Tippee Canoe

This particular quilt pattern is referred to as "Tippee Canoe". It is paper pieced, you pin fabric to paper,sew a seam and cut each piece. It was a class project I was in back in 2003. Half of the women didn't finish theirs, it is very time consuming. Half way through sewing this, I was not liking the design or the quilt, until one of the ladies finished hers, quilted it and brought it to class. It was absolutely gorgeous. I was determined to finish mine. Well, I finished the top but never invested the money in having it quilted. Since I returned to class, I was informed of a lady, that my teacher knows, who does it for a living. She comes to class,picks up the quilt, machine quilts it and delivers. I decided to give her a try and brought this to her.
I hope you are able to see the intricate design, so precise and very elegant.
Tippee Canoe is not my favorite, but I will definitely bring it out to wrap up in during the winter months.

What an accomplishment and such a good feeling to know I did it!!!!

Fun and Easy Pillowcase

Cecelia, Francie, Natalie...this is for you.
Thought I would share this cute idea with a few of you. I promised Cecelia that I would send her the pattern, I am going to don't worry, but thought since I was making one today, I have to take it with me tomorrow, we are going to visit our grandson and I wanted him to have one. He loves the outdoors and I found this cute material a while back. Anyway, I thought I would just take some pics and post how it is done. If your anything like me, I have to see it, not read it or hear it.
Cecelia, this would be a cute project for your women's group, you could make some adorable ones for a children's home or the shelter. I might add that there is some cute fleece material, would be warm and cozy.
Make them for yourself, or for different holiday's. Kid's love them!
So, lets get started.....
This is what you will need to start:
3/4 yard material for the Main pillowcase 26" X 40"
1/8 yard material for the Contrasting Trim 2" X 40" ( if the store will sell 1/16 yrd. that is better)
1/3 yard material for the Cuff 10" X 40"

Trim off raw edge so all the material is the same width.

Place Cuff fabric right side up an a flat surface.
Place Contrasting trim fabric...be sure to fold the trim in half first and iron.
Place Main Pillowcase fabric right side down on top of Contrasting Trim fabric, matching up the raw cut edges. Pins edges together.

Roll Main Pillow Case fabric up into a tube until all of it fits within the length of the Cuff farbric.

Fold up the bottom edge of the Cuff fabric, over the Contrasting Trim and Main Pillow Case fabric.
Line up all the raw edges and re-pin.
Stitch a 1/2 inch seam along the raw edge.

Turn the Pillowcase right side out by pulling the Main Pillow case out from the inside of the Cuff fabric.

Press the Cuff fabric flat.

Fold pillowcase in half with right sides up, sew a 1/2 inch seam along the side and bottom edge of pillow case.


Okay, now turn the pillowcase inside out and sew another seam along the edge and bottom. The seam will hide the outside seam, this is called a French Seam.

Okay, here you have it, how cute is this!!!!

Also, I managed to make four jars of blackberry jam. Thanks Cecelia, the recipe was easy and delicious.

Geez Louise, it took me longer to post this than make the pillowcase.
I gotta go, I still have to make a cake.

Very Busy Tooth Fairy

My grandson was so excited yesterday, he called everyone to let us know of his news. Yes, he lost his first tooth. He is just growing up too fast.
When I was there, a few weeks ago, he made sure I felt his lose teeth. Oh yea, he has more, his top front tooth will soon be missing.
I can remember when each of my kids lost their teeth. In fact, I saved them...now that I think of it....seems a little gross.

Life Couldn't Be Better.

Last week I discovered I have been making a mistake on our quarterly reports to the IRS NOT GOOD and I made a mistake on two of our W2 forms NOT GOOD. After a week of phone calls, I finally was able to get the info I needed to make corrections only to go to work today to find out my computer was on the fritz SERIOUSLY NOT GOOD. It took me 40 minutes to get it going only to discover my monitor went out.
Called our computer guy and he came and rescued me. Nancy bought me a 22" monitor..wowee...it is so big I can't believe it...but, I still need to wear my glasses. Not sure if they make monitors that large???
Anyway, after a hectic week and day of work, I came home and decided to check things out on my blog. I love getting online and checking my special friends blog to see whats new...there hasn't been much activity on any of them, including mine so I thought I would at least share a few favorite pics of my grand kids.
A few weeks ago I got to spend the day with my grandson while his parents attended a memorial for one of the families in the Montana accident.
We went to visit Daffodil Hill. He really didn't want to go because he told me he goes there all the time, and by the look of this pic, well, he looks unhappy but he did have a good time showing me the peacocks, rabbits and different birds.
The flowers were absolutely gorgeous.

Here is a recent "favorite-pic-out-of-the-ones-I-received" from my daughter. My granddaughter helping out as they remodel the laundry room.



Thought I would throw this pic in, its the latest quilt I have been working on. It only took me a few weeks to sew this one together as opposed to five years that it took me to finish the other one, which, I quilted it on the long arm in class and will be putting the binding on for the final touch.