It's Day 6 of
Celebrate Mom here at Happy Quilting!!! A fun filled week of daily guest posts and daily fabric giveaway's for you !!! Today, I am super excited to welcome my guest
Jenny Pedigo of Sew Kind of Wonderful!!
I had the great opportunity to meet Jenny at fall quilt market and she has become a wonderful friend. Jenny is the creator of the
Quick Curve Ruler and along with it has created a vast line of fantastic
Quick Curve Ruler Patterns. She is also a very talented
long arm quilter!! Jenny never ceases to blow me away with her amazing quilt designs, you should she her
Curve It Up QAL.
Take it away Jenny!!
First off, I wanted to thank Melissa for this fun event she's doing this week! I was a little surprised when she asked if I wanted to participate and then remembered I now have 6 kids and would probably make for a good candidate!
My name is Jenny Pedigo with Sew Kind of Wonderful. I've been married for close to 18 years and 6 kids later. Our 6th child Ty, is only 2 1/2 months old and has been the most sweetest little surprise in our lives!
About 6 years ago I bought a longarm quilting machine so I could start working from home. Then a couple of years ago my passion went from longarm quilting to now creating quilt patterns, which has brought on a whole new business of it's own. I have come to find out the reality of just how hard it can be to work at home and manage being a mom at the same time!
I have a plaque on my wall that says "Welcome to the Zoo"!! Sometimes and many times it can feel that way! I really try to involve my kids with what I'm doing, whether it's getting a 2nd opinion on a quilt design, color fabric choice for a quilt, stuffing patterns, wrapping rulers, packaging orders, carrying heavy boxes to the car...and so on.
Here is Brittany and Brooke stuffing patterns for me. I can only get them to help me if I pay them of course!
I would also love it if my daughters, one day, became obsessed with quilting like their mom! We have managed to make some quilts together, we made this one for their bed.
It was a big accomplishment for them and we had lot's of fun spending time together to work on it!
I've also let my kids play around on the longarm.
Here's Brittany quilting a top that she actually designed her self. Starting soon, Brittany is going to start longarm quilting for customers to make a little money in High School. Wish I could have done that in High School!
I will admit there are times when work at home took over my life. Looking back at the last 6 years, I wish I had slowed down and spent more time with my kids. My baby Ty has been a blessing in my life in so many ways. One being, I have learned to slow down and enjoy my family more. I've had more fun with my kids in the last couple months and have learned how important it is to balance work, quilting and just being a mom.
Funny story. Yesterday Brittany and I were playing a humming game with her phone. She holds the phone over her head, I read the title of the song and try to hum it to her and she try's to guess what song I'm humming. Okay.....I'm not sure what I was thinking when I said I'd play along, but I'm the worst singer ever! Oh...and the phone takes a video of you also. I tried to hum a Lion King song and in my head I thought it sounded really good, but was startled when Brittany started laughing and my baby Ty, who was sitting on my lap, starting crying! We have watched that video over and over and over. It's so hilarious and I'm so glad I was able to enjoy that moment with my daughter!
Thanks Melissa for this fun "Mom" week and for letting me share a bit about me and my family, it was fun!
Fast dinners for us on a busy day consist of rice, cooked in a microwave rice cooker (20 minutes). Costco's frozen fish (salmon or tilapia) baked in the oven for 15-20 min. and a frozen vegetable (steam for 5-10 min). Fast, easy and healthy!
Thank you so much to Jenny for being part of this Celebrate Mom event!
And how about a final giveaway!!!
Today's Celebrate Mom giveaway will be a copy of each of my patterns. Yup, all 7 to one lucky winner!!!
So what do you have to do for your chance to win???
Just leave me a comment of one thing you love about your Mom :)
That's it. Up to 1 entry per person. Giveaway is open to international entries. It will close on Sunday, May 12th and a winner will be selected randomly and announced shortly after.
Thanks for stopping by. We will wrap things up with the winning post :)