OH WHERE ART THOU?

The title

 of this blog post should be:

"Hello!....I've been a Bad Blogger!"

I'VE LOST MY BLOCKS {AND OTHER PROJECT UPDATES}

Now you can add

"absent-mindedness"

to my list!

The other day I told you about 

my difficulties with my inner blogging diva.

Well it looks like you can now add

"lost all of her marbles" 

(aka absentmindedness)

to the list.

CHANNELING MY INNER DIVA {UPDATE ON MY SCRUMPTIOUS TRIANGLES}

For the past 30 minutes

I have been sitting in front of the computer

trying to channel

my inner Blogging Diva.

Apparently...she is not listening

because 

I feel like the blogging words

are stuck somewhere between my brain and my fingertips!

TO QUILT MARKET & BACK {HOUSTON QUILT MARKET 2013 RECAP}

A lot can happen

in one week!

Let's see....in the past week,

I watched Not-So-Little-Person's

highly anticipated production of

Once Upon A Lily Pad....

flew to Houston for Quilt Market....

enjoyed Quilt Market...

flew home from Quilt Market...

did my other job...

cleaned up the bomb that exploded in my house while I was gone...

and collapsed from exhaustion!

LESSONS FROM THE WEEKEND

This is the recap

of my weekend

(I know that I am a few days late):

It rained and I sewed!

End of story.

OH NO HE DIDN'T!

I mentioned

  over HERE

that last weekend was a camping weekend for the boys.

In the last post I forgot to mention

the Pre-Camping drama:

(because there is ALWAYS drama)

HE SAILED THE OCEAN BLUE {A WEEKEND RECAP}

In 1492,

Christopher Columbus

sailed the ocean blue.

This is part of a poem that I vaguely

remember learning

in elementary school.

LIKE NAILS ON THE CHALKBOARD

I hate

the sound of nails on the chalkboard!

Even typing this

causes my back to stiffen.

So when Not-So-Little-Person asked me to:

SCRUMPTIOUS BY BONNIE & CAMILLE ON SALE FOR TWO DAYS ONLY!

For 

all of the

Bonnie & Camille fans,

Scrumptious Layer  Cakes

&

Jelly Rolls

on sale for

$24.50

at Little Lady Patchwork!

Two days only!

Hurry before the sale ends on 

Wednesday, October 9th!

Until Next Time...Happy Quilting

Little Lady Patchwork...the SHOP

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FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD ENTERTAINMENT

At least once

a day I become

the neighborhood entertainment!

POT LUCK BY AMERICAN JANE ON SALE !

For

all of the

American Jane fans:

are now on sale for

$24.50

at

Little Lady Patchwork!

Enjoy!

Until Next Time...Happy Quilting

Little Lady Patchwork...the SHOP

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ODE TO BEN FRANKLIN

Today,

I am going to 

 quote the words

of 

Ben Franklin:

THERE IS A SALE GOING ON!

I

just wanted to let all of my

fellow quilters know

that I have sale going on in my SHOP!

Select Layer Cakes & Jelly Rolls

are on sale for $29.50!

Until Next Time...Happy Quilting

Little Lady Patchwork...the SHOP

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A HAND QUILTER IS BORN

It's finished!

SCRUMPTIOUS {WHEN A NAME BRINGS BACK A MEMORY}

Scrumptious

by Bonnie & Camille

makes me giddy for 2 reasons:

IT WILL HAVE TO DO

My Friday night

plans

(aka HOMECOMING) were

12 STITCHES PER HOUR {A HAND QUILTING UPDATE}

Oh

MyLanta...I am in LOVE!

IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS { FABRIC, FOOTBALL, & PAGEANTS}

Lots of

little things made it a good weekend.

FARMER'S WIFE SAMPLER QUILT {WEEK#14}

Welcome

to the 14th installment of my

Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt!

While I was looking back to find my last post,

I realized that it was

back in AUGUST...August 2nd to be exact!

That would mean that

Rascal would have been a part of our family

for 2 weeks.

I guess that a lot has happened since then.

Speaking of which, 

let me tell you about my "BAD Mommy" moment

before I share the quilt blocks:

6 STITCHES PER HOUR {AND A PUPPY UPDATE}

3 QUICK

things for today:

THE WEEKEND THAT WAS...

What was

supposed to be

my fabulous weekend alone,

turned out to be 

TAME YOUR BINDING {TIPS TO REMEMBER}

RED & GREEN QUILT UPDATE {PLUS MORE LITTLE LADY PATCHWORK SHOP NEWS}

Now

if that blog post title isn't a doozy then I

don't know what is!

It seems that 

Mother Nature is making it difficult

for me to get everyone into

the holiday spirit

with all of this 95 degree heat!

RED & GREEN {PLUS A FEW SHOP UPDATES}

Ohhh

how I love 3 day weekends!

I also love how

Labor Day marks the official end to summer.

I guess they didn't tell Mother Nature

that 

the temperature at the end of summer

shouldn't  be 95!!!

HE WENT OFF THE DEEP END {A SUMMER RECAP}

Summer

has been over for several weeks

and

now that we are getting back to the daily grind,

WHAT I AM CRUSHING ON THIS WEEK {QUILTY & NONQUILTY}

It

was an uneventful weekend,

which was a good thing.

Well, we did have one tiny, 

little incident.

QUILT AS YOU GO {TIPS TO REMEMBER}

WHEN

I made my 

Blueberry Crumb Quilt,

I decided to try the

Quilt As You Go (QAYG)

 method

at the last minute.

While I was quilting,

I jotted down a few tips that I wanted to remember for next time.

BACK TO THE DAILY GRIND {A FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL RECAP}

Well,

this is our 3rd week of school

& I thought that I would

give myself 20 minutes to sit down and share

with you how our 1st day of school went.

MY TRIP TO PARADISE {MODA OPEN HOUSE}

WELL,

when your Hubby

tells you that his 

out of town trip has been cancelled

and he is going to send you on

 a  totally last minute vacation,

you would do cartwheels.

But when you find out where he is really going to send you,
you would do back handsprings!!!
(That is if you are a quilter)

MODA'S BOOK LOVER'S DAY { WHAT IS CURRENTLY ON MY BEDSIDE TABLE}

Happy Book Lover's Day!

I LOVE

a good book!

I happen to have a pretty good

library of actual,

no kidding,

real life books.

(not just the 100s that are on my Kindle)

I must admit

that the

quilting section of my book collection

is quite hefty

(like my fabric stash).

GOALS ARE GOOD {A WEEKEND RECAP ON TUESDAY}

Have

 you ever been

so over whelmed by so many things to do

that you just want to 

procrastinate by looking at Pinterest

or drink a whole bottle of wine?

FARMER'S WIFE SAMPLER QUILT {WEEK #13}

wow!

13 weeks of Farming!

It has been 2 weeks since my last Farmer's Wife Post

and it feels good to get back to this project.

ALL MY LAUNDRY IS DONE {THE PUPPY SAGA CONTINUES}

SO,
in my mind I had lofty plans

to sit down and write my blog post
about Quilt As You Go Along (QAYGA)
but,

BLUEBERRY CRUMB CAKE {A LOW VOLUME QUILT}

OKAY,

so while the puppy was sleeping,

 I thought that it would be the perfect

time to bang out a blog post

about my

low volume quilt,

AND SO OUR FAMILY GREW {THE PUPPY ARRIVAL}

Okay,

here is how my weekend began:

100% CHANCE {OPERATION LOW VOLUME QUILT}

Yesterday

the weatherman called for

80% chance of rain.

THE UNFORTUNATE POOL INCIDENT {AND UPDATE ON MY OPERATION LOW VOLUME QUILT}

So which story do you want to hear about first?

The pool ...or the quilt?

MY MAMA ALWAYS WARNED ME {OPERATION LOW VOLUME/ BEIGE QUILT CONTINUES}

When you live in a smallish town

 (population approximately 40,000),

you know just about everybody.

The other day,

OPERATION BEIGE QUILT, A BEE STING, AND A CLASSIC {MY WEEKEND RECAP}

My weekend recap begins like this:

NEVER CUT FABRIC WHEN...{OPERATION BEIGE QUILT CONTINUES}

This is the lesson that I learned the hard way...

never cut fabric

 when you are tired

or

OPERATION BEIGE QUILT {THE FABRIC SELECTION}

So I wanted to post an update

on 

Operation Beige Quilt. 

THE BEIGE SOFA

I should have titled this post

"Operation Save The Beige Sofa".

I can't remember if I posted this picture here.

I know that I posted it on Instagram

but 

I never remember to post pictures here.

SO I WAS GOING TO STITCH {I REALLY WAS!}

If you follow me on 

Instagram or Facebook,

you will recognize this photo.

I posted it on Saturday:

FARMER'S WIFE SAMPLER QUILT {WEEK #12}

Week #12

MY THOUGHTS ON PAPER PIECING { A FEW TIPS}

So yesterday

I shared my Paper Piecing Saga

over HERE.

It had been AWHILE

since I made these blocks,

 so I thought that I might

give paper piecing a second try:

DO YOU PAPER PIECE? {MY QUILT SAGA}

Once upon a time,

several, several, several  months ago,

my fabulous friend

Vickie of Spun Sugar Quilts

asked me:

FARMER'S WIFE SAMPLER QUILT {WEEK #11}

LET ME WARN YOU:

THIS IS A VERY PHOTO INTENSIVE POST!

WEEK #11: