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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Jellied Lone Star at the Moda Bake Shop
I am just so excited to be a featured chef over at the Moda Bake Shop today with my newest quilt: Jellied Lone Star. Inspired by the Hopeful Homemaker’s Lone Star Tutorial. I expanded the concept to include both pre-cut jelly roll strips as well as a no Y-seam method to sew the star together!…
Value of Moda Precuts #TBT
I’m not usually one for throwback Thursdays but while I was settling into the new sewing room I had a great idea for a lovely photo I wanted to take. Then I realized that posting it up would be a great way to talk about the value of pre-cuts again. When I first got into…
Wishing Upon Spring Stars – A Finish
This quilt’s name had originally been Queen Terrain but someone (that’s me) was a little absent minded when she named it cause the measurements of the finish are not quite queen size. This quilt (unwashed) finished to 86″ x 86″ so I’ve needed to rename it but nothing sticks quite right so I guess Wishing…
Lil Miss Penny Patch is Finished
Remember that time I joined a quilt along in 2013 with the intention of finishing the quilt before that Christmas? Well a year and month later I can finally say: She done! I gotta say Lil Miss Penny (as I call her) is an absolute disaster. I know I’m my own toughest critic but between…
Shabby Chic Shasta Lightning Bolt Camper Pattern Update
I couldn’t help but give it the longest title ever cause I love it so much 😛 I am so excited to share this latest update to my camper appliqué pattern, It’s subtle but now there’s a Shasta lightning bolt version of the camper. I used this pattern update to work on my own appliqué…
Anchor Pillow
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…
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…