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!

Happy Monday (for just a little while longer here on the west coast)! We had a busy weekend with a family trip to northern Utah. We were able to spend some time in Park City, and although the temperatures were pretty warm, it was still much cooler than back at home. Park City is a fun place to

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