One of the projects I put on my list this year is my Yo-Yo quilt. I’m planning to do a lot of handwork this year, and my Yo-Yo quilt is a big hand stitching project that I’ve had going on for years. I’ve decided that this is the year I’d like to try and finish […]
17 Comments. Continue Reading...I’ve gone to several quilt shows this year, and readers and customers have also been kind enough to send photos, and some of my fellow guild members have shown me things they’ve done . . . And there have been a lot of quilts made from my patterns floating around in the wild! I’m so […]
5 Comments. Continue Reading...Halloween is fast approaching, so it’s high time you were getting your Halloween stitching on, don’t you think? I’m here today to tempt you with a few projects . . . Last year for Halloween I made this quilt: It’s made from my AmpersAnd pattern, and instead of appliquéing the ampersand on it, I drew […]
3 Comments. Continue Reading...For the last week, we’ve had temps in the high 80s and 90s, with heat indices of 100 degrees or more, but in spite of that, the first day of fall has come and gone! This is my favorite time of year. It’s a great time to stitch up some new fall projects, so to get […]
4 Comments. Continue Reading...I’d like to show you a quilt I made a few months ago for Dear Stella to hang in their booth at Quilt Market. It’s called the Hexactly quilt, and it’s designed by Sam Hunter of Hunters Design Studio. Isn’t this gorgeous?! The folks at Dear Stella had me make the quilt using their Chroma […]
17 Comments. Continue Reading...It’s called “A Garden for All Seasons”, and it’s the creation of my bestie, Victoria Findlay Wolfe. It’s a quilt she made that is NINE feet tall by THIRTY feet wide! It’s so big I couldn’t get it all in one picture: It hung at the AQS Show in Paducah back in April, and standing […]
42 Comments. Continue Reading...Well, today is the first day of the second half of 2017. I thought I’d check in and give you an update on those 25 scrap quilts I’m planning to finish by the end of the year! It’s evident that I’m going great guns at piecing, but I have no time to actually quilt my […]
14 Comments. Continue Reading...Over the last month, I’ve added some snacking to my quilt diet. All without adding a single extra calorie! “How do you do that?” you ask — well . . . My bestie, Victoria Findlay Wolfe, has these adorable template sets available that make the cutest little 4″ finished blocks! There are seven different template sets […]
1 Comment. Continue Reading...This past year, my sister and I hosted a mystery quilt for the members of our quilt guild, the Pecan Valley Quilt Guild, in Brunswick, Missouri. We used a pattern by Jessie Fincham called Scrappy Irish Chain. I asked Jessie if we could use her pattern, and she graciously agreed, so I broke it down […]
19 Comments. Continue Reading...I’ve been chipping away at lots of projects, and a few of them finally got to the completed stage this week. I feel like I’ve been sewing in slow motion, so to have a few things done and off my plate feels pretty good! I finished this flower pillow that I started a couple years […]
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