Scraps of love

Quilting Love!!!

2014-09-10T08:14:00.001-07:00

What is your favorite quilting design??? Mine has to be the Sunbonnet Sue.

What have you made with this pattern???? Post pics let me see!!! Quilting is my passion and this design brings back memories of sitting under moms quilts and my grandmothers as well.. My mom got first place at the fair with hers, when I was a very small child.

This is a wall hanging I just love it. There are so many patterns of Sue which is your favorite?

2014-09-09T09:01:00.003-07:00

Whats your favorite notion for quilting????(9/9/14)

Mine is a good thimble that has a edge to catch the needle to keep it from slipping and a quilters rubber!!! got to have safe quilting you know or we all know what happens and that is how baby quilts are made!

I also love a good quality thread that dont break so easily! what is your favorite thread for hand quilting?? what is your favorite knot tying technique?

Suggest some ideas and I will put your name into a

drawing for 4 fat quarters!!!!

2014-09-09T08:54:00.001-07:00

September 9,2014

one year shes been gone! I am doing much better these days and think of mom often so many wonderful friends and quilty friends who have helped me thru this tough time in my life. I feel like I owe so many people hugs and more!

Putting my quilt in the fair and getting Best of Show was the best ever!!! it is one of the best things to happen since mom past away! I think that honored her in many ways she taught me well and she was so very proud of my quilting and sewing and my talents. all she taught me!

I plan on making a memory quilt for my kids so they have a great quilt next to them that they can cuddle up in and feel her close.

So with knowing she is at peace and is out of pain it is time to move forward and post something Happy

soooooooooooooo new topic!

I am thinking of getting a grant to get me a digital long arm so i can make a go at a home sewing business that is more serious and so i can turn out quilts faster to my customers.... I am also getting my patterns ready to put in shops and I am still writing my sewing book> I am hoping it will be a great success as well.

My husband and I really need to have something to bring in a income as he is getting to where cars are just not his job so much anymore its tearing up his body and this is something we both enjoy! who knows this may be our retirement that we enjoy together!!! so here we go onto a new adventure together! praying that this is a path we can make a go at

We are even thinking of selling machine quilting threads as well........ thoughts ideas??/

see you in heaven....

2014-06-08T19:52:00.001-07:00

Today I am doing much better learning to cope and learning to listen to her whispers in my dreams she is still here by my side. I think this last year has been a time for grieving and growing. I have learned many things from my mothers death and i have learned how to keep her alive every day in my life and my childrens life.
I will see her again i do believe that i will......
See you Heaven mom i hope you fathers day is a great one as you spend it with your father for the first time in 63 years tell grandma and him hello from us all!

I think of ways i can help my kids cope with her being gone and fishing is one way we cope as we feel close to her fishing. We always say this one is for you grandma and we throw her in. usually i catch a fish every time! as mom usually out fished us all!.

I have learned why my mom did things and certain things are so much more clear now. wow
11 months ago i lost my best friend and mom I love you dearly and think of you often keeping our blog has helped me go back and see my pain and helped me see how i am doing.
julie will be 15 this year next month and dustin turned 8 this year and i 44 and you kiddo my hubby 45 we miss you so very much we talk about you every day and we all talk to you before we go to bed and pray your ok... we cuddle under your blankets you have given us all and take great comfort as well......

i am headed back to school to get that degree i told you i would get! a promise is a promise! help guide me thru the days and nights of my life mom as i feel you are near me always hugging me from the other side...
I feel you i hear you i love you thank you for being at my side keeping me strong helping me to grow and learn miss you terrible loving you always your loving daughter Jan-Jan aka Janetta

sept 5 2013

2013-09-05T20:21:00.003-07:00

well another day has past and i still call mom to tell her things and how my day went so hard not to be able to call her i think now i am just in a rut sew what does a girl do when she cant talk to her mom she sews!

sew i am working on some projects mom left behind and i will get them done and use them on my own bed one is a rose of sharon quilt in purple and blue the other is s sun bonnet sam and a sue... also have a dresden plate also in purple she wanted so i will be workign on those along with my other quilts and working on chirstmas items already cant wait for the snow this year things will be weird this year with out mom here but i guess its life and i will get thru this like most of the other days feeling quite inside and less stressed and not worrying about mom as much but i still worry werid how long will this be idk god knows sew what is your favorite sewing project???
what do you like to sew the most of tell me coem share your thoughts loving mom always janetta mommas girl

QUILTS AND MORE QUILTS

2013-08-31T23:16:00.001-07:00

MOM SURE LOVED TO QUILT AND TODAY SHE WAS WITH ME WHEN I PRESENTED A QUILT TO THE TOWSE FAMILY! MOM SURE LOVED THESE QUILTS AND WAS GOING TO MAKE ONE WITH ME BUT ALAS TIME RAN AWAY FROM US...
MOM IS SO PROUD OF THEM AND SHE COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT I WAS DOING WITH THE TALENT SHE TAUGHT ME ...
MOM TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS HAPPY I PICKED UP HER LOVE FOR IT AND THAT I RAN WITH MY IDEAS AND THAT I INSPIRED MY AUNT TO DESIGN SOME OF HER OWN AND SHE IS LOVING IT TOO... TODAY I FEEL AMAZING AND I FEEL MOM NEAR

TOMORROW IS SEPT 1 AND I AM GOING TO GO CLEAN OUT HER SEWING ROOM AND BRING HER THINGS HOME I AM EXCITED TO DO IT AND A BIT NERVOUS LIKE I AM RUMMAGING THRU HER THINGS AT THE SAME TIME BUT I ALREADY KNOW WHAT I AM SUPPOSE TO DO AND WHAT SHE WANTED ME TO DO......
I LOVE YOU MOM TOMORROW WILL BE TOUGH BUT I KNOW YOUR THERE WITH ME I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND MISS YOU BUT I AM OK I WILL BE OK AND DUSTIN AND JULIE AND KEVIN AND AND KAYLA ALL ALL THE GREAT GRAND KIDS MISS YOU TOO

LOVING YOU ALWAYS JAN- JAN MUAH!!!! FOREVER IN MY HEART AND SOUL MOM!

PS I KNOW YOU HATED MY TATS BUT I AM GETTING A NEW ONE AND IT IN MEMORY OF YOU AND I HOPE YOU LIKE IT
I KNOW I WILL

Today I know I am strong!

2013-08-29T15:47:00.001-07:00

Today I am strong because, of my mother. she came last night to be with me I felt her near as a binded one of my purple heart quilts, she loved them so much you know and she was proud of them.
Mom was there telling me i would be ok and she was there to help me threw my heart ache I did wake feeling much better then i have in weeks thank you mom...
Mom loved to sew as much as fishing. My kids and I were talking about the last few times we went with grandma and she just seemed to fade into the river and the sounds around us she seemed to be somewhere else. yes we noticed and I felt mom slipping away a few weeks before that day. but this day was a beautiful day she was with us and was truly having a great time. she made me promise her so many things and so far i have managed to keep them all. A PROMISE IS A PROMISE IN MY BOOK YOU DON'T EVER BREAK THEM NOT EVER!!!
I promised that I would make sure the boys were taken care of and that her needs were met to the fullest of what she asked. me to do. I got that all done. many other promises were to always love Kevin and to never leave him she loved Kevin ( my husband of 15 years) she loved how he treated her with the respect she deserved and in some ways she loved him more than she could ever say. as for the promises to my children i have kept them all and will continue to keep them those are more private and will keep them to myself. mom also made me promise that i would be as strong as i could and that one day we would be together again and that she loved me and was glad we spent and spend so much time together she told me how proud of me she was and how much she truely was happy for me and so glad i was here for her over these last few years.
From our conversation i knew in my heart mom was giving up but i did my best to try and keep her here i wasn't done having her in my life and neither was my kids and hubby.

in January of this year (2013) mom told me she was done and wanted to go be with her parents and she hated being a burden on the family i told her a million times over she could never be a burden that i loved to take care of her it was my job since she took care of me to adult hood she still hated it !!

It was then when I told Kevin MOM IS GOING TO LEAVE ME THIS YEAR !!! I CAN FEEL IT COMING !!! he said ya i think so too but i new more then think i KNEW in my HEART she was going to leave me leave us all. I held on so tightly maybe too tightly......
mom loved our walks and talks and our fishing days and especially our sewing days with her sister Saima we three were a crazy bunch we baked together and sewed and fished together...
These are the days i miss the most and will always miss... it just isn't the same with out her..... time will heal and my heart will one day heal too I just wish i had more time with my mom and i soooo totally understand her reasons for leaving us all the way she did and i respect her decision i just wish she would have given us a chance to say I love you and miss you and all that one more time!! what i wouldn't give to hear her voice and tell her just how much i love her how much we all love her....

So here I say MOM I LOVE YOU!!!!! I MISS YOU AND I UNDERSTAND!!!
IT IS HARD ON ME BUT I WILL GET THREW THIS PART OF LIFE AND I WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHAT YOU TAUGHT ME AND TOLD ME MISS YOU SO VERY MUCH XOXOX JAN...( NETTA)

so in close remember to tell your mom how much you love her cause one day when your wakened from a nap you may find her gone as i did....... shocked and stunned missing her always netta
LOVE YOUR MOM TELL YOUR DAILY!!!!

In memory of mom!! a blog i wish to continue i think it will help me heal.

2013-08-18T00:48:00.001-07:00

Well its August 2013 on July 24th mom past away very suddenly and my world has been turned upside down but i will heal in time. Her love of quilting will keep me going it lives inside me and my daughter i think is beginning to get the bug of quilting. Mom would be excited!
Everyday i miss her i try to think of her everyday and keep her close to me.
I want to keep this blog going in memory of my mom the most amazing mom ever!! she taught me so much and i want to share it will all. Quilting was a way of getting families together here in my home my husband and kids all helped mom work on various projects and we and her sister saima would all sit and quilt even my cousin Tammy got in on it once in a while I hope that my children will remember all the quilts we did with her i have more then enough pics of us doing it!

Mom was an amazing hand appliquer and i am still trying to be as good as here practice practice!! she would say then giggle at me knowing full well i wouldn't be able to be as good as her she had an amazing talent i could never touch but come pretty dam close at times. Mom showed me how to quilt when i was 5 years old mom and grandma Janetta (my name sake) would teach me something new everyday and i would sit and try and try till one day i just got it and it remember very vividly grandma saying time to go to the sewing shop to get you a real project! I still have it bambi! sampler it is in my hope chest half done!

One day i will put it out and complete it! hand embroidery i learned at 5 and 6 years old. had fun!
then grandma would let us quilt with her no matter our stitch size she left them in. use to sit under the quilts and play with all the wooden spools too that were left over from all the quilts. or play with my dolls and all of grandma scraps. quilting was and is a way of life for my family and i dont see it going anywhere but further soon my granddaughter will be old enough to teach so a mom can hope to keep the hand quilting going.
mom you left a giant whole in my heart but i promise to keep you in my heart and mind everyday! I promise to keep quilting and fishing in our family!!! thank you for teaching me all you did and i wish i had told you but i think you already new since my house looks more like a sewing shop then a home i thank you mom for all the wonder memories we have sewing in my home! and the videos may be short but the memories are there and are strong! miss you always! your loving daughter and best friend janetta
I miss our walks too!!

Saturday April 14th 2012

2012-04-14T08:24:00.001-07:00

I am shana's daughter Janetta named after her mommy ( i love my name very much) my mom and grandma taught me when i was young to embrodiery it was bambi and yes i still have it.... i was 5 yrs old. i was hooked my fingers loved it my heart began to sing...... as i grew up i lost track of sewing for a while BOYS CAME important for a bit but i did play under moms alot! with my little brother harold. at 13 i made a quilt which i still have to put in my hope chest for when i had children ironic it was a boys quilt my first child was a boy lol guess my mind already new. after i was married my sewing came back to me i was 19 years old and needed a outlet if started with teaching myself how to sew clothes for my son then moved into curtains and clothes for others. after a divorce i tried my hand back into the world of quilts BIG MISTAKE! now i am just a 4th generation quilter of my family and now i am too ADDICTED!!! I love to quilt as much as possible and i make my own designs. quilting has become my passion and i hope to share it with my granddaughters as they grow older as i have with my own daughters who i hope one day will pick up the quilting bug too. even my son gave his hand at it once wonder will he ever finish his quilt him and his sister began in high school??? maybe i mom can hope..... all in all i guess i can blame my mom and grandma for givng me this bug of quilting and i know if my grandma was here today she would be amazed and proud of my purple heart design and how many soliders i have given them too so in a end of this i say KEEP QUILTING IT KEEPS YOUR MIND HAPPY!! qouted after aunt saima another quilter i love! my moms sister! hugs to you all till next time happy quilting!

sun bonnet doll block

2012-04-13T09:03:00.001-07:00

The finished Block is then sewn to a print block to make a strip of the quilt

next time I will show you the finished top. when I get my cast off.

The sun bonnet doll block

2012-03-30T07:17:00.002-07:00

Making a Sun Bonnet Doll block

The pattern cut out of card board

used to cut out the print material.

Here the pattern is drawn on a piece of muslin 8 1/2 X 11.

The hand and foot are drawn freehand.

The dress is cut 1/4 inch lager then the cutout pattern then appliqued to the block

next time we will finish the block

Sun bonnet dolls twin size

2012-03-28T14:29:00.003-07:00

This is an old pattern called the Sun Bonnet Doll quilt.

Two of the blocks the red has not been embroider

back of block

The dress and bonnet are Appliquéd to a 8 X 11 inch muslin block then embroiderer with a button hole stitch all work is done by hand.

Blocks laid out to see what the finish quilt will look like

This quilt can be ready to ship in two weeks and will sell for 90.00 USD plus shipping. You can chose the color of the plain strips and the back I normally get a twin size flat sheet for the back.

my latest quilt

2012-03-23T09:32:00.002-07:00

Embroidered Boys and Girls

This Quilt is ready to ship

Crib size 35 X 50 inches

50.00 USD plus shipping

email Shana at durhamshana@gmail.com to order

sun flowers and bees

2012-03-22T08:47:00.001-07:00

All cotton print front and back

35 X 41 the right size for stroller or car seat

45.00 USD plus shipping

Rocking Horse

2012-03-22T08:28:00.000-07:00

pinning the top to the frame

This one is called little

Roses it is 41 X 48 crib size

sell price is 50.00 USD plus shipping

made with all cotton print front and back

Making a rocking horse baby quilt

2012-03-21T05:30:00.001-07:00