I was so pleased when I got the group text from Katie while she was on vacation this past summer. It was the quintessential millennial engagement announcement: group text, a picture message of left hand (now adorned with a ring) and completed with excited Emoji’s. As a good friend of the couple (Chris & Katie) for the…
Split Irish Chain – A Fat Quarter Friendly Quilt
Life’s an Adventure is a split double irish chain quilt that’ a fun modern twist on a traditional quilt pattern dating back to the 1800’s. I made this quilt and designed the pattern with a Fat Quarter Shop Blogger’s Bundle in mind. I’ve recievd the monthly deliveries for a year now and had brainstormed this…
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…
Jungle Baby Quilt
It’s an oldie but goodie, today I wanted to show off the 3nd quilt I ever finished. In Sept 2012 I got back to quilting after a hiatus with a quilt for my girl Lindsey’s baby shower. I came across The Bungle Jungle fabric line by Tim & Beck for Moda which was a perfect…
Picnic Day Adventure
Ready to go on a perfect picnic adventure? Let’s Go! I called up my friend Katie for a little picnic adventure so out we went to the park at the pond near her house where we laid out the blanket and our other picnic companion, Brooke, to verify comfort She seemed to approve so we plopped our…
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…
Valor & Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial day weekend I brought the finally completed quilt of valor to my Grandmother’s cottage for some assistance holding it up for some final quilty photos before I send it off; so here it is in it’s patriotic glory! Isn’t she wonderful? Gosh I just love this quilt. It’s a oversized vintage star block based…
Dreaming in Honey
I have to be the only quilt blogger that is TERRIBLE about posting the final post about quilts. Maybe it’s part of the emotional attachment of that last stitch of the binding where once it’s done its…done! Seems obvious but it’s weird. This is my piece of art that I’ve labored anywhere from 10’s of…
Getting to Know My Walking Foot
I’ve signed up for Craftsy classes before but I recently purchased the Creative Quilting With Your Walking Foot class with Jacquie Gering. I watched while I wrapped up on the plus sign quilt top (sneak peak below!) and I gotta say WOW! After watching through the first 2 lessons of the class I was inspired…
Sewing with Outdoor Fabric
Recently I’ve been sewing with some Better Homes and Garden Outdoor Fabric that I picked up at Jo-Ann’s. It’s for a project I’ll be posting as part of the Sew We Quilt “A Perfect Picnic” blog hop. I’ve had a stinky habit of waiting till the last minute to work on blog hop projects but…
Spring Cleaning
Got quite a bit of spring cleaning done yesterday! I finally gathered up my unused fabric and donated it at the fabric store a few towns over. I had some home decor that never got used for a project and some apparel fabric from my occasional delusion that I’m skilled enough to make apparel I’d…