Happy Friday! It's favorites day today! If you're new here, my Friday Favorites posts are usually a potpourri of things I'm working on along with new products and patterns that I have found, used, and love.   Today's first Friday Favorite is something scrappy, of course!  I'm

Happy Wednesday...I have an almost-finish to share today (I still need to get the binding finished). I'm sort of head over heels in love with this quilt, so there may be a lot of photos ahead! This is my "Go Four It" quilt (pattern designed by Lissa Alexander and found in the April 2015 issue

Now that we're a couple of blocks into the Summer Sampler quilt along, I thought it would be good to present a couple of ideas for your block settings so you can choose those fabrics and set them aside.  I'll be presenting tutorials for 6 blocks in all, and so you'll have the choice

Have you heard...Fat Quarter Shop is celebrating their 12th birthday with a special 24-hour flash sale each day through June 26th. Check their website each day after 10 a.m. (Central Time) to see what the sale of the day is! Happy Birthday Fat Quarter Shop!

Happy Friday and welcome to the second installment of my Summer Patchwork Sampler Quilt. This week we will be making the Ohio Star block.  I've made one of my blocks using a single fabric and used two fabrics for my  second block.  So....here's what you'll need to get

Hello and welcome to my day on the Irish Chain Quilts blog hop! I was super happy to participate in this blog hop for my friend Melissa Corry. I don't think I've ever met an Irish Chain quilt I didn't love, so I was looking forward to  seeing Irish Chain Quilts: Contemporary Twists on a

Happy Wednesday! I hope you are having a wonderful June! This week I spent quite a bit of time finishing up my Moda Building Blocks quilt top. It's all in one piece now! It's a big quilt, so it's been a little hard to photograph indoors (at the end of the post I have an outside photo of the full

Happy Monday! It's Snapshots Quilt Along Day! Now that I'm caught up (and actually even a little ahead), it's been even more fun working on this quilt. If you happen to be behind...just start with this month's block. Someone gave me that advice many years ago in regards to scrap booking, and I've

One of my favorite parts of quilt market is getting to see some of the newly released quilting books. Having a booth made it a little more difficult for me to get around and see everything, but there were two books that came my way that I'd love to share today. The first book I fell in love with

Happy Wednesday!  Because my husband was away on a fishing trip and I didn't have anything on the calendar, I was able to spend half of Monday and all day Tuesday just quilting (I did do a tiny bit of housework and cook some yummy zucchini bread, too).  First on my list was a work in

Happy Tuesday! Summer is the time I get a lot of quilting (and organizing) done in the sewing room. And since I've been working on several scrappy projects lately, I thought it might be fun to share some of my tips for making scrap quilts. It seems like every year at about this time I feel like

Happy Wednesday! I've been working on a few things in the sewing room--I've been trying to focus on works in progress so I can get a good list of things to work on this summer. I really do seem to get a lot of my sewing done in the summer because it's too hot here to go outside much!  First

Happy June! Although it's not officially summer here, it sure feels like it, and I think I've already got that summer state of mind! I'm super excited to announce "Minis and More," a blog quilt parade of the month I'll be co-hosting with Michele of Island Life Quilts. Summer Star Mini in

 Things have started to take on the rhythm of summer here...the temperatures are going up quickly, and the calendar is less full with "have to's." And while I'm still trying to catch up from the quilt market whirlwind in April and May, I'm also starting to finish up some projects.  I

One of the first works in progress I wanted to finish up this week was my  "Go Four It" quilt designed by Lissa Alexander and published in the issue of American Patchwork & Quilting. I started cutting strips for this quilt back in December and worked on it pretty steadily until I started my

It sure has been a great feeling to be able to sew! Everything was pretty hectic just before market, so I got behind on a few of my works in progress. This week's plan is to play catch up. First, I tackled my Fat Quarter Shop Snapshots quilt along blocks. I had fallen behind on block 4, the

 Happy Tuesday! Today's post is kind of a Quilt Market continuation...I thought you might want to see what I purchased at Sample Spree.  Sample Spree is an evening event at quilt market where manufacturers and designers sell their products (often at wholesale or below) to shop owners

Today I'm sharing the last of the photos from my International Quilt Market trip. These photos are a little different than the ones I've been sharing, but I hope you'll find them equally as inspiring!  After market closed and the booth was taken down and packed into our carry-on's I said

I have quite a few more quilt market photos today, and I wish there were even more. On the last day of market I went to the show a little early and tried frantically to photograph as many of my favorites as I could from throughout the show floor. Of course I didn't have nearly enough time and ended

Today I'll finish up with the Moda section. There were many lovely booths surrounding the sales tables, but the sales table section was a piece of art in and of itself. The tables were covered with beautiful fabric, and the covered chairs had coordinating bows.  There were also lots of fun

Happy Thursday (or late Wednesday night if you're reading this right after I post)! The last eight days have been a whirlwind...but a good one! I returned late last night from quilt market and a little mini vacation after market, and I'm excited to share my quilt market photos. I think it will take

Happy Saturday! Today I'd like to share a fun site with you that will help you best utilize the fabric in your stash. The site is called Pattern Jam, and is the genius of Emily Taylor. Here is some key information about the site from Emily:   1)  As the founder of PatternJam.com, I

 I'm heading out to Quilt Market today...I'm nervous but happily excited at the same time. Since I won't have any booth photos until later in the week I thought I'd share a little more pre-market sewing. All of these projects will work as booth props but will also be used a lot after

A few weeks ago I received a lovely package of goodies from Ikea with the challenge to make a quilted project. There were lots of fun things in the package including Ikea linens, a pillow cover, sewing kit, knit flower trims, pre-cut home dec weight fabrics, thread, and a lovely textile book with

Happy Thursday! I'm almost ready to share everything I've been working on...and it looks like Monday will be my day to share. In the meantime, I thought it would be a good day to share some photos recently in my in-box...I love seeing your projects with my patterns. Stick around to the end of this

I took a little break from my Quilt Market Sewing to work on...some adorable Christmas mittens! Me&MySister have released a new template in their "Makin' It Cute" series. Last fall I made Christmas ornaments with their adorable heart templates... but this year's ornaments will be

Hello everyone! I’m Chelsi, Sherri's daughter, and I’m excited to be a part of the blog takeover with my dad! My mom has been sewing for Quilt Market for quite some time now, but this is the first time that she will be sewing as a Moda Designer! I first must begin by saying what wonderful

Happy Thursday! I meant to get this post up yesterday, but I was knee-deep in market sewing! You see, on Tuesday, these fantastic boxes arrived on my doorstep, and by Tuesday night I had six quilts ready to sew...  It's Quilt Market time, and while I've been doing quilt market sewing for

Happy Tuesday! This is going to be a very busy week here at A Quilting Life, so I thought I'd better share these red and green blocks before things got really busy. I've always wanted a red and green quilt and pieced my first two blocks over the weekend.  The blocks are both from a

If you're intimidated by working with angles in your quilt projects, I have a wonderful recommendation. The other night I watched Joanna Figueroa's new Craftsy class,  Smarter Strip Quilting      I watched the entire class in one sitting, and it's absolutely

Some of my favorite quilters have been making some gorgeous pineapple quilt over the past few months. I made a Fig Tree version a couple of years ago but have been wanting to make a scrappy version lately.  Yesterday was the day! I pulled out some of my favorite bright scraps and started

This weekend I got caught up on my Bee blocks...and I realized that three of the blocks would be perfect for scrap quilting. The first block is perfect for left over jelly roll strips and charm squares. Nedra sent three jelly roll strips and a charm square for her block. There were left

Happy Monday! Do you like mini quilts? How about pinwheels? I got a fun email this afternoon letting me know my Summer Spinner mini quilt made the cover of the Summer 2015 issue of Quilts and More...  "Used with permission from Quilts and More magazine. 2015 Meredith Corporation.

I have some good favorites to share today...some new rulers and organizing helps, and then a favorite project of mine right now. First I want to share the new Itty Bitty Eights rulers by Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gatherings and Creative Grids. These rulers have already found a place on my cutting

 Happy Wednesday! First, thank you so much for all of the lovely comments and suggestions on my last post! I appreciate it very much and got some good ideas from your comments. Today's post is brought to you by "low volume." I know this "low volume" label is a relatively new term...when I

Hope your weekend was wonderful! We've been having delightful spring weather here...perfect warm days with nights that still have just a bit of a chill! I started working on a mini version of Joanna's "Country Fair" quilt that I shared last week. With the blocks finished it should go together

I know things have been a little quiet here on the blog lately, but I have been busy, and today I can share just a little bit of what I've been working on. I've been sewing sample quilts for Joanna of Fig Tree & Company for several years now, and it's something I truly enjoy. I really do read

I've been working on some quilt market sewing, but for the rest of the week I'm going to work on some of my works in progress --can't wait! Since I was making a lot of flying geese yesterday, I thought it might be a good time to share some tips for piecing these blocks. These tips and