Sometimes I’m hit or miss with gift giving but this year I want to try and break that habit, so this other day when I was scrolling through my Pinterest boards & bookmarks I came across an anchor quilt block and thought of my friend Amanda. She loves all things anchors and when I’d shown her this anchor…
Free Broken Feather Arrow Paper Piece Pattern
This broken feather arrow paper piece block an original pattern I drafted up recently to accompany my lone star medallion quilt. It uses scraps from five different prints for the broken feathers plus a background and fabric for the arrow’s shaft and tip. One of the reasons I felt compelled to design yet another paper…
QuiltAlong.net Launched + a Giveaway
Hi all – I’m excited to announce Quilt Along.net is live and ready to help you find your next quilt along or block of the month projects. You can read more about why I built this site on the about page but most importantly we’re having a giveaway! Sponsored by the Fat Quarter Shop enter…
Pincushion Finish
After having a tricky crafty start to my week with the paper piecing fiasco of 2014 I needed a little win. So I followed the wrist pincushion tutorial over at Planet Jane to make myself a wrist pin cushion. My final finish of 2014. I cut into two highly coveted stash scraps, a Moda twill…
Monday Mistakes – 94% Scaled Paper Piecing
In this semi-weekly series called Mistake Monday I talk about a cultural taboo: making mistakes. I make mistakes, constantly and aside from mentions of seam ripping I don’t see enough posts online about how people fix these mistakes with passable solutions or how they emotionally moved passed the mistake, let’s break that taboo. I needed…
#hashtagblock #SewingForSydney
Thursday night I got home from line dancing and decided to whip up 5 blocks for Molli Sparkles’ charity quilting bee for the survivors of the terrible terrorist attack in Sydney this past week. His requirements were this 5.5″ hashtag block tone-on-tone with white. I dug into my scrap & stash and pulled out these…
Jenn, Jesse, Brianna & Jacob – Christmas Card Photo Session
This first Christmas session this year really pushed me outside my normal box. I normally shoot adults and young adults but when Jenn, a close friend asked me to take some photos for her Christmas cards I knew it’d be a different type of session than I was used to so I jumped at the…
DIY Sewing Christmas Cards Tutorial
I don’t usually send Christmas cards but this year was a little different.This year I wouldn’t be getting my favorite Christmas card, the reliable one from Gram. That really got me thinking about sending out cards so when I suddenly had the idea to sew fabric to the front of a card I knew I…
Kelly & Brendon Family Photos
December is very strange weather here in New England. Sometimes we have snow on the ground, sometimes you can leave the house without a coat. Best of all the beautiful winter light is just wonderful to take photos if your clients are willing to don their best outerwear! My friend Kelly contacted me in November…
Website Update – QuiltAlong.net
So far everyone I’ve emailed/talked to about my project QuiltAlong.net has been really supportive and excited about it and I wanted to post an in-progress update on it! Last weekend I released an update so that now the weekly link parties are availiable on the site: I’ve been excitedly working on the quilt along and…
Quilt Along.net
Haven’t gotten much quilting done this week for a few reasons: I got frustrated that the paper piecing pattern I created had two blocks that came out the wrong size. I’ve yet to fix the pattern and have been kind of a grump about it I had an awesome idea for an ironing board cover…
Hi My Name is Terri and I’ve Been a Big ‘ol Quilt Blog Slacker
I’d love to pretend that any of this is a good excuse but since my last post I left my old job (well my entire office was outsted but that aside…) took a 7 week stay-cation between jobs, spent lots of time with friends and the boyfriend and just plain lived. When I got the…