Just popping in to share the news about a big Craftsy sale going on now through September 9th!   Go here to find out about all of the quilting supplies on sale and to receive up to 50% off of All online classes! Thanks so much for stopping by! (Affiliate links provided for your

I was actually hoping to post this last week, but because of camera issues...and a pretty busy schedule...here it is today! First up is a little table topper I made with the block design from my Charm Pack Placemats tutorial. We have a little table in our family room that seats 4, and I like to

Happy Tuesday! Two days...and two parades! Today is the day for the Minis and More Mini Juniper parade...and after today's parade we will be drawing our quarterly prize winners! Sadly, my quilt is still in the same condition you saw it last. I just can't decide on a border. I'm actually thinking

Happy Monday...I know it's late in the day...but I promised a parade today, and so here it is! There were some lovely quilt photos that arrived in my inbox, and I'm happy to share them with you! I still need to put the binding on mine...just can't decide between fabrics! I think I might be leaning

Happy Saturday! I have something fun to share today...one of my favorite quilts from my book C&T Publishing Fresh Family Traditions: 18 Heirloom Quilts for a New Generation has been published as an individual pattern.  The Stash Books section at C&T has been publishing a few individual

I have some very exciting news to share today...I'm going on my first cruise...and it's a quilting cruise!  I'll be teaching on the cruise along with two very other talented teachers, Doug Leko of Antler Creek Designs and Gudrun Erla; we'll be touring the western Caribbean--sea, sun and

Happy Saturday! Today is my day on the Winter Wonderland blog tour! The Winter Wonderland Christmas book is a terrific book with designs by my friend Sherri Falls of This & That. There is a great variety of projects in the book including quilts, table runners, a table topper, and even a tree

Happy Friday! Today I have a favorites post which is a mix of this and that: fabric, books, and more!  First up is some favorite fabric...I love the new Bonnie & Camille collection Hello Darling, but I think the strawberry prints in the collection are absolute perfection. I had to get

Hello! This week is flying by...I can't believe it's already Wednesday. I'm here today with a works in progress post and a few thoughts about...quilting! So...I searched quite a bit before coming up with what I thought was the best fabric in my sewing room to use for sashing for my mini

Hello! I want to stop in and remind everyone about the Minis and More parade coming up on September 1st (did I just write "September"?).  This month's pattern is the Mini Juniper quilt by Fig Tree & Company, and it's a very fun little quilt!   I started working on my quilt over

Happy Monday! This is my last full week of summer, so I'm going to savor every day! I start back to school next week with a very light teaching schedule this semester--I'll be teaching just one English 101 class, and the numbers are low which will mean fewer hours spent grading papers. So while it

 Hello! It's Snapshots Quilt Along day! And this quilt just keep getting better with each block that we add.  I have to admit, I thought the bicycle block was going to be a lot of work, but I cut it out, used my Alphabitties to mark all of the pieces, and it went together just fine! I

It's time for the last block in the Summer Sampler Series! Today I'm happy to share with you the Martha Washington Star block. This is another of my favorite star patterns, and I have the pattern designed so the center sections are made a little big then trimmed to just the right size. This should

Happy Thursday! I'm just popping in quickly with a couple of things...I recently added some fabric bundles and jelly rolls to my Etsy shop as I've been doing some summer cleaning to get ready for fabric arriving for market sewing. There are some good deals on some older collections in the fabric

Happy Wednesday...I actually didn't plan to work on my scrappy log cabin swap quilt yesterday, but it was one of those days where I just needed to sew some straight lines and keep things simple. When I finished sewing my blocks together it was almost dusk...but just light enough to get a few

Happy Tuesday! Scrap quilts are so much fun, and this week I've decided to get back to work on a project that has kind of been on the back burner for awhile.  I started these fun half-square triangle blocks well over a year ago. I was doing really well in the beginning, and I even have a

Earlier this summer I shared my Scrappy Log Cabin blocks--they were a lot of fun to make, and after mailing off my 36 blocks I've been trying to patiently wait for my swap blocks to arrive. Friday morning a wonderful package arrived on my doorstep. It was so much fun looking at each and every

Over the first part of the weekend I had a chance to finish up a couple of little projects...first up was to make a scrappy binding for  the patchwork baby quilt I shared recently. I just love scrappy bindings! They do take a little extra time, but they are so fun...and often it's a great

Happy Wednesday! At the end of last week, my Month 5 packet arrived for my Fig Tree red and green mystery sampler. I was so excited to see two patterns I've been wanting to make: can you believe I've never done a bow-tie quilt or a Tree of Life block? So  of course I set out to get these

Happy Tuesday! Today I'm participating in the Summer Sew Along for my friend Annie who is celebrating her new pattern, the "Stash and Dash." Annie is a wonderful pattern designer as well as the creator of the Soft & Stable product which is a terrific stabilizer for bags big and small. The Stash

Happy Monday! Because it's the first Monday of the month it's Minis and More parade day! Michele and I both have  parades featuring mini quilts made from the Little Miss Shabby pattern "Sweetness."  Michele's amazing version of this month's quilt--read about it here If you are

Happy Saturday...and happy August. I'm still not sure where July went, but I know there is just one more month of summer, and I still have a lot of projects on my list! One thing I've been working on is this Jelly Roll Jam II quilt using the upcoming Prairie collection by Little Miss Shabby for

Happy Friday! Today is Summer Sampler Block day, and today I'm sharing one of my favorite vintage-style star blocks. After this block there will just be one more, and then it will be time for everyone to share their quilts! If you're new to my blog, you can find links to all of the previous

Happy Wednesday! My red and white Moda Building Blocks quilt is quilted, home, and bound! It has been such a fun journey to work on this quilt. I began it in the fall of 2014 knowing it was going to be a bit of a long-term project. It's a little bit sad to have this finished, I so loved working on

Happy Tuesday! I have a friend who is having twins soon...she is 32 weeks along and has been getting her nursery ready for the soon-to-arrive baby boys. So I knew I'd better get busy and finish up the baby quilts I promised to make her!  I used the blues and light colored prints from

Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend! I've been trying to catch up on this and that--I'm hoping by the end of July I'll be caught up with several projects I've fallen behind on. I think it's great to have on-going projects...projects that you expect to take a year or even a few years, but I

Happy Friday! Today is my day on the Farm Girl Vintage Sew Along (or otherwise known as Farm Girl Fridays)! Farm Girl Vintage is the latest book by Lori Holt of Bee in My Bonnet. The book is full of adorable blocks and fun projects which look terrific in any combination of fabrics and fabric

Happy Wednesday!  I'm stopping in to share something I've been working on...and something I've just found out is coming soon! The quilts that inspired my red and white quilt have been preserved in a book which will release on September 22nd! Red and White Quilts: Infinite Variety:

Recently my friend Vanessa posted a fun tutorial for a binding kit. It looked like such a fun project with some really great features...so of course I jumped at the chance to participate in a sew-along with Vanessa, Fat Quarter Shop, and some other sewists! The hardest part (as usual) was

Happy Thursday! Today I get to share a little mini I worked on last winter...a fun churn dash variation mini quilt perfect for a table topper or wall hanging.   "Used with permission from Quilts and More magazine. 2015 Meredith Corporation. All rights reserved.”  It's always

Happy Wednesday! Today is Snapshots Quilt Along Day! This month's block is a fun hot air balloon block, Up, Up and Away! Now that the finishing instructions are available, I've decided to border my blocks as I go...and I'll also be setting them together in rows as I go, too. Download

Happy Monday! I can't believe it's almost the middle of July...summer is flying by, and I still have so many projects to catch up on, to finish...and of course, to start! I took a little time this weekend to try and get a little caught up on my red and green quilt.  This is a mystery block of

Happy Friday! Yesterday I decided to make a few changes to my red and white quilt... There were a couple of blocks that were bothering me, and as it got closer to the time when I knew I'd be taking the quilt to be quilted I knew I had to make a couple of changes. When I first started the quilt

 Happy Tuesday! My jury service is complete, and I'm back to sewing! I've got all of my scrappy log cabin quilt blocks finished, cut, and divided for the block exchange. I'm really in love with the ones I've pieced and can't wait to see the blocks I'll receive in the swap.  I can't in

Happy Fourth of July to all of my US friends...and happy weekend to everyone else! Last year at just about this time I was finishing up my patriotic Nested Churn Dash...it's one of my favorites!  It's funny that even after making this king-sized quilt I still had plenty of scraps in the

Happy Friday! Today I have instructions for the third block in the Summer Sampler Series. Today's block is the Star Puzzle block! I used two different fabrics and a   background for each of my blocks.I was actually lucky to be able to use half-square triangles from my scrap bin for

Happy Wednesday, and Happy July! I heard someone say yesterday that once July arrives, summer is over. I certainly hope for cooler temperatures, but I have a lot of summer sewing still to do!  Today is parade day, and I have some wonderful versions of my Summer Star Mini quilt to share!