The Most Thankful Time of the Year....

The sky is grey here in Ohio a bit cold but nothing to uncommon for a fall day. I’m sitting here wondering how it is the end of October. 2020 has been the longest fasted year. THANKFUL that we are making it through.

My little love just told me to go get back to work so I thought I would sit down and write to you. I guess checking on her was silly. Lately, I look at her and think how is this sweet girl going to be four years old. I feel like Josh and I were just getting ready for her to come into this world. I am THANKFUl to have her. Thankful to have been chosen to be this little humans momma.

The last couple days on instagram I had two reposts that I am so THANKFUL for. A fellow quilt shop and designer took the time to share a nice little blurb about my Carmen Quilt pattern and my upcoming fabric line Bubbie’s Buttons and Bloom that is due to ship out in December!

What a nice feeling to have people acknowledge your work! It was just what I needed. Being a creative comes with slumps. I have been in one because i have been doing more paper work and writing than creating. My poor brain is like “Kori way to much output lately”. Do you get that way? I tend to be hard on myself and then shut down? So here I am THANKFUL again for two random acts of kindness to help me get back on track. Back to writing, typing and figuring…. More or less finishing up quilters math and finishing up PATTERNS and then I know my brain will calm and my chest will be able to breath! SOON VERY SOON! So to pay it forward please check out Apron String Quilt Shop and Shannon Fraser with the above links!

I am off to my parents farm in a bit to see some special family from Alabama. Going to make them hot chocolate and social distance outside! The sun is actually coming out. Another thing to be THANKFUL for. I hope that you are enjoying the most Thankful Time of the Year like I am . May the colors of fall bring your heart some warmth. Stay tuned I have some fun things planned for you virtually!

Always Stitch from Your Heart,

Kori

Searching....

The house is quite, my little love has glitter glue and crumbled up paper spread about. The crumbles of paper are little birds you know! They are decorated with beautiful sketches {scribbles} of feathery wings. Daddy has her at dance. The one night in which she gets to be with sweet wee girls her age. It has been the longest, hardest but greatest few months of my life. I sit here searching…. searching and wondering what is next. The list of To Do’s are so long that I have stoped writing them because I find that those become discouraging on the hard days. What keeps me going is the glitter glue, the basket of unorganized embroidery thread and knowing that there is amazing stuff on the horizon.

If you know me… you know that I am always searching mostly searching the billion of ideas that I have in my brain… all of them fighting each other. Some are good and some not so good. On top of all the ideas like all of us worried about whats going to happen next, worried about our loved ones staying healthy, worried about well just about everything.

I have not been posting a lot on social media much. I am not sure why and I know it is so important for little business like myself. So I got to thinking… one of those billion ideas. I said to my self KORI USE YOUR BLOG!!!! OMG, the answer lies right under my nose for goodness sake. So my goal I hope is to meet you here on my blog! What do you think? I will still be on social media of course but its a little more quaint over here.

I want to thank you all who have reached out to me! My little family has had a busy and strange couple of months but we are all healthy. I have been working on so much sewing and creating behind the scenes. I can not show you for a while. I promise though when I can I will and I think you will understand why I have been so quite. Bubbie {my mom} says while everyone was in quarantine we were the only people not cleaning out their houses… it is the truth… we were sewing! It was like ground hogs day!

In the meantime I am finishing up pattern writing for the patterns that coincide with my fabric line Bubbies Buttons and Blooms for Windham Fabric. I just got back a huge stack of quilts from the quilter that I can show you so please stay tuned! I will post on Social Media and then do a blog post!

See sometimes things happen!

As far as my little quilt shop it is still on a public service break. Everything is OK I promise! Just need a bit more time before we open. As I have told many of you that I am so thankful that I have a business on my families farm but that also means respecting that. I want to make sure that I don’t carry any bugs over to my folks home. I know you totally understand. Family comes FIRST!!!!

Now if I could just tape my eyelids open at night and get more product online! I hope to get a fun few things up online with my new fabric line please please stay tuned! Thanks for all your patience and grace . I do this little business on my own and somedays plans and things change. I am sure that you totally understand that! I think we have learned how to be better at change in 2020…

I am a searcher. Searching to make a little part of my world happy by bringing you quilts, hand embroidery and other things that I come up with in this brain. So thanks for tagging along and i promise that i have great things to share in the coming days, months and years!

Jaye gave me this when I met my deadline!

Always Stitch from Your Heart,

Kori

A hello from the Heart....

Hi Sweet Friends,

Kori here! Not sure who else it would be. Insert hand on head emoji. What a crazy times we are living. Who would have thought that in 2020 we would be smack dab in a pandemic. Even in these uncertain times there are rays of light that are shining down. Today here in north east Ohio it is a bit grey. I sit here and type and look at my little red quilt shop. I look at it with hope, love and pride. In the coming weeks I will let you know how I am going to re-open that little 400 square foot building. I want to make sure that I keep you all safe as well as myself. In the meantime I am working on so many sewing projects and ideas that most days I wonder where to start. Hard problem to have… not really! I just wanted to say Hello and in the coming days, week, months and years I will write you a little note on here to inspire you, to help you smile and even give you a good laugh….

Always Stitch from Your Heart!

Kori