Cherry House Quilts

more girl power

due to some technical difficulties, the pattern will be on FREE-a-BEE tomorrow. Here is the logo any how for your enjoyment...

thanks,
CHQ management.
(it's just me lizzy)

Girl Power Quilt

Here it is, as promised Girl Power!  The quilt is done, and tomorrow we will have a PDF available with instructions, yardage, etc.  Isn't this Amy Schimler fabric by Robert Kaufman adorable?  It is wonderful fabric.  Check back tomorrow for your free pattern.

A Good Deed

United Nations, and Poverty.com have created a unique food program - FreeRice.com. The idea is simple: Build your vocabulary while feeding hungry people around the world. The site offers a word with four definitions. For each correct answer, FreeRice donates 20 grains of rice to the United Nation's program to end world hunger. It's that simple. Make a difference without ever leaving your computer: FreeRice.com

I've added this to my sidebar, take a minute to play!  For years my focus has been MY children, THEIR needs, THEIR wellbeing, THEIR health, but as they have left home, and gone in to the world around them, they have broaden my scope, and my vision of the world we all live in.  When Ashlee went to India, her life changed forever; hunger and poverty on a scale that must have been unimaginable.  So I'm trying, and I'm learning to spread my net of concern further abroad, then my own precious family.  This rice program is a tiny thing that we all can do, to help one another.

Cherry Fizz!

I love cherries - I really do!  I love lots of things...we use that word in our family ALL the time.  Not lightly, not insincerely, we actually mean it with all our hearts!  Lizzy's friends tease her because she's always saying "I love that song...I love that movie...I love that painting"  Finally they get fed up, and "say, oh really, what don't you love?" 

Here's a little list of some things that I love...

• Cherries - they remind me of Idaho, summer, my Grandma - who I loved, and miss so much
• Mitered corners - odd thing to love, I know.  I don't attempt them very often, but when I do, and they turn our right - life is good!
• My children - I love them with all of my heart
• My Mom - she's a dream!
• My Friends - I'm so grateful for them
• My Pets - Stella, Pinecone, and the Mickster...they are my little family
• Quilting - I love quilting, I love fabric, I love my bloggy (real word, just made it up) friends - I never would have imagined finding such dear people through this forum
• All things sparkly - glitter, snow, Christmas tree icicles, anything frosty...when I see something sparkly I gain the vocabulary of a three year old little girl "oooh SHINY".

In honor of my love of cherries, and all things sparkly I've created Cherry Fizz, one of several new patterns that we are releasing this month.  No one does frosty fabric better than Holly Holderman.  I have no clue about the industry secrets that she knows, hidden away in some vault somewhere I'm sure, but there is something magical about her frosted fabrics.  You can iron over it without any difficulty at all.  Some frosted fabrics will bring your iron to a screeching halt, but not Holly's...they are a amazing!

Here a peek at Cherry Fizz!