Author Archives: onecreativefamily

Looking at the calendar and seeing Easter only a few days away brings a dance in my soul.  I have already started “Spring cleaning” and looking forward to open windows and a nice breeze and fresh air blowing thru the house.  This afternoon we will bring up and antique marble top dresser from downstairs guestContinue reading “Spring is around the corner”

Well I finished the quilt I was struggling with and I will admit it does look better than I thought it would.  I am glad.  I just need a little more color, but this is for someone else not me.  I really hope she likes it Now is the time to move on to the nextContinue reading “MADE IT”

Have you ever wondered how on God’s Good Green Earth did I get myself into this mess?  That is where I am at right now.  I am working on a quilt that I was asked and I agreed to make.  The story is the mother and daughter were working on this quilt(they had cut theContinue reading “uuuuuuuuuuugh”

We were out yesterday shopping and stopped in at a few Antique Shops in town and was looking for old buttons.  I was shocked!  One store had “Antique Buttons” in a quart jar and was asking $100. for them.  Yes, the decimal is in the right place.  These were not that old either.  In theContinue reading “Button Button Whose Got Buttons?”

My goal this week is to get about 10 different aprons made for our sale in June.  So far 4 made and more cut out and ready to go.  When working on multiple of same items I work in an assembly line.  It works well for me and I can see an end as myContinue reading “Aprons, aprons, and more aprons”

All UFO’s finished and I am getting ready to start on some more aprons and pet mats, and a few more Quillows.  I don’t want to make too many until I see how they sell.  This past few weeks I have been trying to do too much.  I don’t seem to be getting anything totallyContinue reading “Beautiful Monday”

I have had shelves about 20inches wide and 12 inches deep in my sewing room from the floor to the ceiling.  I have put books or fabric and things like this for years.  Sunday night I went to get some fabric off one of the shelves and the top shelf started to fall and allContinue reading “And They Came Tumbling Down”

I normally sew every day, but due to life, eye issues, and working on genealogy I haven’t hardly touched the machine.  With this happening I look at the computer and think, “What to blog about?”  I was brain dead  This morning after a little while of sewing it has opened the mind and I haveContinue reading

I was given some fabric and there were 2 unfinished quilts and the person who gave it to me asked me to finish the 2 quilts.  One was a baby quilt and only needed a binding.  The other was stacks of 4 inch squares (cut by hand).  The squares were shades of purple and thereContinue reading “Have you ever been asked to finish something?”

Sounds fun right?  It is thanks to Jenny Doan.  I love her Youtube videos, and have had the pleasure of meeting her a few times, learned to make easy and perfect pinwheels.  I am bringing back a project that my grandkids loved growing up( a mere 15 plus years).  It is a blanket with aContinue reading “Easy Pinwheel Quillow”