Happy Easter!

Wishing You a Happy and Joyous Easter!

Awesome Primitive Pocket!

I have to show you the coolest thing! I'm doing a Primitive Pocket swap with my Primitive & Rustic group at Delphi and look at what my partner sent me! Isn't it awesome! My partner is Sharon Stevens--the one and only Mustard Seed Originals!




I absolutely love, love, love my new pocket! Look at all the wonderful details she's stitiched into it! It's perfect!


A couple of closeups so you can see some of the detail. The bumble bee is actually puffy and not flat and I love all the stitching and wool appliques.


I love hand & hearts and look at the cross stitching! So many fun details!


And then if that weren't enough she stuffed the pocket with lots of chocolates and these fabulous wool treasures! Wooly Easter eggs--lots of handwork on those too! And cool needlebook and button bag and the little blackbird scissor fob! I love it all! I can only hope mine to her turns out half as good.

Thank you Sharon! You spoiled me royally and I love it all!

Be sure to check out Sharon's Website too, so you can see more of her fabulous creations!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope you're wearing your green, so you don't get pinched! In case your blog needs something green to wear, here are a couple of images you can use--just please right click and save them to your hard drive.

National Quilt Day!

March 15 is National Quilt Day this year. In fact it has been extended to the whole month of March!

I am still a fairly new quilter, so I don't have much in the way of quilts to show you. You can see my Dear Jane quilt blocks at Webshots. I haven't worked on this one much for some time and need to get back to it--soon! I am learning so much from this quilt. It will have well over 5000 pieces in it when I finish it--I consider it my quilt college. Click on the rows to see the blocks I've finished so far......

Dear Jane Row A

Dear Jane Row B

Dear Jane Triangles

In case you're not familiar with what a Dear Jane quilt is then click HERE to find out more. It's a reproduction of a Civil War quilt by Jane Stickle that has been revived by Brenda Papadakis.

In honor of National Quilt Day/Month I hope you'll either sew up a block, quilt a few stitches, go shopping at your LQS and buy up lots of fabric or buy a new quilting tool, book or pattern or better yet, share your quilting talent with someone else and keep the circle growing!

Below are a few links to some of my favorite free quilt patterns online. Enjoy and Happy Stitching!

Twist & Turn by Roseann Kermes

Midget Blocks by Sentimental Stitches (scroll down to view quilt and pattern)

State Fair Samper by Sentimental Stitches (scroll down)

Sock Monkey Applique Quilt

Sew Much To Do

Show & Tell Friday--My Easter Tree

Good Friday everyone! I thought I'd share my seasonal tree all dressed in it's Easter finery today. This tree isn't as heavy with ornies as my other themes are, but it'll get there. I have plenty of space to fill in!


As always all of my ornies are handmade by myself and a lot of online friends that I've swapped with throughout the years and I love pulling an ornie out of the box and seeing who it was made by and the wonderful reminder that they all are of such wonderful friends. Here's a few closeups of parts of the tree.....


Ruthie Rabbit there--if you scroll down a few posts I have a free pattern posted for her. I love the rabbit in the top hat, made by my friend Neeners--Janine Jensen to everyone else.


I love the chicky in the basket and the paper mache bunny--but they're not signed and sadly I have forgotten who made them--that's why it's so important to sign your work--however I too forget.


Darling little wooden angel bunny and velvet and wool egg (egg-made by me)


This cutie is painted by Phyllis Shows. I have many of Phyllis' pieces--they are always my favorites!



Carrot nose a wool applique bunny by me and a really cool paper mache bunny by Debbie Rice.


The painted chicky on the egg is another of Phyllis' wonderful creations.



The vintage sytle bunny with the paper basket of eggs is another one I made a few years ago.


This darling little dancing bunny is Torrie Sakalsky.


And last, but not least is this beautiful little wool embroidered bunny by Darlene Mariano.

I hope you enjoyed my tree today and to see the other Show & Tell Fridays just pop by Kellis House our wonderful hostess and you'll be on your way to a real treat!

I've Been Sparkled & An Award

Wow! I've been Sparkled and also received the You Make My Day Award! Thank you!


Annette G of Huckleberry Arts actually made my day by giving me the You Make My Day Award. Thank you Annette! If you haven't visited Annette's blog before, she has a lot of fun art collages that she makes that are great to use in your arts projects.

The rules for the “You Make My Day” award are to present it to those whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel happy about blog land. Let them know through email or by posting a comment on their blog so they can pass it on.

I pass the You Make My Day Award To.....

Karoline of Cherished Vintage

Marian fo Crazy Haberdasher

Trudy of Crows in The Attic Primitives

I've been Sparkled by my friend Terri of Primtiques. Thank you Terri! For those of you who don't know Terri is my Whatever Fairy--no wonder she has so much Sparkle!

I hereby officially Sparkle the following people--(who should then put the award onto their blog and pass it on).

You have been Sparkled...

Rhonda of Empty Nest on Mulberry Street (also my sister)

Joyce of Brookside Cottage

Angela of The Country Cellar

Thank you everyone!

Show & Tell Friday

It has been brought to my attention by my sister Rhonda--aka closet clicker--she evidentally hides in the closet at work and sneaks computer time. (Don't worry Rhonda I'm pretty sure Dr Gartman doesn't read my blog). LOL!--Anyway she noticed that I have missed a couple of Show & Tells, so I'm back on track--for this week at least.

I thought I would share my first quilt top that I've made. I've been quilting for about 5 years now, but have yet to actually finish an entire quilt. I am very good at starting them however--that get points too doesn't it? I just seem to have a problem getting anything past the completed top stage--well and several not even that far. Oh well I'm sure I'll get there. If not in the mean time I shall live life gleefully stashing fabric and piecing it into beautiful, however imperfect blocks.



This pattern is Crazy Among Friends by Buggy Barn. I love their folkartsy whimsical patterns--and the fact that I don't have to be absolutely perfect--yet! I did this one as a Block of the Month with one of our local quilt shops. I doing BOM's and would like to do more---one of these days.


Just a bit closer of a view. These blocks were so fun to do, because each set of matching blocks is cut out in a stack and then you shuffle the fabric in that stack and voila! It's a surprise to see how each block turns out.

Now for a personal note to my sister--Rhonda you need to take up quilting! It's the perfect thing to do to keep you occupied now that you are totally kidless and have lots of time on your hands. ;) You could be the closet quilter! Just don't leave any pins or needles for Dr Gartman to sit on and be sure to pick any tell tale stray threads off of your scrubs before you leave the closet.

I hope you'll pop over to Kelli's House--our wonderful hostess of Show & Tell Friday and see what our other blogging friends have to share today. Happy Friday Everyone!

Free Vintage Easter Images

Just a little Easter surprise I thought I'd share with you--some vintage Easter images. Print them on fabric, make them into cards or whatever you dream up. I've used the 3rd image down as a card before and highlighted it with glitter and it turned out just beautiful! Enjoy them and have fun with them. Please right click and save them to your hard drive, but please don't copy/paste them. Thanks! Happy Crafting!

March--National Craft Month & Ruthie Rabbit

March is National Craft month--sounds like a good reason to do some crafting and some crafty shopping--not that we need a reason, but just in case we do.

I thought that in honor of our Craft Month I would share a free pattern with you. Ruthie Rabbit!

Ruthie Rabbit was designed by me and she appeared as a free project in the Jan/Feb 2004 issue of Country Marketplace magazine. She's simple to make, so you have plenty of time before Easter to make her up. Just click the link below and it will take you to Free File Hosting Then just click on the red download/view button to save her to your computer. She is in a pdf. file, so you'll need Adobe Acrobat reader to save the file and use it. If you have any questions or need help saving the file, just let me know. Happy Crafting!

Click HERE to download Ruthie Rabbit

My 2nd Blog

To go along with my new website I have started a new blog to go along with it. I will still keep this blog too! However I hope you'll hop over and check out the other blog when you can. It'll have lots of fun eye candy and info on other artists and shops. Click HERE to see the Primitive Peddlers new blog. Happy Blogging!