

A New Go! Tote

I know that AccuQuilt sells a rolling cart for the GO!

but I’d rather spend that money on new dies and fabric!

 But the little bag you get with the GO!

does leave allot to be desired!  YUK!

 So, I decided to make a
much cuter tote for my GO!

I measured the GO! and decided to store it
 in the tote with the handle up, so I didn’t
 have to figure how to design the tote around it!

 
 I cut a big piece of vintage Mary Engelbreit fabric from my stash, some batting and backing and quilted it all over. I cut off a strip to use for the handle along with some 2” wide webbing. I pressed the long sides of the strip under about 1/2” and cut the webbing about 1” shorter at each end than the quilted strip.

 Then pinned the quilted strip on top of the webbing.

I stitched close to the edge down both sides
 and also down the middle.

I folded the extended end of the quilted strip
 under the edge of the webbing on both ends.

I folded the large quilted piece in half and
sewed up the two side seams.
 I zigzagged the edges to finish them.

I boxed the bottom corners and cut off the
 excess and zigzagged those edges, too.

I bound the top edge with a cute black polka dot fabric.
 I sewed the short ends of the strap on the bag
 over the side seams.

I sewed some velcro on the
top edges to close it.

I really love how it turned out!

It looks cute on my shelf and the tote is strong enough to carry my GO! to bee!! And because I saved money by not buying the cart, I just bought two more dies!! Woo hoo!!

  

And guess what my Yogi was doin’
 the whole time I was makin’ this tote?

YUP! Just snoozin’ away!!

 What a life, huh??! :-)