Thank You - David is Doing Well

I can not begin to express my overwhelming gratitude when I got on my computer this afternoon and found so many beautiful, kind, and sincere comments from all of you for my sweet little nephew, David.  I am moved to tears and am just so grateful for all of your heartfelt thoughts, comments, and prayers.  Thank you so very much!!

David's open heart surgery on Friday went very well.  It was more complicated than anticipated and yet, everything went smooth and he is recovering.  In fact, he is recovering so well, he had surgery again this morning to close everything up.  We are so very grateful to the wonderful surgeon and his team that has taken such amazing care of little David.  He will continue to be in their care for another week or so while he finishes up his recovery and then he will get to go home.  What a miraculous journey this little guys first few weeks of life have been.

Again, thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers.  Each are felt and so very much appreciated.

David

So, I normally don't share a whole lot of personal stuff on this blog, but today I am. I love that this blog has created a whole new family for me.  I really do see you as my quilting family.  And well, right now, I need a little favor from ya all.

Some of you might recall from this post that I recently finished a baby boy quilt for my sweet little nephew that was soon to be expected.  Well, David arrived last Wednesday.  Here he is in his first few hours with his mommy.  That's my twin sister, Jen :)  Isn't he just adorable!!  Everything seemed to be perfect but the next day the family got some sad news.

During his routine check-up a heart murmur was detected.  Tests were run and showed that David has coarctation of the aorta and two holes in his heart, ASD, and VSD.  He was transferred to the Children's Hospital and has been awaiting his surgery day.  This morning he is undergoing open heart surgery to fix the above mentioned problems.

It has been a long hard week for David and his parents.  We are praying that everything goes well with his surgery and that his recovery will be smooth and hopefully no further surgeries will be needed.   So, the favor.   Could you please keep this little guy in your thoughts and prayers today.  Thank you and know that is is so greatly appreciated by me and his parents :)

P.S.  I am away from my computer this weekend and so I won't be able to respond to your comments right away but I will be sure to give an update on David Sunday evening.  Thank you again :)

Sewing with Grandma

**Note - If you are looking for the Rustic Rooster Giveaway you can find it here :)

So this summer, Barbara started a little summer sewing activity for some of the older grand-kids.  The kids named it Make It Monday :)  Each Monday afternoon, and then some other days in between, a few of the grandkids met with Grandma to work on their desired project.  This last week my 3 oldest finished their projects.

Jessi made this adorable owl purse.  Her bff (and cousin) has a matching one.  They are totally loving their matching purses and can be found sporting them all over town :)

Jessi did such a great job.  She cut out all her pieces, stitched her applique in place, and then put the bag together with the help from Grandma.  She really is staring to be quite the little seamstress.
 

Spencer and Kristian decided they wanted to make "Ranger" capes based off of the books "Rangers Apprentice" that Spencer is reading right now.  They loved cutting out all of their wonky camoflouge shapes to add to the capes.

They didn't however, love stitching all of those wonky shapes in place.  Spencer set himself a goal of so many a week to have it done by this weekend.  It was a great way to work through it I thought.  (Grandma helped a lot with Kristian's, he decided pretty early out of the gate that secure stitching really wasn't his thing :)  The boy's absolutely love their capes and can be found whipping around and hiding in corners every 2 minutes.

I want to shout out a  huge Thank You to Barbara!!!  She really is absolutely amazing.  She works with the kids so well and is so patient with them, even when they are getting a little crazy and antsy.  Mom, you really made the kids summer with Make it Monday!!  And just in case you are wondering,  yes, I know that I have the best Mother In Law in the world, and I am so very happy to have her in our lives!!!

Welcome Rustic Rooster & Giveaway

Today I am so excited to welcome  the Rustic Rooster Quilt Shop as Happy Quilting's newest sponsor!!!   Trina is a brand new shop owner who has always had the dream of opening a quilt shop.  In fact, it was that dream that helped her through her struggle of breast cancer.  She recently finished treatment and jumped into the world of fabric shop owner opening an brick and mortar store in Oregon as well as an online shop.  Congrats Trina on making your dream a reality!!

Rustic Rooster Quilt Shop carries mostly Moda fabrics with some Riley Blake sprinkled in there.  Of course, Trina plans on carrying more fabric lines in the near future and is adding stock each week.  

Trina carries both yardage and pre-cuts, including the newest Honeycomb precuts, so you are sure to find what you are looking for :)

Trina also has Pattern, Books, Threads, Gifts, Notions, and Batting.  It's so convenient to have it all in one place!!!!  I just love this Quilt Happy color dip mug in her gifts section.  Isn't it so cute and who doesn't want to be reminded to Quilt Happy :)

Trina focuses on having low prices and amazing customer service.  That way everyone can enjoy good quality fabrics.  Congrats again Trina, on making your dream come true!!  I am so excited to have you as part of the Happy Quilting Family!!! 

And as part of their welcome debut the Rustic Rooster Quilt Shop. is giving away a $30.00 Gift Card to one lucky winner!!!  

You have two chances to win, please leave a separate comment for each.  And since Trina has a brand new shop, I thought it might be nice for your entries to allow you to get acquainted :)

1 - Visit the Rustic Rooster Quilt Shop and leave a comment here of what you might want to use your $30.00 Gift Certificate on. 

2 - Like the Rustic Rooster Quilt Shop on Facebook and leave a comment that you did so.

So that's it :) The giveaway will close on Monday night July 17th and I will announce a winner shortly after.     
And one last thing . . . we can't all win the Gift Certificate but Trina has added a special little surprise so that everyone can be a winner!!!

Trina is offering 25% off your entire purchase at the Rustic Rooster Quilt Shop when you enter the  coupon code HQ13 at checkout.  The code will be valid from July 10th through July 16th!!!  So now we can all have some shopping fun :)

Thanks for popping in and have a Happy Quilting Day!!!

Winners from the Blogiversary Celebration

Thank you for joining me in celebrating my 3 year Blogiversary Celebration!!  It was so much fun to get to take a little trip down memory lane with all of you!!  I just can't believe how much Happy Quilting has grown in three years.   And I am so incredibly excited to see where the next three years take me!!!

And now I owe you some winners.  But first, a little explanation.  What most of you don't know is that while I was celebrating my 3 year blogiversary last week, I was also on an Alaskan Cruise with my husbands parents, siblings, and spouses.  We had a wonderful time, but now I am experiencing some post cruise rocking.  My head won't stop swaying from side to side. So since it takes a vast amount of concentration just to type, we are going to keep this  plain and simple.  The winners are . . .

DAY 1 -  Southern Fabric $25 Gift Certificate goes to  #164 . . .  Helen L

DAY 2 -  Scarlet Thread Quilt Co. Charms Packs goes to #195 . . . Judy1522

DAY 3 -  Green Fairy Quilts Jelly Roll goes to #181 . . . PKSews

DAY 4 -   Christa Quilts Color Bundle goes to #26 . . . Denise in PA

DAY 5 -   Intrepid Thread Fat Quarter Bundle goes to #120 . . . Bee

DAY 6 -  Fat Quarter Shop $25 Gift Certificate goes to #285 . . . Lisa E

I will email you all shortly :)  And since I can't leave without a picture, here's some snapshots from last week.

The Boat

The Fam

Alaska

Not a normal toes in the sand picture, that is a Glacier in the background.  Ya, super cold water.