You know how sometimes you get an idea in your head and you know you won’t be complete till you do it? Well that was my first mini quilt: Chicken Marsala I created this mini for the 2015 Pantone Quilt Challenge hosted by Anne from Play Crafts and Adrianne from On The Windy Side. The contest is to…
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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…
#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…
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…
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…
Turn your Ironing Board into a Mega Pressboard
Almost two years ago I picked up my current ironing board. I had to buy a new one after a 2:30 AM disaster but that’s a whole other story entirely. I picked the big one at Target cause it felt like it had better padding than the other one and the larger size should accommodate…