Valentine/Baby Girl Quilt

I was SO excited to make this quilt for one of my best friends! She picked the color scheme for the quilt; pinks, purples, and grays. Immediately, I knew I wanted to make appliqued hearts, since she's due in February.

Double Chocolate Salted Caramel Sandwich Cookies

I sure love chocolate! These cookies are soft & the combination of chocolate with caramel is divine. Just in time for Valentines day, you can make these as a gift for yourself, or if you feel the love, share with friends.
Ready to make your own-

Yes! You can Machine Quilt!

Why you CAN and SHOULD machine quilt your own quilts. 

When I first started making quilts, I was intrigued at the idea of quilting them myself, but I thought it required a fancy sewing machine and a high level of skill. Quilting can be an EXPENSIVE hobby (wonderfully fun, but expensive). I would take my little table runners into be quilted and pay between $20-40 to have a cute pattern quilted on. I realized that financially (with the number of quilts I was busting out) I just couldn't justify paying so much extra for all my quilts. I decided to give machine quilting a shot and did a quilt with machine quilting (FREE MOTION QUILTING). I was a little crazy and started with free motion quilting, trying to do patterns and designs. My next two attempts were using a WALKING FOOT (STRIP QUILT)(EASY BABY QUILT) and were SO much easier! 

Machine quilting was actually kind of fun! I am able to finish my entire quilt, on my machine, by myself!

 I've been hooked ever since.