persimondreams

Happy Saturday everyone!  More importantly – photo’s by Friends in Photography  Happy FIRST Birthday to my beautiful baby, Persimoni Mae (we call her Pip!) I had to get that in there before I get down to business.  Now – I’m happy to be sharing my thoughts on a new book that I read ‘Ties That […]

Here’s a new block using the ‘snowball’ I showed in the Trees in Blossom tutorial.  We’re going to make 4 Tree Top blocks and sew them together for ‘bushes’.  Cutting Instructions Bush (green birds): 4 – 3.5” x 3.5” Corners A.:8 – 1.5” x 1.5” Corners B.: 8 – 1.25” x 1.25” Follow the instructions […]

We’ll be using the following technique for quite a few of our sashings – but no worries – it’s easy peasy! Cutting Instructions: Tree Tops (Floral Fabric): 2 – 3.5” x 3.5” Sky: 8 – 1.25” x 1.25” Trunk (brown) – 2 – 1” x 3.5” Grass (brown) – 4 -  1.75” x 3.5”   […]

I know I’ve been slacking on this blog lately so I’m going to do my best to at least post once a week. *try* On the morning of my birthday party Cory of Friends in Photography came to the orchard and did a photo shoot of my family.  I’m only showing you three of the […]

Hi everyone!  How are things going?  Things are good around here and I’m excited to show you the little bit of progress I’ve made on my BOM and QAL blocks.  For some reason I didn’t have much sewing time last week but I’m having a hard time remembering what I was doing… Anyway… Home Sweet […]

This week a Blog Hop Book Tour is starting for Marie Bostwick’s new book ‘ties that bind’.  I’m excited to be one of the reviewers that Michelle of the Quilting Gallery picked.  When you come back to see what I think on Saturday, April 28th (aka the day Pip turns ONE!  Can you believe it!?  […]

Have you discovered the Craftsy Block of the Month by Amy Gibson yet?  If you are a quilter or ever dreamed of quilting this is the prefect block of the month for everyone!  Each month Amy goes over a different quilt technique with a video.  It’s really easy to understand and follow and I’ve already […]

It’s been almost four months since the ‘tree and house’ quilt wouldn’t leave my dreams and turned itself into the Home Sweet Home Quilt Along.  With today’s block tutorial we’ll have enough blocks to make a 20 block quilt – or a 16 block quilt or a 12 block quilt or a pillowcase – whatever […]

Thankfully Diane has been working diligently to put together some sashing tutorials for the Home Sweet Home Quilt Along.  I drew out my quilt layout with 20 main blocks (16 scheduled and 4 bonus) and I need to come up with 29 different sashing designs!  Ahhh!  I came up with about 6 more yesterday afternoon […]

I’m really excited to be sharing with you the video that was made when I was a featured artist at last months’ RAW Madison Stimulus Show: I would love to hear what you think! The show was an amazing event and there’s another one tomorrow night – Menagerie.  It looks to be another fabulous time […]