Puppy Pic's

These babies are so cute. I just work a 24, I'll be back later with more pic's and info for ya'll.

Cheyenne's Progress

It took Cheyenne forever to pick out a pattern that she wanted to do. But in the end she choose a cute basket with flowers in it to applique.

We are using fusible web for this project.

I don't think either one of us realized just how many little pieces there were. Cheyenne didn't think she was ever going to get through tracing and cutting the pieces.

This girl loves to iron fabric :) Even when I am working on my projects Chey does all of the ironing for me . I will post some more of her progress in a couple of days. She wants to get a bit more done on it today as it's me day off and we are having a sewing fest LOL !! If we get a good bit done today I'll post progress pic later on tonight.

Sunbonnet Sue Update

Here is Sunbonnet #1 finished and Sunbonnet #2 is done also I just need to get her pic on here. The blocks are so much fun to do. I think though that I am going to stop at these 2 and put them with some other blocks to make a sampler. I really want to try out my hand at hand quilting. This past summer I got 3 lap quilting hoops at a yard sale for cheaper than dirt and I really want to give them a go :) I have 4 more blocks that I know will match these little sue's. I think I will play around with some graph paper tonight and figure out just how big I am going to go with this. My first thought is 12 blocks + sashing and boders to maybe make a cuddle quilt . We'll have to see.

More New Puppies :)

Angel had babies this afternoon !! She had 4 of the most adorable itty bitty little babies you ever wanna see. She had 3 blue merle's and 1 little female that looks like it will be a brindle. I will know more about that female in a couple of weeks. I will post some pic's as soon as I get that darn new camera sorted out.

Worst Luck Ever

So I must have the worst luck ever with Ditial Camera's. I have had this one less than a year and tonight when I went to go upload the progress pic's on my Sunbonnet Sue's I realized that the darn thing was broken. Isis is the culprit I believe as the part that you plug into the computer looks as though it has been chewed on. So I'll be off to Walmart to spend only who knows how much on a new camera.Needless to say I am NOT impressed but where she is only 5 there's not much I can do about it other than to give her a stern talking to about touching things that don't belong to her :(

However on a much brighter note Cheyenne has decided to help me reduce my fabric stash. Today she pulled out a ton of fabric and announced that she was making a Wall quilt for her new room. She spent awhile hunting through my quilty mags and found a pattern that she liked ( with some tweeking of course ) . She spent the afternoon fusing, tracing, cutting and ironing ! She has 2 of the 4 needed blocks together but decided that the blocks were lacking something. It took her a wee while to figure out what it was, then she took a look at my Sue's and decided that she wanted Momma to add some buttonhole stitching to her blocks. So I guess I'll put my Sue's on hold for a couple of days to do the buttonhole stitching on her blocks. I will have some photo's of both mine and Cheyenne's progress for ya'll as soon as I get another camera up and going.I feel very lucky to have such a sweet and talented daughter like Cheyenne!!

Meet Memphis

I went out to Robert Graham's last week because I was hunting a new stud. He had several litters to choose from, I knew that I either wanted a blue or a chocolate stud. I looked at a ton of puppy's from just born to 4 months old. I ended up picking out a little male from the oldest litter. What really cinched it for me was that this litter was born on my birthday so I just knew that it was fated to be. Memphis is the smallest male hiding in the back.

He's still a little bit shy but I'm sure he will come out of it soon. At 4 months old he wieghs in at 2 1/2 pounds. I figure that he will mature about 4 to 5 pounds. I am very excited about this little guy :) He has everything that I am looking for in a new stud, size, colour and spunk !! I have been searching a long time for the perfect blue and now I have him :)

Here is a picture of Kelly, Memphis's mother. She is a 8 pound blue/white type A. Also in the picture is Rocky , the sire of Ginger.

Alphabet Friends

Please go on over to Quilt Taffy and see the neat project that is going on :) Here's a link :

http://quilttaffy.blogspot.com/2008/06/alphabet-friend-adventure.html

Sunbonnet Sue

I put these little Sue's together yesterday at work. I am useing some of the fabric from the stash challenge. These block will become a baby quilt. I am doing a buttonhole stitch around the edges in black DMC. In the last photo you can see a bit of the buttonhole stitch that I did on the purple Sue.I am going to try to finish her up today and then if I get lucky I'll be able to get to the red Sue today. I'll post some more photo's tomorrow of my progress. I'm off to go stitch now :)

Some free patterns

Sorry long time no post , I have been quite busy working on a few mini quilts and if I get lucky I will have a couple of finishes to show ya'll in the next couple of days.It's been hard to squeeze in any sewing time - the office has me working from 12 to 14 hours a day , man how I'm wishing for a day off :( But anyways, I have new pic's of the baby puppies that I will post later on today - they will be going to new homes very soon , thats always such a sad time for me ! I so enjoy raising a new litter of babies and I get so attached to the little buggers, sometimes I wish that I could keep them all !!

I got up at 3 AM this morning and started hunting blogland and lookie what I found - for those of you who enjoy redwork here is a free pattern :

http://lastingtreasure.com/shop/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=108

Here is another cute redwork freebie that I've found this morning.This is the link :

http://www.connectingthreads.com/patterns/this-and-that-in-redwork-pattern-_PD991082.html