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My Favorite Things...129...Pink, Pink and More Pink!

In blogs gone by, I've told you all how much I love BLUE, and this is not to the exclusion of PINK.  It's high on my list too.

Our NEW Little Lady collection is a "riot of colors", but with a emphasis on Pinks...Soft Baby, aka "Petal" Pinks...Cherry Pinks that are almost reds...Hot Pinks, Magentas, Corals (I can't say enough nice things about Coral, in any form...dark, light, you name it, if it's Coral, I LOVE IT!   

So what better way to use all of our LakeHouse Pinks than with the Little Lady collection?

Here's some quilt tops I designed that we introduced in our LakeHouse sales support booklet at Spring Market...You'll notice that I used similar design layouts with different fabric combinations...(To inspire you to make several versions of the same pattern?!)

Here's Pinwheels & Polka Dots again in Pink & Brights...

And Black & Brights...

Gonzo Gingham...in Pinks

Firecracker...in Black & Brights

And Pink & Brights...

I also have a third installment of new quilt designs to show and tell, so come back again next week and we'll be all caught up...(and ready to move on to our next collection of quilts and fabrics!)

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My Favorite Things...128...Baby Boy Blue!

Hey Ladies,

I just found out that my post for the Jolly Jabber is just up, so I wanted to share with you a few more quilts that I designed with the BOY OH BOY fabrics we showed at Spring Market (it's my first collection of fabrics for Little Boys, and I'm just crazy for it (she said modestly!)...

Here's Polka Dots & Pinwheels...

Gonzo Gingham...

And one of my favorites...Firecracker ! ! !

There's more new goodies coming soon, too...

I am up-to-my-eyeballs swamped today...Why you ask?  Because we just received our sample yardage from our next collection, due out in the stores in early October.  It's called "Doll Dresses", named after my inspiration:  a collection of old doll's dresses that I have been buying at flea markets, and from other collectors for years!  I can't wait to share some sneak peeks of my "Dollies" with you sometime soon...Check back in the next week or so for a preview.

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My Favorite Things...124...Pretty Purses!

I'm interrupting my little SQM food-fest with some pictures just in from Elizabeth Scott of Late Bloomer fame, with she who we adore Pam Kitty Morning's  "A Little Purse"...made up in some of the fabrics from our new Little Lady collection...If I do say so myself, aren't they adorable?  I just LOVE them!

One of my favorites is "Party Dresses & Dancing Shoes"  shown here in Black below, check out the XOX  fabric used as a lining (kiss hug kiss, get it?)...

I 'm especially fond of the bags made with the focal point "Little Lady" fabric, the circles fit just inside a 1-1/2" square with just enough seam thickness room, so they are great to fussy cut.  I'll show you more about this later...

So much more to show and tell...it's a tough choice, food or fabrics?  Shall we take a vote?

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My Favorite Things...121...More Quilt Market Pics

As promised, I've got lots more pics...

In addition to the "girl's in black"...Penny writing and Sandy (Penny's sister) on the right, the Ballet Slippers quilt on the top is by Cyndi Walker of Stitch Studios...The Mixing Bowl Beauty quilt on the bottom is from Gina & Stephanie at the Threaded Pear...

The cupcake quilt on the left called Holly's Bakery is by the laugh-a-minute Elizabeth Scott.

We mixed and matched some quilts made from our new Little Lady collection with the DayZ collections, to show how the past and present fabrics could merchandise together in a quilt shop.  I took great pains in crafting our Spring intros to make sure that all of the clean, intense pinks from our earlier bright collections went with our softer, peachy-pastel pinks that we have been working with lately...That's Diane Weber's bright and festive DayZ BloomZ on the left bench and on the right is Barbara Jone's (aka the Quilt Soup lady) Corner Flower Shop quilt that was on the cover of Quilts & More...

That's my Circle of Friends quilt (subtitled "Gypsy Rose") done in fabrics from La Belle Rose I,II & III...with some of Penny's (aka Madame Tote Bag) best selling totes.  My Pinwheels and Polka Dots is in the rear right, just peaking out from behind Michelle, an old friend of Penny's, who helped in the booth.

Still more pics and lots of laughs...the next chapter in our little Portland diary is called..."Tater Tots?"

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My Favorite Things...119...Cupcakes!

When it comes to cupcakes I think of grade school bake sales, girl scout get-togethers, and two very special bakeries in New York City.  A friend who lives in Greenwich Village took me to Magnolia Bakery at least ten years ago, and I have been a rabid fan of their powdered-sugary butter cream frosting ever since.  Many people think that it was Magnolia Bakery that started the "Cupcake Craze" back in the late nineties, but IMHO, the grandmother of this retro addiction is really the Cupcake Cafe.  They had a tiny bakery on Ninth Avenue near the Port Authority almost ten years before Magnolia opened their doors.  The decorations on the cupcakes at the Cupcake Cafe are so beautiful, I almost hate to eat them.  Ann Warren has made quite a name for herself with her handmade flower decorations.  Ann's frosting is totally different than Magnolia's (from what I can tell, it's made mostly of butter, so they don't last long out of the refrigerator, but more on this later)...BTW, see the flower shaped table topper?  It's an adorable new design called Daisy Dew from Gina Halladay of Quilter's Buzz fame, & aka the Threaded Pear.

You might have heard that we introduced our Little Cupcakes fabric at Spring Quilt Market...So what better way to celebrate this, than with some delicious cupcake giveaways at our booth...Or so you'd think!  It started months before, with me asking my "Girl-in-Portland" the little cheese sandwich herself, Monica Solorio-Snow about who she'd recommend for cupcakes in the Portland area...Monica gave me a list and we started a hunt for a-good-but-affordable-cupcake (it became a bit of an odyssey)...

We started with Saint Cupcake which sounded great: except for the price!  They wanted over $3.00 a piece with custom colored frosting, that's a little pricey even by my ridiculous New York standards.  After contacting several more bakeries, we found the Helen Bernhard Bakery:  real butter cream frosting, and a bargain at just under a dollar each...this seemed the perfect solution...Or so we thought.

We ordered cupcakes in advance, to be delivered each morning of the show.  We planned on putting the cupcakes in a little acetate bag (tied with our LakeHouse ribbon of course) so that the show management wouldn't jump all over us for handing out messy food.  Here's where things went tragically wrong...Let me state clearly: Helen's cupcakes were delicious...problem was that they were frosted with real butter cream alright, but they were the buttery gets soft & unmanageable in 10 minutes out of the fridge type (like Cupcake Cafe), not the travels well, (loaded with sugar) butter cream frosting that Magnolia makes.

Suffice it to say, we had a "pack-o-trouble" getting our little pink cupcakes into their little bags...as the frosting started to get soft and they became increasingly difficult to handle...

All I can say is that it was a bit of a "Lucy & Ethel moment"!

Still lots more to show and tell, so, I'll be...

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My Favorite Things...118...Display Design

I have many photos and stories from Spring Quilt market this year, so I'll try to intermix them with pictures from our booth, in my next few blogs...

Let me cop to this right upfront...I took a big risk and made the decision to try a new booth layout for this market.  There were some really neat things about what we did this time, but this was not my finest hour, design-wise...With all of the challenges that we've had in the past six months, I am just glad that the booth came out as good as it did.  You will be able to see for yourself...and I'll give you my self-critique, too.

Here's a view from our front aisle...I just loved the off white tables and benches we bought at IKEA ...they were really comfy, & were a great way to show extra quilts and tote bags...The chain quilt called Black Cherry on the middle bench was in McCall's Quilting May/June issue, the kit is being sold by Fat Quarter Shop...I just love it, (if I do say so myself). The pink bordered quilt on the left is made with our new Little Lady collection.  It's my Jill version of my new Jack & Jill Quilt due out at the end of July.  The cute-as-a-button Cherry Preserves quilt on the back right is by Elizabeth Scott.

My biggest design mistake overall, was the openings at the corners...

It was great that people could walk up from behind and see our fanciful tiered display tables...

But the exposed poles were an eyesore...

And because of these openings at the corners, the products in the other booths to the back and sides of us became part of our display...If I had thought to use something like scrim, that would have done a world of good to "tone down" the visual distractions from other exhibitors...But then again, people wouldn't have been able to enter our booth from the back corners...to grab a cupcake, or touch the samples...

I've still got lots more pictures, so I'll be...

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My Favorite Things...115...Little Doll Babies!

Hello Ladies,
There is so much to tell, yet so much to do after returning from Spring Quilt Market in Portland.  I have been almost the "Unknown Blogger" since flu season kicked in for us here in January, so we've got a lot of catching up to do. 

Here's a few topics of what is to come in the days ahead...
1. The Portland "Show & Tell"...including the culinary highlights
2. Tons of LakeHouse booth pictures..."and now for something completely different"
3. My post-market trip with Penny Sturges "the Charm Party Lady" of Quilts Illustrated...Seattle and the Channel Islands in British Columbia.
4. Quilts, Quilts and more Quilts!

But first, a little doll baby came our way on the last day of Spring Quilt market...It was a if I had art directed this little dumpling to color coordinate with our booth.  Isn't she a little slice of heaven with her blue eyes, soft creamy skin and peachy pink head-to-toe ensemble? Sorry, but I lost my notes on their names...if you know them, let me know!

Still unpacking and doing the laundry, so I'll be...

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114...My Favorite Things...New Stuff

I've really meant to keep in touch, really I have, but we've had YET ANOTHER big bout with flu here at Chez Boulders. I got sick again about 2 weeks after I'd started feeling better from the first flu, and then Paton caught it from me.  Now I am back at it fighting the good fight aka "counting the days to market", while Paton's version has turned into pneumonia, so he's tired and napping a lot. It's too bad, because he is very handy and endlessly patient with my "honey-do" lists at this time of year.

To those of you who I am behind in my correspondence, please bear with me, after market we'll get caught up on every little detail...I still haven't heard from some of the people who won prizes in our recent give-aways...not to worry...your goodies are put aside in my "to do pile" at the new office...

So we have a lot to catch up on...Still no pictures of the office, but I can tell you this, my studio is about 1,000 square feet now...(that's just the room that I work in).  You should have seen my landlord's face when I told him that 5 offices in our suite of offices needed to be knocked down so that I would have enough room to work in.  Yesterday, when we were staging a lot of the fabric for salesman cards, shipping boxes, props and projects for our booth in Portland, there were only a few narrow paths to get where you needed to go.  You will all have to wait until I get back from Portland to see our progress...(which in fairness, hasn't been much decor-wise, since the market countdown crunch had already started when we begun our move in March).

We used to sing a song that I loved in Girl Scouts when I was in grade school..."make new friends, but ke-ep thee o-old, one is silver but the other's gold"...That's sort of the way I feel about a lot of the designs I do in fabric...I get really attached to the fabric lines I design, and I would really like a little more time to work with the fabrics after the market rush, ya know?  One of the best ways I know to give the line longevity the stores (which translates into me having more time to work with it) is to add new things to keep the collection evolving and fresh.  That's what I've been doing with the La Belle Rose collection that we first introduced last May in Salt Lake City.  We added some new things for Fall Quilt Market, and we'll be adding even more to the La Belle Rose III at Spring Quilt Market in Portland.

Here's a picture of my Gypsy Rose version of my new Circle of Friends Quilt...It's got fabrics from La Belle Rose I, II & III...

This is a shot of the work in progress at the talented Mrs. Winslow's...I can't wait to show you more than just a peak at this project, Cheryl's long-arming is just delicious on this quilt.  I have also done several other color and fabric combinations of this design that I will show you later too.

So thanks for your patience my little blog-ettes, with all of the illness in the last few months, I am just glad to be sitting upright at a chair in my office...of course with my rescue kitty "Vickie Dixie" wedged between my chest and the keyboard as we share a few nuzzles and tail thrashing moments while I send this off to you...meow!

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113...My Favorite Things...New Stuff!

It's been a little while!  In the midst of taxes and getting ready for Spring Market, Paton and I came down with a horrible flu.  When you live in the middle of nowhere, with no deli on the corner to bring you soup and tea and sandwiches...it's even worse being sick.  It started with sneezing, I didn't think much of it, since things were starting to bloom a bit outside, then the next thing I know it...whammo, flat on our backs for 4 days.  Another few days of brain fog as all of the cold remedies flush out of my system, and wa-la...a littl sneak peak of what's new for Spring market.

Meet BOB, that's short for "Boy Oh Boy"...It's my first collection of boy/toddler designs on fabric.  We'll do charm squares again as a promo at Spring Quilt market, in this new palette, that has lots of my favorite blues and greens, and even some new browns.  (Those of you who have been bugging me to do something in browns (and you know who you are)...a drum roll please!

On a sad note, Paton found our little Jasmine floating in the lake a couple of days ago.  We assume that she accidentally fell in, and in the cold water she didn't have much of a chance to save herself.  Jasmine was such a creature of habit, so we just knew that something bad happened when she didn't show up for meals back in February.  The freakiest part of this story, is our neighbors who live 6 houses down, lost their beautiful Siberian Husky a week or so ago in the middle of the night.  They searched everywhere, and then a couple of days later Tundra also was also found mysteriously floating in the lake.  We are such animal lovers here, almost everyone on our street has a cat, or dog or both, it's been a real shock to all of us.

With the temporary set back of the flu, most of the things we've moved to the office are still in boxes, but I'll have more to show and tell very soon...new spring things are arriving every day!

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110...My Favorite Things...Making a Pit Stop!

I'll spare you all of my not-so-clever racing metaphors today, but we are zooming towards Portland Quilt Market...Between the weather (think snow, snow and more snow) & the work load (11 weeks to go) it feels like I haven't left the house in weeks.

Coming up the stairs today with a cup of tea, it dawned on me that my desktop told my story better than I could...

I'm working on some colorations for one of the new lines...With 30 drawers full of color chips, the mess on the top of my desk is only the tip of an iceberg.  I'm attempting to blend a new idea and colors with some of our LakeHouse Library favorite patterns and colors...Making no predictions yet...fingers, toes and eyes are crossed...

Meanwhile, we've had a lot of drama with the kitties...Jasmine, my "Rescue Remedy Kitty" disappeared over a week ago off the property. Paton and I searched around-the-clock for days.  It's been absolutely heartbreaking, as she had shown such promising signs of accepting us and being indoors this winter.  After spending every night (and a lot of days) in a basket on my desk for the last three months, and accepting a lot of attention, she vanished.

Vickie-Dixie had to have 4 teeth pulled last week.  My guess is that her teeth got bad when fending for herself and her kittens before she got to the shelter where we adopted her.  She has been a model patient these last few days. Here she is enjoying the radiant heating in the (yet unfinished) bathroom.

So now we are caught up a bit...Lots more to show and tell.

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One more important thing...I had promised three give aways to the first 3 new people visiting the blog after my recent guest posting on the Jolly Jabber.  The winners are Corey, Erin and Babara from Feb 8th.

It looks like two of the first three have no tag back, so I need emails addresses from you  gals  ;)   

My Favorite Things...109...Pink & Blue!

Knowing how popular our Hydrangea & Raspberry fabric has been (for "pert near" a decade!) We re-released it again last fall in two of my favorite colorations...In a little over a month, we'll have a NEW panel fabric that is a sister design to these latest Hydrangeas.  It's LH 07017 Hydrangea Corsage...I just love it!  There are 6 different "corsage styles" in the panel.  Here's a close up of one of the styles in the two colorways.

Many of you know the colors by now of our Fall 2007 intro'd Hydrangea fabrics...But for the newbies, repeat after me:  "Pink and Blue". 

When I say that to myself, I have to chuckle a little bit...As I take a trip down memory lane...

This time it's all the way back to high school..."Back in the day", I a) was very active in Young Life, b) was an avid skier and c) was totally boy crazy and d) had not only a head-to-toe powder blue ski outfit, but a pink ensemble (that I made for myself) as well.  Without giving you every unflattering detail, let's just say there was a lot of mashing aka "making out" on the Prospect High School & the Young Life Ski Trip buses.  "Pink and Blue"  was the jeer that would be bandied about whenever the bus stopped for gas and a pit stop,( and a couple would unlock their lips for a few minutes)...(Translation:  Get any closer with that guy or gal and you might be needing pink or blue booties in nine months.)

Looking back, it's all really funny to me, especially since pink and blue still remain two of my most favorite colors...What's with that?

With that off of my chest ladies, I am yet again in the horns of dilemma, and need your assistance.

We "needs a name" for this new quilt design, (if I can use your quilt name, you win a prize!)

Here's the Heron Blue colorway...

And the Petal Pink...

Looking forward to reading your suggestions, gals.
Have a relaxing weekend.

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My Favorite Things...107...A Quilt for Emma

Once again...Some of you will remember the Sneak Peek of a darling baby quilt (yes, I will say so myself) that I mentioned right before Fall Quilt Market  on Holly Blog...if not, click here.

My friends with subscriptions are writing to say that they have just received the new McCall's Quilting April 2008 today, we have another quilt to share with you.

As most of you know by now, I don't get out much...(and oddly I don't have any magazine subscriptions either!*) So you guessed it:  I haven't seen it.

So here's my design sketch...Sorry gals, but I just couldn't help myself...

"Prairie Points again" (said with a very whiny voice!)  I am just smitten with this little sampler quilt. The kits are available from Fat Quarter Shop. I want an adult sized one for myself! I am on such a pink and pastel jag...and I don't know why!

Oh, and under the category "don't believe everything you read", let me make a special point of correcting the misinformation in the magazine:  our "always-quilting-ever-faithful-friend-of-LakeHouse" aka Kathleen Nitzsche is actually the gal who pieced the top and folded prairie points for us...(and in a huge hurry right before market, I might add.)  Our Cheryl did do the quilting...It was pretty much the most precious baby-bunny themed quilting I've ever seen.  Glad to put that in print here and now, so that credit is given where it is due. We've had issues like this before with other projects in magazines, and people really do get upset about it.

As long as we are on the subject, in case you've ever wondered...people who design quilt patterns and fabrics for a living MUST have people to help them out.  I don't know if you all have thought about the timing on these projects, but almost every editor I have ever had the pleasure of working with, "needed it yesterday". They are under more time constraints and pressure than I am...(and I am a total slave to this entire ball of wax:  blogging, fabric design, quilts, ya da, ya da, ya da...I really do I look forward to designing every morning...but I can't possibly make every quilt that we need to support the all of the fabric lines I design.

Meantime, my muse for the Emma quilt?  More on the little "pink-cheeked-doll-baby" who inspired me quilt coming soon...

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*But don't feel too sorry for me.  Manhattan has some of the best magazine stands and shops that you could ever imagine...I have been known to spend hours at a time picking out irresistible magazines from all over the globe.

My Favorite Things...105...Mary Engelbreit's Magazine

As some of you already know (thanks for the notes!)...Cherry Baby has been included in the "This We Like" column in the February/March 2008 issue of Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion magazine.

You may remember that I said a while back I didn't design anything with a cherry on it for for a really long time.  When I saw  cherries, I thought of Mary's work, and although she inspired us all, I just didn't want to "monkey see, monkey do".

So doing a whole collection that revolves around cherries is a big step for me...there has been "a lot of water under the bridge" in the last 20+ years as a designer.  Like Alex Anderson (six degrees of separation?), I too have fond memories of cherries from Door County Wisconsin.  Cherry pie was served with almost every meal we had at a restaurant or Fish Boil, and we also bought delicious pies at the roadside stands.  When I was still a little pup, my parents and older siblings helped pick cherries (on really tall ladders) during harvest time at the Ray's farm outside of Bailey's Harbor. Younger kids passed their time by playing in the barn on bales of hay with the cats and their kittens.  Those are some of the fondest memories an animal lover like me could have.

Do any of you have some vivid memories of cherries in your childhood?  Any delicious recipes you'd have to share?

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My Favorite Things...80...Little Acorns!

While I anxiously await delivery of my new McCall's Quilting magazine, I thought I'd add a bit of "Willy Wonka" to our wait...First person who spots a McCall's February 2008 Quilting magazine and sends me a picture of themselves holding it, wins a prize!

In the meantime, let's get back to more pictures from FQM, shall we?  I just can't say enough nice things about Brenda...or as I like to say, "the big ideas behind Little Acorns"...Here's a few pictures of the utterly delicious new quilts she did for our booth.

Next to her Cuddle's quilt on the end, is Brenda's Baby Picnic Quilt. The blue and white hydrangea quilt called Piccadilly is made out of the NEW LH 03007:  Heron ...

Dover Gardens is the name of the pink & green rose quilt in the middle, made with our NEW LH 06052:  Pearl fabric...These pictures just don't do her quilts any justice.  The huge stadium lighting overhead made the quilts and the fabrics look a lot more washed out in these photos than they looked in real life...

That's Brenda's adult sized Picnic quilt on the bench, made with a whole cloth in the middle and a combination of our best-selling blue and yellow Hydrangea LH 03007:  Heather fabric that has been freshened up with a pretty new assortment of new Hydrangea coordinates and some new Library fabrics too...isn't that the cutest border ever? 

The darker pink & green quilt on the right is called Notting Hill.  Peeking out on the right is a new version of Brenda's adorable Emma quilt that uses the NEW Petal Cherry Baby collection.

Oh, and if you haven't heard by now, all of these quilts will be in Brenda's new book "Simple Things & Small Joys" which is due out in December.

I still have LOTS more pictures from market and some really fun new Xmas projects are coming too.

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My Favorite Things...79...More from Fall Quilt Market

Remember the sketch of the blue & white quilt that I put up way back in September?  If not, take a peak  here.  Remember, I asked for your help naming it?...And Becky came up with "Around the Block"...Becky, you wrote to claim your prize, but when I tried to email you back for your mailing address, your email came back as "unknown"...Becky please contact me again before the Charm Squares are ALL GONE!

Anyhoo, here's the "quilt in question"...didn't Cheryl  do a lovely job with the quilting?  I just love the border, it reminds me of so many garden-like things...the detail on an English Garden Folly, the wire trim work at a garden's edge...and I Just adore circles quilted over squares, too.

From the left, that's Pam Kitty's "A Little Purse", Penny's Charm Party Bag, and some of Tammy Tadd's  "Etc., Etc." traveller's accessories.  That's another bag by Pam called "Market Bag", Jan Lutz's  Flirty Skirty Half Apron & Tammy's Girly Girl Bag.

Here's my vote for the cutest darn "Pinwheel Anything" at the show! It's "Our Fair Brenda's" Cuddles Quilt!  Is it just me, or is it just PRECIOUS?

Also in this shot, another one of Jan Lutz's aprons on the wire form done in the Hydrangea Petals, Elizabeth Scott's Simple Spring Rosebuds Quilt, Penny's Charm Party bag in all yellow patches, Pooh Bandit, Penny's Pocket Parade & Desk Deli in the new Cherry Baby Petal fabrics, and another one of Penny's Sweet Dreams Pillowcases for her granddaughter Taylor.

That's all for today gals...there is so much more to show and tell, at this rate we won't be finished until 2008!

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My Favorite Things...77...Pretty Pictures!

So many pictures, so little time! 
Post-market continues to be as demanding as pre-market.

First, our LakeHouse Dry Goods  website is now displaying the new Fall 2007 fabric swatches, whoopee!  We are still tweaking the small details (this has been A PAIN with every new project), because on my MAC screen, I see something completely different than my PC based web designer.  So if you see things that are out of wack...we're working on it!  Sharon, get your paper & pencil ready!

And, before the scent of market runs cold, here are a few more pictures...

That's Tammy Tadd's  "To Market,To Market Apron" on the Left, the Threaded Pear's Bull's Eye Quilt in Pink and Yellow, My Cherry Squares (Hint:  that's one piece of the LH 07005: Robin colored fabric in the center an inner & outer border, a few covered buttons & some ric rac).  The bags are from Penny, Pam Kitty & Tammy.  The tiered apron is by Jan Lutz "The Apron Lady" of Threaded Pear.  The bears Lenya, Alex and Kara are bringing you the letters L, A & K!

Tammy's Girlie Girl bag again, with Penny's bags, little Boo & Honey Bear in the blue chairs, that darn "Alphabet Soup" quilt again and Erin, Heidi, Oona & Uma bringing you the letters E, H, O & U...

Sugar & Emmie round out the right end of the display with S & E, oh and that's Pudge on the lower left, with more bags by Penny, Tammy & Pam Kitty. The pillowcase was made for Penny's granddaughter Camille. My Cherry Quilt made with JUMBO covered buttons (so easy to make!) was pretty much the hit of the show for us... seriously, we got more compliments on that quilt than anything else.  I could have sold it to several different magazines too...We had great luck with some of the "Quilt World's" most tasty magazines...much more on that later.  On the right is Elizabeth Scott's Simple Spring Rosebuds quilt, another version of Tammy's new apron, and another cute child's apron done in the new LH 07015: Petal fabric from Jan Lutz!

We've just scratched the surface of my Fall 2007 Quilt Market Photo Album, so come back soon, y'all!

Tomorrow's my day to visit all of the quilt blogs I love and return my correspondence...Thanks so much for all of the kind thoughts and compliments on the booth...most of you know by now that it's the most fun thing I do of all of the tasks at hand here at LHDG!

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My Favorite Things...75...Talented Designers & Beautiful Quilts

We're back from Fall Quilt Market, and things went very well...(more on this soon) We're waiting for booth photos from our photographer, Gregory Case  (hurry please!)... In the meanwhile, some photos that I took at some of my favorite designer's booths...

Here's Barbara Jones of Quilt Soup with just about the most adorable applique quilt I've ever seen...made up in our La Belle Rose fabrics from Spring Quilt Market...(forgive me Barbara, your eyes were shut in all of my photos!)

Here are some close ups...so clean, so clever, so Quilt Soup!

I just love her use of fabrics in this quilt...the daffodils, the pink & black stripe for the flower pots, inner border & bindings, the thin stripes for the leaves...(I could go on and on)

Thank you so much Barbara for thinking "outside the box" and coming up with this really joyful, pretty quilt!

More soon...just getting my feet back on the ground.

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My Favorite Things...74...Precious Details!

Ladies, I just got this back from Cheryl, and I just couldn't resist a little sneak peak..  The quilting on this little thing is so cute it hurts!  The block with the pink bunny fabric has a little rabbit quilted into it.

The rest of this quilt is equally adorable.  It's a sort of sampler style quilt...with a bunch of different types of quilted motifs in the different "controlled scrappy" blocks. 

I can't wait to show you more after market...Wish me luck!

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My Favorite Things...73...New Quilt Designs!

Today went like this...Up at 8...big deal, you say? (got to sleep at about 3)...I am from a long line of "big sleepers", so 5 hours just doesn't cut it...unlike Martha Stewart who sleeps 2 to 4 hours a night...people who sleep that little, that would be something called "mania" right?, I'm just saying...

I waited for traffic to clear and then it was off to the printer to proof the project booklet (it supports the salesman sample cards at market).  I got finished there at around 1 or so.  Then, since I was closer to civilization (it doesn't take much since we live on what I like to call "Lake Budweiser")...I treated myself to lunch at Bean Curd...tofu & vegetables with black bean sauce...the Hot and Sour soup was so freaking HOT (as in overly spicy) I could barely eat it...(and I am from a family of "clean-plate-club-types", so you know it was H-O-T).  After that I was in a bit of a holding pattern, because I needed to return to the printers at 4 pm to pick up some things before returning to the studio...so I then I went for a manicure and a pedicure...(this is ultra-decadence for me)...one must not have ragged fingers and toes at market, right?

On the east coast where I live, nail salons are ubiquitous. This particular one I've been going to since I met Paton, has the chairs with magic hands that kneads you from your neck all the way down your legs...(I'm probably all bruised now, it really worked me over!)

After that I checked back in with my printer, dropped off the necessary things at FEDEX and avoided rush hour traffic on the way home, by stopping at Short Hills Mall. I made the grand tour, scouring for interesting new things...I saw a few quirky accessories (like a large round cherry bark mirror)...the longer "CASA GOD AWFUL" takes to finish, the more I get the itch to decorate!

I picked up a couple of large bowls of that delicious Broccoli & Cheddar soup for dinner (it's the most heavenly nectar) and some chewy, buttery oatmeal cookies (for Paton) at Au Bon Pain...(it doesn't take much to make my day!)

Here's a little sneak peak at a design sketch (a la Photoshop) for my new Alphabet quilt...Some of you will remember the Alphabet quilt that I did for the Spring 2006 quilt show in Minneapolis...this one is a variation on that theme, only made with "SURPRISE" a new alphabet...

Those of you who know me, know how much I am fascinated with typography and fonts...this new fabric is 4 " high letters in a 6" block...The background of the letters is a combination of different fabric designs from existing and new LakeHouse fabrics...The quilt is already on it's way to FQM in our crates, so I will show you pics of the real thing upon my return...it is just precious (if I do say so myself)!  Can't wait to show you some close ups of the work...Martha and Cheryl did an amazing job on it.

Now to bed, hopefully for a longer night's sleep.

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My Favorite Things...71...Penny Bags!

Ladies...I am working fast and furious on a variety of FQM related projects...and like a mother hen, I'm just "bursting with pride" over some of the projects that are being sent in to me for our sales booklet...Penny Sturges of Quilts Illustrated made this with one of our new Charm Packs...Some of you will remember the label from the "Little and Lovely" grouping...if not click here.

This is a new variation on Penny's "Weekender Bag" that has been so popular,isn't it adorable?  I think that it would make the cutest little quickie quilt too, don't you?

I'll try to show you a few more juicy tidbits before we go off to market...as time permits.

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My Favorite Things...70...Pink & Green!

I imagine that by now a few of you are wondering about my little "Name This Quilt" contest, remember?  If not look here, where asked for your help and I showed you the blue and white version of this quilt.  I also did a second quilt in a pastel version, here.

This is a sketch of the third version of my "square in a square" quilt...it's almost there, but that lower right hand block keeps screaming out at me "fix me, fix me"...I'll re-work it when we get to the design wall phase, at Cheryl's. Cheryl Winslow has been my faithful quilt-maker, long-armer, and all around "things made of fabric" guru ever since we met just before our Pittsburgh market back in 2004. 

The quilt name that I chose was "Around the Block" submitted by Becky on October 3rd.  Becky, please contact me so that I can send you your prize...(when we get back from market, pls!).

Thanks so much to everyone who offered a suggestion.  You all turned a normally torturous process into a really fun event!

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My Favorite Things...69...Three Wishes Quilt

Some of you will remember this quilt from May market, in several different colorways, if not look here.

I just really liked this little quilt, (you've just got to trust me, they all looked oh-so much better in real life) and I thought that it would look good with the new blue and white version of the Hydrangeas & Raspberries and the La Belle Rose.  I have always had a thing for blue roses, don't ask me why...In cold weather climates, people just don't really decorate with blue very much...(it's more of a Greek Isles thing) but I have always loved a periwinkle blue room with white trim and a white ceiling.  At some point, I'll drag out pictures from my lake house...(the only house I've ever owned).  It was a humble farmhouse style.  A center hall "4 square" layout...I actually made a rather dramatic statement in the center hallway with blue paint...which also became the perfect area to show off some of my antique quilt collection...sometime soon I'll share a little bit of that house with you all. I actually sold that house to someone I later saw as a guest on Project Runway...sort of like my brush with someone who had 15 minutes of fame!

Anyway, lest you think that I am on a blue and white jag (and I am)...I'll have some pink and white (and other color) quilts to show you really soon...

Clock's running out on fall market...

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My Favorite Things...68...Scalloped edges!

I must say, am having so much fun with the graphics for Fall Quilt Market...
This is a sticker that I am having printed up for the bags that we will use at Sample Spree...

What's Sample Spree you say? For those of you who haven't been to FQM...Here's my description:
1.  It takes place in a HUGE ball room somewhere in the convention center, on the night before the show opens.
2.  I'd estimate that about 100 different vendors are selling everything from...a  20 lb boxes of antique buttons  (I'll take two please!)...to  threads and a whole host of sewing accessories and gadgets...or  books, patterns & kits...as well as fat quarter bundles, charm squares,antique fabric swatches...(kimonos, etc) and last but not least...all sorts of enticing introductory specials...
3.  There is fabric "madness" in the air...

What makes this event so special?
1.  prices are wholesale OR BETTER!
2.  many of the items are being introduced at that market, so it's a chance to get something before it's actually in the stores.

I haven't actually made it to all of the Sample Sprees...not because I am any less of a fabri-holic than anyone else, but because I am usually still back at our booth putting the final touches on our displays...

(The security guards usually kick our sorry butts out of the building at around 10 pm.)

We are having a table at Sample Spree this market to promote the new fabric lines...As I think I might have mentioned before, we'll be offering Charm Square packs...so if you (or any shop owners you know) are coming to market, make sure and come by and say hello.  If you tell them to mention that they've been referred by someone who reads HollyBlog, and  I'll have a little something for them...(till I run out!)

So that's all for now girlfriends...that Fall Market clock is a "tick-tocking"!

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My Favorite Things...66...Pups Wearing Neckerchiefs

I got a memo from our fair Kitty's "representative"...it seems that some of you think that she is a BOY...when in fact she is a TOMBOY. It would also appear that she was bribed by someone in our shameless promotion department, to appear "in costume"...

The black spot signifies the front end...

She wants to make sure that you all can see her new neckerchief...pink bunnies and all...even more reason for a victory lap...

But one can never can never have enough beauty rest...

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My Favorite Things...64...More Pretty Packages

I just couldn't resist showing you another label...they just tickle me...(the label is the square on point, the fabric square is behind it)

This one reminds me of so many of you like Bren, Anne & Cyndi.

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My Favorite Things...63...Pretty Packages

Some of you will remember a new label I showed you a week or so ago, if not click here.

Here's the next one in the series, I designed it yesterday...I just never seem to get tired of scalloped edges, gingham and  _________  (insert your choice here!).

I'll post the new labels as I get them done, just thought you'd like to see our FQM progress.

Counting down till then...

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My Favorite Things...62...Blue & White

Hello my Lovelies,

Lately, this blog has felt like a bit of a "quilt-tease", or as I sometime call it, "fabric porn"...Forgive me, won't you?  Right now there is so much to do and so many details to follow up on...But I don't want to go into a complete "Quilt-Market-Blog-Free-Dry-Spell"...so I'll just have to give you a peak at some of the design development studies that I am working on...

Do you remember the simple pastel quilt top using some of the new Fall 07 intro fabrics that I showed you recently? If not,click here.  Here's another version of the same quilt:

I am just crazy about blue and white...Blue Willow dishes, ginghams & tea towel plaids, my old VW Beetle convertible in Periwinkle blue with a white rag top.

At present, the working name for this quilt is "A Square in A Square"...as you might have noticed, I am not terrific at this...me trying to be clever with names usually ends me up in the "bad pun zone".

So if you can help me out, and come up with a great name for this quilt top (oh, and it can't be used in our little "quilt community" by anyone else), I'd be most grateful and I'll also send you a Charm Square Pack in this blue & white palette.

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Oh, and remember, we are still voting on Best Dessert blog and Best Comment during the Dazzling Dozen Delicious Desserts event.  Please remember to cast your ballot here.

 

My Favorite Things...60b...It's got polka dots!

Day 13 of 13 A Dazzling Dozen Delicious Desserts -- Part Two

At long last, I pie that has been in the repertoire for decades, it will not disappoint...

Plenty of Polka Dots, and Three Layers of Pie to Dive Into!

Coincidently, Someone's having a birthday, (like Megan's family, we like a "Birthday Pie" too)...And that "Special Someone" is my "Mom-a-Loo"...So let's all sing Happy Birthday to my mom Joann, who is celebrating her 86th birthday today...HOORAY!

So here's a pie that's Light & Creamy, Smooth & Chiffon-y, It's Subtly Chocolate-y, and Oh-Oh-Oh-So- Good!

Polka Dot Pie

Pie Crust
10”  pie shell regular crust or chocolate cookie crust or graham cracker crust
If you don't have a 10" pie tin, use what you have and layer the extra fillings into individual sized glass bowls...they are just as yummy.

First Layer
(a mocha cheesecake)
8 oz cream cheese @ room temp
3/4 c sugar
6 T butter @ room temp
2 T unsweetened cocoa
1 t instant coffee
1 t vanilla

Second Layer
(a light chiffon)
1T unflavored gelatin
1/3 c orange juice  (shake juice container before measuring, to insure full flavor)
1 1/4 c whipping cream
3 egg yolks @ room temp
2 eggs @ room temp
1/3 c sugar
1T unsweetened cocoa
1 t vanilla

Third Layer
(whipped cream)
Pink tint:  red food coloring
Whipped cream  (whip the remainder of 1 qt of whipping cream),
3-4 T sugar
chocolate chips

1.  Make Pie crust

2.  Make First Layer 
Blend cream cheese, sugar, butter, cocoa, coffee & vanilla until smooth and you can see that a little air is whipped into this mixture.  Spread into pie crust.

3.  Make Second Layer
Sprinkle gelatin over OJ in small bowl set in pan of simmering water.  Stir until dissolved.  Allow to cool off.
Beat cream to soft peaks in med bowl.
Beat yolks, eggs, sugar, cocoa and vanilla in another bowl until smooth
Stir in gelatin mixture, then gently fold in whipped cream, until thoroughly mixed.
Refrigerate approx 15 minutes until gelatin thickens & just begins to set.
Spoon over pie
Refrigerate until well chilled

4.  Before serving:
put a layer of pink whipped cream on top
Sprinkle chocolate chips in a polka dotted pattern

Pie can be prepared 3 days ahead, but whip the cream topping at the last minute and top pie just before you serve it.

E  N  J  O  Y  !

More FQM projects, more give-aways  & "a dessert making deserter" returns from quilt camp (in a good way!) tomorrow...

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My Favorite Things...60a...Who Wants to Lick the Beaters?

Day 13 of 13 A Dazzling Dozen Delicious Desserts -- Part One

While we're renovating, what passes for a kitchen at the Boulders (aka Casa God Awful) is in the basement.  This gives the cats, Kammie especially, a bird's eye view of what's cooking!

She knew we were due to make our entry for the Dazzling Dozen Delicious Desserts, so Kammie wore her new Cherry Baby bib to celebrate the occasion...(thanks Auntie Megan!)

Here's the little hoover herself, waiting patiently for good fortune to shine on her...

Pink is her favorite color...

Who wants to lick the beaters?

Hey wait a minute, this is my party...and besides I was here first & mom loves me best!

Lickety-Split.

And they licked...

And they licked...

And the party's only just begun!

Please join us again tomorrow morning for part two of the last of our Baker's Dozen of Dazzling Delicious Desserts!

Oh, and in case you are wondering, the last is really just the beginning...right after that, we'll have prizes galore for not only our favorite DDDD bloggers, but also our favorite guest commenters.  And I'm giving you all 24 hours to think something up!...a funny observation, a favorite family food story, etc...

I'll even have a list of other blogs you might enjoy visiting for more delicious recipes.

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Oh, and one more ridiculous thing...I don't want you to think that I don't enjoy your comments.  But for over 3 weeks now, I have not been able to receive your comments, nor have I been able to reply to them, as I normally try to do.  I have contacted typepad's tech support over 6 times, with no change.  Have any other typepad bloggers had this problem?  They just keep telling me "we're looking into it"  "rest assured, we're looking into it" "hold your pants on, little lady"...blah, blah, blah...uh oh, I'm whining again.

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My Favorite Things...58...Pam Kitty!

Day 11 of 13 A Dazzling Dozen Delicious Desserts

Thought I'd show you what I have been toiling over for days...Charm Square Packs for the new FQM  intro's.  Here's a Sneak Peak at one of the labels I'm working on...I just love it.  So girly!

Our next guest, loves & collects cherry things, so it is only natural that she would come to mind when I designed this new line.  I shied away from using cherries in my work for YEARS, not because I didn't love them, but because when I thought about using cherry motifs in anything,it felt like I'd be perceived as imitating Mary Engelbreit...but not anymore...this new collection is uniquely LakeHouse, if I do say so myself.

You are in for a special treat today...our guest blogger is the duchess of do-good, the contessa of quilting, the mistress of the Internet...that's right dear blogging friends, it's our own "Cherry Baby" herself...HRH Pam Kitty! 

Pammie dearest, what have you for us today?  I hear you have been a busy girl lately...might you have something new to show your royal subjects?

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PS...make sure to drop back at the end of our Dazzling Dozen Delicious Desserts on Wednedsay...we'll be having a little contest and giving away some gift certificates & prizes...and if you're really, really good...I bet there will be some Charm Pack give-aways in the near future too.

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My Favorite Things...55...New Fabrics & New Friends

Day 8 of 13 A Dazzling Dozen Delicious Desserts

It's a big day here at our humble studio-by-the-lake...lots of new goodies...you're on notice Brenda, Elizabeth, Pam, Anne & Annie...It's better than Christmas morning around here when the first rolls of fabric arrive before market...

We could have waited until tomorrow, but then again, who knows when the courier service would have arrived...?  So we drove to my agent's office tonight and got the boxes of ROT...FYI, we don't say it like its rotten, we say R-O-T...that's the term for fabric, when it comes "rolled on tubes"...

Paton, wielding a box cutter under the cover of darkness...

"Paton step back", I said.  " I need to get a shot of this for the blog"...(taking my instructions from the LHDG shameless promotion department, of course)...

So here they are ladies, the first of the new fall fabrics...The colors are soft and clear and remind me of sherbet and ice cream...What's really great is that the new things for Fall 07 cozy up next to the May 07 collection really, really well.  One of my "ab-fab-favorites" is the Saturn pattern...the pink circle tone-on-tone.  "La Grande Rose"...is one of the new additions to the La Belle Rose collection.  It's big pink rose on the pearl background, and let me tell you, it is not fooling around!  The roses are 4-5" across and they are in bouquets that fill an 8" square. So now the La Belle Rose collection (that has only been out since July), has teensy-weensy, small, medium, large & now extra large roses too.  Still delicate & pretty enough for a smaller quilt, but big enough for a knock-down-drop-dead-gorgeous queen size bed quilt as well...It's a beauty, if I do say so myself!

More show and tell soon...we have the whole back of the wagon to unload in the morning.  I'll be sure to have my camera with me.

Meantime, let's not forget about dessert...(quel horreur, certainment pas!)

Tonight is a blogger who puts a smile on my face.  I still remember the first time I went to Thimbleanna's post...She had all sorts of amusements...I instantly fell in love with her banner...you simply must see it, the banner is worth the cost of admission!  Next, she had a place in her side columns for other blogging "Anna's"  (that touched me, in a "being kind to others sort of way").  The thing that made me crack up was her description of her family members.  So genuine, and yet such a kick in the pants!

Meantime, she too likes to cook and has many yummy sounding recipes in addition to her sewing and quilting posts.  From her description of her dessert, it sounds like a winner to me...So take it away, Anna...(I want to taste it all by now, don't you?)

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My Favorite Things...53...Unexpected Pleasures

Day 6 of 13 A Dazzling Dozen Delicious Desserts

Can you guess what this is?

Tonight Paton & I had  sushi at a new Japanese restaurant in Ringwood, New Jersey.  I've had sushi in a lot of places, including Asia, Paris & California...and I have never seen a garnish like this little radish carved into a lantern.  Isn't it precious?  My favorite part about blogging is definitely the show & tell.  Something fun comes your way, and with the flash of a digital camera...it's blog-able.

So without further ado, it's time to introduce our next "Dazzling Dessert Hostess with the Mostest"...Angela Byington of Cottage Magpie.  Angela's a woman who seems to have more energy than 3 people...her blog is one of the most ambitious ones that I've seen so far.  The only thing that has slowed Angela down a wee bit in the past month or so has been her moving to a new house. 

She is thoroughly enthusiastic and entertaining in a Lucy and Ethel "throw yourself into everything you do" sort of way...So let's have a big round of applause for "My Favorite Magpie"!

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My Favorite Things...50...Three's A Charm!

Day 3 of 13 A Dazzling Dozen Delicious Desserts

I just can't say enough nice things about Fig Tree Quilts.  Since meeting Joanna at the Portland show in May 2002, I have admired not only her work, but her discipline as well.

I'm guessing that she's the kind of gal that can be satisfied with one dessert...while I am more the type to ask for the dessert sampler.  She has a color palette for her blog and she's sticking to it, and I'll change my whole blog top to bottom to go with yet another one of my wacky ideas. 

Just want you to know though, that we've booked side-by-side cabanas at the Loony Bin for retired self-employed designers. She can look out her window to see something new and different every day, and I can look over and...OMG,"that Joanna, she's color coordinated her flower beds to match her shutters..."  I jest.

Our common thread you see is that we are both Francophiles (we love anything French)...Here's a snapshot of a typical Parisian Patisserie...nothing out-of-the-ordinary, mind you...just a little neighborhood place.

So it's particularly ironic that when I started "gathering the girls" for this event, Joanna offered up her version of a very French Dessert.  I for one can't wait to have a stove, so that I can make it here at "Casa No Cucina".

So without further ado, I bring you Joanna Figueroa...even her dessert goes with her color palette!

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Favorite Things...49...The Cat's Out of the Bag?!

Day 2 of 13  A Dazzling Dozen Delicious Desserts

This is our little office trouble maker..."Crown Vic" aka "Vickie Von Dixel"...I bet with a little work in Photoshop, I could turn her into a purse...(doesn't she look like she's got a handle growing out of her back?) For some background on Vickie see my post from June 25th...

Let me explain what you are seeing in the photo...Vickie is on a 6 foot long low bench (one of two) that I lay out the new fabric swatches on, as they come in from our mill in Korea.  On a tack wall behind the benches I have the May 2007 LakeHouse Library cards pinned in place so that I can see how the all of the existing and new designs work together.  It's fairly late in the game now, so I have all of the Fall 2007 intro fabrics all laid out in neat little waterfall style piles to approximate how the salesman sample cards will be laid out.  I guess it's really my fault that Vick decided that she could make herself comfortable on top of these new fabric samples.  Somewhere in the midst of the day, I must have thrown my purse ontop of all of this arrangement, and the next thing I know Vickie's enjoying "the splendor of of it all"...(rolling around on her back, of course!)

You know how it is with cats, whatever you are working on is the place that they want to be, right?

Our guest today is yet another animal-loving-quilter...Brenda Riddle of "From Little Acorns" fame. Bren is also getting ready for FQM, and she's made something "yummy for your tummy" too.

Take it away Brenda !

Oh, and just so all of you out there in the quilting blog-o-sphere don't think that our all of our guests are working on projects with only LakeHouse fabrics, I'll give you a hint:  tomorrow's guest is one of the most prominent jewels in the "Moda Crown"...Hope to see you then.

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My Favorite Things...48...Having a Party

Day 1 of 13  A Dazzling Dozen Delicious Desserts

Welcome one and all to our first ever Blog-able Feast...the atmosphere at our humble little studio here at "Chez Boulders" is festive (if a bit frenetic) and filled with the anticipation of good things to come.

My faithful side-kick Kammie, aka Kamma-Noodle-Von-Poodle (my list of pet names for Herself is a long one)...allowed me one good photo of her in a new "Cherry Baby" neckerchief ...Is it just because she's my girl or is she precious?

My hope is that I will be able to get Miss Thing to pose in some other Haute "Cat-ure" outfits before the last in our series is feasted upon.

Speaking of crazy ladies who like to dress up their pets...Our first Blog-able Feast guest is none other than the quilt-making grandmother of four...wait for it...Guinea Pigs, Elizabeth Scott.

In addition to her going to her Late Bloomer blog to check out what she's working on for Fall Quilt Market (hereafter known as FQM) and her yummie dessert, YOU MUST go to Elizabeth's May Archives  (scroll down to May 21) and check out the Grandpigs enjoying the quilts she made for them.

You can see a gallery of Elizabeth's other projects at her site Late Bloomer Quilts.

So without further ado, I give you Elizabeth making something cool & creamy in Livermore, CA.

Our next Blog-able Feast is tomorrow.

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My Favorite Things...46...More Goodies

I just couldn't resist...
Another picture postcard day, and more eye candy too.

It's coming together...

I just loves me blue and whites! The blue dot is LH 03035 Frosted Dots:  Heather BTW...it's a favorite of mine.

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My Favorite Things...41...Gotcha!

Ladies, I thought I was too old by now to be shocked by anything...but shocked I was, that NOT ONE OF YOU NOTICED that the fabric under my BLT salad was a new coloration of the Hydrangeas & Raspberries fabric!  This colorway is called Heron...

OK, in fairness to you all...at first glance, it could have been mistaken for the much loved Heather version of this best-selling design...But the new Petal colorway, it's not like nothin' else!...except that this new colorway is very "simpatico" with the colors in the La Belle Rose Collection.

This fabric will be presented at Fall Quilt Market in Houston, (and in the shops in January).  Wait until you see the new coordinates...they're great fun, and WAY different that I bet you're imagining...so stay tuned...like Hansel & Gretel and the bread crumbs...I'll be previewing new goodies all the way to market.

At HOLLYBLOG...stay on your toes...because you never know...

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