tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63624882320044714122026-03-03T02:27:25.403-08:00I love my Jay, adore my Steiger and Scarlet, and ♥ my fabricTracey Jacobsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15496520043332895745noreply@blogger.comBlogger382125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6362488232004471412.post-50745105574295765312015-04-03T11:42:00.000-07:002015-04-03T11:42:37.482-07:00

This is my "Slow Dance" quilt, and is featured in this May 2015 American Quilter magazine.  This quilt was inspired by the traditional Tennessee Waltz pattern, with a few modifications. You might recognize the design from another quilty friend of mine, Lee of Freshly Pieced, because she has an almost identical pattern. She and I made the quilts completely separately of one

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I am lucky enough to be friends with the lovely Angela at Cut to Pieces, and knew instantly I wanted to make the Nine Patch Curves quilt from her A Quilter's Mixology: Shaking Up Curved Piecing Another dear friend of mine got married this past September, but harvest and a new job and a family tragedy impeded my actually getting there. The next best thing I could do was make a quilt. 

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Welcome to the Bloggers' Quilt Festival!  This is my entry for the year -- my "Leaded Glass" quilt The design was about 3 years in the making, inspired by its namesake of a cool window I wanted to re-create in fabric, and is featured in this month's issue of American Quilter Magazine (on newsstands now!) The quilt measures 72" square, and is machine quilted by Natalia Bonner from

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Giveaway now closed!Winner -- Mary on Lake Pulaski. :)  As a mama who tries to work from home, I like to support others who do as well! Meet Midwest Family Life! I met Erika through blogland, and a few months ago (yes, it's been that long!) She asked if I would host a giveaway for her. She sent Scarlet this adorable hat and purse as a thank you, and is offering a $20 shop credit to a

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I'm back with my Christmas in July tutorial with Sew Lux Fabric! Chrissy has set up a series of tutorials this week, including a link up, coupon code, and prizes at the end! :) I was working with the 25th and Pine line from Basic Grey. I plan to turn this block in to a table topper, but for now, here is my So Pretty Christmas block! The pattern will be available for free on Craftsy for a

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I need a name for this block pattern I'm working on for the SewLux Christmas tutorials with SewLuxFabric.It will be up tomorrow morning... right now, the top contender is "Pretty Star." :) I had a different plan, but this felt more inspired.  I do not love paper piecing, so I needed to test the pattern to write it up, and figure out the cutting sizes, etc.  I had

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I'm happy to announce I'll be participating in a little Christmas in July sew along with Sew Lux Fabric. I will be working with this beautiful bundle of 25th and Pine And here is my inspiration for my tutorial! Won't this make the cutest Christmas pillow? Here's a little more info! ___________________________ While the holidays arrive at the same time each and every year,

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All Full! If you filled out the form, you are in (as long as you buy your fabric and pay shipping & handling). :) It is time to sign up for the Cotton + Steel swap!  (Note: Just filling out your form doesn't guarantee anything - I will be in contact to finalize things, and I'll close form when we're full) This is your registration link here. How the swap works: 1) Fill out

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*ATTENTION -- SIGN-UPS ARE HERE ON JULY 2 AT 9 AM PST!* I am considering organizing a 10" square swap of all the Cotton + Steel prints, and gauging interest ahead of time. It would involve the quilting cottons only from the designers' individual collections, which you can see here.  Comment below if you're interested, and more details will follow if it looks like we can get

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*Giveaway now closed - Barbara Woods was the winner* I am hosting a little giveaway on Instagram, but will share here in case, like I wasn't for a long time, you're not there.  You can enter for the Grand Prize on Instagram, or comment here with your favorite pattern and which essential oil sample you'd like to try! Find the patterns here, and a list of the oils to try here! (

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About a year ago or so I learned about fermenting veggies, and as requested, here's my little blog post on how I do pickles.  Supplies:- mason jar- fresh cucumbers (I picked these last night) - real salt (NOT iodized - I use the himalayan pink salt from Costco)- pickling spices, herbs, garlic, etc.- NOT chlorinated water (we have well water, so I use from the tap)- optional: starter (

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My sweet friend has a sweet baby girl named Emily. Emily's big sister already had a quilt, but we didn't know if this little lady was a baby boy or girl, so her quilt wasn't ready when she was brand new.  Emily just turned one, and over the past year I've had many, many different ideas for her quilt, until I saw this fabric, and knew I wanted to design something around it.  I

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Good morning friends! I've had a few quilt finishes in the last couple months believe it or not! ;)  One I can't blog yet (bummer), but a couple I can (even if they're small).This first one I started when the little owner of this quilt was just brand new, and for some reason, her name inspired me. And then it sat. For a very long time. Not sure why... but it just happened that way.

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(his birthday was actually April 10 -- I am a little late on this...) Oh my Steiger Jay. (his name rhymes with "Tiger," by the way)... I really like being your mama. At this moment, you are battling a mylar balloon we got you for your birthday, telling me how great your fighting skills are. There are many things about you that are very stereo-typically "boy" (as pictured in the Iron Viking

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If you aren't familiar with that quilt there, it was made by the lovely Lindsey at Happier than a Bird Quilts. She made it from my Linky Love pattern, and Vanessa's Simply Color ombré jelly roll. She sent it to me this past week. ♥ This winter has been very bittersweet for me. This blog has been quiet because I had been working on the best kind of WIP, but the baby lost his or her heartbeat

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My little Scarlet Grace. ♥ You didn't get a post when you turned 2. You will get one now. You have a smudged face in this picture because you insist on doing all things yourself. "I do it." So I (usually) let you clean your own face. Your bright blue eyes still surprise me. You are an amazing little shopping buddy, and you know just what you like. "I no like dat." "I want dat one!" You

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I knew I would get it as soon as I came out. This is Anna Maria Horner's new line, Dowry. And I was so happy to have snatched up a bundle from Caitlin at idon'tdodishes. That Anna Maria knows how to do color so beautifully! Caitlin sent me the bundle all stacked together so pretty; it was almost hard to untie it. While I was there, I picked up some of the Bluebird Park textures too. I

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If you're stopping by from the Blogger's Quilt Festival - Welcome! I forgot that one could make two entries in to the festival, and so, Rendezvous was my first, and I decided this will be my second (since I got the pattern finished this weekend). I blogged about this quilt before, so many of you have undoubtedly already seen it, but if not, here is my Roundhouse. This quilt is special to

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Happy Bloggers' Quilt Festival! Introducing Rendezvous. Photo credit: henleycreative.com I love this quilt design. And I love the fabric it's made with. It was born from a picture of a rug I saw that I thought would make a cool quilt. So I sketched it out, and figured out how to make it work with half-rectangle triangles, some rectangles, and the interplay of two different blocks. It has

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I have another custom quilt I'm working on. In purples, with a splash of aqua and yellow. This will be a slightly modified Treasure Boxes design, where I plan to off-set the rows and I sized the blocks to finish at 11" each. The little owner of this quilt will be turning two shortly after Scarlet, so I need to hurry! I caught my little lady trying to help me finish it up. :)

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I finished this little custom quilt last week. This was my starting stack of fabric. Kiley's mom told me a few colors and that Kiley wanted "princesses, butterflies, and mermaids." I thought it would be a perfect excuse to use this Alexander Henry "Once Upon a Time" print. For the design - I stole from an idea I used a long time ago, when I made this little Plume quilt. It lets you

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*giveaway closed - Mindy was the winner! Congratulations Mindy!*My favorite thing about blogging, by far, is the window to meeting wonderful new people it has given. One of those ladies, to be added to my ever growing "would love to meet in real life" list is Cindy from Hiyacinth Quilt Designs. I tease her that I want to be her when I "grow up" (which really just means that I love her style

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Oh my goodness. I didn't know this was going to show up at my house yesterday. But I was pretty happy (happy being a total understatement and trying to figure out how I could send my kids to their grandma's two weekends in a row)... ;) These are the True Colors fabrics from Free Spirit fabrics' new line of blenders (they'll have them at Market and I believe they're being released in

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Bless my husband. He really hates painting, but the last couple weekends, he finished up painting Scarlet's room (it wasn't working with what it was before). The color is "Blanket" from Lowe's. It's somewhere between a mint and aqua. One of the "Kid-friendly" color areas (you know, where they have all the individual swatches instead of the ones that are on the card in a set). White for the

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Hoping to get this pretty little custom quilt finished this weekend. :) I decided to add another row of triangles to the right, then it'll need a border, basting, quilting, and binding! Jay doesn't have Monday off, so here's hoping for a productive tomorrow!

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