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…
The Move
I will not apologize for not posting much this past week because I don’t feel bad about it. The move over the weekend went well, all things considered. My back is killing me, the pedometer says I did 127 flights of stairs from Thursday – Sunday (that’s just how many I went UP) and mother…
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…
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…