Saturday, December 27, 2014

Happy Birthday to Me Giveaway!!

This was Diane's Birthday Cake from Twiggs Bakery

I am now "officially" old!!  Ha! Ha! I got my Medicare card and today I turn 65 years old!!  But wait, in my head I still feel about 23!!  My cute, chubby body says "No way, darling!!

So, I thought this was a perfect day to give away some birthday presents and I love lots of presents!!


Its time for a new little mini table runner for the dining room table so I thought 
these 2 Mini Charm Packs would be perfect!!


And you have to have great, super sharp pins, so these Clover Fine pins should do the trick!!


I have always wanted to learn to hand quilt and when Janet O. over at The Rogue Quilter and I find some time, she is going to teach me hand quilting!!


Now, this pattern is perfect for my Kaffe Fassett fabrics.


And of course, using the BEST thread on the planet is a must and I love green, so this large spool of pale neutral green Aurifil thread should do the trick!!

So, if you would like to share in my birthday celebration, let me know which present you would like and why you think turning 65 must be the most wonderful day in the world. 

NOW, if you DON'T tell me why you think turning 65 is the the most wonderful day in the world, you will be disqualified from the Giveaway.  Hey, what do I think this is - my birthday??

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!!

I will choose winners Tuesday night ~ that will give you some time to think about which gift you would like to receive!! 


Thursday, December 25, 2014

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Monday, December 15, 2014

Monday Moving Sale!!

See you next week!!
Thank you to everyone who made a purchase!!

Send me an email at akyoung49@yahoo.com with the reference Moving Sale and tell me which items you would like to purchase - please include your full name and email address.  For Utah residents I do need to charge Utah sales tax of 6.7%.  If you are local, we can arrange a pick-up time.
I will send you a Paypal invoice - you do not need to have a Paypal account to pay the invoice, a credit card is fine.  Once the invoice is paid I will mark the item as sold.  Until the invoice is paid, the item will be available for others to buy.  If you buy several items, I will adjust the shipping cost accordingly on your invoice!!

When everything in a specific catagory is sold, I will write SOLD so you will know that item is no longer available that week.  Monday night I will close Moving Sale Monday until the next week.

International sales are welcome and with the savings you get, it will make the international postage have less of a sting!!

On multiple items, I will combine the shipping.

If you have any questions you can email me at akyoung49@yahoo.com


THANK YOU!!

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Saturday's Smile!!


This is hilarious, but if you are easily offended, please don't watch - some might say it is almost "R" rated!!  :-))  But it IS really funny!!

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Buggy Barn Bloomers . . .

is all done!!


Buggy Barn's version

Now Sue will have time to quilt and bind it in order to give it to her brother for Christmas!!
Oh, man, I am sooo happy to have this done, but Sharon over at Vrooman's Quilts was right, I am happy with how it turned out!!  BUT - never again!!  Not in this lifetime!  LOL!!

Monday, December 8, 2014

MONDAY MOVING SALE!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH AND 
WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!!

Send me an email at akyoung49@yahoo.com with the reference Moving Sale and tell me which items you would like to purchase - please include your full name and email address.  For Utah residents I do need to charge Utah sales tax of 6.7%.  If you are local, we can arrange a pick-up time.
I will send you a Paypal invoice - you do not need to have a Paypal account to pay the invoice, a credit card is fine.  Once the invoice is paid I will mark the item as sold.  Until the invoice is paid, the item will be available for others to buy.  If you buy several items, I will adjust the shipping cost accordingly on your invoice!!

When everything in a specific catagory is sold, I will write SOLD so you will know that item is no longer available that week.  Monday night I will close Moving Sale Monday until the next week.

International sales are welcome and with the savings you get, it will make the international postage have less of a sting!!

On multiple items, I will combine the shipping.

If you have any questions you can email me at akyoung49@yahoo.com


THANK YOU!!

Saturday, December 6, 2014

Saturday's Smile!!

That's What Friends are For!!

Friday, December 5, 2014

I Have Been Working On These Blocks For Weeks!!

I have always loved the Buggy Barn Quilts and I have purchased several of their books hoping someday to make one.




When Sue, my long arm quilter friend, offered to trade the piecing of her Buggy Barn quilt top for several quilts on her longarm, I was thrilled!!

So she brought it over and . . . 

I have been working on these STOOPID blocks for weeks and weeks ~



Now don't get me wrong, I still LOVE Buggy Barn quilts but I don't like making them.  I think the reason why is because I am a paper-piecing kinda girl - I love the precision, the exactness and clean look of each block.  Not so with these blocks.  It seems that even though I make each block exactly the same as every other block, they all turn out differently and so wonky!!

Now, if I want wonky, which I love, I want planned wonky!!  Ya know, paper-pieced wonky.  Plus, I have to square up EVERY SINGLE one of these blocks on purpose!!  Yiks!!  When I make blocks, even traditionally pieced blocks, I make them precisely so I DON'T have to square them up, they are already square.

There are 80 of these blocks and then they get pieced together to make 20 completed blocks and each of these blocks need to be squared up - ON PURPOSE ~


Then I will add sashing with corner medallions and borders~


and this is how it will look.  I am down to the last 10 hours so I am getting excited but they are still STOOPID blocks!!  LOL!!

And then Sue told me yesterday that this is probably the most difficult Buggy Barn quilt.  Well, that is why she wanted me to piece this one for her!!  Telling me that that made me feel much better though - if I can conquer this one, I can conquer ANY Buggy Barn quilt.  Maybe I will try another one - some day!!  :-))

Monday, December 1, 2014

Monday Moving Sale!!


SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!!

Send me an email at akyoung49@yahoo.com with the reference Moving Sale and tell me which items you would like to purchase - please include your full name and email address.  For Utah residents I do need to charge Utah sales tax of 6.7%.  If you are local, we can arrange a pick-up time.
I will send you a Paypal invoice - you do not need to have a Paypal account to pay the invoice, a credit card is fine.  Once the invoice is paid I will mark the item as sold.  Until the invoice is paid, the item will be available for others to buy.  If you buy several items, I will adjust the shipping cost accordingly on your invoice!!

When everything in a specific catagory is sold, I will write SOLD so you will know that item is no longer available that week.  Monday night I will close Moving Sale Monday until the next week.

International sales are welcome and with the savings you get, it will make the international postage have less of a sting!!

On multiple items, I will combine the shipping.

If you have any questions you can email me at akyoung49@yahoo.com


THANK YOU!!

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Saturday's Smile!!

The original Ronald McDonald -- played by Willard Scott!

Thursday, November 27, 2014

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!


I am so grateful for all that I have and all that I have been given!!

Monday, November 24, 2014

Moving Sale Monday!!


See you next week!!

Thank you to those who made a purchase!!

Send me an email at akyoung49@yahoo.com with the reference Moving Sale and tell me which items you would like to purchase - please include your full name and email address.  For Utah residents I do need to charge Utah sales tax of 6.7%.  If you are local, we can arrange a pick-up time.
I will send you a Paypal invoice - you do not need to have a Paypal account to pay the invoice, a credit card is fine.  Once the invoice is paid I will mark the item as sold.  Until the invoice is paid, the item will be available for others to buy.  If you buy several items, I will adjust the shipping cost accordingly on your invoice!!

When everything in a specific catagory is sold, I will write SOLD so you will know that item is no longer available that week.  Monday night I will close Moving Sale Monday until the next week.

International sales are welcome and with the savings you get, it will make the international postage have less of a sting!!

On multiple items, I will combine the shipping.

If you have any questions you can email me at akyoung49@yahoo.com


THANK YOU!!

Sunday, November 23, 2014

And the Winner . . .

 of the Crab-apple Hill Winter Sampler pattern is:


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Melody down under at The House on the Side of the Hill!!

Yay, Melody!!  Congratulations!!  

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Home from Guild and a GIVEAWAY!!

This is the most amazing guild that I'm in on Thursday night - Sew Small Quilt Guild.

The block challenge for November was learning to do a 9-patch and having fun with it.  I got mine quilted minutes before leaving for Guild ~




And now I have some binding to do for Slow Stichin' Sunday!!

Yesterday I showed the darling Row Robin where I got to do the 2nd row and here is the second row for my Row Robin quilt ~


I forgot to bring my camera, so Tammy took a picture on her phone for me and sent it to my email.  I am not sure how to crop it . . .  So here it is!  Carol, the gal running the Row Robin, did this row for me.  Isn't it fabulous??

NOW FOR THE GIVEAWAY!!

There is one darling gal, Lyn, in our Guild that does amazing work and THEN she embroiders and embellishes her quilts in the most delightful ways!!   She LOVES Crab-apple Hill patterns, so when I found this pattern I bought it for her just because . . .

Well, boo-hoo!!  She already had the pattern and has already made it up.  So, I told her I would take her new pattern and give it away here.  If you love Crab-apple Hill and Winter and embroidery, this is   for you.


Just leave a comment and let me know you would like to own this fun pattern and I will have Mr. Random pick a number Sunday night, so I can get it in the mail to you on Monday!!

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Tomorrow Night is Guild!

Last month at Guild, I picked a name out of a basket for the person I was to create the second row on her Row Robin.  I picked Annette's name and here is her first row:


It measures 18" inches across.  Look how tiny those little flowers are and she pieced them - no paper-piecing!!  Yiks!!

Here is the row I made to add to it ~


In this Row Robin we are to use the fabrics the original owner provides but I did take a little poetic license and added the beehive fabric in the centers and the little bee fabric in the far right yellow block.  Hope she won't mind!!

And here is how they look together if she keeps them in this sequence ~


I love all the bright colors.  Tomorrow night I will be able to show you the second row on my Kaffe Row Robin.

Until then!!  Bee Happy!!

Monday, November 17, 2014

Moving Sale Monday!!

SEE YOU NEXT MONDAY!!

Thank you to everyone who made a purchase!!

Send me an email at akyoung49@yahoo.com with the reference Moving Sale and tell me which items you would like to purchase - please include your full name and email address.  For Utah residents I do need to charge Utah sales tax of 6.7%.  If you are local, we can arrange a pick-up time.
I will send you a Paypal invoice - you do not need to have a Paypal account to pay the invoice, a credit card is fine.  Once the invoice is paid I will mark the item as sold.  Until the invoice is paid, the item will be available for others to buy.  If you buy several items, I will adjust the shipping cost accordingly on your invoice!!

When everything in a specific catagory is sold, I will write SOLD so you will know that item is no longer available that week.  Monday night I will close Moving Sale Monday until the next week.

International sales are welcome and with the savings you get, it will make the international postage have less of a sting!!

On multiple items, I will combine the shipping.

If you have any questions you can email me at akyoung49@yahoo.com


THANK YOU!!

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Slow Stitchin' Sunday

I know, I know another strip quilt!!  But for gifts and charity quilts they are beautiful, easy and relatively quick.  This one is for a gal at work whose elderly Mom (well, sort of elderly, she is only 76) had radiation years ago on her leg and a few weeks ago, she was just walking and her femur broke.  She is having a hard time with being shut in and unable to get around for a minimum of six weeks.  So, I thought with winter coming on, a lap qult would raise her spirits.


I finished the binding this evening while watching a tender Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, The Magic of Ordinary Days.  I made it from a Ladies' Album Jelly Roll.  Nikki's Mom loves pink and flowers!!

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Edna's Quilt is Done!!

I got Edna's quilt done but the Thompson's daughter and son-in-law were not able to get up here from Salt Lake City because of the weather, so hopefully we can present their quilts to them next week!!  Good thing it's a secret!!



Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Happy Veteran's Day!!



THANK YOU TO ALL THAT HAVE SERVED AND 
ARE NOW SERVING AND 
TO ALL THEIR FAMILIES!!

Monday, November 10, 2014

Monday Moving Sale!!

SEE YOU NEXT MONDAY!!

Thank you to everyone who made a purchase!!

Send me an email at akyoung49@yahoo.com with the reference Moving Sale and tell me which items you would like to purchase - please include your full name and email address.  For Utah residents I do need to charge Utah sales tax of 6.7%.  If you are local, we can arrange a pick-up time.
I will send you a Paypal invoice - you do not need to have a Paypal account to pay the invoice, a credit card is fine.  Once the invoice is paid I will mark the item as sold.  Until the invoice is paid, the item will be available for others to buy.

When everything in a specific catagory is sold, I will write SOLD so you will know that item is no longer available that week.  Monday night I will close Moving Sale Monday until the next week.

International sales are welcome and with the savings you get, it will make the international postage have less of a sting!!

On multiple items, I will combine the shipping on your invoice!!

If you have any questions you can email me at akyoung49@yahoo.com


THANK YOU!!

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

A Really Fun Finish!!

My friend, Paula, and I go visit this darling couple in our neighborhood every month.  I think they are both in their early nineties.  Rex and Edna.  Well, Rex was in WWII and was at the Battle of Hirojima.  He is one of only 4 Utah survivors left.

I got the idea that I would like to do a big Quilts of Valor celebration and make him a quilt.  But his daughter said that Edna was not doing well enough at the time and so we decided to just do a small presentation to him in their home next week (Veteran's Day week, but not on Veteran's Day because he has several speaking engagments at the local schools that day).


This is the quilt I pieced and sewed on the binding and Paula did the free motion quilting on her Mom's long arm.

We have also made one for Edna that I will take a picture of as soon as I get the binding on.  We figured Rex could not have done so much with his life if it had not been for his darling Edna supporting him all these many years.  Their daughter and her hubby are coming up from Salt Lake for the presentation.  I'll take pictures!!

Monday, November 3, 2014

MOVING SALE MONDAY!!

SEE YOU NEXT MONDAY!!

Thank you to everyone who made a purchase!!

Send me an email at akyoung49@yahoo.com with the reference Moving Sale and tell me which items you would like to purchase - please include your full name and email address.  For Utah residents I do need to charge Utah sales tax of 6.7%.  If you are local, we can arrange a pick-up time.
I will send you a Paypal invoice - you do not need to have a Paypal account to pay the invoice, a credit card is fine.  Once the invoice is paid I will mark the item as sold.  Until the invoice is paid, the item will be available for others to buy.

When everything in a specific catagory is sold, I will write SOLD so you will know that item is no longer available that week.  Monday night I will close Moving Sale Monday until the next week.

International sales are welcome and with the savings you get, it will make the international postage have less of a sting!!

On multiple items, I will combine the shipping.

If you have any questions you can email me at akyoung49@yahoo.com


THANK YOU!!

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Friday, October 31, 2014

Happy Halloween!!



My first trick-or-treaters!!

Monday, October 27, 2014

MOVING SALE MONDAY!!

SEE YOU NEXT MONDAY!!
Thank you to those who made purchases!!

Send me an email at akyoung49@yahoo.com with the reference Moving Sale and tell me which items you would like to purchase - please include your full name and email address.  For Utah residents I do need to charge Utah sales tax of 6.7%.  If you are local, we can arrange a pick-up time.
I will send you a Paypal invoice - you do not need to have a Paypal account to pay the invoice, a credit card is fine.  Once the invoice is paid I will mark the item as sold.  Until the invoice is paid, the item will be available for others to buy.

When everything in a specific catagory is sold, I will write SOLD so you will know that item is no longer available that week.  Monday night I will close Moving Sale Monday until the next week.

International sales are welcome and with the savings you get, it will make the international postage have less of a sting!!

If you have any questions you can email me at akyoung49@yahoo.com


THANK YOU!!

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Friday, October 24, 2014

Monthly Guild Challenge . . .

Tammy over at Two Tangled Threads is in my Sew Small Quilt Guild and she is the one heading up the monthly challenge to learn basic block techniques in tiny quilts.  She does a "small" version and a "smaller" version.

I didn't get last month's done because I waited until the last minute.  Not this month!!  The challenge was a 9-patch.  I decided to do a vanishing 9-patch and I got the flimsie done this evening ~


This is the "small" version and the top measures 17" x 17."  I used the new LOL collection by Me and My Sister Designs.  If I have time, I would like to give the "smaller" version a try - but just a 9-patch since the little medallions in this one are only the size of a nickel!!


Thursday, October 23, 2014

There is Beauty All Around . . .






Have a wonderful autumn day!!

Monday, October 20, 2014

MOVING SALE MONDAY!!

SEE YOU NEXT MONDAY!!

And thank you to those who purchased something!!

Send me an email at akyoung49@yahoo.com with the reference Moving Sale and tell me which items you would like to purchase - please include your full name and email address.  For Utah residents I do need to charge Utah sales tax of 6.7%.

I will send you a Paypal invoice - you do not need to have a Paypal account to pay the invoice, a credit card is fine.  Once the invoice is paid I will mark the item as sold.  Until the invoice is paid, the item will be available for others to buy.

When everything in a specific catagory is sold, I will write SOLD so you will know that item is no longer available that week.  Monday night I will close Moving Sale Monday until the next week.

International sales are welcome and with the savings you get, it will make the international postage have less of a sting!!

If you have any questions you can email me at akyoung49@yahoo.com


THANK YOU!!


Sunday, October 19, 2014

Too Much Fabric - It's Gotta Go!!

I have recently found out that I will be moving from my cute little home in the next couple of years.  Usually that is not a problem as I have moved so many times I can't count on all my fingers and toes.

But now that I have 800 bolts of fabric, 250 Jelly Rolls and over 400 Charm Packs down in my studio, not to mention all the bins of fabric, thread and patterns . . . YIKS!!

So, I am going to have a weekly moving sale here at Lavender Quilts!!

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I am going to call it Moving Sale Monday!!  Each Monday I will post items for sale at really good prices.  Example - Moda Jelly Roll of the week will be $25.00 instead of the retail price of $39.00.  Even with the shipping ($5.99) the Jelly Roll will be still be more than $8.00 off the retail price.   Each item will have it's own shipping cost and I will combine shipping costs with multiple purchases.   I will only be charging you the actual shipping cost - nothing more, nothing less!!

I am thinking this will accomplish three things:

1.  I won't have as much to move when I have to leave this home;

2.  You will get REALLY good deals on Quilt Shop Quality fabrics;

3.  You will be able to build your stash - if that is in your game plan!!

Here is how it will work:

1.   I will consistently post on Mondays at 7:00 a.m. mountain time (standard or daylight savings time whichever is in effect at the time)

2.   I will post pictures of items for sale with the number available.

3.   You will send me an email at akyoung49@yahoo.com with the reference Moving Sale and tell me which items you would like to purchase.  For Utah residents I do need to charge Utah sales tax of 6.7%.

4.   I will check my email throughout the day and send you a Paypal invoice - you do not need to have a Paypal account to pay the invoice, a credit card is fine.

5.   When everything in a specific catagory is sold, I will write SOLD so you will know that item is no longer available that week.  Monday night I will close Moving Sale Monday until the next week.

6.  International sales are welcome and with the savings you get, it will make the international postage have less of a sting!!

7.   If you have any questions you can email me at akyoung49@yahoo.com

I hope this will be a fun adventure for all of us!! 
Please tell your friends!!

Saturday, October 18, 2014

Thursday, October 16, 2014

I Have Always Wanted . . .

to participate in a Round Robin but have never been in the right place at the right time.  So, when our Sew Small Guild started a Row Robin, I was in!!

With this Robin we supply our own fabric and I picked ~


who else??  Kaffe Fassett.  Now, as you can see this is VERY colorful and very in your face - Kaffe would be proud.  And very small - each of the 6 blocks in the row finish out at 3 inches!!

I think we get to choose the Row Robins we want to be part of if enough sign up, so I am hoping that here in "Dark and Dirty" land, someone in the Guild will enjoy branching out into the world of color!!

I'll take pictures each month so you can follow along!!  Should be a hoot!!  ;-0