more pumpkins

Life has kept me busy lately.  My daughter surprised me with a trip to NY.....and she had invited my dearest oldest friend and her husband there as well.  Between work, a wonderful trip and keeping up with life I've let other things slide.  At least I have my pumpkins.  

Latest harvest now in the shop .

12.17.14

linked up to Sew Fresh Quilts for the Let's Bee Social

12.16.14

X + O pillow cover. 

...will soon be in the shop.

Linked up with Fresh Squeezed Fabrics, Show and Tell Tuesday and

Quilt Story.

12.12.14

I made sure to get this quilt DONE in order to include it in this weeks "finish up Friday link" with crazy mom quilts.

X + O

12.9.14

X + O 

now in the shop.

12.6.14

I wanted to add this, my very first full size quilt to Crazy Mom Quilts blog for her Finish Up Friday challenge.  The quilt top got finished late last night and with a busy morning and gloomy weather I've not been able to get good photos and missed the deadline to add this quilt to that challenge.  The colors are more vibrant than these photos show. 

X + O quilt 

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This quilt and pillow cover (see below) should be in the shop sometime next week. I've taken suggestions from friends and family to start writing patterns and have photographed the process in order to soon have a pattern also available for sale.

I look forward to quilting this on my Gammill longarm quilter.

11.30.14

now in the shop

11.28.14

Finish up Friday...

Here's the first "quilt" that I've quilted on my longarm quilter. Um, say that three times. Wasn't able to get good photos by the time I finished quilting last evening so had to wait until the sun was shining today. The time saved in pinning this on the quilter is a treat.  Plus, less wear and tear on the back and knees trying to manuever pinning a quilt on my cutting table.  The binding will be added this weekend. It is my favorite pattern "framed square" and will be in the shop soon.  

This is being linked to Crazy Mom Quilts blog for her "Finish up Friday" challenge.

11.26.14

:: SALE ::


Black Friday 20%
thru
Cyber Monday 20%
on ready to ship items

at
simpledream2.etsy.com

NOTE: does not include special orders.

11.11.14

give away winner...

Denise

please email me at

simpledream2@hotmail.com
with your mailing address.

Thank you!!

11.9.14

now in the shop...

...finished zippers. Looks good.

...the pillow covers turned out so cute I may just have to keep one.....or two. 

Can't decide.

The table runners all looked good, and fit so well,

on my dining room table.

May have to keep one of them as well.

11.7.14

finish up Friday 

... and ...

a give away

Whew... Today I finished up:

 5 - reversible quilted snowmen pillow covers

6 - reversible quilted snowmen table runners

and

1 - whole cloth quilted table runner that is today's giveaway.

This morning started out bright and sunny for good photos.  The above did not get finished up until about 3:30 and by then the sun was on the backside of the house leaving the front with not so good lighting.  

I was able to get some photos of this weeks Crazy Mom Quilts "finish up Friday" challenge.

The above snowmen items will be photographed and listed in my shop as soon as I have better lighting. I will not always be this productive.  I had a personal challenge to finish up some wip's and be ready for this weeks "finish up Friday" at the same time.  It's nice to have a goal to work towards, kept me on task and productive. 

As mentioned in an earlier post I was able to squeeze in a whole cloth table runner on the Gammill long arm quilter as I was finishing up the snowmen table runners.  It turned out rather nice. This 41.5" x 14" runner is made from a medium green print on one side and a darker green print on the other.  Binding is an interesting print of dark purple, greens and golden yellows.

  

Giveaway open to US residents only. To qualify for a chance to win this whole cloth table runner please leave a comment. Give away closes 10:00am cst on Monday  11/10/14. The winner will be chosen randomly and announced Monday evening and will be asked to email me their name and mailing address.   

10.20.14

new day

new project

in the shop.

...wished the mustard color back would

show better, that color is hard

to photograph.

...I like how the stars are muted on the  front patched side 

yet pop on the back side.

10.17.14.

This beautiful sunny day in the Ozarks 

allowed for good photos of the quilt.

Ready to ship.

linked to "finish up Friday" at
crazy mom quilts.