April – Page 5 – Gracious Rain

August 25, 2016October 24, 2021

Sweet Marion~ by April Rosenthal~

A guest post from my Smarty-pants daughter~

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“Please welcome Sweet Marion, my newest collection for Moda fabrics! Tag your favorite quilt shops in the comments below and ask them to order it now!!

Here’s the story behind this collection, with more photos and stories every day on my page. I hope you’ll follow along!

In my Grandma’s backyard, she had a beautiful oasis. Lush flower beds, climbing roses, and blessed shade in the hot desert temperatures. Some of my fondest memories are of spending summer mornings in her garden, pulling the few weeds. I would barely get anything done before she would be at the back door calling to me: “It’s too hot out to weed! Come in and have a chocolate pudding!” Sweet Marion, named for my lovely, soft-spoken Grandma is a reflection of her gentle way and beautiful heart. She loved pinks, and blues, and me. I hope this collection brings you many hours of happy creating!

xoxo, April

Ships February 2017″

Learn more about Prairie Grass patterns and April’s awesome fabrics just click HERE.

November 11, 2015November 5, 2021

Pretty Baby~

Before quilt market, April and I hit on a fantastic idea.

Since she would have a booth at the Moda area, why not use that cute baby as a living mannequin–so to speak. We could dress her up in pretty little ruffly things made with the prettiest fabric on the planet. SUCH a good idea!

I scoured the internet and found just the right patterns–four to be exact–for the entire event. That baby would have a new outfit from her mama’s fabric for all three days at the conference and one special dress to wear to the fancy-schmancy black and white formal dinner.

The teensy tiny catch was that I only had 6 days to make the 4 outfits.

The race was on!

1~ The first thing was the easiest. I made the little pants to go with a sweet little red shirt. Sadly, because I made the top last, I don’t have a picture of it.

2~ Next, was this little summer dress. It was autumn weather her in Utah, but it was warmer in Texas, so this outfit would still work.

I was nervous that this one would be too wide for this tiny baby girl so I sewed a tie on the front…

that cinched it up just enough, with a little bow in the back.

Completed.

3~ This sweet flowery top…

with the double tiered, ruffly bloomers. So dang cute!!

4~ And last of all, the “formal” dress for the Black and White dinner.

I finished the last stitch on the last top–the red one–about an hour before taking April and Jacob and the baby to the airport. Yeah, that’s pushing it, I know.

But it worked…

in the nick of time!

Phew!

January 21, 2015March 9, 2015

Bedroom Style, Perfectly Pieced

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It’s here!! It’s here! My Smarty-pants daughter’s book is finally here! Bedroom Style, Perfectly Pieced.

And it’s a masterpiece, I’ll tell you. It takes 10 different quilt patterns and shows you how to change the entire look and style of a room, by simply changing the fabric that your working with. I’m not even a hardcore “quilter” but I loved learning how to create different moods and feelings with certain color collections. It’s something that I’ve struggled with forever–that color thing.

After reading through this lovely thing, I think I finally, FINALLY get it.

And there is the slightest possibility that I will be able to choose my own yarn for the next crochet project without having to check in with my girl…you know, to make sure I wasn’t doing it…wrong, or ugly or unforgivably out of date. It’s an empowering feeling, I’ll tell you.

april's book!

So here’s what I think. I think you should click right here to get your own copy. Then take a picture of yourself holding the book in your own bedroom and go to April’s website and enter to win a $1000 Crate & Barrel Bedroom MAKEOVER!! Yeah, uh-huh.

The odds are good that you could win–so DO IT!!

You’ll become a color blending genius and we’ll love you forever.

Can’t beat that.

April 30, 2014

One Proud Mama

100 Happy Days #41

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This will be short because you need to run right from this place and scoot on over to The {studio} Blog by my sweet, smarty-pants daughter April. She has some big, monumental, incredible, dream-come-true kind of news.

And I couldn’t possibly be more proud.

October 30, 2013October 20, 2022

Quilty Girl

I’ve been away from this space for a bit with my smarty pants daughter April–at the International Quilt Market in Houston, Texas. We had an amazing time but sadly, neither of us brought a camera–assuming, of course, that the other one surely had. Oooooh, bad form, I know. SO, I’ll have to see what I can come up with from Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and whatever else I find, to share some of our adventure.

It. Was. AWESOME.

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