Hello and Happy Friday! Today I'm sharing my version of a fun Jolly Bar pattern from Fat Quarter Shop...Jolly Bar Jazz!  The original quilt was designed with our Creekside fabrics and is absolutely beautiful! I decided to make a Christmas version with this pattern...the big bold

Hello! The other day I mentioned I had done just a little bit of shopping while I was visiting at Hollyhill Quilt Shoppe. Today I'll share what I purchased along with a sneak peek of a new quilt book that is another one of those must-have books! I had to get a couple of these fun Grunge

Hello! Today I finally get to share something I filmed over a year ago...a patchwork Christmas stocking!  Last December while I was filming some videos at The Fat Quarter Shop, we filmed a Christmas Stocking tutorial...but of course it was too close to Christmas to have everything finished up

Hello! Last Thursday I had the opportunity to travel to the Portland, Oregon area to teach for two days at the loveliest of quilt shops, Hollyhill Quilt Shoppe, located in the Charbonneau area of Wilsonville.  I actually traveled there about a year ago to teach and was lucky to get to reconnect

Happy Friday! On Fridays I spotlight new-to-me notions, fabrics, and books of interest in the quilting world, and today I have  a fun line-up of different goodies to share! First up are these delightful Moda American Jane tins that arrived this week. The smaller one will actually nest

Hello and happy Wednesday! Our Creekside fabric collection has arrived in Dallas and is now shipping to shops! We've been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this collection and it's finally here! My orders are arriving today...so if you pre-ordered fabric from me it will be on it's way either

Hello! Today I'm happy to share something new from Moda...Moda Matchbox quilts.  These little boxes of goodness are so much fun!  They were introduced for the first time at spring market in St. Louis, and I've been anxiously awaiting their arrival! Right now there are nine different

Hello friends and happy Monday!  Guess what?! I started a new scrap project! I'm super excited about this one, and while I'm not giving myself a deadline to finish this I'm guessing I'll get it done fairly quickly because I absolutely love these blocks. I've been looking at projects, going

Hello friends! Today is the Fat Quarter Shop Patchwork Quilt Along day, and this month's block is a fun Grandmother's Choice block.  I had extra fun making my blocks this month because I was able to use some of the recently released Ann's Arbor collection for my blocks. In fact, all of the

Hello! Today I'm writing about some things I think about a lot. In fact, I've thought about all of these topics in one form or another for almost as long as I can remember.  The primary reason I started my blog over nine years ago was to keep a record of these three things in my own life. 

Happy Tuesday! I've spent lots of hours over the past couple of weeks watching the tragedies unfold because of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and I've wondered about the best way for me to personally make a difference in these two events. I did finally come up with a plan to make a donation to

Happy Monday!  Last Monday I posted about National Jelly Roll Day which will be this Saturday, September 16th! I'm definitely planning on working on a jelly roll quilt that day!  In celebration I'm giving away a jelly roll, but first... Just a few thoughts on why I love jelly rolls so

Hello and happy Friday!  Welcome to another edition of favorites where I share favorite fabrics, books, patterns, and notions in the world of quilting!  This week I have some really fun things to share...starting with one of my favorite new collections, Ann's Arbor by Minick &

Hello and happy Thursday! I'm so happy to have my Mini Pumpkins quilt all finished up (and bound, too)! While I couldn't get it finished in time for our parade last week, I did finish it later that afternoon...and by the next afternoon my friend Gail had it quilted for me (thank you Gail)! I had

Hello! Welcome to block nine of the Quilting Life Mystery Block of the Month Program!  I can't believe there are just a few months left and the quilts will start coming together!  This month's block was originally planned for the final month, but since it used bigger pieces than the

Happy Monday! And Happy Labor Day if you are in the United States! Today I'd like to give you a little bit of information about some of the events going on this month in celebration of National Jelly Roll Day on September 16th! You can find out a little bit about the thoughts behind this new

Happy Friday...and Happy September! Today I'm so excited to share a fun parade of mini Pumpkins quilts and projects!  You are sure to be inspired by every project in the parade! I wish I had been able to get mine finished up, but we had a lovely house guest this week, and I wasn't able to

Happy Thursday! I have a finish to share...and I'm so excited about it!  Last year after I finished my Maple Sky mini quilt top I went back and forth about whether to make it into a mini or a pillow.  Mini won at the time...but I knew I needed a pillow using this pattern. And then I

Happy Wednesday! I hope you are doing well today!  I'm still working on finalizing my fall sewing list...and I will share it with you as soon as it's complete.  But yesterday I decided to make some little blocks for a pillow. I used Fig Tree scraps and also used one of the prints from

Happy Tuesday! Thank you so much for the pumpkin block love yesterday!  I spent most of yesterday doing boring stuff like cleaning my house and prepping for teaching my English class which begins today (I teach one class a semester at the community college; it's part-time, but this semester I

Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend!  I've been working on finishing up my pumpkin blocks--I highly recommend these blocks if you love pumpkins and fall! I've finished up all sixteen blocks needed for the Mini Pumpkins wall hanging,  and it's hard to choose a favorite! 

Happy Friday! We were able to get away for a few days during the middle of the week...boy, those cooler temperatures in southern California really have me wishing for fall!  So... I think I'll be pulling out my favorite fall quilts today...I was going to try to wait until September to do

Happy Thursday! I'm looking forward to this weekend for sure--I have lots of sewing plans with some fun fabrics that arrived in my mailbox earlier this week!  While I can't yet share what I'm making with these...I can share the fabric eye candy! Ann's Arbor by Minick & Simpson has

Happy Wednesday! As soon as I finished my The Front Porch fabric sewing I started thinking of ways to use some of my scraps!  Because I love scrappy projects! I had quite a few 1 1/2" strips left over and started sewing them into strip sets and then made these two patchwork pieces. 

Happy Tuesday! Today I'm sharing my August blocks for the Fat Quarter Shop Patchwork Quilt Along!  These blocks finish at 5" and have been a lot of fun to make throughout the year! This month's block is a Rolling Nine Patch block, and it is super fast and easy! It's good to be caught

Happy Monday! I have another finished quilt to share...my Scrappy Patchwork quilt is back from the quilter and bound, too!  This was such a fun project.  I really didn't know how I was going to get it done with all of my Front Porch sewing that I was doing at the same time...but I'm so

Hello and happy Friday! Thank you so much for the lovely comments and feedback on The Front Porch fabric collection and patterns.  It's definitely my favorite collection so far! And I'm still sewing with it...so I'll have a lot more ideas for The Front Porch fabric sewing to share with

Hello! Today I get to begin to share what I've been working on for the past month or so...Chelsi and I have a new collection with Moda fabrics that is now showing to shop owners and which will ship in February...it's called The Front Porch! I've designed 5 new quilts + 1 new mini quilt to go along

Happy Wednesday! I hope you're having a wonderful week!  My post is up a bit late today because yesterday was spent binding two large quilts, taking photos, editing photos, and editing patterns! Whew!  But I'm happy to say that everything is just about ready to share with you! Five of

Happy Monday! I finished my scrappy sew along quilt! I was off to a great start on this quilt earlier this summer...but my sewing was interrupted by the sewing of six new quilts and a fun teaching trip.  So as soon as the last new pattern quilt was off the the quilter, I knew I was going to

Happy Friday! I've got some new fabric and patterns to share...soon!  Behind the scenes things have been a little crazy here.  On July 3rd, the sample yardage arrived on my doorstep for our next Moda fabric collection...it was everything Chelsi and I had hoped for and more! Over the

Hello and happy August! Today I'm excited to share this month's block...a variation on the Martha Washington Star!   I love the pinwheel center in a traditional sawtooth star block, and the half- square triangle corners add an extra touch of whimsy to this design.  I thought it was

Hello and happy August!  It's going to be a hot one here today...but we have chances of rain all week, so we're hopeful it will cool off a little...soon!  Today is Minis and More day, and I have some really cute quilts to share...and a really fun project for this month which will have you