Quilts For New Granddaughter

I am very late posting these pictures since I sent the quilts off in early May and my granddaughter was born June 4th...but here they are:

Love this ABCs material and the border fabric is so much fun that I had a hard time quilting it because I was searching for all the animals!!

Isn't that just the cutest fabric!!!  This is a crib sized quilt that I hope M'Kayla will get lots of use out of.

Then I had to make her a car-sized quilt...you know they just need a draggy quilt and this is the perfect size.  My dad, M'Kayla's great-grandfather, is holding the quilt for me.  And I used Minkee with raised dots for the backing - really showed off the quilting well!

I am looking forward to getting pictures of M'Kayla with her quilts when I go to Texas in July!!

Bloglovin'

With a great deal of thanks to Amy of http://www.aquiltingsheep.com/ I now have the Bloglovin' button on my blog.  If you would like to continue to follow me (and I hope you will) with my sporadic posts, please click the Bloglovin' button to the left.  Fingers crossed, I did it right and it works!!  If it doesn't work, will someone please let me know and I'll have another go at it!  Blessings!!!

Google going away

If I knew how to put buttons on here, I'd do the Bloglovin thing, but I don't remember where to go to change my page like that AND I have never been able to get a button to attach to my page.  Of course, I probably have to go to Bloglovin and do something there as well.  I am so frustrated with my inability to figure out how to make this computer do what I want it to!!  I wish it understood plain English and I could just talk to it and tell it what to do :)  If someone knows what I need to do, I would certainly appreciate any guidance...or I will have to sign up for a computer class at the community college about 50 miles from me!  Why do "they" always have to fuss with things on the computer that I don't think are broken?  I do believe they do it just to show me how easily and quickly they can frustrate me!!!  Guess I need to go quilt and chill out!  Or, since it is almost 2:30 A.M., maybe bed would be a better choice!!

How to Share What You Love From a Blog

Christy from http://www.southernplate.com/ wrote a fabulous post about how properly to share recipes we find online here http://www.southernplate.com/2013/04/how-to-support-your-favorite-food-bloggers.html  While her post deals with the problem of food bloggers, the same thing applies to quilting bloggers.  Our pictures get copied and posted to other blogs, pinterest or facebook where they are claimed by others as theirs.  Not cool.  Christy shows how to properly post/blog about something you find on someone else's blog or facebook.  Now, I don't blog for monetary reasons, but I would be very unhappy if my posts or pictures turned up somewhere else without my permission.

Check out Southern Plate - Christy has great recipes, a fabulous sense of humor and writes fun posts with yummy pictures!  And do read her post on supporting your favorite food-bloggers...and remember it really applies to all bloggers :)

Quilt on and may your thread never get tangled!!

I Need Your Opinion

I am trying to decide which border fabric to use on my controlled-scrappy quilt.  Which one would you choose?  The size of the border is approximately what is showing.
Border one:

Border two:

Border three:

Border four:

Class with Lisa Calle

If you ever have an opportunity to take a class from Lisa Calle, DO IT!!!  She is warm, friendly, encouraging and fun!!  And talented, oh my is she talented!!!  She has changed the way that I look at a quilt for quilting!  This is a picture from the class I took with her...the quilts in the background are ones she quilted - YUM!!!

A very happy class!!!!!

Lovely Giveaway!

44th Street Fabric at http://44thstreetfabric.blogspot.com/ is having a lovely giveaway...if you like polka dots!!  I love them and would love to win some :)  Check out the blog and leave her a comment if you'd like a chance at winning some beautiful fabric!!