Thought I’d pop on and show you this darling Bowties quilt today. This vintage quilt top belongs to my friend, Richelle, and she asked me if I could turn it into a finished quilt for her. And that’s what I do — so of course, I said I would! It turned out even more darling […]
9 Comments. Continue Reading...I recently finished a quilt that I’m lovingly calling “The Rebuttal Quilt”. Back in 2014, my bestie, Victoria Findlay Wolfe, and I, rented a retreat center for ourselves for 5 glorious days of non-stop sewing. If you don’t count the incident where I had to leave her all alone there one night and go rescue […]
21 Comments. Continue Reading...Since I made the elephant quilt for that special little girl to keep at her grandma’s house, I also needed to make her one for her own house. I heard through the grapevine that her mama wanted a sheep theme in the nursery, and I was in love with this pattern, so it was the […]
12 Comments. Continue Reading...Now that it’s gifted, I can show you this darling little Esmeralda Elephant quilt. I made this quilt for a very special little girl named Daanya. This one is for her to keep at her Grandma’s house. The pattern is an instantly downloadable PDF (info below), and there’s a girl version and a boy version […]
10 Comments. Continue Reading...My first finish of 2025! I finally finished this Jammin’ Jelly quilt: The pattern is by my friend, Cindy, at Live a Colorful Life. It’s such an easy make. And it uses big pieces, so you can see the fabrics really well. I started this quilt as part of a challenge my guild did to […]
16 Comments. Continue Reading...Back before we moved, I started working on this rustic-farm(ish)-country-scrappy quilt for some friends of ours who were getting married in June. I thought I’d have plenty of time to get it done in time for the wedding, but that was just me and my big pie-in-the-sky expectations, which are almost always unrealistic! So we […]
22 Comments. Continue Reading...The last couple months, I got to work on something very special . . . Over the last few years, I’ve been working with my cousin’s wife, Pam, to finish up all the quilting UFOs my Great-Aunt Jo left behind when she passed away. You can see most of them (and read their stories) HERE. […]
26 Comments. Continue Reading...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 […]
4 Comments. Continue Reading...My sister got me this quilt for my birthday a couple years ago: We were eyeing it on Etsy, and I said I’d maybe like to get it and take it apart and machine quilt it. A bit later, I was at her house, and she presented me with the quilt! And after getting it […]
15 Comments. Continue Reading...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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