Hello and happy Thursday! I was doing some organizing of photos today and happened on some of these older quilt photos taken for me a few years back by my friend Korindi!  I just love seeing the quilts in an outdoor setting; these photos are absolutely beautiful and really capture the beauty of

Hello and happy Tuesday! I can't believe it's already the 17th of April...time is going so quickly this month!  I meant to post my second quarter goals earlier this month and to do a review on my first quarter goals...but now is better than later! And honestly, I didn't meet many of my first

Happy Monday! I hope your weekend was a great one!  I just got back from a whirlwind trip to a blogging conference in Salt Lake City, Utah that took place Thursday through Saturday!  It was my first time attending a conference of that kind, and I learned so much!  The majority of the

Hello and happy Monday! I'm here with the April block for my monthly free Block of the Month series!  This month's block is an easy one because I wanted to have a little extra time to get the landing page set up for this series.  Thank you so much for your patience with me as I've worked

Happy Friday! Today I'm sharing one more cute pattern with our Clover Hollow fabric...this pattern was designed by my daughter, Chelsi and is such a fun quilt!  She wanted to make a quilt for her little guy and also show somewhat of a different look that can be achieved with this fabric

Hello! Today I have a finished quilt to share!  My older daughter is expecting a baby boy to join their family this summer, and so I had to hurry and get at least one quilt finished up for this little guy before the baby shower!  I hope to make her a couple more...but one had to be all the

Hello and happy Wednesday! Today I'm happy to be sharing a little update on my Village house quilt!  I'm making very scrappy houses using all of our fabric collections: Bright Sun, Valley, Desert Bloom, Creekside, The Front Porch, and Clover Hollow!  I've actually had some of these houses

Hello friends!  Today I'm really excited to share a new quilt with you that is in the June 2018 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting!  This is one of those long-term works in progress that has a family story to go along with it...one I hope you'll enjoy reading!  Used with

Hello, happy first of April, happy Sunday, and happy Easter! Each year our church releases a beautiful Easter video and message.  This year's video is a little different from what they've released in the past, but the message is beautiful and powerful. The message is told in the simple

Hello and happy Friday! Thank you so much for all of the positive feedback on the new patterns and fabrics!  I really am excited to keep sewing with Clover Hollow and have some more fun ideas ready to go!  So I'm just a little late in posting my Fat Quarter Shop Clementine Quilt Along

Hello and happy Saturday! If you're looking for my Saturday Seven post, I posted it earlier today since today is my turn to take part in the Spelling Bee Saturday blog hop sponsored by Fat Quarter Shop!  This has been a fun blog tour to follow along...each week a couple of different individuals

Hello! I can't even tell you how excited I am to be able to talk a little bit about a new quilt book that is one of those "must haves!"  I was able to get a look at this book back in January, and I couldn't stop reading it!  You'll not only love it for the beautiful photos, but you'll also

Hello and happy Monday! My weekend was kind of a roller coaster.  I had two quilts with upcoming deadlines that had to be finished...and I stayed up way too late several nights in a row getting them done.  But now that they're finished and off to the quilter I'm breathing a little

Hello and happy Thursday! I've been making a lot of 9-patches using our new fabric lately.  More than one of the new quilt patterns uses some variation of the 9-patch, and I've also been working on a jelly roll quilt for a book that uses a 9-patch variation.  It's a great block to use

Hello and happy Friday! Today I thought I'd share a little bit about a fun photo-of-the-day event taking place on Instagram right now. Amy Ellis of Amy's Creative Side has done a fabulous job organizing the event and coming up with fun and creative topics.  Each day there is a different prompt,

Hello and happy Thursday! Earlier this year I decided to join in on the quilt-a-long for the Village pattern of adorable houses by Carrie Nelson. I already had the pattern and decided that it would be a lot of fun to combine all of our fabric collections for the house blocks for a fun quilt.  I

Hello and happy Wednesday! I'm sharing my "Throw Back Thursday" quilt post now because I didn't quite finish up everything I wanted to for what I had planned for today!  Anyway, just last week a quilt came home that had been gone for several years; it's always fun when older quilt finally get

Hello and happy Monday! I finished up my March block for my Quilting Life Mystery Block of the Month and have the pattern ready to share with you today!  I'm pretty happy with how this quilt is starting to come together--I finally added some of the dark navy I've been waiting to use along with

Hello and happy Friday! Today I'm excited to share my project for the Fat Quarter Shop 2018 series Year of the Fat Quarter!  Because it's the year 2018 and fat quarters are generally 20" x 18" the Fat Quarter Shop ladies decided this would be a fun year to present a different monochromatic bundle of

Hello and happy March 1st! March is coming in like a lion here where I am with a big storm front moving in today...hopefully that means we will have fewer winds at the end of the month!  Today I'm happy to present some darling mini strawberry projects as well as to let you know about the

Happy Tuesday! My February Sew Sampler box from Fat Quarter Shop arrived at the end of last week, and as usual I was anxious to see what was inside.  There are lots of goodies included this month including a brand new notion that is a "must get." The "Home Sweet Cottage" theme is perfect