A Granville Pit Stop Continues


There is also a really cute ice cream parlor a few doors down from the Green Velvet. Where we had a cup of raspberry brownie swirl ice cream to cool off with. Oh yes, we did eat lunch before hand at Greek Eats. And I have to say that they served the best gyro and french fries to date! Once we were all Grandvilled out we headed onward to my ex's parents. And along the way we passed this amazing structure. As far as I know to date the Longaberger Basket Building is the largest basket in the world. I believe this is their corporate head quarters. So yes, what a cool office building to go to work in. My daughter gets a kick out of it every time she sees it. Plus if we are going this way she knows she is almost to her grandparents house. And some where in between all that traveling we stopped at a Jo-Ann's too. I ended up buying the trio marking ruler set (with 50% off coupon) and two more. 25 yards of DS Designs fabric. I only need one more colorway from that collection and I will be happy as a lark to be done buying it. Maybe not, I might pick up the greens and blues to make something for my daughter. In the end a crazy little trip went okay and my daughter was safely delivered to her grandparents. Thank you mom for tagging along but next time I am driving!

A Granville Pit Stop


From the look of the picture it looks like any other small American town right? Well in retrospect it is. The reason why I was here is because I volunteered to take my daughter to her grandparents house (they live 2 1/2 hours away from us) and since I have not gotten a chance to do much with my daughter this summer or go any where for that fact. I made this trip; a trip to stretch out a 2.5 drive into an adventure. I had asked my ex's mom if there was anything to do in their neck of the woods that was a simple stop along the way and she did suggest a few places but they were not jiving with what I had in mind. So she mentioned this little town and little did I realize that it is home to one of the biggest designers in the fabric/sewing/quilting world. Yep, what I thought would be a cute little town to see quaint shops and have lunch at is also the hometown of Amy Butler of Amy Butler Designs. This folks is Granville, Ohio and it is such a lovely little town! As I was looking up of what to do and see in Granville, I was very surprised to see at the top of the list was Amy Butler Designs. So yes, I was thrilled to see if this was Amy's personal store. Well let me tell ya its not, matter of fact there was no sign on the building. From what I could tell it looked like someone's home/personal studio. So please don't go barging down on the door! But I did find a store called the Green Velvet that carried a few of Amy's fabrics and patterns. Well, you cannot stop in on Amy Butler's hometown and not buy something of hers, right? Oh, my daughter picked out the fabric here. I am trying to figure out what to make of it.

Quilter's Start Your Wordless Wednesday!


Wordless Wednesday, a photo by Gable House Sewing By Jennifer O. on Flickr. I know its Tuesday but... Yep that right! When you seriously have nothing to write about but have a ton of pictures stored about and want to share them. Well, now you can! Not that you could not do this before but hey why not on Wednesday. I am not the first one to start this here in blogland but I thought I just take it up an own on promoting a Quilter's Wordless Wednesday! I say, why not! We have a W.I.P (Work In Progress) Wednesday. Lets face it I know summer is more than half way over but still most of us are not really working on anything at the moment. So why not show off what we really are doing and let the pictures do all the talking. Besides if your readers really what to know the story behind the cartoon pictures they can ask right? Not to mention its also good way to connect with your readers too! So here are the rules! Yes, there are rules but they are easy to follow!

Quilter's Wordless Wednesday Rules. Since I am assuming that we all are mature enough to know that any form of porn, violence and so on is bad. No one really wants to see it so please keep photos clean! Its no crime to show of family, friends, pets, nature, oddities, and oh yes, your own quilts! How are well going to keep being inspired if we don't see other quilter's work! Good humor is more than welcome! Along with really adorable moments and those moments of amazement or Ah ha too! Try to keep it at the most 10 photos per post. And if you must and I must post more go to FotoFlexer.com which is free to use. (No I am not sponsored by them or promoting them!) Can make yourself a colleague like this one I ended up using for my Memorial Day post. Okay so now you know those are the rules! Now go have some fun! Who knows you might find your inner photographer!

Simple Things


Hi everyone! Just wanted to post that I have been doing some work around here. It's small and simple stuff but lets face it its summer and I can get into the heavier stuff in the winter. That and my computer keeps flipping out on me cause of the hot weather. So here is what I have in the works: A McCall's apron. Which I have made one before but in different colors. Here is the close up of the materials used for this apron. I think it looks better far away then close up. I have finished a few pot pinchers. The pattern is by Vanilla House Designs. They are a great stash buster item to make. Plus the are super easy to do too! As you can see I have quite a few more to work on to keep me busy  for a while. That is all I have for now. I hope everyone is doing well out there! Take care now!