Guest Spotlight!

CONTEST NOW CLOSED!

Guess who's being featured over at Ucreate? Well, hop on over and check it out!

I LOVE this blog! She posts so many cute things and ideas. Definately a MUST for my 'favorite blogs' list!

Thanks Kari for featuring ME!

In celebration of my feature I thought I would have a contest. Everyone LOVES contests, right!? So here's the deal. Sometimes when I design a pattern I stitch together the sample and realize that the pattern is just not going to work. Maybe the fabric doesn't work with the pattern. Maybe the pattern is just too 'funky'. Maybe I designed a quilt that looks cool but would take 10 pages to explain how to make it. In any case, I have several of these 'tops' hanging around my craft room. I keep thinking I'll do something with them- but I never do. Instead, I'm going to give them away as contest prizes. All you have to do is this:

Leave me a comment telling me your favorite Crazy Old Ladies pattern (they're listed to the right)

AND

Add yourself as a follower to this blog. Because, lets face it, you were going to anyway. ;o)

That's it! Easy- Schmeezy!

I'll let the contest go through the weekend and randomly select winners on Monday. I don't know how many winners I'll have- I need to count quilt tops first! :o)

Shame on me!

This morning started like many other mornings.

I woke up,

Went down to have breakfast,

Opened my laptop,

And started scrolling through my favorite blogs.

Soon I was finding myself a little grumpy because several of my blogs didn't have NEW posts. "How dare they!? I mean, it may have been a holiday weekend and all, and some people out there may have had plans and been busy. But geez, can't you find time to post for those obsessed blog followers (like me!) out there."

All of a sudden I stopped.

"When was the last time I posted!?" I couldn't even remember. I am a slacker. That's all there is to it. I have grand desires and wonderful intentions- but never seem to get around to HALF the things I want to do. In my defense I have been VERY busy.

Wanna see what I've working on!?

Well, I can't show you everything-

but I will give you a peek

How 'bout them teasers!

What's going on this week?

There's a lot going on here this week. If you're in the area you may already know that the

WASATCH FRONT SHOP HOP

is this weekend and

THE CORN WAGON QUILT SHOP

is hosting

CRAZY OLD LADIES TRUNK SHOW!

(complete with the brand new "Holiday Lineup" quilt!)

Also,

the PETEETNEET QUILT SHOW

is going on for the next couple of weeks.

On Sat. the 27th

we have a fun day full of classes including 'Stacks of 3' by Crazy Old Ladies.

And I'll also be teaching a "Buggy Barn" crazy piecing demonstaration.

I don't consider myself a teacher- but I guess I better start.

If that's not enough, my brother and his wonderful wife are coming to visit with their 3 cute boys. We're so excited to see them again and have them stay at our house!

See, there's a reason I call myself "Crazy"!

Something NEW!

I designed this pattern over a year ago. I've been waiting for the perfect fabric. I knew Figgy Pudding by Basic Grey was coming out but I wasn't sure it was going to work. That was until I saw it on the shelves of my local shop and NEW I had to have it. (You all know what I'm talking about, right!?) Anyway. I bought a ton of it and although I have a stack- literally a STACK of quilts and patterns I'm working on right now- I set it all aside to sew this together. I worked late into the night and started early the next morning and finished the top in less than 24 hours. 48 hours later it is quilted and waiting to be bound! This is what happens when you're a "CRAZY" quilter like me. When you get an idea in your head you just can't do anything else. So, here it is-

"HOLIDAY LINEUP"

PINE NEEDLES

For the rest of the week Pine Needles at Gardner Village in West Jordan, UT has several 'Crazy Old Ladies' quilts on display! Stop by and see all the cool patterns we have available- tell them Emily from Crazy Old Ladies sent you!

(BTW- you can check out their website by clicking 'Pine Needles' on the right side of this blog!)