2011 was a year of growth - creatively, emotionally, and in family too!  I have been blessed with: A new grandson - Henry             My granddaughters Madison and Abigail.                               My wonderful family!                             I am a very lucky woman! One of my plans is challenge myself to submit a quilt or two this year, I'm a garment maker but I love making quilts as well!   A ...

I have a co-worker and good friend who announced to me she was pregnant by telling me it was finally her turn to get a Susan original baby quilt!  The next few months were spent in thought about what I was going to do.  There were several ideas but none grabbed me as being just the right thing.  Time was ...

A while ago I made a pair of pj’s out of fun fabric for a friends' birthday, they were a hit!  I have two friends who are a huge part of my life, we make a trio that has worked for many years giving loving support to each other through personal and family challenges, and triumphs.  There are people in ...

Labor Day day is a Holiday which means for me a bonus day to sew!  I was able to take advantage of the extra time to finally make a bag from "Carry Me: 20 Boutique Bags to Sew" by Yuka Koshizen. There are 20 different bag projects with the unique design sensibility of many of the new Japanese craft books available today. ...

Bernina University is a yearly dealer training conference held in a different city each year which culminates in a fashion show. For the 2010 BU held in Orlando, FL I was asked to take a specific embroidery collection, jacket pattern, and black linen, then design it however I wanted.  The jacket you see here is the final result: The pattern is Kwik Sew 3584 ...

Have you noticed there are patterns that involve cupcakes in some way or other popping up everywhere?  I did a little search and found... Katie Cupcake - The cupcake is in the name!  Love her patterns especially the "My Favorite Bag" pattern. Creative Machine Embroidery - In the Hoop cupcake coasters with a free down load embroidery design to make them.   Spud and ...

On Sunday, May 22nd, a massive tornado hit Joplin, MO.  Town and Country Quilters of Joplin work hard to contribute over 170 quilts a year for the needy, and now they are the needy.  Four of their 70 members have lost their homes, one of the houses lost in the tornado held all their supplies for making these charity quilts.  Gone is ...

I was excited to find my latest issue of Ricky Tims and Alex Anderson's "The Quilt Life" magazine in my MailBox and immediately did what I always do, take a quick look before going back and reading each article.  But this time instead of thumbing through from beginning to end I found myself stopping at the article entitled "The softer ...

I have had a love affair with Stitch Magazine for a while now, but I never knew when I would find the next one since it's quarterly and only available on Newsstands.  Imagine my delight when I recently discovered "stitch" now has an Auto-Ship program you can sign up for!   Of course I immediately signed up and have already ...

My Granddaughter Abigail loves all of the disney Princesses, her latest obsession of course is Rapunzel from the Disney Movie "Twisted".  For her Birthday I decided to make her a special Rapunzel dress so I went in search of a pattern, and of course none exists.  So I did the next best thing, made one up!   The first thing ...