5 Things I Did This Year To Make My Quilting Life Easier

Posted on December 26, 2025 by prairiemoonquilts in Inspiration, Lists, Organizing, Quilting For Hire

As you probably know if you’ve hung around here at all, I’m continually trying to get organized. And it’s my firm belief that organizing is an ongoing thing that is never really finished, especially if you’re creating wonderful things. This past year, I applied that to not only my STUFF, but tried to apply it […]

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5 Ways to Procrastinate Better

Posted on January 20, 2025 by prairiemoonquilts in Inspiration

So far this year I’ve finished 3 quilts and another 3 quilt tops. How have I been so productive? Well . . . it seems that all of them were simply a product of my innate ability to procrastinate. Three of them just needed quilting and binding, two of the tops just needed borders, and […]

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The Quilting Experience

Posted on November 14, 2024 by prairiemoonquilts in Inspiration, Longarm Quilting, Quilts, Reviews, Studio News

My bestie, Victoria Findlay Wolfe, has a new book out. It actually came out in September, but I took time to read all the way through mine before posting about it. It’s so wonderful! It’s called “The Quilting Experience: A Celebration of Community and Patchwork Patterns”. This book is a lovely, hard-cover book with soooo […]

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Option Expedition

Posted on April 20, 2024 by prairiemoonquilts in Inspiration, Longarm Quilting, Quilts

Victoria Findlay Wolfe has a new series of work now showing! She worked hard on these pieces over the last couple years, which means she kept me busy with these pieces as well. I have to say I breathed a big sigh of relief when we finished the last one for this exhibit! There will […]

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Love of Quilting

Posted on June 13, 2023 by prairiemoonquilts in Inspiration, Studio News

Hi, there! If you haven’t already done it by now, I hope you’ll check out the July/August 2023 issue of Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting magazine. I have an article in there this time! It’s about battling burnout. I think we all have to do that now and then. It’s a real thing. Right […]

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My Thimble Collection

Posted on March 17, 2023 by prairiemoonquilts in Inspiration, Studio News

I’m not much of a decorator — my sister got all of that gene in our family. So while I love looking at stuff other people have done, I never seem to do much of it myself. My youngest daughter travels a lot, and she buys me a souvenir thimble everywhere she goes. I also […]

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Snowballs!

Posted on January 24, 2020 by prairiemoonquilts in Inspiration, Quilts

A perfect day to talk about snowballs, since this is the view out my studio window this morning. Ranger doesn’t know it yet, but that hay he’s looking at longingly is just about to get moved across the fence for him and Wyatt! They will love it. But the snowballs I really want to talk […]

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Craft in America

Posted on December 27, 2019 by prairiemoonquilts in Inspiration, Quilts, What's New

Craft in America on PBS is airing an episode on QUILTS! Tonight! You’ll have to check your local listings for the time. The episode features 4 quilters, each with a very different style, and also features the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, and some of the things they do. I think it’s wonderful […]

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Low-Volume Fabric

Posted on February 21, 2019 by prairiemoonquilts in Inspiration

I’ve been asked several times what I mean when I say “low-volume fabric”, so today I thought I’d address that, especially since I just recently mentioned that I want to reorganize my fabric stash to include a low-volume bin. Low-volume fabric is basically just fabric that has low color value. They are usually prints, and […]

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Block Six Already

Posted on February 9, 2019 by prairiemoonquilts in Inspiration, Quilt-Alongs & Bees, Quilts, Summertime Sampler

If you’re participating in the Summertime Samplers Block-of-the-Month program through Sew Sweet Quilt Shop this year, we’re already up to Block 6 this month! I’ve been remaking some of the blocks using my scraps, just because I had so much fun with these quilts, and wanted to see them done up in more ways. Here’s […]

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