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Country Cabin Thoughts and Crafts

Teresa actually won OUR giveaway last week, and now she's offering her own in honor of the first anniversary of her blog. Take a moment to go check out her wonderful blog. I drool over her photos of her beautiful cozy cabin in the woods...and all the cute Disney stuff she has!

And the winner is.....

Wow! I'm so appreciative of all the comments and new followers we have! Our first giveaway has been a wonderful success!!! I know you are all just wondering if you won or not, so without further delay....

teresamnj said...
Of course I'm a follower!

4:37 PM

Congratulations Teresamnj! I will send you an email to get your mailing info!

January Completed Pattern Instructions

Sorry for the delay...Life with little ones kinda goes that way!

Here is the finished version of our January free project. The project is no longer available for free download but will be available soon for purchase.

Included in the PDF are the photos of our sample to use as a guide.

I've created a flickr group so please show off your princess when she is done!

If you missed the embroidery download, you can get it here

If you have any trouble downloading from Google docs, please leave us a comment with your email address and we will get it emailed to you.

Both patterns are free to download until January 31. After that, you may purchase the pattern, which will also include templates for completing the embroidery designs in applique.

Our first giveaway!

I headed over to the MODA warehouse today where I got to drool in their showrooms for a couple of hours. (No children under 16 allowed in the warehouse). Since I had my son with me that was as far as I could go. I got the ball rolling on getting our account set up with them so stay tuned for moda products to make an appearance on my website more and more. I did come home with a honeybun of some yummy fabrics as my first blog giveaway! Clementine by Me and My Sister Designs for MODA is full of sunny oranges, lavendars, sky blues, and lime greens with fun, funky prints and patterns. What a perfect way to add some sunshine to these gloomy winter days!

To enter, you can earn up to THREE chances to win. Winner will be selected by random drawing from all comments received on Wednesday, January 19th by noon CST. Be sure to either include your email address or make sure it is available on your profile so I can contact you if you win!
1. Leave me a comment telling me what you would make with your honey bun.
2. Become a follower of my blog, or tell me if you already are.
3. Post about the giveaway on your blog, facebook, twitter, etc. and let me know by posting a link in your comment.

Update to pattern for January

Just an additional note to let you know that if you would like to add the pieced border that will be released in a couple of days, please trim your embroidery block to 14 1/2" x 14 1/2" (14 inches finished)

Also, I know there has been some trouble with downloading for a few of you, so until I have a better solution, I have also added the pattern available to download via Google Documents, which does not require a sign in. Please let us know if you are having difficulty downloading the pattern, and someone will be happy to email it to you directly.

Thank you all for all the comments and support. This has been a definite learning curve, but we appreciate all the help and advice we've received. Please send us a link or email of your finished versions of the pattern so we can all ooh and ahh over it!

January 2011-- New Designs, New Ideas

My mom and I have had ideas rolling around in our heads for years. This year we have finally decided to make them happen. Mom doesn't do much on a technical side, but she has all the artistic skills that I'll never have so we're a good balance for each other :) We have decided to collaborate and launch our first in a series of new designs. Each month we will launch a new design. Sometimes they will be embroidery, sometimes quilting (emphasis on applique), some cross-stitch, etc. Sometimes we might even get ambitious and put out more than one project in a month! (As I type this my mother says "yeah, right!) All designs will be available for the month they are launched as a free download, and available for purchase after that.

Anyway, we decided to launch our January project as something that can be used in February. This first design is for the center of a wall hanging. We will launch the embroidery design first, and we will reveal our pieced version on January 15th. On February 1, the pattern will be available for purchase, and will include the embroidery pattern, as well as the templates for completing the design in applique.

I hope you will enjoy what we have in store for you! Every month will be different, so you never know what you might fall in love with!

January's project is an embroidery project. Mom has always been a fantastic artist (we have had a few of them in the family tree). She designed this Valentine's Day princess ready for a Sweetheart Ball. Since my birthday is in February she decided to name her "Jennifer". (Awwww) You can download the pattern at the link below

January



Here is a closeup view of her ballgown:


Here is an up close view of her face. Everything is stitched using a stem stitch, with French Knots in the highlight of the eyes, and nose. The rest of the eye is done using a stem stitch outline and fill-in.




Here is a closeup view of her purse, which was done using a lazy daisy chain stitch.


"Jennifer" is available for download for free until January 31, 2011, and available for purchase as a double pattern for applique and embroidery February 1, 2011 for 15.95 for download. Shipping charges will apply if you prefer a paper pattern.

Miss Kaity's got a brand new bag!

While visiting family for Thanksgiving, I took one of my machines with me, intending on making a purse for my sister-in-law, who has been waiting patiently for quite some time. I also took along with me a variety of patterns for her to look over and see if something appealed to her. As we were going through them, my 3 year old neice pulled Ellen Medlock's Out & About Tote pattern from the stack and informed me that she needed a new bag, and it needed to be pink on the outside, green on the inside.

With my order in hand, her mom and I set out to find her some fabrics the evening before Thanksgiving. We found these cute prints at Walmart of all places, and I picked up some trim and buttons to give it a little bit of pizazz. Thanksgiving evening I started cutting out her bag while we had some down time and she was out of the house visiting other relatives (We did our Thanksgiving on Saturday)and by the time they came home that night her bag was done! I modified the pattern slightly, making the bag deeper, handles longer, changing the interior pocket sizes, and attaching the handles between the exterior and interior fabrics. Here is the end result, and little Miss Kaitlyn proudly showed off her bag to everyone around :)





While visiting family for Thanksgiving, I took one of my machines with me, intending on making a purse for my sister-in-law, who has been waiting patiently for quite some time. I also took along with me a variety of patterns for her to look over and see if something appealed to her. As we were going through them, my 3 year old neice pulled Ellen Medlock's Out & About Tote pattern from the stack and informed me that she needed a new bag, and it needed to be pink on the outside, green on the inside.

With my order in hand, her mom and I set out to find her some fabrics the evening before Thanksgiving. We found these cute prints at Walmart of all places, and I picked up some trim and buttons to give it a little bit of pizazz. Thanksgiving evening I started cutting out her bag while we had some down time and she was out of the house visiting other relatives (We did our Thanksgiving on Saturday)and by the time they came home that night her bag was done! I modified the pattern slightly, making the bag deeper, handles longer, changing the interior pocket sizes, and attaching the handles between the exterior and interior fabrics. Here is the end result, and little Miss Kaitlyn proudly showed off her bag to everyone around :)

2011 BOM

Ok, so thanks to one of my wonderful friends on facebook, I'm no longer an Electric Quilt failure. I've finally been able to wrap my brain around how it works, and churned out a few new designs. With my confidence boosted, I'm going to put in some of the designs I've sketched out into EQ and finally get them worked up into patterns.

My goal is to launch a BOM in 2011. My question is, what kind would people really like to see? Please check out my facebook bage Little Ladybug's Creations and add to the discussion what you would be most interested in.

Trinity Valley Quilt Show 2010

We stopped by the quilt show a couple of weeks ago and I never got around to uploading the pics I was able to take. It seemed to be a smaller show than in years past, but they always have some real talent on display. Here's a few photos of the ones I liked the best. Enjoy!

Garage sale find!

This past weekend was garage sale central in my neighborhood. Ash and I got up early and hit several. We only made it to half a dozen before I found my treasure for the day. This is a solid cedar Lane Hope chest. There is one leg that needs to be stabilized, and the "faux" hardware on the front is non-functional, but one is broken. I see a project with a much happier (and prettier) outcome than sitting in someone's garage...any idea what I paid for this gem??





A whopping 20 bucks! Lets see what I can turn it into. Stay tuned!