Fixing the problem

Can't stand making such obvious mistakes

Row #1 - wrong, wrong, wrong!

Row #2 - new blocks ready to be sewn 

                together and be appliquéd on 

                top of the old ones

Here's the 2016 Lucky 7 Quilt we'll be fixing the border on!

Big Ol' OOPS!

During the last couple of weeks we have been feverishly working to fix a mistake.  During the construction of our next Lucky 7 quilt,  Beth switched sewing machines and the slight difference in seam allowances caused the log cabin blocks in the center and borders to be a little too big.  We removed and disassembled the log cabin blocks.  Beth sewed steadily to get  the blocks back together before she left town to spend Thanksgiving with her family.  Enter Linda, who really wanted to get this quilt ready ASP.  Unfortunately, as she re-stitched those now perfect log cabin blocks into the borders with perfect seam allowances, she sewed a couple of blocks into the wrong position. OOPS! Right?  Well, double OOPS.  She didn't notice as she quilted and bound the quilt!!!!!

Now that's really humiliating!!!!  So what will Linda do now?

Just you watch!  Over the holidays 

She will make some more perfect log cabin blocks.  She will unsew  a section of binding and appliqué those blocks over the "mistake ".  She will replicate the quilting and restitch the binding.  She will blog with pictures as she literally hides her mistake .....she will show you how to save a smidge of dignity after public humiliation, and maybe how you can fix your own someday OOPS .

Lovely surprise at Quilt Market

As usual, quilt market was a stitcher's feast.  We gathered masses of handouts promoting everyone's new products, gobbled up fabric bundles at sample spree, rubbed shoulders with the famous designers who's work we see in all the magazines... and tried to guess what ya'll want to find in SBQ next year.

One of the best goodies for me was meeting Australian designer Jen Kingwell. I made a quilt with our Caesar's Crown template set and her Gardenvale fabric line this year and I named it "What Would Jen Kingwell Do?" Your Great Grandma might have made this pattern, but it didn't rock like this quilt!

Adee is not only good at herding cats (since she has the onerous job of navigating for her directionally challenged boss - I get lost everywhere!), she's also internet savvy.  She posted a picture of my quilt on Instagram, and in far away Australia, Jen saw it, put it on HER OWN Instagram & shared it with Moda. When we went by her booth at Market she commented on the quilt in detail... Jen Kingwell remembered my quilt!!!!

(With Jen Kingwell at Quilt Market. And yes, I was star struck!)

To top it off, we're now stocking our Caesar's Crown template set in the shop and it's available on our website.  Watch our YouTube video to see how easy the templates work! We used the quilt in Jen's fabrics for the cover shot for our packaging!

Caesar's Crown Template Set by Sunday Best Quiltworks

Bonus: Our favorite find at Market was some amazing African fabric!  We can't wait to get it in!

Hugs,
Linda

Christmas in June with Pat Wys

We had a wonderful Saturday Book Signing event with Pat and her husband Andy.

Although the photography in her book is excellent, it doesnn't do justice to the projects

she has created.  Seeing her work in person was amazing.

She is currently working on yet another book, but she says that when that is done, she will

be doing embroidery tutorials on her blog to show beginners how to do those lovely stitches.

We definitely recommend that you begin to follow her blog.  She has 10 month old twin

grandsons and a full teaching, traveling and writing schedule, so she says she doesn't blog

as often as she'd like, but you should definitely keep up with Pat!

She was gracious enough to sign 5 copies of her Xmas book to leave with us, so if you

could'nt make the event, you can still snag an autographed copy!

Embroidery is a wonderful project for traveling or doing as you watchTV.

Linda

The JOY of NEW BLADES!!!

After a busy Saturday in the shop, It's finallly quiet.  I'm taking this afternoon to play around

with un-traditional caesar's crown blocks.  

I've been cutting for the last 15 minutes, or should I say hacking around the templates.

We burn through a lot of blades.  We don''t really notice them dulling down.

Epiphany!!  Why don't I put in a fresh blade?  JOY !!!_ CARTWHEELS!!!_ECSTACY!!!

Go forth an do something wonderful for yourself......don't let dullness sneak up on you!

Put in a wonderfully sharp new blade and esperience the wonderment for yourself.

A fun new way to mess with your grand babies little minds!!!

I've found a GREAT new use for our frixon pens!  Today. I sent them a letter

In invisible ink...with this poem attached

In REAL ink:

I'm sending a message 

In Magical ink !

Right now you can't see it,

So let's give it a think!

If you were an Eskimo,

And your home was of ice...

Then you could read it,

Maybe once, maybe twice!

There's a picture to color,

But I know you can't tell,

Too bad...so sad...

It's really quite swell!

There's a clue in this letter,

This letter you hold,

You can't read it in summer,

You'll have to wait till it's cold!

Grandma loves you!

I tried writing on paper, ironing it to

Make it disappear and then putting

It in the freezer.  Works great.

The ink comes right back.

Linda

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