Two New Foofs

Thanks so much to my sister Heidi at Your Lovey Handmade Gifts! She sent our family a huge minkee couch snuggle quilt for Xmas! You can't see the colors well in the photo, but it's a chocolate brown with light blue dots and white on the other side. The minkee is sooooo soft, we all fight over it. Here is Wolfie modeling it.



Well as soon as we got it, Gigi stole it for her own. I was trying to snatch it from her one day and she was trying to get me to accept a piece of fabric with owls on it as a blanket instead. Her word for blanket is "foof". It comes from me telling her I'm going to "fluff" her pillow, which then came to mean pillow and later, by association, blanket. Anyway, we're struggling over this owl fabric and minkee blanket and she said her first five word sentence ever! She said "My foof! Go foof owl!" We were all stunned because she hadn't been talking much. Now we all go around saying "go foof owl!" when we want something someone else wants. Try it out loud, it's fun!

So my lovely sister decided to make Gigi her OWN foof! Here it is, with model, complete with tiny feet sticking out, like the wicked witch under Dorothy's house.


Sure, she's in a good mood above, but this is what I'm usually treated to.

I call this work of art "Fussbasket of the Universe with feedsack: a study in two year oldness." Click on it to enlarge, if you dare. Don't you just feel like that some days?

So long and thanks for all the foofs! But while you're here, why not check out the gorgeous Amy Butler Trailing Cherries with minkee baby foof my sister has for sale. It has the most gorgeous satin ruffles to feel! Or take a look at her super soft minkee dog beds. Check her out and support handmade!

Breaking News! Heather Ross Announces New Line

I'm beside myself! I never did get any of the Far Far Away double gauze that I wanted, but to tell the truth, I like the new line better! The new line is also double gauze and also Far Far Away but with a different cast of characters. Heather just announced it this morning!

This plum colorway below is lovely.



But I also like this meadow colorway.


But the blue colorway above is my favorite!
I love the sleeping princesses and roses! Oh, and moons!

Do you like this one or the original FFA better?

Amazing Fabric Sale Today!

Great deals on Park Slope and Bijou today in the Twiddletails Store! Here's what I bought.




I got half yards for $2.78 each! Come on!

Some More Blocks

Here are my blogless mom's blocks for Cancer is Sew Done. Click on the second one to see the embroidery in the center. I'm pretty sure that's salvaged embroidery from a commercial piece, as she tells me the white is salvaged butcher's apron from the 40's!

Cancer is Sew Done Blocks

Click on the photo to see what they really look like. The photography is terrible as I have to do these things after my kids are in bed and the lighting is not so great!

These are the blocks for cancerissewdone. Won't you join me in that group?





This one is my favorite! Alexander Henry sprites.

Geeking Out

OMGosh I just found a place online to play Atari games! There are three pages of games for you to remember and play. I literally cried when I played Adventure and Defender again for the first time in 25 years. Like no kidding. I. cried. My sense memory even remembered the way through the maze in Adventure!

Burger Time is not the same online as the hot dogs and salt and pepper shakers are very pixellated and its not the same experience. But the other two are perfect, complete with the right sounds for everything so turn on your speakers!

Anyone else geeking out like me?

I'm In Love!

With these little red and aqua houses!!! I lurrrve them. The next quilt I make for myself will be these little guys. The whole point is that the houses are tiny and surrounded by lots of white, so when you see the whole quilt, it has tiny spots of color, like this.

These blocks were made for a tiny village for gnomes and fairies.

Check out all of them on the Bee Imaginative blog!

The houses and tree above were made by John at Quilt Dad.


And this one was made by Rita at redpepperquilts. Love the flower garden in the front yard!

Check them out!