Thank you SEW much!

Who knew that a simple step of being nominated in the MSL American Made Event would be the beginning of such a {GREAT} journey! 

It was just a few weeks ago when I decided to {BE BRAVE} and share this journey with each of you!!  It's been a wild ride, let me tell you!  A swell one...I may add, as well!  To think that my hometown, friends, family, colleagues & my {AWESOME} BB followers rallied together to help spread the word & to make this happen for my "humble" company is SEW awesome!!!!.  Seriously, we hit over 80,000 votes!  Blows my mind!!!  You guys {ROCK}!!!  WOW! {THANK you}!!!

Also, to love my designs is one thing... But to love the "person" behind the designs is truly a blessing!!  So whether I win or loose this contest... I could not have imagined going through it without each one of you!  You made this "small-town" girl believe that anything is possible and remember to always {DREAM BIG}!  THANK YOU ALL...not only for your daily {6} votes, but for your continued support, encouragement, excitement & joy you brought to me each day!  You made this journey unforgettable!!!  

I {BELIEVE} in Buttermilk Basin and will continue to share, inspire & hold steadfast its principles based on integrity & a set of values my Great Grandma Lily instilled in me so many years ago!  If only Lily & my "mother hen" could be here enjoying the journey with us too! ❤️ Love you all!!!  ..... Let's see where the journey leads us!!! {PS * I LOVE you too, Miss MARTHA.... thanks for this {AMAZING} opportunity!!!  XO Stacy

FOX 9 Morning BUZZ! Mystery BOM, Block 10 & A Giveaway!

Happy Halloween! 

Today is DAY {6} of our online Halloween Party!  I am thrilled to be sharing my {love} for this delightful season with each of you!  I can't believe how many of you have been following along!  The more the merrier!!! 

 

Before I begin to share today's special edition of our "MYSTERY" BOM, Block 10 during our party... I have to say I am on "pins & needles" waiting to watch the FOX 9 news in the morning {just a few hours away!}...  My company will be featured on the Morning Buzz Segment!  I am being featured as a MN Martha Stewart Living, American Made finalist!  My neighbor Sally and I drove down to the TV station and dropped off a few of my designs!  It was pretty cool!  It was fun to get a glimpse of the station!!  So if you are local... be sure to tune in at 9.  It will be featured on air at 9:15~!  Soooo right after would be a fantastic opportunity to cast your votes!  We only have 5 DAYS to rise to the top!!!!! PLEASE help spread the word and encourage your friends and family to jump in on the final days of this journey with us!  Every vote matters!!!!  WE CAN DO THIS!  {Thanks a bunch for all the support!  I really am blessed beyond measure!!!} 

Here is the link!

http://www.marthastewart.com/americanmade/nominee/138644/crafts/buttermilk-basin

{WE ARE CLOSE TO 65,000 VOTES!!!!!!!  WOW!!!!!  75,000 HERE WE COME!!!}

Today I also have a "FRIGHTFULLY" SPOOOOKY TREAT for you!!!! 

 

In the spirit of Halloween and giving...

I will be having a giveaway for these gorgeous wool bundles today! 

 

They are so cute, I can hardly part with some!!!  I have them sitting in an old dough bowl at the studio!  So before you leave... be sure to comment on the blog post {below} for a chance to win one of these candy corn bundles!!!!  Good LUCK!

 

 

And now.... the special "Halloween" edition of our "MYSTERY" BOM, Block 10!  I couldn't resist doing a jack-o-lantern!  It is just perfect for this crisp fall month of October!  Enjoy!  KITS are available, as always, for all blocks on our website at www.buttermilkbasin.com

PS* Don't forget to share your work to our Buttermilk Basin FB Page or on Instagram!  And...be sure to pass this along to your friends too!  Better yet, hold a stitching night with your "ghoulfriends" and watch the MAGIC happen!

Please go to www.buttermilkbasin.com to purchase your pattern/kit.   

HAVE A MARVELOUS DAY!!!  See you tomorrow!!! Stacy

DAY {4} of our Halloween Party! Velvet Pumpkin & FREE pattern!

Happy Happy Halloween!!!! 

Welcome to DAY {4} of the Halloween Party!!! 

 

Weren't the game board quilts cute!  I can't wait to use my fabrics to sew a couple up!  They would look great with a carved jack-o-lantern all aglow on it!  Nice job Sheri!!!

 

I also want to give a huge THANK YOU to those of you are not giving up on the VOTING!  We still have a shot at winning this contest as they revaluate the invalid votes!  So now, more then ever, we need to vote and spread the word to all our "goblins & ghoulfriends"!!!  We can do this!!! 

 LOVE, OLIVER the {Batman!}

http://www.marthastewart.com/americanmade/nominee/138644/crafts/buttermilk-basin

* Please be sure you are logged in with a password to vote or your votes won't count.  You can vote {6} times right in a row.  It should say 5 votes left, 4 votes left until you run out... Quick and easy!

 

 

Today I have another great project for you to make!  I know you will LOVE it!  It is made with velvet and may be orange!!!  But.... before I get to sharing my free project with you, I wanted to share a few pictures of my Halloween Party we had a couple of years ago!  Up until recently, I used to host Halloween costume parties for my friends and family!  I really enjoyed coming up with a theme, a menu and games for the kids!  As I was revisiting these pictures... I realized how creative the children were as they decorated their pumpkins with candy!  Not only were they creative, but they were fearless and each had their own vision of what a pumpkin face should look like!.  They had no expectations and did whatever made them happy!  I think those are some great thoughts for us to keep in mind when we are working in any medium.  Don't be afraid to color outside of the lines or put a new twist on your work!  Bring out that inner child, let go of what you think you should do... just be and create!  Enjoy the process!!!

No two pumpkins were alike....  Playing musical chairs!

Check out the creative Jacks!

 

I love these kids!!! 
 

Ok... It is time to bring on the pumpkin!!!! 

 

 

 

Now for another "FREE" gift!  I am giving away this SPOOKTACULAR Halloween pattern with any $10 pattern order {before shipping}!  All you need to do is place your order online and you will automatically receive this with your order!  What a fun treat!!!! 

 

We still have {3} more days of Halloween goodness ahead!  See you tomorrow!!! Stacy

 

Halloween Party is HERE!!!!!! FREE Pattern

 

Happy Halloween Everyone!

Welcome to my party!  Please make sure you grab your "ghoulfriends" and join us for {7} days of Halloween FUN!  Each day will be filled with various spook-tac-u-lar TREATS from recipes, projects to click and print and SEW much more!  Each day there will also be a SPECIAL on our website!  I have been having a ball getting this ready.... so let's get the party started!

 

If you know me,  you know my FAVORITE Holiday is Halloween!  Ever since I can remember my mom and I would decorate the doors and windows with Halloween cut outs, make popcorn balls and ponder for days what my costume should be!  {I will tell you more about that later...}  I will tell you that on more then one occasion, as I got older, I went as a bum!  I did it simply because I loved wearing my Great Grandpa Oscar's striped overhauls!  They were the "real" deal!!! 

 

Every Halloween I got the opportunity to help my Great Grandmother Lily bake sugar cookies with colored sugar and then help her package her little paper bag of treats for the "trick or treaters"!  We usually put as many pieces of candy in the bags that we could fit in it.  After we were finished, we always put them in a cake pan so they wouldn't fall over!  Such fun we had!  I will never forget how much joy my grandma had on Halloween waiting {with anticipation & excitement} to seeing all the "trick or treaters" come to her door! 

Those, my friend, are the simply joys in life!

 

 

When witches go riding in big orange trucks,

and black cats & spiders are seen,

the moon laughs and whispers,

’tis near Halloween!
 

 

 

Speaking of "TREATS"... I have some sweet woolen candy corn bowl fillers for you to make!  And how cute are they in my little Basin Farm Truck!  I love it!
 

 

Please don't forget to cast your "magical" VOTE for Buttermilk Basin as we are in the final {9} days of the Martha Stewart Living AMERICAN MADE Contest!  Don't forget to tell your "ghoulfriends" to VOTE too!  It is greatly appreciated!  Note: You must be logged in to vote!  You can vote 6 times in a row each day!  Be sure to notice your votes saying 5 votes left, 4 votes... this shows that your votes are being counted!

http://www.marthastewart.com/americanmade/nominee/138644/crafts/buttermilk-basin

As I wrap up Day {1} of my Halloween I have to share a couple more things with you!  First I am absolutely loving my view outside my big window!  Seeing the leaves changing daily is stunning.... And before I go... I also have a VERY EXCITING "Treat" for your on the website!!!

"TREAT OF THE DAY"

Merrie Halloween Pattern

Regular price $28

$19.95 today ONLY...until the clock strikes MIDNIGHT!

Sorry...Offer Expired

 

Head on over to the website for that

{SPOOKTACULAR} Treat!!!!!

www.buttermilkbasin.com!

See you tomorrow!!!!  Stacy

 

We're having a HALLOWEEN Online Party! Blog WINNERS!

Hey everyone! Have you heard the exciting news???  I'm having an {online} HALLOWEEN Party and YOU are invited! It is going to be a BOO-t-i-ful & SPOOKTACULAR time!  It starts on the 10th, so be ready to party!

Yesterday my neighbor Sally & I took a little road trip out to Buffalo!  It was a gorgeous day, and we needed to get out and enjoy it!  Winter comes way too quick here in MN!  

We enjoyed the farmers market...

The pumpkin patch....

The apple orchard...

The fall displays... and fell in love with this vintage truck that pulled up beside us!

It was a GREAT day!

Now here are this week's Lucky Friday Winners!  Please email me your name & address by Thursday of this week!  Congrats to:

Stacy L.

Patricia D.

And before I go....I thought I'd give you the update on the Martha Stewart Living, American Made contest!  As of now, I'm 1400 votes away from the leader!  Could you please log in with a password and vote?!?  Then share it with a couple of your friends or family so they can also vote?  Pretty please!!!! I'd appreciate it! 

http://www.marthastewart.com/americanmade/nominee/138644/crafts/buttermilk-basin

Enjoy your Sunday!!!!

All my best... Stacy

4 Giveaways on 3 BB FAN blogs & More!

Holy moly it's "LUCKY" Friday and boy do I have "treats" for you!!!!!!!  One of the special things in this industry is support and encouragement!  These last 24 hours turned out to be the most amazing 24 hours ever... Because of all of you!!!  I hope you, too, could feel the kindness and gentleness here!  You should see my "inspiration" board!  It's a beautiful mess of all YOUR swell comments that we printed out and hung up on there with the quotes that were shared & pics of my family & cats!!!! {lol!}. I'll try to take a pic and share it!  Words can't express how full of joy my ❤️ is!

Before I get to the {BARN tees} give away for this week... I'm going to share some other cool & FANTASTIC give aways that will be occurring on some of my FAV BB fan blogs!!!!  Each of these 3 blogs will be giving away MORE BB patterns this weekend!  I encourage you to hop over to their blog, enjoy their offerings and leave a comment for a chance to win!  Here they are!  

http://sweetp-paulette.blogspot.com

http://woolnsails.blogspot.com

http://wooliemammoth.blogspot.com

***you gals are the BEST!

Now... A couple more things to mention!  I need to send {big hugs}and {shout outs} to two special friends who inspire me and always support me!  They are Lisa Bongean 

http://lisabongean.com {who posted a fantastic post you should check out and bookmark her blog she's darn takented!!} and Debbie Busby {who everyone fell in love with at the barn event!} http://www.woodenspooldesigns.com {head her way to order those darling cat kits she offered there!  Then something on the vintage/paper crafts side is my friend Laura, who is starting her Etsy site & blog!  She's creative and fun!  So check her new digs out at http://www.vintologybylola.com  {she connected with Tim Holtz and I missed him 😢 at the Junk Bonanza!!!}. ok!  *phew* I think I got all the "important" stuff covered!!!!

Moving on!  I'm crazy!  I've been up until 5 AM most night lately!  This puts a whole "new" spin on nite owl!!! Lol!  Tomorrow morning is the first day I'm able to sleep in!  As you can see.., Oliver took over and decided to work his cuteness and "round up" some cowgirls like you all to VOTE for me in the MSL American Made Contest!  So I'm free as s bird (until I have to do the list he gave me in return!). So be sure to follow Oli this weekend as he thinks he's going to hit 20,000 votes!  He also said he's looking forward to seeing your pet pics!!!  ❤️😻❤️that Oliver!

This week Kel & I caught up big time!  We started with a huge mess after 2 trailer loads were "dumped" in the studio last week!  We sorted, organized, restocked, cut kits, got all the orders & Lucky Friday winnings out and probably resent a couple of you another set of patterns or something because before/during the barn event... It was wild!  Lol! We are back in full speed {check out the new designs in process!} until we leave in 3 weeks for Quilt Market & Quilt Festival in Houston!  YES!  You read that right!  This will be my 1st trip to Houston for that wild & crazy Festival everyone looks forward too!  So as I wrap this up and send you over to our FB page for Lucky Friday....  thank you for ALL for your VOTES gals... My question for you this week over there on the FB or here is- have you ever went to the festival in Houston?  If so, give the scoop on what to expect & bring!!!!!!  If not, just leave me a comment for a chance to WIN the fun BARN T-shirts!!!!

Hugs to all!  Good luck snd please comment below and help continue spreading the words for only 17 more days!!!!!  Please click and share the link below & VOTE!!!!!

http://www.marthastewart.com/americanmade/search/Buttermilk%20basin

Please vote for Buttermilk Basin!

Hello!!!!  Voting has started for the Martha Stewart American Made contest and I'm already behind, lol!!!!  That's what happens when you are busy making memories with those who came from near and far to the BARN Event!  You can't put a price or award on that!!!  I'm going to be posting ALL week about it!  It was such a blast!  In the meantime, if you get a chance... please take a moment and vote for me!  You can vote consecutively up to 6 times a day... Or up to 6 times during the day!!!  Here is the link!  As always, thanks for your support!  😉. You're also welcome to copy & share this link with others!!!  Thanks SEW much!!!!!! 😉😉😉

http://www.marthastewart.com/americanmade/nominee/138644/crafts/buttermilk-basin

Giveaway * New T-shirts * Quilt Expo

It's "LUCKY" Friday and I can't believe it's here!  😃 I also can't believe I made it to the finals at Martha Stewart American Made!!!  What an honor!  To think next week I'll be sending the girls off to school again is so wild!  Where does the time go, gals????  Before the weekend flies by too, I want to give away some lovely fat quarters from my Humble Beginnings Fabric line over on our Facebook page!  The colors are so perfect for this time of year... I just have to give away some for you to enjoy!  

This time of year is one of my busiest times!  It's show season, as I'm sure many of you are aware of!  That means we are busy not only working on our kits etc for upcoming shows... but we are also busy pulling orders for shops that have made up samples and plan to bring them to their shows!  The pattern reps are also keeping us busy with large orders... Unfortunately, glitches come in to play like poorly printed covers (they looked pink!!!). Luckily, I'm used to a plan b or even c, so we'll get thru this!!!  As you can tell, there is never a dull moment at the Basin!  😃

On the flip side... We are vending next week at the WI Expo!  We have tons of kits, wools, fabrics, patterns & goods ready to go!  So I hope you can come see us!!!  The only tricky part is tearing down our booth at the local quilt shop (for the state shop hop) on Monday morning before we leave on Tuesday!  Wish me luck getting my ducks in a row to be ready by Tuesday!  It's gonna be close!  

This afternoon I left work early to go pick up more of our fabulous Sew Stitch & Create T-shirts you've all been asking about!  I believe they are on the website!  They are $24 and $26 for 2X.  They are men sizes!  You all need one!!! Lol!!!  Seriously though... they are pretty cool!!!  AND if you like those- I know you will L*O*V*E the new "farm truck" T-shirt I designed for the BARN Event!!!!!  Plus it's in a gorgeous cheddar/orange!!!!  It's stinkin cute, my friends!!!  Those are not available until the barn event!!!

After I dropped off the shirts at the shop, I went home to clean!!!!  I know, right!!!  Exciting!!!!  My brother and his wife came down today and we are taking them to the State Fair tomorrow!  Neither of them have ever been there!  It's going to be a great time!  Hopefully, I'll be able to relax and enjoy my time there with them!  I have a tendency to start worrying about getting everything done!!! Lol!  Having the Quilt Expo & BARN Event back to back isn't the easiest thing to make work!!!  Please remind when I sign up for these two again next year!!! 😂😂😂

If you haven't had a chance to head over to Martha Stewart's American Made page... I'd love to have you go check it out and see my page!!!  You can leave me a comment too!!!  I'm not sure how it all works - but the voting for a winner in each category starts September 21st!  I'm thrilled to be able to represent us wool & cotton lovers!!!!  As always... None of this would be possible without you gals!!!  You really are just the best!!! {thank you}!

I'm off to get some rest before they wake me up early to hit the fair!!!  I hope you all enjoy this weekend and celebrate the "last hurrah" of summer!  Please head over to my FB page leave a comment and let me know what's up for the weekend or if the fall shows are starting in your area!!!!  All my best... Stacy

Pumpkin Tutorial & Martha Stewart American Made Finalist!!

Happy Tuesday!  I just wanted to share a tutorial & some fun news with you!!!  First off..,  I'm thrilled to share with each of you that I have made it as a finalist in the Martha Stewart American Made Contest! I think it's so great that I can represent us wool & cotton lovers!  Head over to her site and check it out!  I hope you can help me out by voting for BB starting September 21st!   Exciting!!!!

Also, since fall is near... that means it's time to stitch up some harvest goods!  Here is a super quick & easy pumpkin tutorial for a darling pumpkin to add to your stitchery or wool deigns!  It can be stitched up in just 5 minutes!  Enjoy! 

http://www.needlenthread.com/2012/10/how-to-embroider-a-wee-pumpkin.html