Category — Everything Else

Wishing all my quilty friends a very Merry Christmas! I hope everyone is enjoying this holiday season and surrounded by those you love. xox

Please join me in welcoming my newest sponsor, Fresh-Squeezed Fabrics! I have been shopping at owner Randi’s Etsy store for probably two years. She has a great fabric selection and super fast shipping.

Randi is not only a shop owner, she is also an active participant in the Flickr community. She has a great blog where she recently hosted a tote bag sew-along.

You can receive shop updates on Facebook, through her newsletter, or on Twitter. Lots of options!

Just this week my latest order arrived…Sarah Jane’s Children at Play. This fabric is SO adorable and I have special plans for it.

Joel Dewberry’s amazing new collection Heirloom also recently arrived at Fresh-Squeezed Fabrics. I am a *huge* fan of the Citrine colorway.

Photo from http://joeldewberry.blogspot.com

More of my favorites…

Cape Ann layer cake (the newest collection coming from Oliver+S), Precuts of Aneela Hoey’s latest collection Little Apples, and Avalon by Jay-Cyn Designs for Birch Fabrics.

I am very happy to have Fresh-Squeezed Fabrics join my blog, and thank you to all my readers for supporting my great sponsors!

I am very excited to welcome my newest sponsor, Canton Village Quilt Works! Owner Jacqueline Kunkel has been quilting for 18 years and offering long arm quilting services since 2000. In 2009 she opened her online fabric shop.

Jacqueline offers some really beautiful fabrics in her shop from Westminster, Free Spirit, Art Gallery, Kona Cotton Solids, M&S Textiles, and a wide variety of batiks. Some of my favorites…

Image from Canton Village Quilt Works
Art Gallery Oval Elements Fat Quarter Bundle…these are really amazing, popping up all over blogland right now.

Image from Canton Village Quilt Works
I am in love with the colors in this Strawberry Picnic Fat Quarter Bundle – screams summer to me and would make a perfect picnic quilt.

For those that liked my Kaffe Fassett stripe improv blocks, she offers a great variety of Kaffe stripes as well as other prints. I have been eyeing these Aboriginal Dots for quite some time.

Image from Canton Village Quilt Works

And for fans of Kona Solids, she has a lot! I’m pretty sure this is the stuff dreams are made of.

Images from Canton Village Quilt Works

You can keep up to date on specials and new items by “Liking” Canton Village Quilt Works on Facebook, following her blog, and signing up for her newsletter.

A big thank you to Canton Village Quilt Works for joining us over here at Fresh Lemons!

Hello everyone! I’m back from my week away…and I’m exhausted! Just some fair warning, this post has nothing to do with sewing (well, there will be some extremely minor fabric references!)

As you can probably guess from the top photo, Mr. Fresh Lemons and I took the kids to Florida for the last week. We started the week here…

where this was our view…

and then we spent the second half of the week here…

and finally, I came home to these…(plants growing in my garden!)

I’m trying *really* hard not to share ALL 167 photos I took with you. Really hard.

We moved back to Chicago from Tampa 2-1/2 years ago and this was our first trip back to Florida. Our first “real” vacation in years. It went so well, the kids had SO much fun, traveled great, giggled almost the entire time. I couldn’t have ask for more.

I have been VERY lucky this week. First, I won an organic solids FQ set from Quilt Home Magazine. Then, when we arrived at our hotel at Disney we found out we were randomly selected for Family of the Day and upgraded to a safari view room! And then I won a Little Apples mini charm pack from Amanda! I mean really, it has been nuts. So we decided to buy a Powerball ticket while in Florida so I’m crossing my fingers that I wake up $120 million dollars richer in the morning.

I hope everyone had a wonderful week. I feel refreshed and can’t wait to get caught up with my Google Reader and get back to sewing!