Our New Best Friend!!!!!

Nancy in Sioux City is the first to purchase one of our Grandmother's Garden Tote pattern. Thank you Nancy, for buying and for being Kitty Pearl's friend. :-)

Testing 1... 2... 3...First Ever Pattern Tag

If you have an iPhone, would you please test our Tag?
If you are wondering, a Tag is a picture link. That is right; you just take a picture with your phone and it links you right away. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. This Tag is supposed to link to our Tutorial. So please comment and let us know if it works.
The Tutorial Tag is for our first pattern cover! We want newby quilters to know that they are not alone. With a Pattern Cover Tag, they can link to our beginner instructions and see how easy it is to try English Paper Piecing.

Grandmother's Garden Tote

I'm so excited to be writing a pattern, at last! And terrified too. I know it sounds silly, but there is just no time to contemplate that irony. Someday I will find where all the time goes.

We have 8 more designs in various stages of testing, so we haven't been lazy since we started this blog. Finally decided just to pick one thing and get 'er done... or else. Alex helped with chores, even cooked dinners, so I could focus on figuring this out for the President's Day weekend. I am so proud to say, Grandmother's Garden Tote has been a true family project!

Pearl helped too.

Why was this design so tricky? Because there are no seams, just piecing.

The entire tote basket is English Paper Pieced hexagons.

Yes, even the straps are pieced!

Can't wait for you to see the pattern! Our next goal is to have our pattern published by St. Patrick's Day.

It is actually an easy quilted bag (I can say that now, of course). I wanted to design a completely portable project, that is fun to sew all by hand, and here it is; Grandmother's Garden Tote, a basket from a traditional 'Grandmother's Flower Garden. '

I hope the fun you will have creating yours, equals the amount I have learned in creating mine.