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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.

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Owlbert

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Made this little sweetie for my baby grandson’s 1st birthday.

I had other plans, but they fell through, so this little pattern came to the rescue.

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It actually whipped up surprisingly fast– about 3-1/2 hours from topknots…

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to tail feathers.

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My kind of project indeed.

Oh, and I printed off this pattern a while back and can’t find the origin–to give proper credit. I’ll keep looking. Sorry.

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New Chicky Digs

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Oh, myyyyy the girlies were curious.

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All that sawing and banging and fussing around…

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just to get a bigger, better place for them to live and breathe before they start laying eggs in the bushes. 
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I’m pretty dang sure they love the sweet nesting boxes, the cute little chicken-sized door…
coop 2and the lovely, palatial night roost–with room for 12 sleeping birdies.

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Thanks Rhen and Trent, for all your hard work. I appreciate it and so do the ladies.

Best of all–

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it was finished just in the nick of time!

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And A Few Balloons~

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Pretty awesome, early morning of fruit pizza, babies, cinnamon rolls, rain drizzling,  half hearted balloons inflating, and nearly all the people I love in this lovely world.

I sincerely treasure these days.

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