Fun Quilting...

What fun to make quilts for special occasions!!! I am currently working on a Wedding Guest Book Quilt for a June wedding in PARIS....yes, I said Paris. Isn't that exciting.

 The bride chose an "Old World" theme in colors of pale pink and grey. Look what lovely fabrics I found for her...

The most special thing was having an Etsy friend hand stamp some additional fabric squares with the Eiffel Tower, poste cards etc...take a look at her work.

Here is her shop fancydesigns for you to enjoy.

She has made several items for my personal use in the past as well.

All packaged up and in the mail.

She will return these to me after the wedding and I will make the quilt...more pictures then!!

Blessings all,

Kathy

keep looking for my give away coming...

Cabbage and Quilting...

Well, the time has finally come to begin cooking from the garden...potato salad with garden onions and those hard to keep "debugged" pointed head cabbage.

And another baby girl quilt from my  Needles and Pins shop on Etsy.

And take a look at my new fabric labels.

I am very pleased with how they came out.

I ordered them from Michelle at Inked Papers.
You will have to give her shop a look too!!

Have a restful Sunday and and wonderful week.

Blessings all,

Kathy 

ps....am planning a give away real soon!!

New Items for Etsy...Kathryn's Needles and Pins

I have had the most fun cutting and sewing new items for my Etsy shop, Kathryn's Needles and Pins.

New quilts and some baby burp cloths made using cloth diapers.

Take a look!

Blessings all
on this lovely Spring day,
Kathy

Packing Up and Photos

I decided to take down the last of my Christmas decorations today...all but the mantel with the manger , of course. And wanted to take some photos for last minute memories.

Snow man

made from a kit

I made two from this pattern...

one for a friend and this is mine.

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Added a cute little sunflower mug rug

to  my Etsy shop also.

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And working on a baby sailboat quilt too...

So much fun to make.

And a good old pot of chili for dinner too...it is COLD here in the south!!

for the south...

Blessings all,

Kathy

Quilting, quilting, quilting...

This is exactly what I have been doing...quilting!!

I have so much fun making items for my Etsy shop.

Take a peak...

and more...

By the way, I have been keeping up with you but have just not commented much.

I will get back to my chatty self soon!!

Blessings all,

Kathy

Lovely little buttons...

I have had such fun creating my Etsy store and deciding what to make and what to sell...I really enjoy sewing  my little church bags...I have used these for my personal use and decided others might like them too!! The one I use most often is my hand bells bag that holds my notebook and gloves.

Most recently I have been selling buttons, some that I have cherished through the years and some newer. It just does not seem right to keep them all for myself...here are the latest cuties....

They were made in the 80's and are plastic not glass BUT they look like glass...with lovely hand painted pink  roses with green leaves and a white dotted border. They have metal shanks and there are four of them.

I also have some other hand painted ones that I will post later...

WELL, surprise of all surprises !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Guild did NOT select the easier Scrappy Heart for our "Block of the Quarter" but the lovely
North Carolina Lily!!! Isn't that great and what a lovely quilt top one of our members will receive.
So, I am off to the Thistlebee Quilt Shoppe in Goldsboro to select background fabric. Those interested members will receive color instructions and background fabric and select reds and greens from their own stashes to complete.

Here is the background fabric that I purchased...


If you are interested in the updated and modified instructions that I am giving them, let me know and I will send them to you...OR just

Having fun on Etsy...

I am really enjoying selling on Etsy!!

I made a post a while back about getting started in May

and have already sold 6 items and am working on a special order for a 

new bride in San Francisco..

Here are some of my recent listings.

Daffy Duck & Chick Buttons

Ceramic Sewing/Quilting Theme Buttons

I will post later when I get the wedding gift bags completed...

Take a look and I also encourage you to begin selling too.

I have made friends just like on my Needles and Pins blog.

Blessings,

my friends!!

Kathy

Butterflies...something old...something new...

Out the steps... 

a package with my name.... ? ? ? 

Oh, I forgot. My package from Debbie J.

My new clothes pin bag !!

Gosh I love it !!!

We have been cleaning out my daddy's house and garden house

trying to get him ready to move.

In the garden house was my mama's clothes pin basket so of course, I took it home with me...

I remembered that Debbie sold these pretty clothes pin bags on her 

Etsy site

and I just had to have one.

She made me a pretty pink one with butterflies and mailed it right to me.

Mama loved pink and was quite a nature/garden lover

so the pink butterfly fabric is perfect.

Now here is the empty basket...what to do..

hmmmmmmm

maybe just keep it.

You know, some of my favorite times were spent in the back yard while mama hung clothes on the line and I stood there , in my bare feet, just talking while she listened and hung clothes and took them down...

Probably THE most important thing we give to children

is our time....

Blessings,

Kathy

Good info to share with my readers...

I have been finishing up some quilted projects with selling them in mind...

Even though I have a business, Needles and Pins, where I restore/repair antique quilts, I felt led to do a bit more with the business and decided to sell some of my quilted items.

one of my mini's with my little wind up toy that Pa gave me
many years ago...

I researched Etsy and found it to be easy and affordable. Several of my "crafty" friends have sold on Etsy and also encouraged me to sell.  So I took the plunge and began selling yesterday!!

Now, to list it on my blog...hummm...tried several ways and it did NOT work...

I thought, Google it, and see what comes up.

I found a wonderful tutorial and wanted to share it with you 

to also encourage you to sell some of your wonderful items.

Here is Timothy Adams Designs helpful tutorial

which includes a video. I actually watched it all the way through once and then minimized it while still playing and did what he said while just listening to him tell me just what to do.

EASY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, take a look at my Etsy Mini that I added and see what I have been working on.

I use my theme of adding something old (vintage) with something new.

I hope to add to it as I complete other items.

But for now, I am pleased.

Enjoy, my readers

Kathy

Lamentations 3:22-24

for HIS compassions never fail.

they are new every morning:

great is your faithfulness.

I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion;

therefore I will wait for Him."