Recently my friend Vanessa posted a fun tutorial for a binding kit. It looked like such a fun project with some really great features...so of course I jumped at the chance to participate in a sew-along with Vanessa, Fat Quarter Shop, and some other sewists! The hardest part (as usual) was

Happy Thursday! Today I get to share a little mini I worked on last winter...a fun churn dash variation mini quilt perfect for a table topper or wall hanging.   "Used with permission from Quilts and More magazine. 2015 Meredith Corporation. All rights reserved.”  It's always

Happy Wednesday! Today is Snapshots Quilt Along Day! This month's block is a fun hot air balloon block, Up, Up and Away! Now that the finishing instructions are available, I've decided to border my blocks as I go...and I'll also be setting them together in rows as I go, too. Download

Happy Monday! I can't believe it's almost the middle of July...summer is flying by, and I still have so many projects to catch up on, to finish...and of course, to start! I took a little time this weekend to try and get a little caught up on my red and green quilt.  This is a mystery block of

Happy Friday! Yesterday I decided to make a few changes to my red and white quilt... There were a couple of blocks that were bothering me, and as it got closer to the time when I knew I'd be taking the quilt to be quilted I knew I had to make a couple of changes. When I first started the quilt

 Happy Tuesday! My jury service is complete, and I'm back to sewing! I've got all of my scrappy log cabin quilt blocks finished, cut, and divided for the block exchange. I'm really in love with the ones I've pieced and can't wait to see the blocks I'll receive in the swap.  I can't in

Happy Fourth of July to all of my US friends...and happy weekend to everyone else! Last year at just about this time I was finishing up my patriotic Nested Churn Dash...it's one of my favorites!  It's funny that even after making this king-sized quilt I still had plenty of scraps in the

Happy Friday! Today I have instructions for the third block in the Summer Sampler Series. Today's block is the Star Puzzle block! I used two different fabrics and a   background for each of my blocks.I was actually lucky to be able to use half-square triangles from my scrap bin for

Happy Wednesday, and Happy July! I heard someone say yesterday that once July arrives, summer is over. I certainly hope for cooler temperatures, but I have a lot of summer sewing still to do!  Today is parade day, and I have some wonderful versions of my Summer Star Mini quilt to share!

Happy Monday (for just a little while longer here on the west coast)! We had a busy weekend with a family trip to northern Utah. We were able to spend some time in Park City, and although the temperatures were pretty warm, it was still much cooler than back at home. Park City is a fun place to

Happy Friday! It's favorites day today! If you're new here, my Friday Favorites posts are usually a potpourri of things I'm working on along with new products and patterns that I have found, used, and love.   Today's first Friday Favorite is something scrappy, of course!  I'm

Happy Wednesday...I have an almost-finish to share today (I still need to get the binding finished). I'm sort of head over heels in love with this quilt, so there may be a lot of photos ahead! This is my "Go Four It" quilt (pattern designed by Lissa Alexander and found in the April 2015 issue

Now that we're a couple of blocks into the Summer Sampler quilt along, I thought it would be good to present a couple of ideas for your block settings so you can choose those fabrics and set them aside.  I'll be presenting tutorials for 6 blocks in all, and so you'll have the choice

Have you heard...Fat Quarter Shop is celebrating their 12th birthday with a special 24-hour flash sale each day through June 26th. Check their website each day after 10 a.m. (Central Time) to see what the sale of the day is! Happy Birthday Fat Quarter Shop!

Happy Friday and welcome to the second installment of my Summer Patchwork Sampler Quilt. This week we will be making the Ohio Star block.  I've made one of my blocks using a single fabric and used two fabrics for my  second block.  So....here's what you'll need to get

Hello and welcome to my day on the Irish Chain Quilts blog hop! I was super happy to participate in this blog hop for my friend Melissa Corry. I don't think I've ever met an Irish Chain quilt I didn't love, so I was looking forward to  seeing Irish Chain Quilts: Contemporary Twists on a

Happy Wednesday! I hope you are having a wonderful June! This week I spent quite a bit of time finishing up my Moda Building Blocks quilt top. It's all in one piece now! It's a big quilt, so it's been a little hard to photograph indoors (at the end of the post I have an outside photo of the full

Happy Monday! It's Snapshots Quilt Along Day! Now that I'm caught up (and actually even a little ahead), it's been even more fun working on this quilt. If you happen to be behind...just start with this month's block. Someone gave me that advice many years ago in regards to scrap booking, and I've

One of my favorite parts of quilt market is getting to see some of the newly released quilting books. Having a booth made it a little more difficult for me to get around and see everything, but there were two books that came my way that I'd love to share today. The first book I fell in love with

Happy Wednesday!  Because my husband was away on a fishing trip and I didn't have anything on the calendar, I was able to spend half of Monday and all day Tuesday just quilting (I did do a tiny bit of housework and cook some yummy zucchini bread, too).  First on my list was a work in

Happy Tuesday! Summer is the time I get a lot of quilting (and organizing) done in the sewing room. And since I've been working on several scrappy projects lately, I thought it might be fun to share some of my tips for making scrap quilts. It seems like every year at about this time I feel like

Happy Wednesday! I've been working on a few things in the sewing room--I've been trying to focus on works in progress so I can get a good list of things to work on this summer. I really do seem to get a lot of my sewing done in the summer because it's too hot here to go outside much!  First

Happy June! Although it's not officially summer here, it sure feels like it, and I think I've already got that summer state of mind! I'm super excited to announce "Minis and More," a blog quilt parade of the month I'll be co-hosting with Michele of Island Life Quilts. Summer Star Mini in

 Things have started to take on the rhythm of summer here...the temperatures are going up quickly, and the calendar is less full with "have to's." And while I'm still trying to catch up from the quilt market whirlwind in April and May, I'm also starting to finish up some projects.  I

One of the first works in progress I wanted to finish up this week was my  "Go Four It" quilt designed by Lissa Alexander and published in the issue of American Patchwork & Quilting. I started cutting strips for this quilt back in December and worked on it pretty steadily until I started my

It sure has been a great feeling to be able to sew! Everything was pretty hectic just before market, so I got behind on a few of my works in progress. This week's plan is to play catch up. First, I tackled my Fat Quarter Shop Snapshots quilt along blocks. I had fallen behind on block 4, the

 Happy Tuesday! Today's post is kind of a Quilt Market continuation...I thought you might want to see what I purchased at Sample Spree.  Sample Spree is an evening event at quilt market where manufacturers and designers sell their products (often at wholesale or below) to shop owners

Today I'm sharing the last of the photos from my International Quilt Market trip. These photos are a little different than the ones I've been sharing, but I hope you'll find them equally as inspiring!  After market closed and the booth was taken down and packed into our carry-on's I said

I have quite a few more quilt market photos today, and I wish there were even more. On the last day of market I went to the show a little early and tried frantically to photograph as many of my favorites as I could from throughout the show floor. Of course I didn't have nearly enough time and ended

Today I'll finish up with the Moda section. There were many lovely booths surrounding the sales tables, but the sales table section was a piece of art in and of itself. The tables were covered with beautiful fabric, and the covered chairs had coordinating bows.  There were also lots of fun

Happy Thursday (or late Wednesday night if you're reading this right after I post)! The last eight days have been a whirlwind...but a good one! I returned late last night from quilt market and a little mini vacation after market, and I'm excited to share my quilt market photos. I think it will take

Happy Saturday! Today I'd like to share a fun site with you that will help you best utilize the fabric in your stash. The site is called Pattern Jam, and is the genius of Emily Taylor. Here is some key information about the site from Emily:   1)  As the founder of PatternJam.com, I

 I'm heading out to Quilt Market today...I'm nervous but happily excited at the same time. Since I won't have any booth photos until later in the week I thought I'd share a little more pre-market sewing. All of these projects will work as booth props but will also be used a lot after

A few weeks ago I received a lovely package of goodies from Ikea with the challenge to make a quilted project. There were lots of fun things in the package including Ikea linens, a pillow cover, sewing kit, knit flower trims, pre-cut home dec weight fabrics, thread, and a lovely textile book with

Happy Thursday! I'm almost ready to share everything I've been working on...and it looks like Monday will be my day to share. In the meantime, I thought it would be a good day to share some photos recently in my in-box...I love seeing your projects with my patterns. Stick around to the end of this

I took a little break from my Quilt Market Sewing to work on...some adorable Christmas mittens! Me&MySister have released a new template in their "Makin' It Cute" series. Last fall I made Christmas ornaments with their adorable heart templates... but this year's ornaments will be

Hello everyone! I’m Chelsi, Sherri's daughter, and I’m excited to be a part of the blog takeover with my dad! My mom has been sewing for Quilt Market for quite some time now, but this is the first time that she will be sewing as a Moda Designer! I first must begin by saying what wonderful