Is it just me, or can sewing curves be completely intimidating? I’ll never forget my first attempt…holding the cut fabric pieces in my hands and saying, “These fit together exactly how?!? And it’s supposed to lay flat?!?” Ah! It can really be so intimidating that many quilters don’t even attempt it, and skip over designs […]
On My Bookshelf: Imagine Quilts
A month of quilty goodness continues here on my blog, where I’m spotlighting some of the awesome new quilt books coming out right now. Today I want to highlight a book called Imagine Quilts, by my good friend, Dana Bolyard. Let’s take a look at a few of the fabulous quilts in this book, and […]
April Beyond The Block & A Giveaway
This month’s personal challenge has really been on my heart recently, and now that it’s in the forefront of my mind, I’m seeing it everywhere and it’s driving me CRAZY. Perhaps you’re feeling the same way. For so many of us, the internet holds a vast amount of our daily attention. We work online, pay […]
November Sugar Block & A Giveaway!
Can you believe it’s November already? Where has this year gone?! Seems like just yesterday that I announced my new Sugar Block sampler club, and now we’ve already stitched up 11 of this year’s 12 blocks. I’m sad that we only have 1 more block to go, but also really excited that soon we’ll all […]
Kids Craft Idea: Valentine Wreath
Happy February!!! I’m excited to be part of Ellison Lane’s Spread the Love Valentine Blog Hop going on this week. I’ve got a fun kid-friendly tutorial for you today, as well as a great giveaway. In addition to the tutorials, there are two giveaways each day from small businesses. Gotta spread some small shop love […]
3X for Emphasis
I love that my husband will see this post in his email (yes, he subscribes!), and know that the title is for him. It’s a sweet little inside joke between us…years ago, before we were married and while he was stationed overseas with the Army, we’d write letters and tell each other “I love love […]
It’s Giveaway Day!
Yes, yes, it’s Giveaway Day hosted by Sew Mama Sew, and this mama’s hopping on board! Somehow I’ve always seemed to miss this fun event in years past…probably because half of the time I’m so completely maxed out at trying to remember which day of the week it is, that I forget 70% of awesome […]
Craft Book Month- Blog Hop!
Ok, I lied. Can’t seem to stay away for longer than a week. I’m so excited to be today’s stop on the Craft Book Month blog hop at Craft Buds! This weekend I pulled out a new addition to my craft book library- but already one of my all time favorite modern patchwork books- Shape […]
My Weekend w/ AMH & A Giveaway!
Yes, it’s true. I spent a whoooooole weekend with Anna Maria Horner! Well, almost a whole weekend- Friday night, all day Saturday, and what felt like a lifetime of awesomeness. (And yes, I’m 100% dork for sporting my bump in my museum tunic the first night, courtesy of Anna’s stellar tutorial & fabric design- she […]
Easy Dresden Tool Winners!
Hi Friends!!! I’m popping on here to announce the winners of the Darlene Zimmerman’s Easy Dresden Tool giveaway. Winners have been selected via random.org Congrats to: #66: Candy J #73: Lindsay of PA Country Crafts #371: Maryanne Melchiorre #200: Nell Timmer #485: Catdragon I’ll be emailing you today via the email address you provided. Congrats, […]
