I almost forgot to set my goal for this months ‘A Lovely Year of Finishes’ link up party! That would be horrible! My husband’s grandma is turning 90 in February! My sister-in-law, Karma, pieced a quilt top for her and my goal for this month is to get it quilted and ready to gift on […]
Balance Quilt
A lot of people like to decide on a ‘word’ each year to help keep them focused on a particular goal. I have decided to join in the fun this year and to celebrate my word – I made a quilt! My word is: Balance When I get in to something it seems to consume […]
Room Revamp
Last week I shared with you the ‘before’ pictures of my sewing/creating area – unedited. With promises of showing you the revamp. I would say these are the two areas that are most impressive. The ‘Before’ drafting table was completely full. Now you can at least see my Go Baby cutter and there’s room to […]
Trees–Season 6, Project QUILTING, Challenge 1
Welcome back to another fun filled, inspiring season of Project QUILTING! I hope you are all as excited as I am to get started quilting and FINISHING too! photo by Kim Lapacek I just want to remind everyone that these challenges are meant to be inspirational and FUN! I know it can be stressful making […]
Project QUILTING Through the Years and Items for Sale
With the sixth season of Project QUILTING starting in just hours … it seemed like a good time to look back over past seasons and challenges and see what I’ve accomplished. Here is a fun photo collage of over 50 quilts that I have created per Project QUILTING challenge guidelines. Project QUILTING has inspired […]
Grand Prizes for Season 6 of Project QUILTING
Season 6 of Project QUILTING starts tomorrow so I’d say it’s about time to announce the prize list (so far)! $100 gift certificate to the Fat Quarter Shop BIG box of Aurifil Thread $50 to Fabrics N Quilts $50 gift certificate redeemable towards quilting by Marcia of Marcia’s Crafty Sewing & Quilting! “Quilting Gift Certificate” […]
Baby It’s Cold Outside Project QUILTING Winners
Before the first Project QUILTING challenge of Season 6 goes up – I better announce the winners of the final Off Season Challenge of 2014 – Baby It’s Cold Outside. Pip is under the weather so she didn’t pick any winners this time around … Six fantastic quilts were inspired by the ‘Baby It’s Cold […]
Oh Tiny Christmas Tree Quilt
I made this quilt for the off season Project QUILTING Challenge – Baby It’s Cold Outside. I LOVE Christmas trees and have a little collection that I put up every year at the holidays. I knew I had to make a fun little tree quilt for the challenge. The white background represents the snow we […]
My 2014 Quilting Life In Review
With 2015 looming it’s time to take a look back at 2014. I’m going to restrict this particular look back to what happened to me in my quilting life (at this point … there may be some adorable kiddo pictures to come …) 1. Amazing Tecnicolor Heart Quilt, 2. A Weeping Willow, 3. Riley Blake […]
52 Twisted Traditional Block Quilt Along in Review
Today marks the end of 2014. It also is the 53rd Wednesday in 2014. Today – I want to take a look back at the 52 Twisted Traditional Blocks that I completed in 2014. 43 of the blocks were of my own twisted imagination and 9 others from guest designers. I made each of the […]