Puppy Baby Bricks Quilt

Baby Bricks is one of our patterns and one of my favorite.  It is a fantastic looking baby quilt and we have made and will make many more in the future.  I found this cute puppy fabric, while I was out looking for a completely different colored material. I had to buy it and had to make this quilt.

If you love this quilt you can buy it on our Etsy store and if your a quilter like me I will give the pattern free to any one that visits our pattern on Craftsy and leaves a nice comment and then comes back here leaving a comment so that I can send you the pattern.  Make sure if you want a pattern to leave your email (I get many no reply bloggers that ask for patterns) so that I can get it too you.

Sea Squares a Simple Squares Quilt

This quilt uses fabric from Salt Water by Tula Pink. We won the charm packs in a giveaway last august from Leona's Quilting Adventure.  Even the back off white has seashells to complete the ocean theme.  The pattern used in this quilt is our simple squares pattern (though the block sizes was bigger then the pattern its the same pattern).  It worked out well for using these charm squares on.

There were four leftover squares that got added to the back.   The binding came from leftovers we used in a quilt for Julia.  It was hard to tell it wasn't picked specifically for it.

As you can see, it was quilted in circles.  It reminds me of the ripple of water.

Tanya refers to this quilt as Sea Squares.

Craft Fair Successes and No Sales!

Saturday we finally did it.  What did we do? Oh ya, we attempted to sell some quilts by putting a both at a out door boutique that was held in Millcreek area, here in the Salt Lake Valley.  As for the success, this is our first attempt to set up a booth and I think we did a fantastic job.  We had tables, quilts, patterns, and some chairs to sit in.  What did we not have?  Any customers! There were under 30 people who were not vendors there.

Well  it was not all was bad, I had a good chair and a good book.  I would have been  happier if there was any one that showed up to the Craft Fair.  Its location was changed shortly before the scheduled date.  Those that put this on, it was their first time putting one on.  They tried hard, but the location mostly sucked and you can't help that.

Have any of you done a craft fair before and either succeeded well or failed as bad?

Link A Finish Friday #121

For any one that lives in the Salt Lake Valley in Utah this Saturday Tanya and I will have a booth at the Polkadots & Shiny Things Outdoor Boutique held Saturday June 7th from 10 am to 6 pm.  If your able to come please do we would love to see you there 965 East 3370 South  You can find more info at the link above.  Hope to see you their.

Here are some great linked up items from last week.

Hedgepigs and Hares - Peas in a Pod Creations

Boy Crazy - Ties That Bind Quilting

Charity Quilt - Jo's Country Junction

Peter Rabbit Doll Quilt - Threading My Way

Block #3 Super Mario Brothers Quilt Along - Cora's Quilts

Sharla's Sock Monkey - Shauna's World

Owl Quilt - Quilting Mod

Absolutely Positively - My Quilt Infatuation

Now it is time to share what you have been working on.

Monthly Giveaway of $15 Gift Card from our sponsor Fat Quarter Shop. Please thank them and visit them for your quilting needs here are some of the places you can find them.

Their store at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ their blog http://www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com/ and Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/FatQuarterShop

Link up Rules are simple.  Link up something you have finished, Worked on, blogged about, slaved over or other wise accomplished over the last week or so.

No item not allowed.  Link up some of yours, visit some of the others and enjoy your quilting day.

Crazy at Our House

The last couple of weeks have been crazy, both good and bad.  James (our 18 year old) has had his truck break down several times in the last few weeks,  so we have been taking him to work each day.  We got a new car for him today, yea,  something that isn't almost as old as he is.  The last few weeks of school are beyond crazy, bad and good. One kid done, another has 2 days left.

Last week was my (Tanya's) birthday and I know, we never got around to a giveaway.  We found out last week that my dad has Colon Cancer. We don't have a prognosis yet, still waiting on results.   "Happy Birthday and by the way I have Cancer" are not two things you want to hear in the same call. Today, Jared turns 10. We are taking Jared and some of his friends from school to a movie to celebrate on Thursday. Seven kids, we don't know very well who are on the Autistic Spectrum should be fun, right?   Wish us luck.

On Saturday, we are participating in our first Craft Fair/Boutique.  We have been trying to get everything ready for that, along with everything else that is happening around us.  We have at least 3 quilts, lots of pot holders, a few table runners and some pillows that are waiting for pictures. Richard hates posts without a picture, so I added what our banner looks like.

To add insult to injury, Richard's sewing machine was having major tension issues.  It is in the shop, we don't know if it just needed a major cleaning  and tuneup or if "Princess Trouble", ie Julia, adjusted it too much. He is currently back to using  the same model of machine he started sewing on (Rebecca's Singer).  It is funny to hear him complain about how small the Singer is compared to his larger Janome  He keeps wondering how he ever quilted anything bigger than a table runner on it in the past.

If  we survive Jared's birthday party and Craft fair, we will have a  giveaway next week.   Hopefully life will slow down a little and we can get pictures done soon and I can get some more sleep.