Today I'm introducing "Sparkle," a beginner friendly large block pattern that packs a punch! "Sparkle" is a twin size quilt which can be pieced with a focus fabric and 20 fat eighths (or 10 fat quarters if you want to make two stars from each fabric). I pieced my version using the delightful new

 Hello! And Happy Simply Small parade day! I think you will love every single project as I do!It's been so fun to see how much cuteness can come from little 2 1/2" squares of fabric!  Starting us off is Hildy's gorgeous Baby Jane version...she made it in no time at all, too...it was the

Today I'm happy to be able to share my latest pattern...Seashore Drive. Seashore Drive is named after a street in Newport Beach, California where we were able to vacation a few times as a family.  So it was no wonder I would name  my "Beachy" quilt made with Kate Spain's new Horizon

 I've been doing quite a bit of "behind the scenes" sewing both for my own new pattern releases and for some amazing new Fig Tree designs. I will be releasing 4 new patterns of my own in the next week or so before I leave for market and am starting out today with the first one finished. Meet

Hello...thanks for your patience as it took me a little while longer than expected to get this post going! 4 quilts in 8 days is my excuse--and I have one more to make, but I have a little break for the weekend...and soon I'll be able to share some wonderful market sewing! Okay...on to Schnibble

If you are looking for the (late) parade of mini quilts...it will post on Saturday. Sorry for the inconvenience...I have some market sewing deadlines to meet :) Welcome to my stop on the Fabulously Fast Quilts blog tour. I am so honored that my friend Amy asked me to participate--she is an

 Hello, May! And welcome to month five in the Blogger Girls Block of the Month hosted by Monique Dillard. I had a lot of fun with this months blocks--they are a happy pair!  The first version of this month's block was cute...  But because I love stars, I think my alternate

I have been making a lot of quarter square triangles lately for a variety of different projects, so I thought it might be good to share my favorite method for making these versatile blocks. With this method there isn't any reason to create the quarter square triangle  block using

 There are a lot of "works in progress" going on right now...another "Sew Together" bag for me...out of my favorite Bonnie & Camille scraps (I'm giving my first one to my younger daughter for her birthday Saturday; she fell in love with it when I showed it to her the other day, and since

It seems a lot of my sewing this week has been with some of my favorite Fig Tree fabrics! First I was able to piece block 11 of the 2013 Fat Quarter Shop Designer Mystery Block of the Month. Just one more block, and I'll be able to finish this quilt with so many blocks I've loved piecing throughout

Hello! Welcome to my stop on the Great Granny Sew Along blog tour! If you are here for your first time, I welcome you to browse through my blog posts to share just a little bit of my quilting life. I'm a fabric lover and a dedicated quilter, and I have a lot of fun posting about my projects, my tips

  Happy Easter!

 Next Friday and Saturday, April 25th and 26th, I will be at Quilted Works in St. George, Utah. On Friday I'll be teaching my Shine quilt from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Then, that evening I'll be sharing a trunk show and doing a book signing for Fresh Family Traditions: 18 Heirloom Quilts for a New

"Kitchen Sink" from Fresh Family Traditions Saturday, April 19th, I will be at Christmas Goose in Las Vegas, Nevada for a trunk show, book signing, and class! The trunk show and book signing run from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Beginning at 1:30 p.m., I'll be teaching "Kitchen Sink," the cover

 Used with permission from Quilts and More magazine. 2014 Meredith Corporation. All rights reserved There is a new Quilts and More magazine available...and I have a couple of small projects included. If you've followed my blog for a little while you might know I love hexagons. My very first

Happy Monday! While I have some new patterns coming out with some of the new market collections coming soon, I also have a couple I've been working on here and there. The first new pattern is for a quilt you've seen bits and pieces of here and there..."Bucket List." And yes, this pattern got its

Spring break is officially here, and I've been working on some small projects I've had on the list for a while. I'll be doing some market sewing soon, so this has been fun for me to have some fast finishes. Something I've been wanting to make for quite some time is the "Sew Together Bag." 

Welcome to the Churn Dash "Simply Small" project parade. If you are looking for the information about the project for the May parade, go to yesterday's post to read all about the Scrappy Patchwork Pillow project which uses just one pack of Moda Candy. And now...here is a fun group of Churn Dash

Another one of the quilts in Fresh Family Traditions: 18 Heirloom Quilts for a New Generation is Emma's Bear Paw. I made my Bear Paw quilt using the Scrumptious fabric collection by Bonnie & Camille. I had so much fun working on this traditional quilt design with such fun fabrics. Like

 Another one of the quilts from Fresh Family Traditions: 18 Heirloom Quilts for a New Generation is "Stars over Iowa" which I made using some of my favorite Amy Butler prints. All of my ancestors on my Mom's side came from Iowa, and I have fond memories of visiting there as a young girl. But

Happy Thursday! Today I'm going to begin sharing some of the quilts from my book Fresh Family Traditions: 18 Heirloom Quilts for a New Generation.   My friend Korindi took some beautiful photos of some of the book quilts recently, and so I'd like to first introduce you to "Indian Summer"

 Hello...Happy April! Welcome to the parade of Schnibbles "Hook" quilts! (If you are looking for my Blogger Girls Block of the Month post go here. Before I get started with the parade...next month's project is going to be your free choice of any of Camille's amazing mini quilts.  Pictured

 Hello and welcome to month 4 of the Blogger Girls Block of the Month quilt along. This month's blocks are two of my favorites so far! I can hardly believe that there are just two months left...so that means I'd better get busy making my alternate blocks!  Here is version one of block

 Photo courtesy of Camille Roskelley  I'm spending this last Saturday of March in my sewing room...catching up on a few things, organizing scraps, and working on pattern writing. So...I thought it might be the perfect weekend to offer a free class from Craftsy! I have had great

After posting the other day about staying caught up with my Block of the Month projects, I decided I'd better get caught up on my Bees Knees Quilting Bee blocks. When I'm behind I always start with the most recent block and move backward...anybody else do that? So first up was a framed squares

A few months I was contacted to see if I'd be interested in sharing a block tutorial for the Patchwork Posse Round Robin. I was asked to pick a favorite block...but that is really too hard for me, so I decided on one of my "standby favorites--" the Churn Dash. This tutorial is for a 12" finished

I know I've been sharing my Fat Quarter Shop Designer Mystery Block of the Month Quilt since...well...last June when the first block arrived. I usually do pretty well at keeping up with block of the month projects, but I've tried a few new things with this one that have really helped me stay on

My "Summer Stars" quilt has been one of those projects that has been around for quite a little while. I know it's been longer than a year and quite possibly even two years since I started this quilt. But I'm okay with that because...well...time can be your friend.  In the beginning I made the

The other night I had the wonderful opportunity to do a little pattern testing for my friend Camille. You can imagine how excited I was to see this pattern come to my inbox. I gathered my scrap box, set to cutting, and had a test block made within a short time. By the next morning I had the

 Happy first day of spring! It's my grandmother's birthday today...the one who taught me to quilt, and so I'm looking forward to chatting with her a bit and of course quilting. But since I've been working on quite a few things that I can't share just yet...I thought maybe some pictures of

Last summer while in Wisconsin for a quilting retreat I was able to visit the Country Sampler Quilt Shop in Spring Green. Not only was the shop incredibly beautiful with gorgeous displays, samples, and fabrics, but there was also a wonderful classroom area in the back of the shop. A class was going

Happy National Quilting Day! I hope you get to spend some quality time working on a project you love today! I recently finished my "Spell it with Fabric" quilt from the Moda quilt along. Well, it's almost finished...all that I have left to do is hand-stitch my binding.  This quilt has been

Happy Friday! I just had to share the new mini quilt I made this week. It's a Mini Round & Round by my friend Camille. I actually quilted this little quilt 3 times--I did two separate free-motion quilting designs that I just wasn't happy with...unpicked all of the quilting both times, and

Happy Wednesday! Today I've been waiting not so patiently for the Fed Ex man to deliver my new books! If you've pre-ordered from me they will ship tomorrow! In the meantime I've been working on my new spring pattern releases, and I have the first one ready! Meet "County Fair!"  This quilt is

Happy Tuesday! Today is Simply Small day here at  A Quilting Life! I have a fun parade of projects from last month's pattern. First, though, I'd like to share the project for next month--a Scrappy Churn Dash Table Runner!  I'd been wanting to make a churn dash project for quite some

Hello and happy Monday! I've been working on a few more alphabet blocks from Moda's "Spell it with Fabric" blog tour. In fact, I've finished up my alphabet! I have my sashings and borders all ready to go and can't wait to get this one together! I also made 4 filler blocks. I was glad I

Hello and happy Friday! I'm happy to announce a giveaway from Jodie of Fort Worth Fabric Studio! She is offering a $50 gift certificate to one of my lucky blog readers! There are wonderful things in her shop right now, too. A few of my favorites right now are: The lovely Country Girls

 I was able to pick up my blue and white sampler quilt from my quilter (thanks, Val!) this week, and I am so very happy with it! This quilt is a full-sized quilt, and I used the blocks and setting from Monique Dillard's Blogger Girl's Block of the Month in 2013. There are actually just six

 I just can't stop making those "Spell it with Moda" alphabet blocks. They go together so quickly, and I'm making them all from my scrap bin! I'm supposed to be finishing up some things with deadlines, so I've been using these blocks as my "reward" sewing.  Every fabric in my blocks