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Farm Friends

Posted on: November 18th, 2016 by Lorna McMahon

This quilt is really near and dear to my heart. In addition to the Forest Friends and the Jungle Friends designs, of course, it was only fitting that I would eventually come up a design that truly reflects my rural setting. Meet Farm Friends! Along with the Flowers quilt that I showed you last week, […]

Flowers {make me HAPPY!}

Posted on: November 10th, 2016 by Lorna McMahon

Finally. I have a finish to share! This is the Flowers quilt. It was finished this past week. And on Wednesday I finally was able to install the plywood panels on the side of the “new” old hay wagon so that I can display my quilts outside for a photo shoot.   Here is an […]

Trunk Show in my own home town of Stratford

Posted on: October 21st, 2016 by Lorna McMahon

The finishes posts are getting few and far between lately. Now that my daughter has her driver’s license, and following the summer when the kids were back in school, I thought that I would have so much more alone time at home and that I would be able to crank out lots of quilts this […]

Mama Chicken 12″ quilt block tutorial

Posted on: August 29th, 2016 by Lorna McMahon

This one’s for you, Carol!!!! I ran into Carol at the Quilt Show and she requested a chicken pattern, so I promised her I would come up with a chicken block. Today I am sharing this free block tutorial. As, I mentioned previously in this post, Carol reads this book to her granddaughter and it […]

Kissy Fishy

Posted on: August 26th, 2016 by Lorna McMahon

YES! I did manage to get this one quilted in time for the show!   I spent last Friday and Saturday at the International Plowing Match Quilt Show in Harriston, Ontario. You can read about the results here. I was so excited… And also a bit nervous…..   So during the week prior, to alleviate my nervousness, […]

IPM Quilt Show – Success!

Posted on: August 23rd, 2016 by Lorna McMahon

Yes! The IPM Quilt Show this past weekend turned out to be a rousing success! No, I did not sell ALL my patterns… Although I did sell quite a few.Those Black Birds were the biggest draw! But what really made me feel this event was such a successful one? The PEOPLE!!! The BEST part was […]

Dog Gone Cute {redo}

Posted on: August 12th, 2016 by Lorna McMahon

Meet Fluffy. Although I have enjoyed working on this remake of the Dog Gone Cute quilt, Mr. McFluffster says it really is all about him. Because the Dog Gone Cute has been one of my more popular patterns, I wanted to have a sample to hang in the booth next week. My original large block quilt […]

Black Birds in Blue {redo}

Posted on: July 29th, 2016 by Lorna McMahon

Before I realized that I would be manning a vendor booth at the International Plowing Match in Harriston in August, I had listed my Black Bird baby quilt in my Etsy shop. And it sold at the end of June. Because the Black Bird pattern has been one of my more popular patterns, I wanted […]

Bear Paw block tutorial

Posted on: June 29th, 2016 by Lorna McMahon

Since I have been spending the past couple of weeks working on the Modernitional Bear Paw quilt, I thought it would be nice to share a simple tutorial for making the Bear Paw quilt block. In my “Down on the Farm” post from June 23rd, I shared photos of all the calves born in the […]

Down on the Farm….

Posted on: June 24th, 2016 by Lorna McMahon

Jessie daughter of Orange Head What’s been keeping me busy?????The lazy days of summer are finally here. Yes, the winters are long and I do so much look forward to these sunny summer days. But really they are anything but lazy. In spite of appearances….. Daisy daughter of Mary Jane Daisy daughter of Mary Jane […]