I truly love designing and making projects! I can't believe how lucky and blessed I am, that I get to make such fun stuff! A big factor behind all the things that I make is my very supportive husband. He is my rock and so much more, thanks Rick! While I was playing with (ok, sewing) the Yellow Submarine project, he was powerwashing the driveway. Is that called balance? It works, and I'm grateful.
Quilting, all parts of making a quilt is my thing. But since I've been doing Art & Craft Shows, I've added lots of other items to fill in my booth. I've enjoyed the process, figuring out how to make things on my own, designing things other than quilts.
Again, it goes back to designing, give me a challenge or idea, and I love it! It may take me awhile to mull it over, but I've found that the pondering makes it better. Here are a couple of recent designs..........
Before my granddaughter
Alegra was born, Kelly asked me to make a 'tree' wallhanging for her nursery. The design process was going round and round in my mind, emails, phone calls, sketches, and the day before she was born, it just came together in my head. I had the quilt done the next day, the day Alegra was born! Each leaf has a word, things that I wished for sweet Alegra, love, happiness, joy, faith, etc........ Now ideas are swirling about sewing darling clothes for this little sweetheart, she is almost 9 months old!
Pillows! My sister commissioned me to make several throw pillows to go with her new drapes. She wanted a plain pillow with piping. Too boring for me. Instead, I created fun boutique designer pillows, her favorite was this leaf applique. After making her three cool pillows, I sewed the plain one too, thanks L for your support!
This blog is a new type of designing for me, (I'm slowly learning it) thanks to Kelly for getting me going on it! And now Leigh is helping me with an etsy site, what would I do without these wonderful girls!!!
On our recent trip to Utah, I let Alegra and Cruz play with some quilt fabric leftover from a project. Alegra was really interested in it, good thing because she goes fabric shopping whenever we are visiting. I can't wait till I can teach her all about sewing. Cruz is curious about all my sewing things too. My grandsons Nick, Max and Caden often play in my sewing room. They drive trucks and cars under my tables. We give horses little 'blankets'. They like to play with the scraps too. I was going to make Nick a little reusable sandwich bag before school started this year. When I showed him a pile of fabric that he could choose from, he said, "Oh Grandma, you have too many, I like them all, you choose". So together we decided on some airplane fabric. I like having the boys see what's going on in my sewing room, they are so smart and they notice lots of things. One time I was talking to Max about my sewing machine, and I asked him if they had a sewing machine at his house, and he replied, "No, but we have a washing machine" They say the cutest things! 
