MSQC Windows - The Glory of Spring!

You've got to check out some more of the Missouri Star Quilt Co.'s window displays! I didn't show you the Christmas or Valentines displays, sorry! The spring ones are just as much fun!! The seasonal shop got a quilled paper furniture display!

Holy cow! That took sometime! It's so cute too! The chair table and lamp are all covered in tiny paper roses with a vase of them sitting on top. The lamp is an ombre design going from yellow to orange. The garlands hanging across the back are all colors and all sizes of flowers!

These are the windows at the solids shop. I like to do pretty color play stuff with these ones and I love the persimmon and green color pallette! I used everything from mint to a soft lime for a bright color pop! The lights behind it are from the Christmas windows but they still look good, I like having something bright to light up the windows.

These are pics of the Superhero display I made for the brand new Novelty shop! It's the sixth shop opened right there on main street. Quilted hills rolling across the window seat, with storm clouds (there's a second one up a bit higher to add to the dramatic skyscape) that light up with all the electricity going on inside them, as evidenced by the gigantic lightning bolt coming out of the lower one!

Eight tiny crocheted superheros zip through the sky saving anyone in need! They're very good at directing you to the door for your fabric needs. I believe they may live in one of the tiny quilted houses that sit tidily on the crests of several of the rolling hills. Honestly, this was so much fun!!

I don't have any pics of the main shop or Mercantile this time, also fun with fabric wrapped trees and tiny birds in one window, and the other with a dress made of woven fabric and an old quilt, and vintage lace floating around in embroidery hoops. Aaah, they make me happy. If you'd like I can tutorial the quilted houses. They make for very cute postcards when done on a small scale!

Happy Spring to Finish!

Well unfortunately my Spring to finish projects didn't finish to much this time around...

I got my Headbands done...

and some really cute Easter eggs...

from this tutorial done. (I know the banister leaves much to be desired but the eggs were stinkin' cute! I had to put them up!)

I finished my Why Choose Quilt (Though I'm still working on writing up it's pattern, oh well)

And that's it. Pretty sad if you ask me. I did work on a several other stalled projects all while helping my husband with his new business plans. By way of sewing, I finished my first set of blocks for the quilt along I'm leading...
but they're still just blocks. I'm finishing as we speak my coin quilted you are what you eat quilt... but even then it needs to be quilted and bound. I finished my Jan, Feb, & Mar BOM KC Star quilt blocks ( I don't have April or May's yet :) ), but again... still just blocks on the table! As well as working up some cute little footballs rattles I'm going to be selling on etsy. So, all of these last things are just finishing another step, they are still projects whether they are in the block stage, top stage, or else where. Oh well, :) I'm glad I got these things moving again! It was fun to play and I got myself 3 entries in Jaquie's contest!

Happy Spring to Finish! How'd you do? Did you Spring miles or feet to your finish?

Quilt Festival Spring 2009

Why Choose...



This is just a little thing but I love it!


It's a pattern I've created, I call it "Why Choose" because it's made from a pattern of diamonds and flowers and what girl really wants to decide between them when you can have both! It involves many things that I love in a very simple pattern.

It was quite an adventure figuring out the initial cutting but it went together so quickly and the flower is adorable!

It doesn't have a long story it just started as a sketch and an idea :) it came from my heart. I love pretty things and this one was a fun start for me! I have four little girls and if any of them were babies I'd probably have it in their crib! As it is it will probably end up a wall hanging for whoever can keep there room the cleanest! Hurray for incentive!



Amy from "A park City Girl" is hosting the Quilt Festival! So head on over to her site through the link above or the button on my sidebar and see lot's more quilts and quilt shops!