We want to say thank you to everyone participated in our giveaway.  As always, there was a mixed bouquet when it came to the favorite flower.  (Yes, i am working on as many budding flower puns as I can.)  As far as projects, no clear favorites.  I think that is the best thing about BLOOMING POSSIBILITIES is it has a little something for everybody.

Ok, the WINNERS!!!!!

First Prize, The Hat, and we are also throwing in a book:

#85 - MARY ON LAKE PULASKI  from Minnesota

Next, we have Three Books and they go to:

#148 - JENNIFER from Ontario, Canada ...

It's finally finished and back from the printer, our first book, BLOOMING POSSIBILITIES.























First the specifics.  The book has 12 patterns and projects in all.  The book is 32 pages with color photographs of every project.  Complete instructions and full size templates are also included.  The best part is, the flowers are only the beginning.  Once you start making ...

Janice and I had a very busy couple of weeks.  She went on the road from Florida and ended up all the way in Utah.  We had a great week.  We went to most of the local quilt stores, nothing new there, bought more fabric, nothing new there, and then put together our book outline, SOMETHING NEW HERE.  Well, can't even talk about it, cause books take forever, but WE HAVE STARTED, YEAH.

Next bit of news.  We have our FIRST BOOK, BLOOMING POSSIBILITIES, back from the printer.

























It will be ready to purchase on the website, http://www ...

It's finally here.  QUILT magazine, the July/August edition.























Why is this important?  We have a new quilt design in it.  Actually we have three quilts.

After flying 2500 miles to Florida, then driving nearly 2,000 miles to Minnesota, then driving back to Florida and then flying back to Utah, I am finally home.  What a crazy couple of weeks.  We had a great time in Minneapolis, though.  Now to the NEWS.  Two brand new quilt patterns were debuted,  ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, and PENNY LANE (pictures coming soon), and the most EXCITING NEWS of all.  We published our first book - BLOOMING POSSIBILITIES.  (so many fun projects we have to devote a whole post for it.)

We wanted to share with you this week, pictures of ...

We would like to wish a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the mothers, grandmothers, mother's to be, foster mothers, want-to-be mothers, and all of us who lovingly mother those around us.

May is also the Wonderful month of SPRING MARKET.  We are officially going crazy.  I head to Florida on Wednesday, and on the following Monday, we get in the car and DRIVE to Minneapolis.  We use the time during the drive to finish hand sewing on quilts, stuff patterns, shoot cover shots after we finish sewing, make brochures and pretty much every other little thing we did ...

Let's start with the most exciting news first.  Electric Quilt has a new version, EQ7.  We love eq, we use it almost everyday, in fact most our designs are done on it.  We have been interviewed by eq and even featured in the Amy Butler version.  Sarah and all the ladies over there are so helpful.  So,  head over to http://www.eletricquilt.com/ and read all about it.  WE CAN'T WAIT TO GET OUR HANDS ON IT.
























Janice and I are up to our ears in fabric, patterns, quilts, flowers, bags, you name it, we are working ...

Sorry, just no way to break the news other than to say, I am heading to Kaui, Hawaii, in the morning.  I know, it's rough, my niece called two days ago and asked if I would go and help her watch her two little babies.  Her husband has been detained with work meetings.  Darn.  Janice is in Pennsylvania visiting her daughter and three grandsons, so this post will be short.

One quick grandpa story.  Janice's husband, Kevin called me on the phone yesterday to check a recipe.  He usually makes a cake called 30 MINUTE CAKE which he ...

Don't you just love spring,  yesterday, 69 degrees, tomorrow, 62 degrees.  This morning, woke up to 3 inches of snow on the ground.

We did it, 200 FOLLOWERS.  We did not have any number in mind, but when it hit 190, it is an exciting goal.  When we made 199, we were hoping one more, one more. 

We got our facebook up and running and have 220 friends already.  Facebook is great for posting a quick picture and we love your comments on the work.

Before we give the winners, we want to thank everyone who left us a message, checked our website and joined us on facebook.  We were truly overwhelmed with the response and the kind words.  Janice went to everyone ...

What a great Saturday.  Can't get better than playing with beautiful fabrics on NATIONAL QUILT DAY.  Well, wait, yes it can, when we are GIVING AWAY GREAT STUFF, six winners in all.  I know, you are just jumping out of your seat with excitement.  So here goes.

THE PRIZES  - First Place - ONE WINNER will get an ORIGINAL ABBEY BAG made by yours truly.

We take a moment to interupt this tour to bring you a very important announcement.  MARCH 20 is NATIONAL QUILT DAY!  Woo Hoo.  In honor of this special occasion, we are cooking up a great give away.  Check Back.

Now, we continue with our MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR.
Here it is.  My stack of blocks.














80 to be exact.  They are trimmed and pressed and ready to put together.

We have had a very busy week and a half.  Four quilts, two magazines.  Unfortunately we can't show you the pictures, but summer will be popping with Abbey Lane Quilts. 

The good news, working with a great new fabric collection, HUNKY DORY, from Moda, of course.  The fabric will be in the stores in March.  We are really excited about the new pattern, it even has a name, MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR.  What is so cool about this pattern, is just by switching it up a little, you can make three totally different quilts from the same fabrics, and that ...

I don't normally write about things other than quilts, but this news was just way too important.  CHOCOLATE CHEERIOS!!!


















Can't wait to get my hands on some. 

I spent the last week on a cross coutry road trip, Utah to Philadelphia in a truck pulling a u-haul trailer.  My son, his wife and ten month old baby girl were moving from Vegas to Philly.  I sat with the baby, eating a lot of cheerios.  Thus, the added excitement for CHOCOLATE CHEERIOS.

The trip was 2100 miles long.  And we were lucky enough to only be behind one of ...

We are in QUILT  magazine, the April/May issue which hit shelves this week

Don't let the flavor fool you. I was so excited to buy a new small lotion for my purse. As I am sure most of us do, I smelled all the flavors. I decided on buttercream cupcake. Does it get any better than that. Well, actually it does if the cupcake is chocolate with butterceam icing.

All that cold weather in Florida kept Janice in the house last week.  It was a good thing too, because she had lots of sewing to do.  We designed and made two new quilts using Robert Kaufman fabrics.  They asked us to work with two lines of Batiks, not our usual, but we both love Batiks.

The patterns will be ready in about a month, but we wanted you to have a sneak peak.  The first one is with a line called Cornicopia.  We have named it SEPTEMBER MORN.  The colors are beatiful.  We updated a fall leave by using ...