B...all you can B....Biking, beauty, boarding and beach.......

Jean Wells teaches us to look for ideas from everyday sights....These are the sight from this past weekend, biking amidst the Skagit Tulip Festival and longboarding Alki beach...... The quilting has been near non-existent as I have been playing with Sean and Noah in our new land. I have added many books to my Nook and today I will begin a wonky beach blanket is the goal.....but I also have a gardening patchwork quilt to create in my front yard....hmmmmmmmmmmm. And I have a little secret that I am singing from the rooftops, I am headed to Rebels quilt meeting in 2 days with Miki and LeeAnn. Been waiting for this moment since last August when LeeAnn and I played in her home......WAHOO!!!!!!!!! Love, Em

Conversation pieces.....

Pure silliness! Something so entertaining for me to look through my stash and see how each placemat takes shape. I kind of giggle as I think about each one being so unique and which mats people will be drawn to interpret. Off to make 2 more today and then quilt them up. Hope you see a ditty that makes you smile. Love, Em

My first quilt commission.....4 placemats with the theme, BIRDS

As I created this silly Happy Birthday place mat for Missy pictured in the banner, I began to think, I want to create for people's homes for a conversation piece or a fun way to start the day while eating breakfast. A dear friend of mine, Jess, has asked that I make 4 place mats for her new home. She is zanier than me and my mind is a whirl with ideas!!!!!!! Roxy is loving the idea because she and I have fallen in love with the small project. Off to shop in Bellevue for some cheeky fabric I am hoping!

May your TOOsday have TOO much of something wonderFULL!

Em

Ms. Ruby is sassy and ready to PARTY!

It is Missy's birthday tomorrow and creating this card reminded me how much fun a fabric scrap stash can be! I cut up Christmas presents from my Seuss Grinch line and gifted them to Ms. Ruby the Birthday pin-up and my sweet DOD couple. I always enjoy creating a landscape from random fabrics and this theme of the farmland is related to Missy and my brother living on horse acreage. Roxy is ready but I reminded her that taxes are first.....boring but necessary :).

Speaking of Ru......by, Noah's Rhu......barb pie is a yummy treat and that is begging me to have with coffee. Anyone want to join me this morning?



Happy Monday! Em

I must be in LOVE with pink......

Can you imagine my giggly delight when I walked in to Noah's new classroom and the 2 bins of fabric scraps were present!!!!? I have had so much fun creating little ditties for sweet Kailanie's doll and a card for my father thanking him for making the drive with me to Seattle. Stories upon stories! Roxy is having so much fun with our move and I look forward to catching up with you all!

Love, Em

Bound for good! Wahoo, Missy!

Missy sent me texts throughout the morning as she bound Hannah's quilt. Her first quilt she has created and she is hooked! So much fun creating this special quilt for little Hannah who lies in a hospital bed with her fate in God's hands.

It was an emotional weekend as Missy and I created this quilt knowing the grieving mom who will wrap her little 6 year old in it. Hannah was hit by a car on the freeway crossing the street to play with a neighbor. CELEBRATING a community who is praying for Hannah and Missy's intro to this wonderful hobby we call quilting!

Love, Em

Hello!!!!!!!

HI!!!!! We made it to Lake Forest Park and are moved in, almost......Busy week but we have Noah in school, Roxy has a new platform with LOVE graffitied all over it and a little project I started last night for my dad. He made the drive with me and although the flowers are morning glories, I am asking them to be the cherry blossoms that were intoxicating on the campus of UDUB when we visited.

I should be back on track with time with you all in the next couple of week and cannot wait until I hug Miki and LeeAnn in person! Rebels, here I come in a couple of weeks!!!!

New job...hoping to be a school nurse and things look good. No call after hours and be able to dote on my son when he is home...AHHHHHHHHHH!

Please remember, I am no longer at entradamedical@snwp.com. If you can please change the address to Legendlime@hotmail.com. And do you know what this addresses? A favorite Mustang car color of course! When I made the switch from the station wagon to the sports car....Oh how fun life is CELEBRATING the nuances of what makes our hearts richer!

Love, Em

celebrating....

On the road and recanting memories......celebrating......the past, present and Christ's love for us.

I am still here........

Hi friends! In the throes of packing but sending out love. My new email is legendlime@hotmail.com. Will post in next while as we get moved in.

Becky Goldsmith+My Mom+Green Fairy= TALENT AND BEAUTY!

CELEBRATING an all time favorite of my mother's. Piece 'O Cake pattern, mom's gift for color and applique and the infamous Green Fairy quilting as the cherry on the top! Every so often, it is fun to revisit a favorite! Em

This month's theme: Buster-Scraps blankies, blues and BOY OH BOY!

So many little baby boys and a return to my favorite original quilting colors, chocolate brown and blues. This little ditty is a sure scrapbuster from fabrics that have sign language to buttons to mod florals.....Duncan is in for an eye-spy treat. Having so fun with no plan in mind, just creating and envisioning a little babe wrapped up in this soon.

The house continues to empty as Sean loads the fifth wheel and I am thinking these last 3 weeks will be much longer than my attention span for the present.

Happy Sunday, friends! Em

Kinda fun getting ready for Easter! Needing a stretched canvas and then POOF!

A memory quilt of our cross wall as we take down the crosses for the move....envisioning the years of Easters to come with new gifts each year in the basket....renewable fun like the love of Christ. Sean will create a stretch canvas for this piece and then voila! May Peter Rabbit enjoy filling this basket for years to come!

It was written in the stars..."NO! that's not how the story began......" and of course, sharing my mom's gift with you!

It was a sign.....undeniabley true....Like a neon Godwink on the Gum Wall..."SD, you are meant to move here"....If anyone asks, "How come Seattle?"...well it was inscribed in gooey Bubblicious. (My husband's nickname is SD and I graduated from the "U") Celebrating SIGNS that some things are meant to be if you CHEWS to notice Godwinks!

And of course, CELEBRATING mom's latest needle-turn applique beauty, her trunk show in the Red Lion Seattle. Gotta love my mom...Will Travel With Quilts!

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Wishes on Wednesday....Roxy is giggling as she embellishes this little Buggy Barn star..soon to be Caleb's doll quilt.

When you wish upon a star....
Make a wish...
Feeling lucky? Try this out today or tomorrow or next month: Pretend it is your birthday or you surprise someone with a CELEBRATION cake, extra frosting for sure, and then light a candle, maybe a Barbie dancing, the number 21 because you would like to redo that year or....The number you are now because right now is just RIGHT! Make a wish then blow! Oh and the best part, see the magic unfold.

May your Wednesday be wonderFULL!
Em

UFP's became WIP's and then.....check!

What is the favorite part of your stash? Mine, finding a perfect little piece to bind this little LOVE for a new baby soon to arrive. As I bound today, I would giggle and envision and smell the yumminess of a newborn little girl being wrapped up in this blankie.

Happy Monday! Em

Celebrating fingers and hope and having fun with photo settings and this baby quilt

Selvage says so much!

Spotlight on a small ditty that is such a BIG detail of my poppy quilt. Raise your hand if you see selvages in a whole new light over the recent years!

Are you CELEBRATING something BIG that is really small to the average Joe? Kinda fun to remember that the little are so BIG...like my sweet little Noah ill and me rubbing his back like I did his first day of life. Something so vulnerable about an ill child and a moment when he lets me be his mom and he shucks the independence. A nurse to my own child...novel concept in my world.

Love, Em

All done....I cannot remember the last time I spent a day and completed a quilt! Feels great!

I realized that when I initially narrated these photos that I did not include that I did a switch-er-roo. Yesterday morning I went to the quilt shop to buy some fabric to add to my quilt with the mini poppies and wonky lines but when I got home....spoke of a different quilt. SO, with $9 of fabric and some fusible web, I cut out the large poppies and put them on a new background, used the little poppies that I have in stash and poof! A inexpensive quick quilt that measures about 24 x 36. Maybe little smaller.

I have always been intrigued by an art quilt that has a part of it extending beyond the outer border. Seemed like a good day to try it out. But to bind it, I may need some help! And the whole time I am piecing I am thinking, what will Green Fairy do with this piece?

Ahhhhh, CELEBRATING an uninterrupted day of quilting!

Buy a book....get inspired...Hook, line and SINGER!

Ever see an idea and think, "That is a wonderful quilt and looks so simple but how does the quilter have that vision?" I think that often when I see quilts using large scale fabrics. Modern quilts also boggle my mind. Mom bought a contemporary quilt book and I was enamored. This week's playtime is me getting out of the comfort zone and letting go of the end product and just letting the feed-dogs do their bow-wow-wow!

Happy sewing, Em

Buy book....get inspired.."hook, line and SINGER...."

It is a weekend of playing....Never been one to use large blocks or do the MOD thing but I am playing away and how fun to just go with it. I bought $9 of fabric this morning and feel guiltless as I whipped up this little piece. A couple of blocks are misplaced but I am letting go of being attached to the outcome and thinking, "This is kinda fun!" What are you doing for fun today?

And when you run out of a fabric and cannot face a drive in to the quiltshop....Aw heck, throw in a novelty fabric for conversation! In this case, Seattle is on my brain and so a little girl with an umbrella seems apropos!

Happy quilting, Em