This seems like a timely post. There is lots of LOVE in Blog Land right now for Pillows. Pillows that don’t have to be Red and White, but the hearts are timely too. You can find the pattern for the pillow above{my pattern!}in the February issue of The Quilt Pattern Magazine I made this pillow…

FOLLOWERS TAKE NOTE!: I’ve taken the ‘big’ step and got my own domain name.My blog is now located at http://www.sewjoycreations.com/Your links to sewjoy.blogspot.com will still work,BUT, you might want to update!:) BIGGER plans are in the works too. I’m planning on getting smaller:) and more focused at creating with colour. I hope you’ll stick around…

Why “Play/Pause” this morning? My son has been down and out with a fever for the last 4 days and nights – and I have been awake for them all! I have been staring at the buttons on the music player beside his bed more than I’ve been staring at my stash:) The “Play/Pause” button…

It’s already time for some more cake! Block 7 is up at Moose on the Porch Quilts. This time before I started picking out fabrics for the block, I looked at my photo of the first 6 blocks to see which colours I haven’t used as focus fabrics yet. I have only one beige tone…

My Design Wall this week has these 6 cupcakes up for my niece’s birthday present.I’m challenging myself to make my nieces and nephew birthday gifts that incorporate their age this year.The cupcake is a free pattern from Stephanie at Loft Creations that I couldn’t resist using as soon as I saw it. I think I’m…

One night this week I finally fused together my sugar pot block for the Madhatter Tea Party quilt. You can see the rest of the blocks I’ve completed here. As I was cutting the shapes out I remembered that long long ago, when I was actually working on applique projects, I had saved my scraps…

January’s Sew Modern Bee Block is nice and sunny! Made for Wooly Jen using Dream On! layer cake pieces and a solid pale yellow. {this may be as close as I get to Judy’s monochromatic challenge for the month:)} Jen had us use our ‘bonus’ triangles to make a small pinwheel block {top right} and…

The Layer Cake Quilt Along with Moose on the Porch Quilts is half way done. My fat quarter Block 6 {fabric is Bejeweled by Susie Robbins} I like that I got to use some of my busiest prints in this block and it still looks good. It really helps that this mix of fabrics has…

I’ve completed 2 blocks so far for this month’s Block Lotto. These ‘stacks’ are great for using up stash strips. I need to get some more white fabric so I can make a few more. I used lots of fun blue and green selvages to make this bag. I made it for one of my…

My sewing box that holds all of my rick rack and ribbon bits was getting to be quite the disaster area. Several months ago I purchased a bag of ribbons and such for $4.00 at a second hand store. Lots of fun rick rack was inside too.Plus, I received some for Christmas. Definitely time to…