food, crochet, merriment
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.
Let’s pretend for a moment that I am an avid quilter and I just saw these two lovely magazines on the stand at the store.
“My, my,” I would say, “just look at that beautiful quilt on the cover there.
Someone very clever must have made that.
Someone very clever indeed, to have her own design and quilt work featured in a national magazine…
oh, wait…
I mean, in two national magazines…at the same time. “
Now let’s pretend that I’m actually a lot of things but one of them is not an avid quilter.
In fact, let’s pretend that I’m just a lady with a huge love and appreciation not only for the beautiful quilting craft…
but for an incredibly talented daughter as well.
Congratulations honey. We’re so proud of you.
love,
Mom
See more of April’s designs at Prairie Grass Patterns
I must confess–I’m quite new to the idea of machine quilting. I mean, honestly, in my day quilting something meant tying yarn knots all over the darn thing till it held together. But nowadays–that’s just not good enough for these beautiful quilts. My daughter, April has made the leap and started machine quilting with her very own machine!
And get this–every…single…stitch is hand guided–no computerized patterns going on here! Each one she finishes is simply breathtaking. So much time. So much work. So much gorgeousness. Is that a word?
I’m so pleased to show you some of her incredible work and I hope you’ll pop on over to her site to see more of it. You’ll likely faint from the beauty of it all.
Oh, and if you have a masterpiece–from table runner to California King–that you’d like professionally machine quilted…trust me…
she’s your girl–at Prairie Grass Patterns.
Just remember, I knew her first.
:}
My daughter, April is being featured over at the Moda Bake Shope this week. Ooooh…she’s such a clever girl.
If you would love to see some beautiful quilting, scoot on over and have a look. Then check out what’s new at her site Prairie Grass Patterns.
You’ll walk away with some lovely patterns…
from her “Positively Perfect” line….
positively free.
Then you’ll be pretty darn clever too!
My-my that smarty-pants must have been raised right.
Heh, heh :}
I say mini because…
with all the gardening and crafting and cooking and cleaning and earth life-ing that’s been going on around here–no matter how badly we wanted to do the full blown, road trip, Quilt Shop Hop…there just weren’t enough hours in the day.
We did, however make it to one particularly lovely place called “Pine Needles” in Gardner Village…
filled with all kinds of beautiful things…
and not just quilts either.
Being new to the quilting world, I admit that I get distracted very easily by yarn, felt work and stitchery…
because it feels like something I already know how to do without help.
My mom used to call that the path-of-least-resistance. I never really got it.
Then just as we were leaving, we spotted this incredible store with every kind of candy–new and retro known to humankind. We had no choice but to go inside and check it out.
It positively did live up to our expectations and I waltzed out of there with a bag of every flavor malt balls…
and a nut roll made by the gods. Y. U. M.
Some days it’s just easier to give in than to fight it.
“Choosing the path of least resistance makes both men and rivers…crooked.”
Wow. I think I get it now.
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