Greetings from Central Arkansas. I’m Tiffanee, a 55yr young mom of one, and recently a new grandmother to a little girl born in October of 2023…. hence where my name Hunny came from. My son and DIL decided my grandmother's name due to the fact that I am a beekeeper…but spelled it different than the normal spelling of honey just to be cute and different.
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| My first grandchild Her name is Nora June ☺ |
I decided to start this blog to document all the things I love to do. I have two other blogs but they were started many many many years ago and they just kind of fell by the wayside. One was actually for the longarm quilting business I used to have. (Quiltcave Quilting by Tiffanee).
So just a few things I love to do are (and in no specific order) quilting, hand embroidery, machine embroidery, appliqué, wool appliqué, English paper piecing, foundation paper piecing, learned in 20202 via YouTube how to make crochet Granny Squares, and just recently fell back in love with cross stitch. And wow, what a change that was from when I used to cross stitch as a teenager/young adult. Talk about a rabbit hole it’s been discovering a whole new world of cross stitching. Between the Floss Tube videos and the patterns and new notions for cross stitching I’ll have to live to be at least 323 years old to do all the things I want to do with cross stitching.
So, I think this blog will be a whole lot of my many hobbies along with a little bit of my home life as a wife, mom, Hunny, sister and aunt that I am.
It might take me a few to get back into the swing of how these blogs go but I’m sure it will get there.
I can easily blame my quilting addiction to my husband because he bought me my very first self-owned sewing machine our first Christmas as a married couple in October of 2001. And with that came sewing lessons from the shop he bought it from. I had always sewn as a teenager and even made my own clothes in high school, so I was very familiar with a sewing machine…just had never had one of my very own. That led up to me upgrading into a sewing/embroidery machine and the rest is history.
Fast forward 6 years later after I retired (more like voluntarily quit) my 18 years of being a Dental Assistant when I was asked to work (volunteer) one day a week at one of my local quilt shops. I guess because I was such a frequent shopper the owner thought I’d be a good match for an employee looking for perks. Lol! 🤭 Well I eventually spent the next 13 years working (more like volunteering since I never brought home a paycheck😳, no lie) until the fall of 2020 when I had a very unexpected medical issue come up and could no longer do my duties at the quilt shop. I was pretty devastated to say the least…I had so many relationships with several customers, I did a lot of the longarm quilting for customers, helped customers who rented the longarm, went to vending events with my boss/owner, taught a couple classes, and even ran the shop when the owner was away so I was more like a fixture of that shop than an employee I’d like to think.
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| Pinwheel Fabrics quilt shop located in Alexander Arkansas. New location is now just down the road in Bryant. |
Well by working in the quilt shop I eventually got a Gammill longarm of my own. My husband and my boss totally surprised me with a brand new Gammill longarm Christmas 2011. She helped my husband when he asked her what kind he should buy. Since the quilt shop had a top-of-the-line Gammill longarm that I was very familiar with, they decided that was the best one for me. So, Christmas morning 2011 I opened a little box with a picture of the sales flyer for my version of the Gammill I got. A Vision 22-10. But it wasn’t going to be delivered until early 2012. Long story short, I got my longarm and within 2 yrs. I was longarm quilting for hire. That business was very successful for nearly 6 years until I had to take a major break to recovery from my medical issue. It took nearly 6 months before I could even longarm quilt, so I decided to close my business and just quilt for myself and a select few of my friends and clients.
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| Just a few of the ribbons I’ve won for my miniature quilts. |
The best thing about working in a quilt shop was I always had the top of the line sewing machines because I needed to know how they all worked so I could help the customers in deciding on a specific model to buy. At this writing I have 5 Janome sewing machines (S7, M7, 500E Embroidery, Jem Platinum and the 311PG 100yr Anniversary model). And I use every one of them. In addition to those I also have 2 Singer Featherweights (1949 & 1961), a 1908 Singer Treadle and a 1948 Singer 15-91. I use the Featherweights to take to classes, I use the 1948 Singer to make my memory bears on (she sews thru anything) and I use the treadle when our power is out, or I just want to treadle.
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My 1961 Singer Featherweight that I often take to my charity quilting group called The Kingdom Quilters. |
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| This is my 1948 Singer 15-91. She's in her original cabinet and runs like the day she was made. |
Today is Mother's Day, so I extend a Happy Mother's Day to all who are mothers, or like a mother to someone who regards you as such. This includes mothers of fur babies. My beloved mother passed away at the young age of 67, after a brief battle with dementia and heart failure. My father followed her just three years later, also at 67. If your mother is still with you, cherish your time together or stay in touch... believe me, holidays like this take on a different meaning without your mother.
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| My dear Mom |
