Happy Tuesday! I'm excited to be able to share a little more information about something I hinted at a couple weeks ago...the Farmer's Wife 1930s Sew Along with Fat Quarter Shop and Gnome Angel. This is going to be so much fun--there will be a couple of blocks a week with block tutorials and

Happy Monday! I had just a little sewing time over the weekend...but it was enough for a small finish and some scrap management! I've been trying to get a handle on my scraps...I love them so much and want to be sure I use them! These fabrics might look familiar, but they're not from the older

Happy Friday! It's finally starting to feel a little "fallish" here in my corner of the world...morning lows in the 60's signal the end of the hundred and teens for us...hopefully our 6-7 months of beautiful weather is here to stay. With fall ever-so-readily approaching I've been pushing myself

Happy Wednesday! My work in progress this week is my Mini Vintage Tulips quilt. I had so much fun working on this the other day! And now I just need to get it quilted, bound, and up on my sewing room wall!  You might notice that the navy squares I had in my original post about this quilt

Happy Tuesday! It's the fifteenth of the month (already?!), so that means it's Fat Quarter Shop Snapshots quilt along day! And even crazier is the fact that this month's block is block 9. Just three more blocks to go, and our quilt will be finished! This month's block is a kitty on a quilt...so

Happy Monday! It was a busy, busy weekend here at home (we had a baby shower here at the house for my older daughter who is expecting in October), but I did manage to sneak in a little sewing! Sometimes it seems like if I can just sew for thirty minutes then all is well.  So when I had a

Happy Thursday! Tuesday morning I stopped by the post office after the holiday weekend and was thrilled to find my scrappy log cabin quilt had arrived home. By Tuesday evening I was binding, and on Wednesday I took the final pictures. There might be a little photo overload in this post because I am

Over the weekend I had a chance to sew a couple of my favorite fabric baskets...the Noodlehead Divided Basket Pattern.  These two are number 5 and number 6 I've made from this pattern, and one is finally for me! Yes, I've given 5 of these away and always wanted one for my sewing room--so

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to my stop on the Pre-Cut Primer blog tour with Barb & Mary of Me & My Sister Designs and the Fat Quarter Shop! I've been super excited to share this book and especially this quilt since I was able to piece it for Barb and Mary last spring! I was able to piece

Happy Friday! Today is the first day of a four-day weekend for me, and I'm excited to get to sew some fun things! I've just finished a crazy busy couple of weeks of sewing working on projects I can't share just yet (a couple of market quilts and a magazine project), and I have a whole list of things

Just popping in to share the news about a big Craftsy sale going on now through September 9th!   Go here to find out about all of the quilting supplies on sale and to receive up to 50% off of All online classes! Thanks so much for stopping by! (Affiliate links provided for your

I was actually hoping to post this last week, but because of camera issues...and a pretty busy schedule...here it is today! First up is a little table topper I made with the block design from my Charm Pack Placemats tutorial. We have a little table in our family room that seats 4, and I like to

Happy Tuesday! Two days...and two parades! Today is the day for the Minis and More Mini Juniper parade...and after today's parade we will be drawing our quarterly prize winners! Sadly, my quilt is still in the same condition you saw it last. I just can't decide on a border. I'm actually thinking

Happy Monday...I know it's late in the day...but I promised a parade today, and so here it is! There were some lovely quilt photos that arrived in my inbox, and I'm happy to share them with you! I still need to put the binding on mine...just can't decide between fabrics! I think I might be leaning

Happy Saturday! I have something fun to share today...one of my favorite quilts from my book C&T Publishing Fresh Family Traditions: 18 Heirloom Quilts for a New Generation has been published as an individual pattern.  The Stash Books section at C&T has been publishing a few individual

I have some very exciting news to share today...I'm going on my first cruise...and it's a quilting cruise!  I'll be teaching on the cruise along with two very other talented teachers, Doug Leko of Antler Creek Designs and Gudrun Erla; we'll be touring the western Caribbean--sea, sun and

Happy Saturday! Today is my day on the Winter Wonderland blog tour! The Winter Wonderland Christmas book is a terrific book with designs by my friend Sherri Falls of This & That. There is a great variety of projects in the book including quilts, table runners, a table topper, and even a tree

Happy Friday! Today I have a favorites post which is a mix of this and that: fabric, books, and more!  First up is some favorite fabric...I love the new Bonnie & Camille collection Hello Darling, but I think the strawberry prints in the collection are absolute perfection. I had to get

Hello! This week is flying by...I can't believe it's already Wednesday. I'm here today with a works in progress post and a few thoughts about...quilting! So...I searched quite a bit before coming up with what I thought was the best fabric in my sewing room to use for sashing for my mini

Hello! I want to stop in and remind everyone about the Minis and More parade coming up on September 1st (did I just write "September"?).  This month's pattern is the Mini Juniper quilt by Fig Tree & Company, and it's a very fun little quilt!   I started working on my quilt over

Happy Monday! This is my last full week of summer, so I'm going to savor every day! I start back to school next week with a very light teaching schedule this semester--I'll be teaching just one English 101 class, and the numbers are low which will mean fewer hours spent grading papers. So while it

 Hello! It's Snapshots Quilt Along day! And this quilt just keep getting better with each block that we add.  I have to admit, I thought the bicycle block was going to be a lot of work, but I cut it out, used my Alphabitties to mark all of the pieces, and it went together just fine! I

It's time for the last block in the Summer Sampler Series! Today I'm happy to share with you the Martha Washington Star block. This is another of my favorite star patterns, and I have the pattern designed so the center sections are made a little big then trimmed to just the right size. This should

Happy Thursday! I'm just popping in quickly with a couple of things...I recently added some fabric bundles and jelly rolls to my Etsy shop as I've been doing some summer cleaning to get ready for fabric arriving for market sewing. There are some good deals on some older collections in the fabric

Happy Wednesday...I actually didn't plan to work on my scrappy log cabin swap quilt yesterday, but it was one of those days where I just needed to sew some straight lines and keep things simple. When I finished sewing my blocks together it was almost dusk...but just light enough to get a few

Happy Tuesday! Scrap quilts are so much fun, and this week I've decided to get back to work on a project that has kind of been on the back burner for awhile.  I started these fun half-square triangle blocks well over a year ago. I was doing really well in the beginning, and I even have a

Earlier this summer I shared my Scrappy Log Cabin blocks--they were a lot of fun to make, and after mailing off my 36 blocks I've been trying to patiently wait for my swap blocks to arrive. Friday morning a wonderful package arrived on my doorstep. It was so much fun looking at each and every

Over the first part of the weekend I had a chance to finish up a couple of little projects...first up was to make a scrappy binding for  the patchwork baby quilt I shared recently. I just love scrappy bindings! They do take a little extra time, but they are so fun...and often it's a great

Happy Wednesday! At the end of last week, my Month 5 packet arrived for my Fig Tree red and green mystery sampler. I was so excited to see two patterns I've been wanting to make: can you believe I've never done a bow-tie quilt or a Tree of Life block? So  of course I set out to get these

Happy Tuesday! Today I'm participating in the Summer Sew Along for my friend Annie who is celebrating her new pattern, the "Stash and Dash." Annie is a wonderful pattern designer as well as the creator of the Soft & Stable product which is a terrific stabilizer for bags big and small. The Stash

Happy Monday! Because it's the first Monday of the month it's Minis and More parade day! Michele and I both have  parades featuring mini quilts made from the Little Miss Shabby pattern "Sweetness."  Michele's amazing version of this month's quilt--read about it here If you are

Happy Saturday...and happy August. I'm still not sure where July went, but I know there is just one more month of summer, and I still have a lot of projects on my list! One thing I've been working on is this Jelly Roll Jam II quilt using the upcoming Prairie collection by Little Miss Shabby for

Happy Friday! Today is Summer Sampler Block day, and today I'm sharing one of my favorite vintage-style star blocks. After this block there will just be one more, and then it will be time for everyone to share their quilts! If you're new to my blog, you can find links to all of the previous

Happy Wednesday! My red and white Moda Building Blocks quilt is quilted, home, and bound! It has been such a fun journey to work on this quilt. I began it in the fall of 2014 knowing it was going to be a bit of a long-term project. It's a little bit sad to have this finished, I so loved working on

Happy Tuesday! I have a friend who is having twins soon...she is 32 weeks along and has been getting her nursery ready for the soon-to-arrive baby boys. So I knew I'd better get busy and finish up the baby quilts I promised to make her!  I used the blues and light colored prints from

Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend! I've been trying to catch up on this and that--I'm hoping by the end of July I'll be caught up with several projects I've fallen behind on. I think it's great to have on-going projects...projects that you expect to take a year or even a few years, but I

Happy Friday! Today is my day on the Farm Girl Vintage Sew Along (or otherwise known as Farm Girl Fridays)! Farm Girl Vintage is the latest book by Lori Holt of Bee in My Bonnet. The book is full of adorable blocks and fun projects which look terrific in any combination of fabrics and fabric

Happy Wednesday!  I'm stopping in to share something I've been working on...and something I've just found out is coming soon! The quilts that inspired my red and white quilt have been preserved in a book which will release on September 22nd! Red and White Quilts: Infinite Variety: