1 Million Pillowcase Challenge UPDATE

Just a quick update for the American Patchwork and Quilting 1 Million Pillowcase Challenge.

American Patchwork and Quilitng challenged everyone to see if we could sew and donate 1 million pillowcases to someone in need in 2010. The challenge started in January and will last until they have reach 1 million. Currently the count is at 135,124. We have a ways to go  people. I think that it is so cool that if everyone does just a little we can make such a BIG difference.

I would like to schedule a day that we could work on pillowcases. Any suggestions?

July's Block of the Month is finally here!

Don't they say better late than never?
I really enjoyed making this month's block of the month. You will definetly have to try out the flying geese technique.

You can download the instruction to make this block titled "Summer Winds" on my website. There is are other free patterns as well!

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Thank You

I just had a customer in that was buying a birthday gift for her daughter. She is serving in Iraq. Terry is a mother, wife, daughter, and friend to everyone. Thank You for giving up your time to help our country. Happy Birthday and many more!!!!

UGH!!! Everything is breaking....

Could I just get something fixed and going right? Last week my Bernina sewing machine broke. A friend dropped it off at the repair shop for me. Thanks! When I called this week they said they were waiting on a part and it probally would not get fixed soon because the repair man is going on vacation. What!
I needed my grass mowed. The guy who usually mows for me went out of town. I waited two weeks until he got back into town and then his mower's tire was broken and he was trying to get another. I decided to be brave and load my lawn mower on a trailer and bring it to town. Well needless to say the trailer came off the ball when loading the lawn mower, which caused my husband to have to fix all of that fiasco. I was finally getting to town with the mower. One kids asleep the other waiting to help me mow. I couldn't get the darn thing off the trailer. I finally walked over and asked a few guy friends to help. They did gladly. My son jumped on the mower and took off. The problem was the belt had been stretched out to much and it was not turning the blades. I then that to wake the sleepy child and go to the hardware store to get another belt. Of course, you guessed it, they were out. But could get one in two days. At that point I said fine. I am not fitting this anymore. I will just have tall ugly grass and not recieve the yard of the month award. I came back to the store and finished packing the fabric to ship and the baby comes and tells me he needs to use the restroom. I strip his bottoms off and he runs off to the restroom. For the next 45 minutes we are trying to get him to unlock the door that he lock. He was stuck in the restroom and really didn't mind it all that much. I finally had to BREAK the screen on the window to send the other son into unlock the door.
It is now the end of the week and the belt still is not here. I know that silly little Keep Yorktown Beautiful committee is driving around looking at yards to pick the next yard to be deemed Yard of the Month. My luck!
I think that is why I slept until 9:15 this morning and didn't open the store until close to 10:00. I sure hope my luck turn around soon.

Found a Home...

That was fast. The orphans that were left on my doorstep on Tuesday have already found a home....

See what you can do with scraps and free stuff that others don't want anymore. I was a garage sale and had someone ask me with question in their voice,"Do you recreate stuff?" I looked at them and said, "Why yes I do!" I hope that she sees these pictures. Have you done anything lately?

Orphan find a home...

As a girl, I always wondered about certain things. Like if people really did leave babies on someones doorstep in a basket? Who would do that to their own child. As I grew up I understood some of the circumstances that would lead someone to leave their baby. It really hurts my heart. So this morning when I pull into my store it happened to me. Someone had left me an orphan on my doorstep in a paper box. I will take it and love it...

Okay it wasn't a child but some fabric that no one knew what to do with. Trust me I will find something to do with it.

Hungarian Blue

Tomorrow I will be seeing the UPS guy bringing me two boxes of fabric!!!! Tracking numbers are cool but it takes a little of the excitement out of receiving a new shipment of fabric. Hungarian Blue by Sue Zipkin from Clothworks! This is a sneak peak of what will be...

There is also a free downloadable pattern available. Good thing about Clothworks is they always have a free pattern/project with every fabric collection that they sell.

You can get the pattern from my website. Click for the direct link...