Fall Market

After getting to the hotel at 3:00 yesterday morning and getting three hours of sleep, we are all set up for Market! For some reason Blogger won't let me post pictures from my mobile device, but I have figured out Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @moosequilts. See you there!

Quilt Featured at McCall's Quilting Blog FREE PATTERN

McCall's Quilting blog is featuring one of my favorite quilts that I have made, and I don't even have a picture of it! It's called Urban Neighborhood. It is a modern quilt made using a charm pack and three different shades of gray. I used Hope Valley, my favorite Denyse Schmidt line, for the color.

You can find a picture on their blog:
http://www.mccallsquilting.com/blogs/blog/2013/10/11/friday-freebie-urban-neighborhood-bed-quilt-pattern/

From their post, there is a link to the pattern FREE! The pattern features the quilt in a colorway perfect for fall!

FREE Paper Pieced Teapot Pattern

My friend from our local quilt shop, Gracie Lou's Quilt Shoppe, called me before shop hop and asked for my help. I love to help out when I can. She was making a pattern for shop hop. This is what we came up with:

 

 

She was looking for a paper pieced teapot. I designed one using EQ7. She made it up into a table runner. I am offering it to my gracious readers for FREE in case one of you can have fun with it.

 

Here's a link to the pattern:

http://www.moosequilts.com/FQ/teapot.pdf

 

It is a 6" finished block. One of these days I will post a paper piecing tutorial, but for now the pattern will have to do.

 

Happy Quilting!

Sewing Desk Makeover

Have you ever made up a project to keep one (or more) of your kids busy??? This one worked in my favor. My oldest has decided she likes to paint. These are our stools I let her paint not too long ago.

 

 

A couple days ago I was sitting at my old, drab sewing desk and a lightbulb came on in my head! I could let my daughter paint this desk! It would give it new life, and I wouldn't mind some color in my sewing room! In the rest of the house, I am pretty conservative with my color palatte because I don't have much sense of style when it comes to decorating a living space.

 

The secret to painting for me is to go to the mis-tints at my local paint shop. I have never not liked their paint. I have, however, often not like paint that I have spent hours picking the color.

 

Today I found this fun blue color, "Blue Mine" in the mis-tints. It was perfect!

 

One drawer was broken in the process. It is an old desk that I picked up at a second hand store years ago. We should be able to fix it.

 

Side note - I recently noticed that the drawers of the desk smell old. They have always smelled, but I had become accustomed to the smell. A few weeks ago, I put a bar of soap in each of the drawers, and they are smelling better already!

 

I can't wait until this dries enough to put it back in the corner of my sewing room!