Sneak Peek

I'm cooking up something fun today...well after a quick trip to my dentist for my checkup! What's on your agenda?

Good Morning Peoples!

I really underestimated the amount of time making these blocks would take. I finished them up last night right before dinner. They're so cheerful. But honestly, I think we all see the problem here. You're just too nice to say anything.

My love for the yellow piece and the alphabet print interfered with my good judgement. Too much white in the yellow print, it reads pretty much the same as the red alphabet print making the chain a little mushy. Not like I'm going to scrap it, but it's a nice reminder to myself that there are rules and guidelines for a reason.

I suddenly have lots of fun ideas bubbling around and now I just need to finish this one to get onto the next. What are you up to?

Monday Morning

Seems like the weekend flew by right? Is it the time change, I'm not sure? I hate to blame it all on that. It was Bret's birthday on Saturday, so we spent some time doing BretStuff, mainly eating out and going to Fry's. That's how he likes it and we like to indulge him.

I also indulged myself in some sewing. My blocks are nearly done, I have about half left to put the last row on, then it's assembly time. There's lots of room for error, rotating a block could throw the whole thing off, so I need to be patient.

So what did you do with your weekend?

Friday!

Happy Friday sweet people! The week has been a blur, you know? I can't believe suddenly it's Friday already. So how was Thursday? I had a busy one, lots of stuff done, including all the strips sets for my quilt. This morning will be devoted to cutting them up and sewing them back together! By next week this pile should turn into a Criss Cross Quilt.

I even managed to repiece that block, much better. I can be satisfied with it, for now anyway. I am going to set it aside and wait for this month's block.

That's it from my neck of the woods. What's on your weekend agenda? Hope you get some sewing in! xo

Been There and Back

I'm back people, and it was great. Not quite as much booth hopping as I would have liked,but still overall a wonderful few days. And the best part, busy! Quilt market seemed far busier than it has in a while, and that's good news for all of us right?

I ran into Karin, aka Madre Karin and she had a lovely little surprise for me. So very sweet and thoughtful. Thank you Karin! You totally made my day!

I met people in-real-life that I'd never met before, like Melissa, Karin and Kristyne, and saw people that I've known, like Alex, Laurie and Polly, Joanna,Roseann, and Doug, and SO MANY MORE. Like Amy, Sarah,Natalie, Brenda, Julie, Amanda, Liz and Beth, Heidi, Susan and Christine, Gina, Melisa, Kelly Ann, Kelly, Lizzy, Melyssa, Cherri, Sharon.. well the list goes on. I'm forgetting another million people I know. I'm sad that I can't remember more right off hand. And it's for sure NOT that I don't care about you..I'm just sadly forgetful.

Suzanne reminded me that I need to get my rear in gear and make some stuff with PKM so that pile is on the chopping block today! Just wait!

You guys are awesome. I super ♥ you.

The List!!!

Now that PamKittyMorning The Fabric is shipping, it's time to make that list of shops available for you! Email me to add your shop to the list. Let the shopping begin!

A big thanks to all the shops who ordered PamKittyMorning!
Buttons and Bees
Calico Horse
Cinnamon's Quilts
Cotton Patch Quilt Shop
Daisy Cottage Quilting
Fat Quarter Shop
Fresh Squeezed Fabrics
Gracie Lou's
Heavenly Patchwork
Henning House Quilts
Keepsake Cottage Quilts
Marie Madeline Studio
Material Girls Quilts
Prairie Queens Quilts
Quilted Works
Quilt Play
Quilt Taffy
Rosebuds Cottage
A Scarlet Thread
Sew Fabulous Quilt Shop
Shabby Fabrics
Strawberry Patches
Sweet Comfort Quilts
The Stockroom
ThimbleCreek
Wooden Gate Quilts

Before I Go

Good morning friends! I'm off to the airport this morning. I know it's weird but we'll all get used to it. Lucky me, I am meeting up with my friend Melissa and we'll be sharing a cab to the hotel. From there I'm meeting up with Jackie for some chitchatting!

Although there wasn't much premarket sewing, I did come up with some digital quilt designs featuring the latest Lakehouse offering, new additions to the Penelope line which will be available in the spring.

You may recognize Winter Romance, it's the pattern I used to make my PKM quilt. I really like this quilt, and I made digital quilts in several colorways because it's so fun.

So those are my new patterns. I'm going to be working most of market, and I hope to grab some photos, but there are tons of people who will be tweeting and blogging and posting, so you should have enough to keep you busy! See you when I get back! xo

Miss Match

Good morning my sweet friends. How are things perking along in your world? I'm just working on the last of the stuff that that needs doing so that I can be out of town for a few days. Usual stuff.

Got my fabrics ready for my Bloggers Block of the Month block. I used some leftovers from my quilt that were just waiting on my cutting table!

Vicki's instructions were quite clear, however you can see I wasn't quite as focused as I could be.

And OMG looking at my block I'm moritfied. You know what they say about haste. I have a MISMATCHED CENTER FOR PETE'S SAKE. Didn't even notice that till I saw the photo. And my edges are all uneven. Not cool. I'll be remaking this later, or maybe trying to disassemble one more time. Not sure it can be saved!

So that's it for this week peeps. Tomorrow I leave for Houston and I won't be back till the first of November. I'll be working with Holly at the Lakehouse booth for most of the time I suspect. Looking forward to the people and the sights!

The Calm before the Storm

So yeah, totally weird to just be lounging about before market. Yesterday Frankie and I had a nice lunch at the Nordstrom Cafe in the Valley Fair mall.

Today I'm going to make a block, it's that time again and this month's block is courtesy of Vicki, are you following along? There's some other fun stuff out there, have you seen Monica's Christmas Tree Pants quilt along? It's awfully tempting. Pretty sad my tree is without pants. Or a skirt. My friend Sherri has had a wonderful Mystery Monday series that just concluded. It's not a mystery anymore, but looks like a fun project, just in case you need another!

Now I need to skedaddle, need to press a few things and take care of some paperwork. Have a super day!

The one with the bad photos

Greetings my favorite peoples! How was your weekend? We had a long weekend, Bret worked from home on Friday so we were able to run out and have a nice lunch in Danville at Chow. I loved all fall decorating, and had to crack up over this scene right by our table.. looks like someone forgot their little doll who's sitting atop the large pumpkin.

Shocking I'm sure, the quilt top is done. Equally shocking, the fact I can't find a good spot to show it off. Too sunny...


..then to shady. Bad timing I guess. But you can see how cheerful this quilt is. I can't wait to have it quilted after quilt market.


That was pretty much it for the weekend, what about you?

Recapping the week

So how was the week for you? Slow here, especially for the week before market. I can't wait to get the go ahead to show off the quilts I designed using the new Lakehouse fabrics. Of course there's no sewing involved at all in those designs, so far the fabric is only on paper. But its lovely. You'll see.


I finally finished all the blocks. Any slower and I'd be unsewing! But it was fun, and I've begun to put the rows together. Had a nice lunch out with Elizabeth, dropped some patterns off for Alex's school house, dorked on the internet, that kind of thing. Feels weird to be so calm.

That's all the news here. What's new with you? Hope you have some awesome plans ahead for the weekend! xo

Treating myself

So what did you do with your day? I made some more of these blocks. I'm just taking it slow, no hurries.

After a bunch of paperwork, which you know, these days doesn't even involve paper but you get what I mean, I treated myself to watching my recorded Masterpiece Mystery, Case Studies. Laurie mentioned it on her blog, and of course I had to tune it. TV while doing nothing else is such a decadent treat during the day! I felt a bit spoiled.

What did you do with your day?

Getting things done

How was the weekend? Didn't plan on dropping off the map, don't know how last week just got away from me. Had a blast over at the Lakehouse Studio, including a fab lunch out in San Anselmo. Delish.
Finally finished the Farmer's Market Bag for Alex. I think it turned out cute. It's an easy bag to make, especially if you're not a procrastinator.

I cut up some of my own delicious fabric to start on a quilt. It has been hard to decide what to make. I don't have an infinite amount of yardage, so deciding what's quilt-worthy has been tough. But I really like this particular quilt that I have in mind, so I actually committed to it and started cutting.

I love making blocks.. I like making each little unit till a block is done. It's my favorite sewing.
Love the result. It's pretty cheerful. Stay tuned, I'm seriously going to get this quilt done! Soon!

Memory Lane

Yesterday the mailman brought me a wonderful package from Monica. It included a couple of pieces of her fabric, in laminate. She had said the smell of it reminded her of summer and those inner tube things we had growing up.

Indeed it does.

PamKittyCoffee

Good morning! Just a quick bit of pkm before I get started on stuff I really really need to get done!



Hope you guys have a great day!

Markety Goodness

Good morning! How was the weekend? I got some fun sewing in, and some pattern scrawling and some prep work done on this little project. I have the last of Alex's bits of yardage for her upcoming line Leila Rose from P & B.

This pile will turn into a purse, I'm making my Farmers Market Bag for her so she can show off her pretty fabrics while she's on the go, and believe me Alex is always on the go.

In other news...sorry, there is no other news.

Rainy Day

Shocking to see something like embroidery here in PKMville! Usually I don't have patience for this kind of thing. Maybe it was the cozy rainy weather, who knows. I just sat down and got busy.

This is part of a little PKM fabric project. I've had the idea for a long time, I just kept putting it off. It's not the greatest embroidery but it will do. My wonderful yellow dot on white is wonderful to stitch on. I going to need to order a bolt before it's all gone, it's my dream piece of fabric.

Anyway it was a busy day. How about for you?

Catch Up!

Good morning! The week is just scurrying along isn't it? Yesterday I finally got around to making my Blogger's Block of the Month block designed by Sherri. It's an easy block, once you figure out what fabrics to use. You can find Sherri's instructions here.

Luckily the only points I cut missed were in that photo, but why lie, I did need to rip and restitch one of those seams twice.

Did you make a block? If not, give it a try. Or at the very least, head over to the flickr group and see all the blocks posted so far!

Have a good day peoples!

Do something fun!

I took a bit of a sewing break yesterday after a weekend of nonstop stop sewing. Time to catch up on stuff around here, you know, laundry, picking up around the house, that kind of thing. Fun and boring at the same time. The weather changed up a bit, it was cool in the morning like a real fall morning. You know, suddenly when it just seems different? Not that a few more 90+ degree days might not crop up, but they're on the way out. Not a day too soon! And rain! We had rain in the late afternoon. What a treat.

So you know Silly Lil'Doe I suspect? I was cruising her flickr page one day and saw she had a really great Lemoyne Star block. What I liked about it was that 1. no set in seams 2. the diamonds were all intact. I've seen other versions without the set in or Y seams but I didn't care for the half square triangle look for the diamonds. I like cheating, but I don't like it to look like I cheated. Does that make sense?

Anyway, I know how to make the legit stars but this looked like something I could make more than 1 or 2 of without my head blowing off. I'm not a great drafter of diamonds, so I pulled out my Art of Classic Quiltmaking book, because I knew that it had good drafting instructions in it. It's a great book for your library for sure. And there you go. I figured it out.

Of course being it's me, I didn't bother to make the whole thing, or work too hard on the matching. I was just excited it worked! Now I'll add it to my list of cool things to make.

Do anything fun?

Sew Weekend

Sew Sew Sew that's what I did all weekend. Thank goodness there were a couple of Law and Order marathons to watch! Saturday I worked with Rosie's new line of fabric (go check it out on her blog, delightful) and Sunday I worked with Natalie's, shown here.

Elizabeth cut out the fabric for me, and made each into a nice little kit, so it was sweet mindless sewing. I like that, you just sew and press and sew.. easy. This week I'll be back to my own fabric, but it was a nice break in the pace. Maybe, just maybe I'll be able to cut into my beloved yellow dot so I can finish what I think is going to be a cute project!

So, what did you do with the weekend?