Happy Tuesday! I'm back with more red and green quilt blocks...yesterday I finished up the two blocks from month nine; there is just one month to go, and then I can start putting them together. I'm more than a little bit giddy thinking I'm finally going to have a red and green quilt for Christmas

Happy Monday! Today I'm happy to be sharing a quilt I made from one of Fat Quarter Shop's latest books, Fat Quarter Baby! I have a new granddaughter, so I was excited to get to make another quilt for her using one of the cute patterns from the book. I was assigned to make the "Hannah" quilt,

Hello and welcome to the Fat Quarter Shop Snapshots Quilt Along, Month Eleven. I can't believe it's been eleven months since we started this quilt along. This month's block, the sailboat, is definitely one you'll want to make. I think it might have been the easiest pattern in the quilt...it went

Happy Friday and welcome to my tutorial for the Farmer's Wife 1930's Sampler Quilt Sew-Along with Fat Quarter Shop, Marti Michell, and Angie of Gnome Angel. If you are new here, welcome to my blogging corner of the world where I have been sharing my quilting and sewing for over 7 years! I hope

Happy Thursday! I hope you had a wonderful beginning to your week! I've had a busy start to my November with lots of pattern folding and stuffing (all orders either shipped Tuesday or today), and fun visits with friends and family. It's starting to feel like the holidays here, especially with the

Hello and happy Friday! I'm still trying to catch up on works in progress here, and next on my list was my red and green mystery block of the month blocks from Fig Tree. It seems I always just get caught up just as the next month's package is about to ship, and this month is no exception! There are

Hello and happy Thursday! Today I'm sharing a little bit of my catch-up sewing for the Farmer's Wife 1930's quilt along. Market sewing and preparation really took over my schedule for a few weeks, and I struggled to keep up. After returning home some Farmer's Wife blocks were high on my to do

Happy Wednesday! Today I'm happy to be sharing a book review as part of the Free-Motion Quilting Idea Book: 155 Mix & Match Designs Bring 30 Fabulous Blocks to Life Plus Plans for Sashing, Borders, Motifs & Allover Designs  blog tour for my friend Amanda Murphy. Amanda and I met

Happy Tuesday! Welcome to my stop on the Cozy Cottage blog tour. The new Cozy Cottage 2016 Calendar by Lori Holt is much more than a delightful calendar...it's a calendar with patterns!  I was super excited to see the calendar with its gorgeous photos and fun designs. I couldn't wait to make

Happy Monday...and Hello November! I'm not sure where October went, but I love November and the beautiful weather we have been having here in southern Nevada! Today is Minis and More parade day, and I'm happy to share some wonderful projects. Michele and I chose the Fig Mini Twirl, Mini Laundry

Happy Saturday! Today I'd like to share just a small portion of the amazing exhibit, "The Making of Moda" from International Quilt Market/Festival in Houston. I didn't take nearly enough pictures, and in fact, the photos I do have don't do these quilts justice. But I hope to be able to convey the

Happy Friday! I still have more Quilt Market photos to share, but since it's Friday I thought it would be fun to do a Quilt Market edition of my traditional Friday Favorites posts. So here a few of my favorite things from market last week... Of course Valley is one of my favorite things from

Hello! Thank you for all of the wonderful comments on the last two posts--I've enjoyed reading them. Today I'm happy to be sharing the remaining Moda booths from quilt market.  First up is the lovely booth of Edyta Sitar of Laundry Basket Quilts. She introduced a new low-volume collection

Hello! Happy Tuesday! I finished loading the photos from my camera and was surprised at how many I'd taken since I spend most of my time in the booth and did most of my photo taking in the early morning during the hour or so before the show opened each day. For that reason, there aren't pictures of

Happy Tuesday! I'm sorry it's been so long since I posted; I intended to post again about the booth projects before I left, but it just didn't happen. I arrived home late last night from International Quilt Market in Houston, Texas, and it was a wonderful jam-packed five days of the most amazing

Happy Friday! This week has flown by...it seems like I was just writing a Friday favorites post the other day! Anyway, I have a good mix for you today...Farmer's Wife blocks, a work in progress update...a sneak peek, and more! Keeping up with my 1930's Farmer's Wife blocks has been something

Happy Thursday! It's the Fat Quarter Shop Snapshots Quilt Along day, and I'm happy to be able to share today's block...luckily I made this block early knowing how busy I was going to be at this time. I pieced it about a month ago, and when I pulled it out to photograph it I remembered how cute it

Happy Monday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Saturday was sure a happy day for me because I finished the final binding on the final market quilt. I'm always a little nervous before I get ready to release new patterns, but now that the quilts are ready and all together I'm super excited. Now

Happy Friday! It's officially fall here at my home--not because the temperatures say fall--but because I pulled out my favorite fall quilt yesterday and got it hung up! I know I've shared this quilt on the blog at least a couple of times over the years, but it truly is a favorite. And it seems this

Happy Wednesday! It's been a little crazy busy over here lately, but I'm happy to say I can see that proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. I pieced three quilts in about 8 days, and am ready to start some binding. We will have five new quilts in our Quilt Market booth, and now that they are

Happy Friday! I'm so looking forward to the weekend...I finished a market quilt last night and hope to make at least one more over the next day or so! Although I can't share the market preparation fabric and quilts just yet, I have a new Farmer's wife block to share...and a new favorite notion to

Happy October! September went by in a flash...it's been a little crazy here as I've been trying to get ready for quilt market...thankfully I have some friends helping me as well. But today I have a fun parade of mini Vintage Tulip quilts--each one so fun! First I'd like to welcome Amanda who

Happy Tuesday! Today I'm sharing my first two blocks for the Farmer's Wife 1930's Quilt Along headed up my Angie of Gnome Angel, Fat Quarter Shop, and Marti Michell! This week we have three blocks to make...the first two have been introduced, and the next one will be introduced later this

Happy Monday! Happy last week of September, too (can you believe it)?! Today I just have to share a new tool for quilters that arrived on my doorstep this morning. It's the brand new Bella Solids Moda Match Maker, and it's amazing! This handy dandy tool measures 2 3/4" wide, 5 1/4" tall, and 6"

Happy Saturday! Today I have a sponsor giveaway from Jodie of the super fun on-line fabric shop, Fort Worth Fabric Studio. Jodie is giving away a $25 gift certificate to her shop...before I give you the details on the giveaway here are some fun things you might want to look at in the

Happy Friday! Today I have a couple of favorites...and a sneak peek of a favorite!  Just this week I received my Cozy Cottage 2016 Calendar by Lori Holt. It's a delightful calendar with beautiful photography and some fun projects. There will also be a blog tour I'll be taking part in later

Happy Thursday! Today is my day on the Splash of Color Blog Tour! My friend (and blog sponsor) Jackie of Canton Village Quilt Works wrote a beautiful book, Splash of Color: A Rainbow of Brilliant Black-and-white Quilts, and I am happy to be able to share a little bit about it today (read on to the

Happy Tuesday! I'm excited to be able to share a little more information about something I hinted at a couple weeks ago...the Farmer's Wife 1930s Sew Along with Fat Quarter Shop and Gnome Angel. This is going to be so much fun--there will be a couple of blocks a week with block tutorials and

Happy Monday! I had just a little sewing time over the weekend...but it was enough for a small finish and some scrap management! I've been trying to get a handle on my scraps...I love them so much and want to be sure I use them! These fabrics might look familiar, but they're not from the older

Happy Friday! It's finally starting to feel a little "fallish" here in my corner of the world...morning lows in the 60's signal the end of the hundred and teens for us...hopefully our 6-7 months of beautiful weather is here to stay. With fall ever-so-readily approaching I've been pushing myself

Happy Wednesday! My work in progress this week is my Mini Vintage Tulips quilt. I had so much fun working on this the other day! And now I just need to get it quilted, bound, and up on my sewing room wall!  You might notice that the navy squares I had in my original post about this quilt

Happy Tuesday! It's the fifteenth of the month (already?!), so that means it's Fat Quarter Shop Snapshots quilt along day! And even crazier is the fact that this month's block is block 9. Just three more blocks to go, and our quilt will be finished! This month's block is a kitty on a quilt...so

Happy Monday! It was a busy, busy weekend here at home (we had a baby shower here at the house for my older daughter who is expecting in October), but I did manage to sneak in a little sewing! Sometimes it seems like if I can just sew for thirty minutes then all is well.  So when I had a

Happy Thursday! Tuesday morning I stopped by the post office after the holiday weekend and was thrilled to find my scrappy log cabin quilt had arrived home. By Tuesday evening I was binding, and on Wednesday I took the final pictures. There might be a little photo overload in this post because I am

Over the weekend I had a chance to sew a couple of my favorite fabric baskets...the Noodlehead Divided Basket Pattern.  These two are number 5 and number 6 I've made from this pattern, and one is finally for me! Yes, I've given 5 of these away and always wanted one for my sewing room--so

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to my stop on the Pre-Cut Primer blog tour with Barb & Mary of Me & My Sister Designs and the Fat Quarter Shop! I've been super excited to share this book and especially this quilt since I was able to piece it for Barb and Mary last spring! I was able to piece

Happy Friday! Today is the first day of a four-day weekend for me, and I'm excited to get to sew some fun things! I've just finished a crazy busy couple of weeks of sewing working on projects I can't share just yet (a couple of market quilts and a magazine project), and I have a whole list of things