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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!  Thank You dear blogging friends for your support and encouragement throughout 2014 and wishing you all the very best this holiday season. 2014 was an exciting year -- here's a quick review -- being thankful... In addition to the start-up of Redbird Quilt Co, 2014 afforded me opportunities to publish my own designs and tutorials , teach at local shops and guilds, share my love of applique and free motion quilting with many wonderful inspiring ladies, AND work with some very talented individuals in the industry. Thanks go out to the Moda Bake Shop for taking a chance on me late in 2013 and publishing my first recipe, the Family Tree Quilted Envelope pillow .   A few months later in 2014, I was honored to publish my (now) favorite recipe, the Redbird and Berries Mini Quilt . And just last month I had the honor to create the fun Heart's Content Decorative Pillow using Laundry Basket Quilts beautiful Heart's Content line.  I love t...

Many thanks to everyone that played along in the Little Wool Flower Tutorial and Giveaway . It was sew much fun to read about the projects that you have underway.  I'm sending quilty blessings to those that have Christmas deadlines -- may your stitches be straight and finish be great (and on-time).  Also special thanks to the Redbird Quilt Co Facebook fans -- the tutorial was shared wide and far and it's always exciting to see new faces and excitement on Facebook -- thank you! Now... on with the winner:  I have these 5 pieces of beautiful Bunny Hill Pastel Wools to share... Between the blog and Facebook participants there were a total of 88 entries for the giveaway.    I engaged Mr. Random Generator to choose a  winner - drum roll please! Entry number 51 is : Congratulations aus_chick!  I've sent you an email !  Woohoo -- I know you're going to LOVE this wool. More Giveaways:  For those of you that would like to get in on some other awesome ...

It's been a crazy busy week here in Gramma Karen land and I never had to chance to take advantage of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday or Cyber Monday.    Darn - how can that be ? I'm fortunate to have many wonderful full service shops within 50 miles of home -- and I was a bit dismayed that I couldn't get out to visit any of them {insert sad face here}. When I finally got a chance to shop around this week, I found 3 different 12 Days of Christmas celebrations going on at local shops!  Yippee!!   (Is it bad to be participating in 3 different 12 Days of Christmas sales ?)    Yep - that's me! I also found some FANTASTIC prices on Fabric at another local shop SewItIs .    I just had to share with you! My friend Cindy runs this sweet little local shop which includes a big online business.  If you're in the market for some of the latest fabric lines you've got to checkout the sale prices that are effective through the end of day...

Call me delinquent on the wool flower tutorial and serve me up 50 lashes with a wet noodle!!  Life (and grandkids, and work, and holidays, and shopping) definitely jumped in front of me the last 10 days and stole my time.   I am though, up for air, and happy to be back!   Many thanks for all the kind comments and feedback on the  Moda Bake Shop Heart's Content Pillow.   I loved putting that sweet pillow together and sharing it with everyone! I hope you find 100 different ways to use the pattern AND the tutorial.  If you missed it, you can read the introduction on my blog here and follow links or go to the Moda Bake shop recipe directly by clicking here . Now to share a quick (well as quick as I can be ;) tutorial for the little wool flowers that adorned the Heart's Content pillow. The flowers are really very basic and will probably work best if you use your own style - but I'll share with you how I put them together.  Supplies: Start wi...