The ‘Focus Through the Prism’ Project QUILTING Challenge starts just one week from tomorrow! I’ve heard lots of excited comments, anticipation and of course some questions. I’m going to try to clear up as much confusion as possible below here … feel free to ask more if you have them though! FAQ Are we to […]
Anniversary Giveaway Winner and a few Ballet Pictures
It’s time to announce the winner of my one year anniversary giveaway! I had 118 entries and random.org chose comment number 11 to be the winner! Congrats Cheryl! Cheryl I Like Project Quilting on facebook. Good thing I followed your link there because I discovered I hadn’t checked the option to Get Notifications so I’ve […]
Simply Color
If you’re at all like me you are currently anxiously awaiting for the first day of May when the first block of the ‘Focus Through the Prism’ Project QUILTING challenge will be posted. I have my fabric and I’m ready to sew! But instead, I’m gearing my mind up with inspiration and knowledge about color! […]
Hydrangeas and Apple Blossoms–A mini quilt
I have another quilt finish to cross off my list! My Aurifil Mini Quilt designed by Kimberly Jolly. I’m calling it ‘Hydrangeas and Apple Blossoms’. I quilted this with an invisible thread to just pull out texture in the fabric instead of adding yet another design element. I used two of my original spoonflower fabrics […]
Crazy Quilters and Courthaus Quilters – Review
Over the last two weekends I’ve displayed my quilts at a couple of local shows. The first – was a the Mukwanago Crazy Quilter’s Show. I had met many wonderful women from this guild on my bus trip to Houston and they had said wonderful things about the show. I managed to get my application […]
Fabrics N Quilts New Website Giveaway Winner
I bet you thought I forgot that I was going to announce the winner of the big Fabric N Quilts giveaway since I posted about my anniversary giveaway earlier! But I didn’t forget! 160 folks entered the contest! woohoo! Random.org choose … Comment 148 which is Kath! Here’s what she had to say for the […]
1 Year Anniversary Giveaway
What!? Only a 1 year anniversary celebration!? Well … I did technically start blogging back in November of 2008 for my crafty business. But the year anniversary is celebrating my switch back to blogger from wordpress. Every moment I was at wordpress I missed the comfort of blogger and I finally decided to come back. […]
A New Ruler Station
“Okay Mama! You can open your eyes now!” Pip was so excited to bring me downstairs to show me what her and Papa had made me for my birthday! A new ruler station for my cutting table!!! and the pure excitement and joy Pip has from helping Papa with it (she decorated it) makes it […]
Apple Tree Planting at Lapacek’s Orchard
I’ve gotten quite a few new followers since last fall so you may not know that after raising my kids, my main job is our family apple orchard – Lapacek’s Orchard. I’m mainly the ‘shop girl’ and I do my best work selling the apples and promoting our shop. Turns out that this city girl […]
The Stained Glass Quilt
For the past couple of years I’ve been a teacher for the 4th grade CCD Class at St. Thomas in Poynette, WI. During the Lenten season one of the things we try to teach the kids is to think about others and ways they can help them. Which of course means … we make a […]