Hello and happy Friday! Hope you have had a great week and have some quilting and sewing planned for the weekend! I finished up the binding on my pineapple quilt yesterday! This was a good finish because I've been wanting a pineapple quilt for so long! In the end I decided to go with the green

Hello! Happy Wednesday!  I just have a quick post today to let you know a few details...and deadlines... I have PREORDERS available in my Etsy shop for Creekside pre-cuts which will ship in August/September 2017. I've got the pre-cuts listed at some terrific prices, but the sale will end

Hello! Happy May!  It's time for this month's block release...a fun one...but before I begin I have some great news! A lot of you are participating in this sew along, and so occasionally I get emails asking about previous month block posts.  I should have done this earlier, but I've

Hello and happy May Day! Hope your week is off to a great start!  I love starting each month with a parade of little quilts, and this month I'm sharing some Vintage Mini quilts (pattern by Camille Roskelley of Thimbleblossoms). I was determined to make this one, even though things have been

Hello and happy Friday! It's Friday Favorites day today here on the blog where I share a few of my favorite finds...and first up is this fabric I've been looking at for quite a little while now... The collection is called Charleston, and it's by Amy Sinibaldi for Art Gallery fabrics.  This

Hello! How about another tutorial?! This one is for a table runner, and you can plan it with a single collection or use half-square triangles left over from a variety of projects to use your stash! I had hundreds of half-square triangles left over from making my five large Creekside quilts.

Hello and happy Wednesday! I had a bit of happy mail yesterday...my pineapple quilt returned home from the quilter! Of course I had to take some pictures right away! Although I'm not a fan of our excessive heat, I am a fan of the lazy days of summer, and this quilt has me thinking I'm pretty

Hello! Today I'm happy to be letting you know a little bit about my fellow Moda designer and friend Shannon Gillman Orr. Shannon has a new quilt book and journal just published titled Choose Joy. The phrase "choose joy" has been my mantra for 2017, so of course I was excited to take a peek at

Happy Friday! Today I'm happy to introduce you to one of my new blog sponsors, Quilt Sandwich Fabrics.  Quilt Sandwich Fabrics is owned by two sisters, Kris and Becca who grew up in  a creative household and have loved creating since they were young. When Kris and Becca were adults,

Hello! I'm still working on behind the scenes preparation for Quilt Market which is now just four weeks away! And I've also been helping my friend Joanna Figueroa of Fig Tree & Company with some of her quilt market prep.  But I think I'm caught up enough to start something new! I think

Hello! I'm so excited to be able to share two new patterns today. These have been on my "to do" list for a little while, and over the weekend I got them back from the quilters, bound, and the pattern writing finished up! One is a true mini quilt, and the other is a wall hanging, and they are both my

Hello! Hello and happy Monday! Today I'm excited to tell you about the upcoming issue of Quilts and More, Summer 2017, and a project I have included in it!  Used with permission from Quilts and More™ magazine. ©2017 Meredith Corporation. All rights reserved. I've been having a lot of

Hello...happy Sunday and happy Easter! I know I normally don't post on  Sunday, but I felt like I should drop in and wish you and yours a wonderful day. Easter is probably my most favorite holiday of the year because I feel like I'm able to keep it "non-commercialized."  Here is my

Hello and happy Saturday! Today is Patchwork Quilt Along day which means that I have new blocks to share! I'm using a variety of different reds and blues by Minick & Simpson and am using a different light/low-volume background each month.  I'm really having fun with these blocks, and now

Happy Friday! I will be enjoying this lovely Easter weekend with my family but just wanted to stop in and give you a reminder about the Fat Quarter Shop 2017 Designer Mystery Block of the Month.  I have once again designed a block for this fun program! Of course I can't share my block yet

Hello and happy Thursday! Today is a special day because the Splendid Sampler book is officially available for sale!  It seems like just the other day that I was piecing my block submission and sending it in...and now we've had a quilt along and the book is ready for purchase! I made

Hello and happy Wednesday! I've been having fun with some simple and fun projects lately and thought you might like to see a few of the ideas I've come up with. Sometimes making something quick and fun is all you need to get re-inspired to tackle bigger projects (and sometimes all you have time

Hello and happy Tuesday! I hope you can put up with one more day of pineapples, and then I promise I won't share them any more until my quilt is back from being quilted.  Although it wasn't on the schedule for yesterday, I ended up finishing up my pineapple quilt top. At first I was just

Hello and happy Monday! I have pineapple quilt progress to share today! I finished up the remaining seven blocks needed for my scrappy pineapple quilt, and now I'm so looking forward to getting this put together! It's going to be a quilt full of summery goodness, that's for sure! And

Hello and happy Friday! Today I have three favorites to share with you... One of my favorite new patterns (and quilts) is my Patchwork Garden quilt...I'm happy to announce that I'll be teaching this quilt as a class at the lovely Hollyhill Quilt Shoppe at their new location in Wilsonville,

Hello and happy Thursday!  I hope your week is going well! I thought I'd share my progress today on the things I shared last week. It really, really helped to have the list made...I finished everything on the list and even ended up adding other things which I finished! My pineapple block

Hello! It's time for the next design in the 2017 Quilting Life Mystery Block of the Month quilt...and today I have the pattern for the April block. I absolutely love flying geese, so had to include a flying geese block in the sampler. While there are a lot of ways to make flying geese blocks, I

Hello and happy Monday...and happy April! Today I have a couple of mini quilts to share for our April Minis and More parade...and a fun option to let you know about for our May parade! I love the versatility of mini quilt patterns...you can use your finished quilt as a pillow front, table topper,

Happy Friday! I hope you've had a wonderful week! Thank you so much for all of the kind comments on the pattern and printable! I've had a few new things arrive in my mailbox over the past week or so and thought they would be fun to share today! On Fridays I like to post about some of my

Hello! Today I have a fun tip to share with you that will help you save some time when you're sewing with strip sets! Whether you're making strip sets with two, three, or more fabrics, this tip will work for you! I recently made quite a few strip sets for my Patchwork Garden quilt and

Hello and happy Wednesday! This week's works in progress projects have been a variety of "use my scraps" projects! Of course I had a lot of scraps while sewing the five new Creekside quilts, and I tried to cut things into usable pieces as I went along. I ended up with a good assortment of 2 1/2"

Hello and happy Tuesday! I've been mentioning my studio spring cleaning over the past week or so, and I'm happy to say I'm caught up with the major organizing tasks. There is nothing like walking into a clean studio...it just gives me a happy feeling! I even cleaned the window and dusted the

Happy Monday! Over the weekend I was able to finish up my Splendid Sampler lap quilt! It's always nice to have a finish, but this quilt is one I've been working on for over a year, so it was an especially nice one! I finished the piecing and assembly of this quilt the day our Creekside

Happy, happy Friday! I'm more than a little happy that the weekend is here...it's been a busy week, and the change to Daylight Savings Time seemed to make things even crazier! But, I've been folding and packing a lot of patterns, and all of the orders    should be shipped by

Hello and happy Thursday! While doing a little cleaning in my sewing room this week I happened upon my stash of orphan blocks. Orphan blocks are extra blocks made to test block patterns or blocks that were made for quilts or projects that never got used. As I was sorting through my found "treasures"

Hello and happy Wednesday! It's Fat Quarter Shop Patchwork Quilt Along day, and I have some new blocks to share! I've had so much fun making these cute little blocks this month. They are fast and simple patterns, and since you make six alike each month you can use chain-piecing to make them go even

Hello and happy Tuesday! This weekend I got to make some cute little piggy quilt blocks for a friend.  These are quilt blocks for a "Bee" group that I belong to, and while I never thought I'd be making piggy blocks, I think these are pretty cute! I even got to use Creekside fabric for most

Hello and happy Wednesday! Today I'm excited to introduce another one of the patterns using our new Creekside fabric collection. I really love this one...and there is a little story to it.  It's the final quilt I designed for this collection, and it was inspired by a checkerboard quilt my