Home Made Ironing Press Board Revisited

I can’t believe it was just over a year ago that I posted about turning my ironing board into a mega pressboard here on the blog. I still love that pressboard, I’ve re-covered it once and would love to make some improvements on it but she’s still totally functional so I haven’t spent any time…

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…

Giveaway Slacker & Lone Star In Progress

Hi, I’m Terri and I’m a total slacker.  Life got in the way and caused me to completely forget that I didn’t pick a winner for the giveaway last week.  Whoops!  Well when I remembered I rushed to my computer and picked our winner. It’s Helen with this lovely comment: Just waiting on a response…

New Quilt Blogger Blog Hop & a New Pillow

Jeepers, I hadn’t checked my mail for a bit and turns out I’m on the hook for a new quilt bloggers post today (not to mention the perfect picnic blog hop post due on Thursday!) I wasn’t sure exactly what to post then I popped open light room and figured I’d show off my latest…

That’s a Mistake Thursday: Fixing a Block Facing the Wrong Way

To run some tests on the new machine I decided to put the quilts to the side for a few days to sew up a pillow. The pillow uses scraps from Dreaming in Honey (the extras when making the diamond in a square blocks and will let me practice piecing, quilting, making piping and general…