pink pickle

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

2012-02-14T09:43:00.000-08:00

I have to admit I CHEATED again!!!! I found this way cute Panel at a local quilt store on clearance no less. It is a Holly Hobbie and it was so cute I had to bring it home and make My sweet Olivia a quick and easy valentines quilt. It was so quick and easy I make a queen size for my bed. I thought it looked like pieced blocks so i left it alone and quilted it, everyone that has seen this up close has thought that it was pieced.

I even took a close up of the quilting and it still looked pieced!! I call that a bonus!!

Sorry My photog skill's still suck!! Who has time to practice when I have so many quilts to do!

This one is kind of a give a way with the black out line !
I had decided to try a new quilting design and with out practicing it out on paper first I just went to town on the quilt and I think it turned out fabulous!!!

Calling all Quilters!!!!

2012-01-19T22:19:00.000-08:00

Here is all the info you will need to come join me and many other woman for a weekend sewing retreat!! If you have never been to one you really should come they are fun and Pamela really knows how to pull one of these off. I went to her last retreat and I came out of it with a lot of NEW friends! The shows were excellent and the food was simply fabulous and the company even better!!! I'm really looking forward to attending this one!!! How fun to wake up and start sewing all day long  and in your Pj's no less, I can't wait!!!!


I hope you can join me this spring for an overnight Frenchknots Quilt Retreat!! With quilting, trunk shows and old friends it will be a weekend to remember.

Ready to shake off those winter blues and have some quilting fun?? {Frenchknots} Quilt Retreat is having it’s second annual Quilt Retreat. So.....If you want to recharge your battery before spring and have a little girls getaway come and join us for a weekend of inspiration. Mark your Calendars {Frenchknots} Quilt Retreat is this: March 2nd, 3rd and 4th. The retreat will be located at the relaxing Fairview Retreat and Reunion in Fairview, Utah.

The last Retreat was such a success! Fantastic food, amazing trunk shows, great class and new friends made ~ you don’t want to miss out. To read more about our first Retreat click here.

All you need to bring: Your Projects, Supplies and Machine!

We Provide: 3 days and 2 nights of quilting, socializing and YOU time, 6 delicious meals {breakfast x2, lunch x2 and dinner x2}. Also provided: tables, chairs, ironing boards, cutting mats and cutters.

Total Cost for the 3 day Quilting Retreat is $235.00. The first 10 people to sign up will get a $36.00 discount! Making your retreat pass only $199.00! The deadline to register is Sunday, February 2nd. We only have 18 spots, so register early. Bring a friend and make some new ones!

So you WANT to attend? Can't hardly wait? Sign up now to secure your spot! We have 2 payment options:

1) Mail CHECK to

Pamela Cardwell

495 North 650 West

American Fork, Utah 84003

(send me an email pamela@frenchknots.net letting me know you sent the money)

2) Paypal

(send me an email and I will invoice you for the funds pamela@frenchknots.net)

I will email you a detailed Itinerary of the Quilting Retreat and more once I have received payment!

Thanks and I can't wait to see you soon.

xoxo,

Pamela Cardwell

email: pamela@frenchknots.net

web: http://www.frenchknots.net

Blue and Brown

2011-08-13T22:13:00.000-07:00

We finally presented the blue and brown wonky quilt to its intended party, we had been planning to five it to her way back in November 2010. I guess we are were a little busy this year I know I have been. Any way i think she was a happy lady, her little girl was happy too I think she was thinking it was for her. It fun going to her home as her whole family was there her husband took our picture. Miss patty Pickle miss Kristen pickle and My self went to give it too her and they are just the best at breaking the silence and making everything go smooth, Thank you lady's!!!

These are all the blocks that were left from the Original quilt I had the Lady's make a few extra so that we could have enough to make a small quilt for quilts shows and to have a remembrance of the quilts we made and donated, but we thought it best be used by someone going through a life's challenge.

I just love this quilt!!!

We even put her name in the quilting!

I hope this brings comfort for years to come!! Thank you to all the pickles that helped make this possible!!

"Strawberry"

2011-02-04T12:03:00.000-08:00

Just thought I would share a little of what I have been working on. This is one that I made for my sweet little girl Olivia. She loves putting her little things in it and carrying it around. I think I might blowup the pattern just a little for me one. What do you think?

Christmas Tree Festival

2010-12-04T20:25:00.000-08:00

This was the second quilt Pink Pickles made for donation! I really love this one, it turned out beautiful!

This is the first quilt the the Pink Pickles did for charity, it went to the Festival of Tree's and all proceeds are donated to the Primary Children's Hospital. I go to this every year and every year I just bawl my eyes out, looking at all the children in the pictures is so sad.

I don't know why but when I walked up to look at our quilts and saw the sign on them I started to cry. And could not stop the whole time I was around them. Maybe I'm just weird!!!

Here are a few other quilts at the festival That I liked and maybe might make a few of them!

I took a pic of this one because I liked the fabric! LOL. Oh ya and the old sewing machine!

This one was a cool Christmas count down and I had saw a quilt made the same way earlier, Loved the bent tree!

We all know why I took a pic of this one? Cause I just love Pink n black, plus it was a cool pattern.

As Olivia would say..... Dee Haw!!!!!

Here is that bent tree again, but not as a count down!

Love this one!!

And this one! Love the purple and Green combo!

this one had to be the biggest one there, it was so pretty!!

Taylors X-mas Quilt

2010-11-30T22:10:00.001-08:00

Here is the quilt That I made for my son Taylor for Christmas this year. I try to make my kids a quilt for each Christmas, at least for the last two to three years. I'm also trying to make them one for the main holidays, like Christmas, Halloween, 4th of July and maybe just a winter and a fall/ spring and summer and then there are the themed quilts, OH MY! I'm out of control.

Here is my sweet little Olivia clinging to mommy's feet and climbing all over the quilt I lay out.LOL But she is a cutie so she can climb all over my quilts.
Anyway this is a pattern from the MayWoods studio called Mr. Snowman, using her fabrics also, I change up a few things, the original called for appliqued snow men and I'm just not an applique person, don't get me wrong I like it it's just I don't do it well or have the patience to do it right.

Sorry these pics are kinda really white! But here is a pic of the free hand quilting I did on them I made up the snowflakes as I went along. This one I used triangle .

spirals here

Curly ques here I LOVE THIS ONE this is the one I came up with on paper then as I was quilting came up with the others.

squares

Double circles! I also did a few other but must have not got the pics of them, I did a heart and a couple of them with mixed shaped on them. I'm so proud of my self, I really love how it turned out. It was more work than other quilt's I have done but so worth it!

Looky!! Looky!! I WON!!!!!!!

2010-11-14T23:23:00.000-08:00

I Won!! I Won!! I Won!! Go looky at what I won!!! I told you all to go over there and enter and it could have been you!!! He he It's me, I won!!!
http://jansquiltfinishes.blogspot.com/2010/11/camera-strap-cover-winner.html

Great Give away!!

2010-11-08T09:00:00.000-08:00

Go over here http://jansquiltfinishes.blogspot.com/
for a way cute giveaway for a camera strap.

another finish!

2010-11-02T08:38:00.000-07:00

Here is a Oct finish that i forgot to post! I made this fun checker board table runner for my kids to play with. I'm thinking I may make one for every holiday. On this one I forgot to add a pocket for the pieces to go in, but I think I can still add one, so maybe by next year it will have a pocket.

I have not yet painted the checker pieces, but here is the quilting on the back. I did it using my regular machine, I don't know how these women do that on BIG quilts I have having trouble with this little thing. Thank GOD for long arms! That's all I have to say!

I really suck.....

2010-10-27T20:33:00.000-07:00

At taking photo's that is, I tried three different places to take this pic the wind was just blowing way too much. Se the wet corner I kinda dipped it in the snow ( dang it). Beside they are not even straight in the pic, WTF? I was not drinking when I took this pic. I guess I'll just keep plugging away on that. Anyway here is my PINK Halloween quilt. While collecting fabrics for this quilt I got a lot of looks when I would tell them I was making Halloween pink, I just said every holiday should be PINK. What do you think? Just not sure how st. Patrick's will work into that. HMM...

I really love this quilt, this one is for my sweet little angle baby, Olivia. I am making my self a matching one, my back ground will be white and my inner border pink and my out border black and gray. Just need to get the quilting done on it but thought I would share before I do that, in case its not done by Halloween.

I cheated!!!!

2010-10-27T11:11:00.001-07:00

Yes, I did it I cheated! I need to make a quick quilt for my little sweet baby, for her new toddler bed. So I had this cute panel and I cut it apart to try to make it look more pieced not sure it made much difference but I did have to add to the panel so I wanted everything to look the same.

Here is the quilting I put on it.

Sorry for all the un professional pics.

A gift for my Bella B!

2010-10-20T04:31:00.000-07:00

Isabella needed a curtain for her new room So I , (being her Mema) needed to make her one, well since she had a new curtain for her new room I thought it would be only appropriate for her to have a matching Quilt.
This quilt was way out of the norm for me, Since it was Tinker Bell she wanted I was very limited to were to buy the fabric, Walmart was pretty much the only choice I had. Since this quilt was just for fun WHY not? Well it turned out ok, I just hope it last at least through her TINK stage. But can I just say that that fabric sucks to sew? My quilting machine did not even like it, it messed the tension all up. I put all walmart on the front of the quilt but on the back I put good stuff cause it was cheaper to buy on clearance than wal mart, the binding is also the good stuff. It was like sewing on sand paper. Any way she really Loved it and that is all that counts. Boy the thinks us Grandma's do to make there Sweet grand babys Happy!!!!!

Ghostie's!!!

2010-10-18T16:52:00.000-07:00

Here is a pic of the quilt I saw in a quilt shop and wanted to make one of my own, so I pulled out the stash of Halloween and came up with this.....
All is from my stash except for the black spiderweb back ground. Now mine is not exactly the same cause I just made it up my self with out a patten. The original had little pockets going all around the border to put candy in. I opted out of that one .
The ghost's are made from half of a Hanky!

Pammy's Baby Quilt!!!

2010-09-29T11:19:00.000-07:00

This is the quilt I made for my sweet friend Pammy! She is having a sweet baby boy, who was due yesterday! A couple friends and I threw her a baby shower!
I think she really like it!:)
Look at that cute little belly!!

Another UFO sighting!!!

2010-07-17T22:19:00.000-07:00

This is a quilt that I did for Taylor to put on his bed for Halloween. I finally finished it, it always takes me a whole to finish them completely because I really don't like to do the binding, but I have been trying to get on the ball and finish all my unfinished projects, so here is one more down Waa Hoo!!!

Everything glows in the dark on this quilt, everything but the green inner border and the binding.

It also has a pieced back and most of it glows in the dark.

Stars and Stripes!

2010-07-04T21:26:00.000-07:00

This a quilt I finished very quickly Thanks to Some sweet pickle who had a hand in it. I could not have finished this without you lady's. I sure wish I had you all the time to help with my own quilts.LOL. I decide to make this quilt for Kaleb who is my Granddaughter's Dad , He served in over in Afghanistan and just returned on Memorial weekend. He even got a police and firetruck escort home, how cool is that?

This is the back of the quilt!

Not sure how this got side ways in the camera! I was pointing straight!????????HMMM.
I liked this quilt so much I have decided to make one for me just like it, but I may make it like a great big flag on the back! I wonder if I can count this for a UFO project? It only took about six weeks to complete it, and that is not working on it constantly.

Your kidding me...... RIGHT?

2010-05-28T20:54:00.000-07:00

Wow I'm not even sure if I can put into word's how I am feeling at this moment, disappointment to say the least. Wow!!!! I can't believe people can be so stupid!! Here's the story... we donated this quilt to a local cancer institute They held a women's golf outing and a silent auction I put a tag on this quilt before it went out the door pinned it to the quilt and put it in a zippered bag. It was to go for NO LESS than $400 yes that is four Hundred dollars. I got an email today saying that it went for forty dollars, YES that is $40 dollars. I emailed the lady back and ask her if that was a typo cause it had to be Right? LOL NO it only went for forty dollars. HMMMMM. Wow!! You are kidding me right? Because you did not just sale a quilt that several woman from a quilt group put lots of time and money into this quilt, the back fabric alone was more a
than forty dollars. WOW! I'm very impressed with the idiotsy not sure if that is a word but.... oh well . Well one thing is for sure the next quilt we donate WILL NOT be going to this foundation again. Not worth my time or money. If we would have just give them the money that we all put into it it would have been a lot more of a donation and NO time involved, None, Nada, zero, zilch. get the picture. Hell I would have givin them forty for it and kept it for me. Wow! I still am having trouble wrapping my brain around this.

Piggy Purse

2010-05-26T18:53:00.000-07:00

This is a purse I made for my sister's 30th birthday! She really loves PIG"S and apparently she likes CHICK'S too, because when I gave it to her she went Ga Ga over the chicks as well as the pig's. I guess I should have thrown some little Lamb's in there as well.

It did not turn out quite like I hoped but all in all it was OK. Not bad for my first one, I guess I will get better at it. Any way there is another thing off of my to do list. I just keep adding to the to do list."sigh"

May Pickle Party!!!

2010-05-22T14:54:00.000-07:00

Wow is this just not sooooo Beautiful! I really love this quilt my sweet little pickles that have come together to make such a work of art.

I think everyone's colors came together so well!

Look at these cute little pickle goer's!

There is a pickles grandma, drinking a stiff one first thing in the morning!

We had on our menu a wonderful quiche, fresh fruit, fruit dip, and homemade cinnamon rolls made from whole wheat, YUM. Thank you Kristen for hosting at your house!!! And for all the wonderful homemade dish's. Thank you for all who came and helped put that beautiful quilt together, I think it turned out great!!!! Until next time!

Saying Good Bye!

2010-05-20T21:58:00.000-07:00

this is our first pickle quilt! It is being donated to the Huntsman Cancer Foundation for Breast Cancer. She is leaving us on Friday May 21st. Kinda sad to give her away but it is going to a very good cause. I just want to thank everyone of my sweet Pickles for all their hard work on this quilt, your the best, I love you!

I'm not a very good photographer..... OK I suck! sorry!

this is the cute cute tag that Miss Kellie Pickle made for the quilt! It is so perfect for it! Thank you Kellie!!!

Halloween in April????

2010-04-28T08:40:00.000-07:00

This is my latest UFO. I made this quilt last Halloween for My sweet little grand daughter Isabella but I never finished the binding on it, so here it is all done. :)

I'm making one just like it for My sweet Olivia. It's in the works. ;) Next one to finish is Taylor's Halloween quilt I have the binding on it just needs hand stitching.

The backing!! Sorry my photo skills kinda SUCK!!!

♫That's the way♫ uh huh♪ uh huh♫ We Wonk it ♪

2010-04-27T11:16:00.000-07:00

Sorry sometimes I just bust out on song. Here is a quilt That one of my friends made for a wedding gift. She used the wonky log cabin block that we are doing for out pickle quilt, but she put sashing in hers with corner stones. I really like the way the sashing was done in this.

Very nicely done, I can't wait to get the pickle cabin done and also my own wonky log cabin.

AN itty bitty UFO!!!

2010-04-15T20:38:00.000-07:00

This sweet little quilt I had made for Olivia, it is a car seat quilt so it is very small, the first one I made for her did not match her cover as well as I would like but it had her name on it so I never really finished this one for her. So now that she is out of the carry seat, she did not really need another one , although she really loves her little blanky she can carry it her self. Any way I decided to give this one to a friend that just happen to have a little girl and I had given her my car seat cover up, so it will match perfect for her. YAY!!!!

This quilt was also a bit of a guinea pig, I had just got a stitch regulator on my machine so I practiced with it a bit to get used to it before I did one for a customer. It works just fine and dandy, different but very good I LOVE it!!!

I did a little bit of everything on this one! It was a fun quilt, I hope the little girl that got it likes it as much as Olivia likes hers!!!

Long Distance Pink Pickle - Wonky Log Cabin Blocks

2010-04-04T14:51:00.001-07:00

Hey there y'all,

This is Anna from down south in San Antonio, TX. I'm the long distance, virtual, remote, pink pickle (I think there is one other but not in SA). I wanted to show you the wonky log cabin blocks I've made so far for the pickle quilt. I hope you like them. I've had lots of fun making them.

Two down, only four more to go. I might make a couple of extra, just in case. Have a great Easter weekend!

Happy Stitches,

Anna

♪♫Celebrate good time♫♪ come on♫♪

2010-03-27T21:41:00.000-07:00

This block is Miss Kellie Pickles!!!

Miss Tammy Pickles block!
It was another successful Pickle meet... well I may have to start docking points for those that don't come!! Just kidding, but we did not have a big turn out, there was Me, Jeanette, Tammy, Kellie Kristine, and Kristen . Kellie And Kristine Did an absolute fabulous job on the food. They really out did them self's. On the Menu was fresh fruit with fruit dip, fresh veggies with dip, chicken salad sandwiches on croissant, the ever so yummy layered jello that was just beautiful. Also bowls of Easter candy. And a lime drink with a kick that was YUM. Oh ya and deviled eggs!!! If I forgot something I'm sorry! Sorry I forgot to take pics of the party! But when I got home I took pics of the fabulous blocks that Tammy and Kellie completed. This quilt is going to be very Awesome!!!! Thank you again Kellie and Kristine!!!!!

♪Another TWO bite the dust ♫

2010-03-02T19:00:00.000-08:00

This is Miss Jeanettes block

And this one is Miss Pat's block

Latest UFO

2010-02-25T09:01:00.000-08:00

This quilt I started over eight years ago. It was a class I took from an amazing quilter named Peggy Waltman. I had my doubts as to weather I would be able to finish it but eventually, I did.

It's called Whimsical Star and I love it!

Here is a close-up of the blocks.

Completed Pickle blocks!!!!

2010-02-17T13:41:00.000-08:00

This block is Sandy's she is one of the new Pickle's to join our group, she thought that you had to choose the colors from the center square, so... she put PINK in hers, she was not going to do it any more and I told her her blocks would be just fine, I actually like them. And with four of them though out the quilt it will be great, besides some of the others that I received so far have Pink in them as well

Kristen's block, see she has some pink too!!!

Jenny's block, it has a little orange in it!

Debi's block

This is my block!!

Potato Cheese Soup!

2010-01-28T21:51:00.000-08:00

Hey Pickles!

Okay..so here is the potato soup recipe. Just remember...there is a reason that it tastes so yummy! Also, The first time I made it I tried to do it in the crock pot, but it didn't turn out. There isn't any short cut that I know of. It's not a hard soup to make, just takes a little while to make. This is for a double batch, which was the size pot that I made for the pickle. Here it is!

6 cups potatoes cut up
1 cup carrots cut up
1/2 cup onion
2 cups water
2 chicken bullion cubes
1 teaspoon salt
6 cups milk
12 Tablespoons flour
1 lb velveta cheese
1/2 cube butter

Heat the water with the bullion cubes, add potatoes, carrots, onions, and salt and let simmer for about 15-20 minutes to soften the potatoes and carrots. While the veggies are cooking, measure out 3 cups of milk and add 12 Tablespoons of flour to it. Mix the flour in so that there are no clumps. Then in a separate bowl measure out another 3 cups of milk. (6 cups of milk total)

After the Veggies are done, then add the 3 cups of milk that doesn't have the flour in it. Warm that slowly until it's steamy. I stir it pretty frequently, so the milk doesn't stick and burn on the bottom. Then, once it's steamy, while stirring add the 3 cups of milk that has the flour mixed in. Heat slowly stirring frequently to prevent scorching. Once that shows signs of boiling, (it takes quite a while, but I promise it will boil) just a few bubbles, turn the heat off and add the cheese and butter. It will be hot enough to melt both. Once they are melted and it's all mixed in, you're all done!

You can try it with broccoli and celery if you'd like also. Sorry if that was confusing. If it was, call me and I'll try to do a better job of explaining it!

Enjoy!

Cassie

Pickle Meet......

2010-01-23T22:04:00.000-08:00

Here are a few Pics of the pickle meeting today, I did not get very many shots , I brought a camera with a dead battery uuhhgg. Well anyway we had another successful meeting, today we brought our machines and worked on the blocks. We have a few new Pickle that have joined our little group, I will post pics soon. Our new pickles are Shanelle Bayles, Kristine Shumway and Debi joined a couple months ago but this was her first meeting also. So WELCOME baby pickles!!!!

Thanks to Cassie and Cindi for hosting our Pickle they did a fabulous job, on the menu was a vegetable beef soup, creamy potato soup served in bread bowls, a seven layer dip with chips, vegetable tray, lots of festive candy bowls and for dessert the had a not sure what it was but it was yummy it had cream cheese jello and pretzels in it sounds weird but YUM!!! Also Key lime pie with PINK yes PINK whip topping!! SO PRETTY!!! May be we can get them to post recipes for us? HINT ( potato soup) Also Thank you for the awesome trunk show! You guys ROCK!!!!!

This is Debi hard at it! Her and Jenny could not wait to start sewing!!
What a wonderful way to spend a Saturday, g
Good Friends Food and Fun!
WOW! I just used three ,count them three F words!!
Thanks again for a great Pickle Day!!!

One UFP Complete!!!

2010-01-06T21:43:00.001-08:00

I'm not sure if you all know this but one of my resolutions for the year is to finish unfinished projects that I have started, it was either that or lose weight, but why do something I can't accomplish. Any way this is a quilt that i did for my my around mothers day, I finished it all but the binding, I showed it to her for mothers day and told her I had to finish it, so there it sat until finally I put the binding on it, then I finally put a tag on it and now it is ready to go live with her once again.

She love Victorian things.

Happy Mothers Day 2009

♪♫What a Man... What a Man..♪..Mighty fine Man......♪♫

2010-01-05T11:50:00.000-08:00

My sweet wonderful Husband got me this cute Pink Vintage child's sewing machine, and it really works!!!!! I was so very surprised on Christmas. He always does something cute like this for me most every Christmas. A couple of years ago he got me a Pink Stella Motor scooter, that one was a huge surprise, but this one is so much fun.

This is the size of it, that is just a regular size TV remote and a DVD case, its all metal too. My Husband is the best ever!

Fundraiser

2009-12-01T17:45:00.000-08:00

Hi Guys its Kendall. I just wanted to share some things about my husband with everyone.
If you have not heard nate wrecked on his dirt bike on November 1st out at the sanddunes he was life flighted to the U of U hospital where he had 3 Surgeries on his neck ( oh yeah he broke his neck and smashed his spinal cord and is paralized from the chest down ) in the first week once he was stable he was moved to the new Intermountain houspital in Murray because the insurance wouldn't cover once he got stable. He has been doing therapy for 2 weeks and he is improving all the time. he has been so strong and amazing and hard working. he has such a positive attitude and i think and all the prayers are what have made him so stong. We don't know if he will ever be able to get any feeling back in his legs his cord was only smashed so it all depends on if the body can heel.
Well anywaise the reason i am writting this besides give everyone an up date, is my family is putting on a fundraiser. It is december 16 at Noahs in lehi.They are having dinner and a live and silent auction so if you have anything you would like to donate it would be greatly appreciated or even come down and say hi would be so great! We are also selling raffle tickets they are $5 for one or $25 for 6. First prize is a Vespa scooter, Second is a TV and sourrond sound, and third is a Laptop so there are some cool prizes I am going to put a few links on the bottom of this post in case anyone is interested. Thanks for all the support and prayers they have definatly been felt and appreciated!

http://helpnateandkendall.blogspot.com/
http://www.nateandkendallfundraiser.blogspot.com/
http://brandonfamily2.blogspot.com/

Halloween Quilt

2009-10-25T08:18:00.000-07:00

Last Fall I made two Halloween quilts tops for my boys. This Fall I had them quilted by Ella, with spiders, spider webs, loops and twirls. I am so pleased with the results they look so cute on their beds!! Happy Halloween everyone!

Oct 24th... a perfect Pickle!!!

2009-10-24T14:14:00.000-07:00

Sweet Jenny and Ashley (her sister) Hosted a fabulous Pickle Party! Jenny made these cute spiders for those that came to the party, they are magnets, CUTE huh? We ate delicious food and wonderful company. On the menu was... roasted red pepper soup, Chili, Rolls and orange sweet potatoes YUMMMMMY!!!! The Plant in her hand was a gift to Jenny and Ashley for hosting a pickle. The plant is an aloe vera, I received a plant just like this one When I moved into my house 15, 16 years ago I had a friend that gave it to me and I have been harvesting Baby's from it and giving them away for gifts, one year I gave them out for x-mas. Its a fun and useful plant and it will reproduce and you too can give away all those little baby's, cause it will have a ton.

Her is the hostess with the mostess!! Jenny is sporting the skirt we made one together but no pic of me since i was behind the camera, we made them up our selves. I demonstrated how to do the block for our next quilt. We had a couple drawings for a prize to take home, every pickle who attended was in the drawing and there were even some names in there if you were not there for doing certain things like helping fix some blocks or assembling the quilt or binding it ect ect.

Here we forgot to do show and tell or a trunk show so we were all on our way out the door we had a quick one. Cute stuff!!! I also forgot to take pics so I hurried and snapped a couple.
We had alot of abcent pickle's, maybe next time which will be on Jan 23rd 2010.

Every Pickle must read!!!!

2009-10-14T21:19:00.000-07:00

This is were our Sweet little Pink Pickle club came from, by page fifty nine you will know why I wanted to start this Pickle. Its all about the friendship!! This is a MUST read for all pickles, so please pick one up from the Library, or if you can be very nice to my copy you may barrow it! It is a great story. Its a short read, only 196 pages.

My Newest Friend and Pickle Member

2009-10-13T15:32:00.000-07:00

Hello there fellow Pickles, I just wanted you all to meet my newest friend and newest Pickle. Her name is Debi and she just moved here to Utah in June from California. I met her in a fabric store (surprise, surprise) . I took this pic of us today ,we went to lunch at Gardner Village and of course I had to show her Pine Needle up there, and my favorite place to eat fried green tomatoes ok so it's the only place I have ever had them, but they are so yum yum good. Any way I had fun showing her around and getting to know her a bit, I'm looking forward to a great friendship and getting to know her better. Also so happy to have a new pickle!

Crazy for Dots

2009-09-01T12:26:00.000-07:00

Hi Pickles,

Just thought I would show you a quilt Ella just finished quilting for me. I am so excited about how it turned out. It is huge!! She did such a beautiful job quilting it and taking the time to make it perfect.

I meant to tell everyone on Saturday I am hosting a giveaway over at my French Knots blog!!! Check it out, I am giving away FaBrIc, a Lone Star Wallhanging, and other cute girly things. Who doesnt' want that?

Wall Hanging and Fabric!

Aug 29th Pickle

2009-08-29T15:59:00.000-07:00

Our two beautiful Hostess's or should I say four? These two are the hostesses with the mostesses. No seriously , they did such an awesome job , Thank you!!! Jeanette and Tammy, your awesome. Course you have just put the pressure on who is doing the next one to make it even more fantastic, if that is possible.

Miss Patty working that Iron !!!

Almost every ones blocks here. Looks great! Huh?

Jeanette made the decorations, they are so cute!!!

Fruit with dip, veggies with dip, three kinds of muffins, two kinds of cookies, delightful rasberry drink, awesome meal that I don't know how to spell ,but you will just have to take my word. Oh ya and an orange fluffing salad.

We had the most delightful food, they went above and beyond!! Oh ya, post recipes please!! YUM. Thanks to all you pickles for an awesome time. You ALL are the best!!!! Can't wait till the next one...

Tammy's Block

2009-08-29T15:52:00.000-07:00

Kristine's Block

2009-08-29T15:46:00.000-07:00

Kellie's Block

2009-08-29T15:40:00.000-07:00

Miss Pammy's block

2009-08-29T15:24:00.000-07:00

Megan's block

2009-08-29T15:19:00.000-07:00

Cassie's block

2009-08-29T14:52:00.000-07:00

Cindy's Block

2009-08-29T14:37:00.000-07:00

We saved it.......

2009-08-29T14:11:00.000-07:00

OK well WE... being mostly Tammy and Kelly did some magic on this beautiful pickle block and now we get to have it in our quilt . Yay!!!!!! The seems were just a little off, so don't give up! We love all our little pickles. And we are there for each other.

Explination

2009-08-29T12:29:00.001-07:00

well i had every intention of making it to pickle today I even got my blocks finished which is an accomplishment, but all week long I had it in my head that it was at 2.00pm and when i looked at the invitation and saw that it was at 11 I scribbled down some directions grabbed the baby and my blocks and took off towards Lehi. well when i got to the general area my directions were no and i totally got lost. Then after 20min of searching i gave up and came home. sad!! i still have my blocks if you need them but i can totally understand if you don't. I am so glad that this week is over! Everything has been going wrong i feel like I am loosing my mind!!

Kendall's Block

2009-08-29T09:13:00.000-07:00

Was anyone else up all night trying to finish their Blocks.....

more new fabric....

2009-08-25T09:58:00.000-07:00

Ya see what happens when I go to a fabric store? This is magnetic fabric. It clings to me when I walk by it, its the weirdest thing. Any way saw this fabric made into a skirt and had to have some for my little princess and my self of course. I am also going to make baby O a quilt with it.

I really need to get my magnetics fixed.

Amy's block

2009-08-22T16:57:00.000-07:00

This Is Amy pickle's block.
Love the colors!

My Studio..

2009-08-12T13:37:00.000-07:00

So over at Crazymomquilts blog she has ask everyone to post pics of their work space, so here is my studio. It is a 14 x32 room above our garage with 3ft storage space on each side were the walls come up, so it is a sloped storage area, not the easiest to get into but it works. My husband built this room for me when he was building the garage for working in and storing the many cars we have . ( we need a bigger garage)!

This is were it all happens! I have a couple of lady's that I sew with every Sunday evening. Here are just a couple of the machine I own, I have four bernina's in my collection one of which is pink, shown above, an artista 180,a 701 mini matic,and a 930 record, also in my collection I have a singer feather weight, and a new home that was my first machine. I have many other machine just for display but no where to display them at this time. Maybe one day.

Here is where I keep my fabric.

And here!

And here! it is stacked two to three totes deep, I have way to much fabric for one person, if I live to be a hundred I bet I will never use all of this fabric, but I will die trying. I think I have a serious illness, its called fabriholic itis. Seriously this is not even all of it I left out some pics of other stash zones.

And here are the three foot of storage space behind the quilting machine. Which quite a few of them are full of fabric but mostly lots of STUFF.

And here is the other side of the room, it is complete with a refrigerator, ironing area and just a junk collection, one day I plan to clean all of this mess up. One day really soon I have got to get a plan that works well in this room, I need HELP!! In more ways than one. LOL.

Binding tip...

2009-08-07T07:41:00.000-07:00

Ok so I recently visited a quilt store to purchase some fabric for my beautiful polka dot quilt, so it had to be just right. I found one I had to have , took it to the counter only to find out there was not enough of it, the lady at the store told me she had more of it at home and did not use it but it was already cut up for binding on the bias. So I told her I had never done the binding like that, I do a ONE piece binding she convinced me that it was not that big of a deal. WRONG. The only reason I did it cause it was perfect for what I needed and it was already cut, but never and I mean NEVER again will I do it that way. Big pain in the (you know were) . So if the lady's at the store want to cut your fabric for you on the bias, tell them NO thank you!!! There are just to many seams to sew. Hope this helps you.

2009-08-06T07:24:00.001-07:00

A response to:

To pre-wash or not to pre-wash

So, i was always told that i need to prewash my fabric before i start a project, but a freind told me that she never pre-washes her fabric. So i am asking your opinion on the subject.

I never pre-wash unless it is some funky type fabric that might bleed color into the other fabrics. I used to spend hours pre-washing and pressing (ugh...) all my pieces before using or storing until I read an article from Fons & Porter. They explained how in the past, quilt fabrics were less stable in their weaves and quality, so pre-washing was a necessity to ensure no color bleeding and even washing and shrinking after your project was done. Now, fabrics are much better quality (at least those fabrics made by leading manufacturers), dyes are a lot more stable, and while their might me some shrinking, it's usually uniform and negligible. I think the exception would be flannels. I always preshrink flannels since they shrink so much more than regular cottons. Plus, it's so much nicer to cut fabric that is 'new' and crisp with a little starch!! And a quilt that shrinks up a little bit after washing is so pretty! It gives it a kind of antique look right off the bat!

Disclaimer******With fabric you really do get what you pay for. (unfortunately....) For a quilt that is going to last long enough to make all the effort worthwhile, use high-quality fabric. Even though some stores carry 'name-brand' fabric, and might even be the same print as more expensive fabric, they are not made with the same components. It's like sheets--you can buy 700-800 thread count sheets now for pretty cheap, but if the quality of the cotton that they use isn't great, your just going to get stiff, yukky sheets. For this reason, you should be picky about what you buy. Ask every single quilter who has made quilts from both qualities of fabric. I could show you some great examples from my quilting past, but they actually fell apart and had to be thrown away. If I feel like I can't afford high quality brand new fabric, I pull from my stash, or use a coupon for the good stuff, or just wait until I can afford it. It's worth it!

( This is mostly a stab at crappy Wal-Mart fabric. Sorry if anyone uses it, but it really can not be compared to 'quilting fabric' from legit stores. I get mad when I see ladies scrambling to buy their $1-$2 dollar flannel to make into humanitarian blankets for little, sweet babies in foreign countries. Don't they know those blankets have to be washed on a rock for heck sake? Look at it sometime. It's woven like cheese cloth! You can see right through it!!) OK. Rant over.

Official advice: Pre-shrinking won't hurt, but it won't necessarily help anything either. If you get your groove on while ironing, go for it! If you have 20,000 other things to spend your time on, don't bother unless the specific fabric requires it, like flannels or wools that you want to felt.

To pre-wash or not to pre-wash

2009-08-05T20:53:00.000-07:00

So, i was always told that i need to prewash my fabric before i start a project, but a freind told me that she never pre-washes her fabric. So i am asking your opinion on the subject.

Ella's block

2009-08-01T12:32:00.000-07:00

Looks like a few are coming together can't wait to see the rest of them.

2009-07-30T19:43:00.000-07:00

This is what my quilt blocks look like. Can't wait to see more of yours!

Patty Pickles block

2009-07-30T16:18:00.000-07:00

This is miss Pats beautiful block for the pink pickle donation quilt.

Gracies Quilt

2009-07-29T19:30:00.000-07:00

Here is the some pictures of the quilt I made for my sweet little Gracie girl. I had so much fun making it and am kind of sad that its finished. My camera is not very good so, sorry about the quality of the pictures. Enjoy all of the projects you all are working on. On to the next one for me! Maybe I can make the next one last a little bit longer!

New Fabric

2009-07-20T11:13:00.001-07:00

This is my cute new fabric that i got. I am going to do another flower blanket for Ashlyn in this:

The second picture is a preview to what it might look like I have not decided if I want to randomize the background or leave it in blocks or do something completely different. Any help would be great!

Fabric Find

2009-07-20T07:34:00.000-07:00

These are a few fabrics I found as I was paying for a clearance piece I found and out of the corner of my eye I spotted Pink turtles, then I saw pink frogs AHHHHHH!!!! How often do you see pink frogs? NEVER!!! So I had to get them, I don't know what I will do with it yet But I will think of something I'm sure. Two yard of each should be enough.

This one I think shall be a pink pickle skirt. Those paisleys look like a pickle .

This was My clearance find! cute butterfly's.

Just some more berry's for my collection.

2009-07-08T17:49:00.000-07:00

Okay ladies here is a peak of the blocks I made for our lovely quilt. Hope you like them, and I cant wait to see yours. I had so much fun making these. Have fun! Jenny

Isabella's Wedding Gift

2009-07-06T17:02:00.000-07:00

This is a quilt I made for my sweet little grand daughter Isabella, for her mothers wedding, that will be this Saturday. I used mostly fabric from my stash, all but the border. I also used Lace and embellishments from the two great grandmas.

I had to put this lip stick print in here, because Isabella is always doing the lips thing, saying, I want lips Mema. which is lipstick

Layered Jello

2009-06-30T21:51:00.000-07:00

Layered Jello
6 3oz packs of jello
mix one pack of jello with one cup hot water
take out half the mixture add 1/3 cup sour cream
whip with wire wisk
spray cake pan with pam cooking oil
pour mixture in pan, chill for 15 min.
when done add 3 tablespoons cold water to rest of mixture
pour over first layer and chill
repeat all of this until done.

Perfect Pickle....

2009-06-27T16:27:00.000-07:00

It was a beautiful afternoon in the small town of Pleasant Grove. All the pickles were gathered at Ella's house for some fine food, fine wine , and some fine company. Ok so it was crystal light and lemon water, everything thing else was just fine. We had a beautiful showing of some fine quilts as well.

Beautiful flowers from the garden, masterfully decorated the table tops!

The food was Divine, we ate turkey and cheese on crescents, chocolate dipped strawberry's, beautifully layered Jello, potato chips and spinach dip with fresh chopped vegetables. MMMMM Yummy!

Pamela was my co-host! Thank you Miss Pammy! We did good!! And thank you to all the pickles who came and graced us with their company.

2009-05-16T07:07:00.000-07:00

So Pink pickle is underway, we have our first meeting on June 27 2009. This is going to be fun Ladys!