News

Get access to our latest news by signing up for our newsletter.

Urban Abacus

Today I'm sharing with you my "Urban Abacus" quilt for the Bloggers' Quilt Festival.  This quilt is my own design and I've had it done for some time now.  I will have a pattern for it soon, along w...

New Blog Header

As you can see I made me a new blog header.  I've wanted a new one for sometime now and have been inspired by some pretty great ones out there.  So this is what I came up with! The design reflects ...

Burned out!

I think I'm finally burned out with my quilts.  Knowing I've got to get back to customer quilts on Tuesday really pushed me hard to get some much needed tops done.  I've been able to quilt, bind an...

Birthday Cake Guilt!

...so Tuesday was Toby's 5th Birthday, we planned on going out to eat with Grandma and Grandpa at the China Buffet.  Toby was so excited and knew he had to wait all day to go, then we could come ba...

Finished Quilt

Finished the binding on this quilt this morning!      I used double warm and white batting.  In all the gray area's and prints I used a variegated gray and white thread and in the tan area's I used...

Moving Along...

I posted about this quilt a while back here.I'm finally quilting it up! I'm kicking myself for doing some pretty intense custom quilting on it....The quilting is giving the quilt a bit more of some...

Pleasantly Surprised!

...okay, so you all were right,  thanks so much for the reassurance on this quilt!  When I took it off my machine yesterday and brought it up stairs to lay out, my family and I all agreed it looked...

Uhmmmm.....???

Sometimes what I see in my head doesn't quite translate on to the quilt.Was I just tired of custom quilting? and no...I'm not on anything right now ;o)   Uhmmmm......??? O well, at least it's my ow...

Urban Pods

...so can I just say how much fun I'm having quilting up some of my quilts with no guilt attached!  I loaded my "Urban Pods" quilt yesterday.I've had this quilt pieced for some time and never reall...

Homemade Pattern

 I've been wanting to make this pattern for a while now and finally have a couple of weeks to do some much needed stuff for my quilts and patterns.   Using a piece of corrugated wood molding strip,...

The Versatile Blogger

A few weeks back....Staci,  from "The Confused Quilter" passed along this award to me.  I was attracted to her blog the very moment I saw it!  Yellow is one of my favorite colors.  If you haven't c...

A little gift

A good friend of mine is under the weather and hasn't been feeling so great.  I wanted to make something for her to cheer her up a bit.The little bird fabric is "MammaBirds" by Valori Wells. It rem...

Orange Poppies

I fell in love with this fabric the first time I saw it at Quilt Market last spring! This awesome orange poppies fabric is "Gallery Fiori" by Karen Tusinski.It was the one fabric I totally fell in ...

Quilt Guild

Every 2 months a group of us quilters....longarm or home machines quilters get together and talk business and quilting.  It's usually a small group of us and we alternate the use of our homes to ho...

I have a problem!

....so I have a problem...It's something I've had my whole life and that is.... I get hung up on things.  I can't let them go,  I won't let them go until I.... do it....get it...make it....have it!...

Sunday fun and a big week ahead!

First off thanks so much for the nice comments on my last post.   Again....I love what I do and am so privileged to meet some of the nicest and kindest and most talented quilting ladies! I take Sun...