when i first laid eyes on the fpp coneflower blocks on instagram (and then later in love patchwork and quilting magazine), i knew it was the perfet starting point for gifts for hazel’s two wonderful fourth grade teachers. i did some research on their “favorites” lists from the beginning of the year and dove right […]
Author: sarah
end of fourth grade things.
as we rolled into may, the end of year school activities began to fill the calendar. it’s mayhem. especially for the crazelnut. firstly, her class had a field trip to hanging rock. obviously i went too. 🙂 the kids went to three different stations, where rangers talked to them about the rock cycle, water cycle, […]
fpp coneflower obsession begins.
one day, i was just scrolling through instagram, when a post about a paper pieced coneflower caught my attention. it would change my life. i scoured the internet for this pattern, finally procured it, via an online version of a magazine, and in very short order, had stitched up my first block. i knew these […]
happy mothers day to me. </br>camping/hiking edition.
immediately after dropping off my cake donation, i loaded up the outback and rolled off to the mountains for a little solo mother’s day camping and hiking trip. derek gifted me some car camping gear, to see if that’s preferable to tent camping. for this first attempt, he booked me a hipcamp site near brevard, […]
mother’s day floral cake for a good cause.
soooo. hazel’s beloved math teacher is married to the development director of riverwood therapeutic riding center. he contacted me about donating a cake for a cake raffle at their annual spring fling giant fundraising event. he told me that my business would be promoted in their official literature and such, but i do not really […]
anna’s fourteenth.
whelp. fourteen years ago i birthed the annababy.time sure is flying by.after watching me make several floral cakes in the last little bit, she requested a floral cake of her own, but with bright happy spring colors. this is what i made: she had a few friends over for her birthday party. i have no […]
samples and gifts.
sometimes, at the quilt shop, we get a product or pattern that “needs” an example, or a sample, to be constructed for display to the customers. when we received some adorable camping themed panels with one of our collections, i planned to make them up either way, so it worked out that i could make […]
bits and pieces of april.
first of all. let me tell you a tale of how, when jenn and brandy were visiting, we may or may not have gotten caught up with the idea of getting baby chicks and stopped in at tractor supply and made a complete and total impulse purchase of four baby chicks to add to our […]
fifty years of ron + cynthia.
one of my favorite co-workers at the quilt shop is cynthia. she’s a former school teacher and like a grandma to everyone she meets. when her daughter catherine reached out to ask if i would make a cake for cynthia and her husbands surprise fiftieth anniversary party, of course i said yes. catherine gave me […]
carebears cake for my friend amanda.
my boss and the owner of sewingly yours has a daughter, amanda, who has special needs. amanda’s grandma used to make all of the family birthday cakes, but had some recent health issues and wasn’t able to make amanda’s cake this year. so, amanda recruited me, started about three months before her birthday. 🙂 she […]