Put Your Heart In It!

Put Your Heart in It: Crazy pieced

Our newest fabric line, "Put Your Heart in It" has arrived in the shop! And  it looks beautiful in the cupboard all together!!  We developed this line in conjunction with our crazy pieced "Put Your Heart in It" quilt.  The quilt was inspired by a friend, a breast cancer survivor, who's cancer had reoccurred.  We wanted her to believe, to have hope, and to be strong in her journey to come.  I'm happy to report that she's done all three and is doing well! We don't always know what to do for a friend with a serious illness, and making this quilt helped me to cope.  It's stitched with love and countless prayers!

Put Your Heart in It: Traditionally pieced

And just to complicate things, we have a second quilt with the same name, but it's traditionally pieced "Put Your Heart in It" quilt, designed by Sue Falkowski for Henry Glass Fabrics, who so generously agreed to donate a portion of the proceeds of the sale of this fabric to Susan G. Komen for breast cancer research.  Thank you to our friends at Henry Glass and to each of you who purchases this fabric!  Let us all pray that there may one day be a cure.

Have You Been Good All Year?

Have you hung your stockings with care?  We surely want Santa to stop here because we've been good all year! Here's hoping you find health and good cheer in your stocking this year and may each of us keep the spirit of Christmas alive all throughout the coming year!  May you have a very Merry and Blessed Christmas!

Merry N Bright

Merry & Bright

 Is everything "Merry & Bright" at your house?  Are your packages all wrapped and under the tree?   Tom & I had a marathon of wrapping to get the gifts wrapped before the kids got home....Zack arrived today and he's the worst snooper!  He knows he doesn't want to spoil his Christmas morning but he can hardly stand it...he wouldn't even look under the tree, I think because it's way too much temptation and he wants to wait for his brother to get here so they can shake all the packages together and try to guess what's in each!  They are quite a pair and I go to great lengths to try and fool them by putting boxes inside of boxes.  Some years, I don't even put name tags on them-one of them gets red ribbon and one gets green and they don't know whose are whose until Christmas morning-it makes them crazy and keeps them guessing which is most of the fun!  At least now that they are older we no longer have to stay up all night on Christmas Eve waiting for them to go to sleep before "Santa" can come and put them under the tree!   But I'm so glad I still have them home for the holidays.  Hope yours are home with you too! Have a great holiday!

Christmas Churndash

Look what Gloria just finished for us!  Although this "Circa 1934"quilt is not traditionally Christmas, I think it would be fabulous on my couch this season!  I really want one of these quilts so I guess I'll be stashing another kit in my cupboard!  You, too, can stash one of these quilts or maybe have Santa wrap it up for under the tree!

The Barn Chicks

We had a cookie exchange at the barn yesterday with the girls....as usual, the cookies are just as delicious as last year.....I know since I've sampled them all!  So now in an effort to be able to fit into my jeans, they are now  safely stashed in the freezer!  Good thing for my waistline that my freezer is out in my detached garage....at least I get my exercise when I walk out for a snack!!  From each of us at the Buggy Barn, Pam, Kallie, Jan, Gloria, Mary Ellen, Nikki, Kathy A., Lynda, Kathy W., Donna, and me behind the camera, have a very Merry Christmas!  But not to worry.....you still have LOTS of time left to get everything ready!

Crazy Stars

Crazy Eights

Pam & I have always loved star quilts!  The thing we haven't loved, are the templates for making them!  I think that's the best thing about our "Crazy" method is that you can get these great stars without the mess and stress of templates.  Plus, you're done cutting in about 2 minutes!

And even though I love to applique, I don't really like to applique 50, 60 or 100 stars, especially if I can piece them!  This is where our "crazy" star method comes in!  When I made Blackbird Design's Halloween 1904, I didn't applique-I substituted our crazy stars.  So, for your convenience, here's a listing of our finished star sizes and which book or pattern they can be found in so that you'll be able to substitute into your favorite patterns!  Happy piecing!


For a video demonstration of our "crazy" piecing technique, visit our YouTube videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/jmayovsky/videos

           Crazy Star Sizes (finished sizes)

         SQUARE BLOCKS:

3”:      “Olde Glory” from Celebrated Craziness

4”:     "Crazy Bears" from  Star Crossing     OR

          “Going in Circles” from Certifiably Crazy  OR

          “Crazy Eights" from Crazy Fun-N- Games OR

           "Churning Stars" from  CRaZy 'Til the Cows Come HoMe

5”: "Fly the Coop" from CRaZy 'Til the Cows Come HoMe

5-3/4” (Halloween 1904):        Use “Twice as Crazy Star” from Gone Crazy centered on about 8-   1/2” to 9” square so you can get four stars per fat quarter

6”:      “Crazy Goose Chase” from Certifiably Crazy    OR:     

           Use “Twice as Crazy Star” from Gone Crazy centered on about 8-1/2” to 9” square so you can get four stars per fat quarter

7”:      Use sections A, B, & C only of “Big Dipper” from Stir Crazy   OR

          Use “Twice as Crazy Star” from Gone Crazy

8”:      "Zack's Freedom Flags" from Star crossing OR

          “Checkers” from Crazy Fun-N- Games

8-1/2”:  “Reelin’ “ from Positively Crazy

9”      "Barn Raising" from  Gone Crazy OR 
            "Quilt Show" from CRaZy 'Til the Cows Come HoMe

10”:     Single Crazy Mexican Hat Dance

12”:    "Ross's Star" from Star Crossing

                                                          

              HALF-SQUARE TRIANGLE STAR

 8”:        "Churning Stars" from  CRaZy 'Til the Cows Come HoMe                                              

             RECTANGULAR BLOCKS:

4-1/2” x 10-1/2”:   "Quilter's Village" from  CRaZy 'Til the Cows Come HoMe

 8-1/2” x 13-1/2”:   single Star Crazies

12” x 14”:  "Star Bright" from Crazy Snow Days

12-1/2” x 15-1/2”:  “Harvest Stars” from Frightfully Crazy

Range 10” x 14” to 16” x 22”:  “Breath of Spring”  from Stir Crazy  (the smaller the block, the closer the star points are to the edge of the block; for larger sizes, the star has more “float”. 


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Our Gift to You....

Just finished stuffing and stitching my pincushion closed.  This kit will be our gift to you as I explained in my last post.  I think it turned out pretty cute; hope you think so too!  It's made from cotton velvet with wool appliques and hand-dyed floss, all included in each kit.  We had so much fun playing with flower colors, that I couldn't choose which color I wanted.....the pink ones are going to be really cute too!

A hand painted mug could also be your gift!

In case you missed the details, here they are again!  Every holiday season, Pam & I like to say "Thanks" to all of our customers!  We so appreciate each and every one of you!  So, from December 1st through December 25th, we will include a thank you gift with a purchase made either at the Buggy Barn retail store or on our website at www.buggybarnquilts.com  

December 1st -25th 

with a $20-$75 purchase, receive a Buggy Barn stationery set

with a $76-$200 purchase, receive a pincushion kit designed by us

with a $201-$250 purchase, receive a handmade necklace with Buggy Barn logo

with a $251-$300 purchase, receive a canvas tote bag with Buggy Barn logo

with a $301-$400 purchase, receive a hand painted Buggy Barn mug

Purchases over $400 will receive both the hand painted mug & necklace.

Happy shopping, and thanks so much for your continued friendship and support!

Holiday Cheer!

Believe!

Every holiday season, Pam & I like to say "Thanks" to all of our customers!  We so appreciate each and every one of you!  So, from December 1st through December 25th, we will include a thank you gift with a purchase made either at the Buggy Barn retail store or on our website at www.buggybarnquilts.com  






December 1st -25th 

with a $20-$75 purchase, receive a Buggy Barn stationery set

with a $76-$200 purchase, receive a pincushion kit designed by us

with a $201-$250 purchase, receive a handmade necklace with Buggy Barn logo

with a $251-$300 purchase, receive a canvas tote bag with Buggy Barn logo

with a $301-$400 purchase, receive a hand painted Buggy Barn mug

Purchases over $400 will receive both the hand painted mug & necklace.

Happy shopping, and thanks so much for your continued friendship and support!

Baby Quilt for Ella

It Takes a Village

I hope everyone had a festive Thanksgiving! Our sister has been slowly remodeling our mom's house and this was our first Thanksgiving back home gathered around Mom's old dining room table. We had a big crowd with lots of kids and grand-kids-it's the best kind when family is all gathered back home together! While my niece was home, she and her mom, my sister Kathy, came to the Barn to pick out a baby quilt for Ella, who will be the newest addition to the family.  Now we like to use Kathy as our example of a non-quilter who is quite accomplished at piecing our crazies- if she can do it, so can anyone!

Baby N Me

During the quilt show, Kathy decided she'd make our "Baby N Me" quilt, using Leann Anderson's cute baby fabric. It uses one of our "Crazy" Stars around Leann's panel.   Then she could also whip up this cute book, also made from another of Leann's fabric lines (keep watching the website: will be added soon!).

"A Boy's Story

But Sara wanted to choose fabric like she has with the two previous babies so we headed to the Barn where I had to show her one of my personal favorites that I have stashed away, Annie Down's "A Boy's Story".  I just love the comic strips- they remind me so much of what it's like to have little boys. But, no, we needed more of a girl quilt.

Life is Beautiful

I also love "Life is Beautiful" and thought they could pick out their favorite sayings and/or designs.  This is not only a great quilt but clever in how the designer has made it a quilt as you go and uses the circles that you cut out from behind the applique motifs to applique down in other blocks. We continued the hunt, and after much deliberation, we finally decided on "It Takes a Village" which I think will be perfect! And it's one of our "crazies" so for Kathy, that makes it even better!  It sure was great having everyone home: family, food, and we even managed to sneak in some quilting!  Hope your's was happy too!