Bring on the Giveaways! Today is officially day one of Sew,Mama,Sew! Giveaway Day. I'm really excited to get an opportunity to possibly win some goodies, but most importantly I'm excited to find some new blogs to add to my reader. There is a lot of new bloggers out there with some pretty amazing talent just waiting to be found, and...

It has been a fun last couple days viewing the Quilts that have been entered into the Bloggers Quilt Festival. I have definitely been inspired, beyond my capacity. Looking at so many brilliant designs, beautiful fabrics, and pure talent can be a little overwhelming. I feel like I'm constantly saying Oh, I wish I could do that! But, I have...

May is such a fun month! Mother's Day, my Birthday, and this year tons of awesome Quilting events. I have been super busy here at Pile O' Fabric gearing up for these events, and today I am really excited to be participating for my first time in The Bloggers Quilt Festival hosted by Amy's Creative Side. Have you ever been...

Today I join Freshly Pieced for W.i.P. Wednesday to share with you my project progress this week. For only being wednesday it has been a very busy week for me. Today my little Everett is 2 months old! And it also marks 1 month my family has been sick, yikes! But, I think it's almost over the kids seem to...

If haven't heard yet the Sew,Mama,Sew! biannual HUGE Giveaway Day is coming up on Monday, May 21st. This will be my first year participating in it, and I have heard it is an absolute blast. Giveaway Day, has become so popular that it now lasts 5 days! If any of you are like me than you probably have never won...

So today has been a Sew, Sew, Saturday, yes lots of sewing projects in the works. I wanted to stop by and thank everyone who has visited and participated in my Kona Cotton Charm Pack Giveaway an remind everyone that today is the last day to enter you have till 12 p.m. I will announce the winner sometime tomorrow morning....

Today I join Freshly Pieced for W.i.P. Wednesday to share with you my project progress this week. First off my most important accomplishment and main focus this week, as most of you know has been sitting by my little Everett's side while he was in the hospital and taking care of him. Poor little guy is only 7 weeks old...

It has been a sick filled month for my family. It started with my daughter who got a virus which turned into Croupe, then she gave it to me, I was sick for weeks, and we tried so hard to protect my Son Everett who is 7 weeks old from getting sick, but his little body couldn't avoid it. On...

This is the third week of Fat Quarter Idol at Sew,Mama,Sew!. And this weeks theme is Daddy-O. First off I think of my husband, who is a young daddy. So I wanted to choose very young looking masculine prints.   I picked out about 36 different fabrics, opened the images up in Photoshop and put them all together in a...

Today I join Freshly Pieced for W.i.P. Wednesday to share with you my progress with the Patchwork Prism Quilt. For the last few days I have been taking time to organize the colors for this quilt. I pretty much stare at my design wall, move some colors around, step back, walk away, come back, move some colors, and so on....

Welcome May! Where has the time gone. My precious little Everett is already 6 weeks old, and if feels like just yesterday I was pregnant! Today I am going to take a look back at the month of April, and join in with other at Lily's Quilts Fresh Day of Sewing and Small Blog Meet Up.  Fresh Day of Sewing is...

I'd say the overall theme for this quilt project would be relaxation. It was really great to just plan as I go and not worry about measurements, sizes, points and squares. I had a blast. Here is the final quilt before it was wrapped and I was off for the shower.    Alyssa

On Friday I got my Kona Charm Packs in the mail from the Fat Quarter Shop, so this weekend I spent time arranging my colors and planning my layout for the Patchwork Prism Quilt.    This is definitely going to be one of those projects that takes a lot of planning and brainstorming! I arranged the colors into groups using...

Last week I started a new project, which I am going to call the Summer Sunrise Baby Quilt. My cousin Brian, and his Wife Lai are expecting their second child. They have a son about the same age as my Daughter Gwenyth and are going to be having a precious little girl! So for her gift I of course decided...

This is the second week of Fat Quarter Idol at Sew,Mama,Sew!. And this weeks theme is Meet Me at The Picnic. My first thought when I think of a picnic is the plaid red and white picnic table cloth. I also think of nature, birds, and flowers. All warm colors. After I had the colors in mind I searched the...

Well things have been really slow for me the last week or so. My family has been passing around a terrible cold, which I now have! I'm resting often, but I did take some time out yesterday for a new Quilt Along I will be joining. Yesterday was day one of the Patchwork Prism Quilt Along! The Patchwork Prism quilt...

This is the first week of  Fat Quarter Idol at Sew,Mama,Sew!. And this weeks theme is Sweet Child of Mine. Being a mother of two beautiful children, this was a super fun challenge for me. If I were to win the fabric bundle I can guarentee the fat quarter will go to great use! First thing I did was look around...

One of the blogs I really enjoy following is Sew,Mama,Sew! It is filled with Tutorials, Patterns, and they have an online store and forum. So if you are looking for more great resources this is a great place to go. Yesterday they annouced a new activity called the Fat Quarter Idol. Each week Sew,Mama,Sew! will annouce a theme of the...

Well you might be thinking did the quilt end up getting there in time? It did indeed. When I got home from dropping my husband off at the airport, I took my sewing machine apart. I was able to get it to sew a good stitch, but at the slowest speed possible. So I seem ripped all the bad stiches out...

I find that one of the hardest parts of creating a quilt, is choosing the quilting design. I am always very hesitant to start quilting as I don't want to ruin all the work I just did. In fact I have some quilt sandwiches ready to be quilted, but just sitting in my projects tub, because Im to scared to...