Volunteer Sewing and Family Pics

I'm hemming scarves for my sons' music teacher. In true Heather fashion I heard sewing and signed up without knowing exactly what I was going to have to do. Turns out that she needs this really sheer fabric hemmed. Well, I panicked a little bit, but then decided to go to my local Bernina shop and sure enough they have a foot for exactly that purpose. It's called the Roll and Shell Hemmer. It worked out quite nicely and the hem looks pretty professional, still working on the corners though.

Thought I'd also share some family photos, we had our portraits done at JCPenny this last weekend. I found out that it's nearly impossible for all six of us to face the same way and smile at the same time. I like that they aren't perfect though, it shows everyone's personality.

Check them out here.

One block is better than none

A wonky log cabin, I really like the freedom of the block, we're doing a round robin/swap in my quilt group, and I think I'm going to request wonky log cabins in this color way.

And I just had to add a photo of little Ava, hard to believe how big she's getting!

Connecting Threads Custom Kit

There's a contest at Connecting Threads promoting their new Kit Builder feature. It's actually quite fun trying different combinations of fabric. One of my designs is here.

Busy With Baby

It's amazing how someone so small can make such a big impact on a family

I haven't done much sewing since little Ava Jane arrived on December 14th. Life has been so crazy with a tiny baby with her own crazy schedule.


I got a Bernina 330 for Christmas from my husband and it's been sitting in my sewing room quite lonely for the most part. I'll get to it all in due time though, Ava will only be so little once, and the sewing and fabric will wait until there's more time.

Christmas Swap

My swap partner Cris sent these lovely things to me for our Christmas swap and I couldn't be more thrilled. Chocolate from Indiana, an amazing table runner, handmade Christmas cards for me to send out, a handmade ornament and a charm pack of Bliss fabric. I'm already thinking about what to make for our sweet baby girl that's due in less than three weeks with that girly fabric. 

Thank you partner! Everything is beautiful!

I'm not sure what happened to my last post. It's kind of a mess and the links don't work, also can't figure out how to delete it. 

Maybe this link to the Green Grocery bag Challenge will work.

I also had a link to AllPeopleQuilt.com for the cute gift bag.

Green Christmas

Just taking a moment to share some of the reusable wrapping I've been working on.  Since I heard that we use 4 tons of wrapping as Americans every year, it inspired me to do more.


First I'm trying to wrap as many gifts for friends and family in reusable shopping bags as part of the Green Grocery Bag Challenge.

 This is some animal print fabric I've had for a while, I got it in a fabric swap our quilt group did a couple years ago and it seemed right for reusable grocery sacks. This one is going to a family friend. I'm planning on a few more, although the pattern I used is not lined, I think for longevity it may be nice to line it.

These are bags from a pattern I downloaded for free at allpeoplequilt.com. Perfect size for the two second hand DS's we bought our sons for Christmas. I'm making a couple more, but for these I decided to increase the height by a couple of inches to fit more in. We'll see how they do.