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

Hello and happy Monday! Exciting new things are coming tomorrow...and today I have the third block in my 2017 Quilting Life Mystery Block of the Month! I had a lot of fun with this one...the main thing to make sure of when choosing  your fabrics is to make sure there is a good amount of

Happy Friday! I'm sure happy for the weekend...it's been a busy week, and now I get to slow down a bit and start binding the new pattern quilts that have come back from the quilter. Working on quilt binding is one of the most rewarding parts of the quilting process because you get to look at the

Hello and happy Friday! I'm always looking for fun ways to use my scraps, and today I'm sharing a wonderful scrap-buster quilt block that I'm in love with! I'm participating in the Fat Quarter Shop blog tour sharing ideas and projects about this wonderful scrappy happy block! The Happy Trails

Hello and happy Wednesday! I try to post work(s) in progress projects on Wednesdays whenever possible, and I definitely have lots of works in progress right now. I'm currently working on my third quilt with our upcoming Creekside fabric collection for Moda, and I'm just in love with the whole

Hello there! You might remember that one of my last projects from 2016 was this fun pineapple mini quilt I made to hang in my sewing room. I had a lot of fun making this fun block and mini but just couldn't seem to put my yellow and green strips back into their bins... I knew what that

Hello and happy Thursday! I have a finish to share! And I have to say this one feels great to be able to cross off the list because it sat in a drawer mostly cut out for over 18 months! I absolutely love the flowery, loopy quilt pattern and how it perfectly  complements the quilt design.

Hello and happy Wednesday! Welcome to month two of the Fat Quarter Shop Patchwork Quilt Along! Today I'm sharing my versions of the February block pattern. I was able to stitch up this month's blocks last week while attending a quilt  retreat. I took the blocks all cut out and ready to

Hello and happy Valentine's Day! Today is the year anniversary of the release of the first free Splendid Sampler block pattern. Now that all of the patterns have been released, we are gearing up for the release of the finished book which will include all of the patterns! I mentioned the other

Hello and happy Monday! I'm just a little bit excited this morning because sample yardage for our next fabric collection is arriving today. So after it arrives I'll be busy cutting out the new quilts I have designed for this fabric. I won't be able to share for a little bit, but I'll give you the