The thing about adding a bunch of quilt along projects to your WIP list is feeling like you need to keep up with a certain schedule. With the move to the new house and things being crazy at work, I’m just now finishing up the first three rows of the Conversation...
For the past couple years, I’ve been in love with solids. If you want your pattern to appeal to me, make the cover quilt in solids. So when I saw the Conversation Sampler, I knew I was going to have a blast choosing fabric for it. A few years ago, I subscribed to a...
The vain side of me really hopes you noticed I took a break in this space for a few months at the end of the year. The logical side of me knows this post is just a way to update my mother on my life without having to actually call her. (She loves when I tease. Hi,...
Yesterday I posted my 2019 quilty resolution to create more works in progress this year. I spent the past several years really working on my list, and I found it was really starting to stifle my creativity and make me less motivated to get to work in the sewing room....
There’s something so exciting about unwrapping a new calendar from its package and thinking about all the possibilities for the new year. You can wash away the fact that you’ve eaten like a trash panda for the past two months and make resolutions to eat...
The Santa Fe pillow has a brother! As I continue to update my living room design, I added another black, gray, and red pillow: the Dapper Argyle Pillow. Isn’t he cute?! I was at a guild meeting going through magazines other members had brought in to see if there...
The end is near. This month’s block, Strawberry Star, is the last block in the Clementine Quilt Along supporting St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. All that’s left is to get the setting instructions and finish up the top. I hope...
I normally use this space for uplifting posts about the art of quilting and sharing the joy it brings me. But today I need to get real with you. Last week was a rough week. Last week we learned about the deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. Last week...
There’s only one more month left in the Clementine Quilt Along. I’m excited to soon have all the blocks I need to complete the quilt top, but I’m sad that this great project is coming to an end. But first, let’s take a look at month five:...
Welcome to the final week of the 2018 New Quilt Bloggers Blog Hop. Over the past two months, we’ve been working making our blogs better and talking quilty things. Please visit our awesome hosts to see who else is introducing themselves this week and to enter to...
