UPDATE 3/9/14! TIME TO VOTE! Choose your THREE Favorite Quilts Below and click on the heart to vote (upper right corner)! You can click on the photo’s themselves to read the ‘story’ behind the quilt – my favorite part! Please DO NOT VOTE for entries 29 and 30. I made 29 and 30 – while […]
Project QUILTING, Season 5, Challenge 5–Grocery Store
We’re onto the fifth challenge. You know what that means, right? This is the second to last Project QUILTING Challenge! I don’t know about you – but Season 5 has just flown by for me! The way you enter your projects and the way we will vote for them has recently changed…please read carefully below […]
Project QUILTING Across the Universe Prize Winners
Sorry for the delay in the ‘WINNERS’ post! My big girls had a sleepover with Capri’s godmother, we lost power for a bit, Photo I snagged of the Milwaukee Art Museum…it’s a piece of art in itself. we took a trip to the Milwaukee Art Museum to see our neighbor girls’ (aka our fabulous babysitter) […]
Happy Numbers
I was super excited when in late January Capri came home with a consent form that allowed a piece of her art be hung at the Southwest Regional Art Show at UW Baraboo. Of course I signed it! It all worked out pretty well too – the ‘reception’ for the event was on February 22nd […]
Olympic Mug Rug Swap
When Michele from Quilting Gallery posted about the Olympics Inspired Mug Rug Swap I signed up right away! She does such an amazing job organizing these swaps I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. There were two patterns from the Patchsmith that we were to make for our partners. The first one was the The Winter […]
A Lovely Year of Finishes–February Finish–My Favorite Block Quilt AlongQuilt
My February goal for ‘ A Lovely Year of Finishes’ was to start and finish quilting my ‘My Favorite Block’ Quilt Top. I did complete my goal AND I learned A LOT in the progress. Lesson 1: Quilting on a frame is way more than just moving your machine around and making pretty patterns! When […]
Apple Flagstones Block Tutorial: 52 Twisted Traditional Block QuiltAlong
I had all the photo’s taken and was on track to get my blog post done by last night for the next block of the 52 Blocks Quilt Along but then, I was distracted by #talknt and other online chatting, before I knew it, it was 11pm and I really needed to get some sleep. […]
Time To Vote! FOUR Favorite Project QUILTING ‘Across the Universe’ Pieces
Things have changed slightly for the voting process of the Project QUILTING Challenges. Instead of me creating a super long post with a poll daddy poll at the bottom I’ve switched to InLinkz. This is great because during the week of the challenge the participants can link up their finished projects. Once the deadline has […]
Happy 6th Birthday Capri!
It’s hard to believe I now have a 7 year old, a SIX year old, and a 2 year old! I’m not THAT old yet am I?! (speaking of that…I had to call my mom the other week to let her know that she was now officially old – I found my first grey hair. […]
Jai Guru Deva–Project QUILTING Challenge Entry for ‘Across the Universe’
When I first heard this challenge I was stumped. I didn’t know what I would do. I already made an amazing quilt for ‘Stars of America’ and it’s one of those things that would be hard to beat. So, what did I do. I let it ‘simmer’ in my mind for a bit. On Monday […]