Hello! I'm back with my second tutorial for the Farmer's Wife 1930's quilt along sponsored by Angie of Gnome Angel, the Fat Quarter Shop, and Marti Michell!  While I've fallen a little bit behind in my block making, this tutorial was just  what I needed to get me back on track!

Hello! The first project I worked on at my quilt retreat last week was this little mini quilt. I thought it would be fun to take a little quilt to work on that I might be able to finish while away! I did get all of the blocks done on the retreat and just had to decide on an outer border and

Hello! Today I'm super happy to be sharing my red and green quilt I finished up just before Christmas. It's a favorite!!!  I went back and forth about the quilting; I had an amazing long-arm quilter  who said she would do custom quilting for me and have it ready for Christmas, but

Hello! It's Tuesday, and that means it's time for Quilt Your Stash Week 6. As I mentioned yesterday, I was away at a quilt retreat last week, and so I wasn't able to work on my latest strip pieced scrap quilt. But I did spend a good part of one evening working on my string blocks. I thought it

Hello! Happy Saturday! I've just returned home from a lovely four days of sewing and visiting with like-minded quilting friends, and I'm preparing lots of blog posts to share everything with you. Today, I thought I'd better let you know about a terrific Sampler Sew Along that is starting

Hello! Welcome to the fifth post in my Sew Your Stash series. Today's post is  part one of a scrappy strip quilt idea. I've been wanting to start this scrap quilt for quite a while now. A couple of years ago I saw a wonderful strip quilt while I was attending a quilt retreat. While the

Happy Monday! Today is Minis and More parade day for the mini Hope Chest quilt pattern! This little pattern is one of my favorite mini quilts to date...it's perfect for any fabrics and is fast and fun to make! We have some fun versions of this little quilt to share today... First is Hildy's

Hello! As I mentioned earlier this week, I had a wonderful time visiting the Road to California quilt show in Ontario, California last weekend! My earlier post shared some of my favorites from the show. Today I thought I'd share a little bit about some of the other aspects of the show...first

Hello! Happy Wednesday, and welcome to my stop on the Sister Sampler Quilts blog hop! I was happy to review this terrific quilt book for Anne Marie Chany whom I met when I attended International Quilt Market in Portland a few years ago. AnneMarie's book, Sister Sampler Quilts: 3 Modern

Happy Tuesday! It's quilt your stash day! Throughout the month of January I've done quite a bit of organizing for the new year including some cleaning and list-making. I've also decided how best to work my stash sewing into my schedule and chosen some scrappy projects I want to make this year.

Happy Monday! It's great to be back...I was away for a few days attending the Road to California Quilt Show in Ontario, California. While I was there, I was also able to visit a few quilt shops that had been on my "must see" list for quite a while! One of the highlights of my trip was being able

Happy Friday! I hope you have a had a wonderful week and are ready for a great weekend! I have just a few things to share today...first up is the new Strawberry Fields Revisited Frivols set.  I know Frivols have been out for a little while now, but this is my first one, and I really love

Hello! Last spring I had a lot of fun stitching a binding kit...perfect for holding scissors, needles, thread, binding clips, and with an extra pocket to spare! This is a free PDF pattern designed by my friend Vanessa Goertzen. You can find the tutorial for the binding kit on her blog, Lella

Hello! This was actually supposed to be my first thing in the morning Friday post...but somehow the end of the week just flew by, so I'm a little late! I've been doing quite a bit more organizing, a little secret sewing, and a lot of prep work for upcoming projects...and in the midst of all of that

Hello! It's Tuesday and the second week of my Quilt your Stash series! I've been pleasantly surprised at how the small changes I've made already have really been helping me stay more organized! Last week I presented just three steps to take to get going: first, clean off all of  your

Hello! Happy Monday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! I spent more time organizing this weekend than sewing, but I know it will make for a lot more sewing and quilting time soon, so I figure it was time well spent! I was able to finish up four more blocks for my half-square triangle scrappy

Happy Saturday! I'll be back with regular posting on Monday, but I wanted to drop in and let you know I added some fun Bright Sun Bundles to my Etsy shop.   Along with a couple of fat quarter bundles, there are some fun polka dot bundles in fat quarters...  some Bright Sun

Hello! Today I'd like to introduce you to one of my new blog sponsors, Lou Lou's Fabric Shop. Lou Lou's offers high quality, modern, trendy fabric for quilting, sewing & crafting. Purchase yardage, precuts, bundles, kits & more!  Lou Lou's offers a "daily deal" in the shop and

Hello! Welcome to week one of Quilt Your Stash 2016! I'm looking forward to this journey of getting and keeping organized and of using and sewing and quilting the fabrics I have in my stash. During the summer of 2014 I spent a little time really trying to get organized  and wrote a series

Happy Monday! Today is Minis and More day for the December projects.  We had a few project options for December since we knew it was going to be a busy month. You can see last month's parade and read about the project options here. At the end of today's parade is a new mini quilt I've designed

Happy 2016! I'm always ready for the New Year...it's such a great time to reminisce, evaluate, and look forward with fresh plans and ideas! I have lots of ideas for getting my household organized, and that includes plans to stay on top of organization in my sewing room and even plans to use my

Hello! As 2015 is winding down, a lot of my retailers are clearing out inventory with terrific savings...here are a few you might want to visit... Fat Quarter Shop has their fabulous end of the year sale now with up to 60% off on fabrics, patterns, and more! Green Fairy Quilts has a spectacular

Hello! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! The last week of the year is when I typically post my "year in review" posts of projects. This year I made a good assortment of small items (mostly gifted) like bags, pillows, pincushions, place mats, table runners and table toppers; since a lot of these

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I'm ever so grateful to be able to be spending this wonderful holiday weekend with most of my family. My best wishes to you and your family for a joyous holiday season!     Merry Christmas!

Happy Wednesday! It's getting down to the wire for gift making! I'm almost finished...I think (although I keep thinking of more things I could do)! But at some time I'll have to decide I'm done for this year...in the meantime, though, I made a couple more of the Project Bags I shared a couple of

Happy Tuesday! I realized while looking for a photo the other day that while I frequently share my smaller Christmas pillows, wall hangings, and projects, I haven't shared my larger Christmas quilts in quite a little while... so I thought today it would be fun for a Christmas quilt parade!

Happy Monday...It's been a little of this and a little of that around here as I try to finish up the last minute gifts and preparations for the holidays.  On Friday my No Bake Jolly Bar quilt arrived in the mail, and I couldn't wait to get started on the binding. This isn't actually a Christmas

Happy Friday! Today I'm reviewing the OttLite 3-in-1 Craft Lamp. I received the lamp for free from the OttLite Company; however, all of the opinions in this blog post are my own. I've been using this light in my little sewing area in our family room for a couple of months now, and I don't know what

Happy Thursday! The other night I finally started (and finished) something I've had on my list for quite a while... Back in September I had some scraps left over from my Strawberry Fields  Revisited sewing that I knew I had to save for a new pincushion pattern I had seen. But then market

Happy Wednesday! As I mentioned yesterday, I'm sharing some more gifts perfect for giving to friends (or for making for yourself). I have a couple more projects I'm working on that I'll share later this week...but for today, here are some of my favorite gifts I've made over the past few

Hello! I thought it would be fun to post a few more gift ideas this week...not necessarily Christmas themed, but perfect for giving at Christmas and at other times of the year! Since I just finished some little bags, I thought I'd give you my thoughts on my two favorite small bag patterns. For

Happy Friday! Well...I set everything aside and put the red and green blocks together! I wasn't sure about the setting at first, but I really do think this setting lets each block shine on it's own. The sashing sets everything off beautifully, and the four-patch blocks add just the perfect pop of

Happy Thursday! On Monday I received my final package of instructions for the Classic Yuletide Block of the Month quilt I've been working on since March. So as you can imagine, I put everything on hold to get back to work on this! I know this is going to be a favorite quilt, so it was fun to be able