About us

We are sisters in a family of 7 kids!  We grew up in Colorado and crafted our little hearts with our other sister Amy and our momma who taught us everything we know :)

We now live miles and miles from eachother and use our blog as a way to stay connected to eachother and to see eachother's crafting adventures!

We love to do most anything crafty, but our heart always seems to go back to FABRIC and QUILTING.

Car seat cover!

Hi all, this is an older craft, but one that should be blogged about. My mom and I made a custom car seat cover when I had Sophie a year and a half ago. It was the biggest pain in the a$$, but turned out dang cute. It took my mom and I seven hours together! (don't I have the nicest mommy?) now I know why people charge over $200 for custom covers online. I wish this could be a tutorial, but I don't even think I could do it again. I recommend paying someone, or at least find a pattern.

Valentine's Day

I am the MUCH less fabulous sister, I wish the post below was MY craft room, or that I even had a craft room...or a laundry room for that matter. Don't look too closely at my pictures or you will see the carpet of the 70's, an accordian door the span of my kitchen and if you're lucky you will see the first stove off the assembly line.

I have just been sitting around with nothing to do so I thought I'd create some fabulous Valentine's Decor! Okay, not entirely true...I just had my second baby, bills are piling, laundry to be done, things to be cleaned...an excellent time for a very unnecessary craft! But that is my MO, whatya gonna do?

Since I don't have money, as demonstrated in paragraph one, a fab friend Sara suggested felt. So here are some really easy and cute Valentines decorations anyone can do!

But this little banner turned out pretty cute, if I say so myself. I used fusible web to attach the letters, but also sewed around them. I strung a ribbon through each side of the heart, as you can see. This banner goes up the railing of my stairs.

Feel free to comment on HOW ADORABLE you think these are! :)

A little Sneak peak!

Okay, we apoligize for being crappy blogging girls! We know nobody will ever come here if we post once a month. So from here on out you will get at least one post a week. PROMISE! Anyhow, I just wanted to show a quick sneak peak of my craft room (I tried to call it my studio, but just couldn't do it!). This chandelier I stole from my sis in laws wedding, sprayed it black and added crystals. Cute? The shelves in the background involve a fabulous husband, but I will get to those when I get them loaded up and organized cute. I painted the walls a taupey pink, some might call that color mauve, but I refuse to use that word unless it is 1998! So we will go with taupey pink. They turned out fab, but it did involve 3 retints at home depot because I was so afraid of having a "pink" room right off the kitchen. And yes, the most fabulous part of all is that this room is right off the kitchen! Is that not every girls dream??? I had to wait several years for this, but it is finally a reality, and it is about a month from being able to show everyone the whole room! So hope this is good enough for now.

Project!

Sorry we are bad bad lazy people, who don't get around to blogging as much as we should. But don't worry, we regularly discuss new posts, and still don't do it ;) Lately we've both been in love with applique on t-shirts, especially for wee ones. It is such an easy and inexpensive gift or way to personalize your kids clothes. I love how it looks like a boutique purchase, even though you got the shirt for $2.50 at WalMart! So here you go!

HOW TO: It is pretty basic really! You can use a fusible web, an interfacing at most fabric stores (directions are on it) or freezer paper and applique glue. Stitching depends on the look you want, straight or zig-zag. If you want little or no fray, you can turn your edges in and/or use a zig-zag right on the edge of the design and shirt. For the twin tree onsies I wanted a lot of fray so I used freezer paper to get the perfect circle, glue to keep in place (NEVER pins, ugh!) and stitched a straight line about 1/4-1/2 inch in, snipped around the edges and washed!

For designs, I usually get ideas from my favorite stores and sketch them myself. The skull and bones were from my sons sippy cup!

The blankets seen with two are so simple, the size doesn't matter it can be a burp cloth to a blanket, and you throw ribbons of all shapes and sizes around the outside for the wee one to fiddle with, and it's a perfect gift!

Someone to see...

Thimble Blossoms is a pattern line that has inspired us all along, she is very creative! So I encourage you to check out, here she is having a fabulous give-a-way right now too! Keep posted, we are planning on being better bloggers...starting on Monday, right?

cute nummy pumpkins

Hi all, these cute pumpkins are edible, super easy to make and fun for the kids. Just get 1 bag Peanut butter chips, one store bought vanilla frosting, stick pretzels, oreos and some orange food coloring (not the liquid, but gel coloring works best.) Melt the chips on low heat, once they are completely melted, take off the burner, then mix in the food coloring and the frosting. Put in the fridge for about an hour. While it is cooling in the fridge, crush the oreos, then place them in a cute platter. Once the mixture is cool, roll into 1" balls. Stick a peice of a pretzel in the tops, with a toothpick or knife draw the lines in the pumpkin. Place in the dirt. Done. Cute and fun. I did make a frosting mixture and turned it green and added the green to the top, this doesn't need to be done, but makes a nice finishing touch. Have fun!

My purdy roses...

Just wanted to post a pic of my pretty garden flowers. I saw them out back in my weedy (is that a word) flower bed. And I thought thy would look much prettier in my home on my table. So I asked my mommy if that was acceptable (I still need my mother's approval on basic things) and she told me yes I should! So we went and chopped several of the roses. My five year old Addie finished chopping off the rest of the roses later in the afternoon, (of course not bothering to ask me for approval!) So my flower bushes outside are ugly, but this vase in my table is very cute!

Christmas Quilt Patterns are here!

We did it...again! We've designed, written and finished our Christmas patterns! Deck the Halls is made with Moda's Merry and Bright Christmas fabrics. It has three adorable ornaments hanging from the top and we kinda love it! We also finished Oh Christmas Tree and you can personalize it with a cute monogram! These are both great patterns, because they have applique and piecing but are pretty easy to make, we think! We're once again debuting them in Material Girls Quilts in South Jordan, Utah. And, while our site is under construction, we are setting up an Etsy shop to make them available for purchase online. Thanks for looking, we hope you LOVE!
PS Thanks in advance for your wonderful comments ranting and raving about how fab you think they are :)

New Christmas Quilts

So we are quickly working on some FABULOUS new Christmas patterns that will be ready just in time to make them for this year! Heather is working on a great fabric line, Mackenzie Christmas by Anna Grifin, it is just gorgeous and her quilt, I've seen the sketches, will be just as gorgeous! I am currently cutting and piecing away on , Merry & Bright by Sandy Gervais, and it is going to be an adorable quilt as well!! So please, keep posted, we will have the patterns here as soon as possible. We are hoping that they will both be available for purchase as patterns AND kits at Material Girls Quilts

Premier

The time is finally here! We have five new patterns finished and will be launching them at Material Girls Quilts in South Jordan, Utah. The open house starts September 12th and you can visit the site for their address and more detailed information. We are launching

Addie's Attic and Crazy Daisy:

Serenity Now and Sweet Tweet:

And Tutu Pretty:

So please, come out to Material Girls and see our stuff in person! We are currently working on our website to make patterns available for purchase, along with many other fun things like tips and ideas!

It's almost here!

We are just days away now from premiering all our new stuff and we are so excited! We will be launching about 5 new quilts at Material Girls in South Jordan, Utah. There is a lot to do between now and then, but we are feeling confident and excited to see the reaction to our quilts! We hope you all love them.