Nine amazing quilts were created for the BONUS Project Quilting Challenge: Fat Quarter Shop Fabric Bundle – Tradition Times Three. Today we’re going to take a closer look at four of them. 1. iPad Bag 5, 2. Red Sky at Night – large fish, 3. Project Quilting-Tradition Times Three, 4. Squares All Around Remember – […]
The Outer Banks of North Carolina–Part 1
I’m not exactly sure how many parts I’m going to split these North Carolina posts into…but I have a lot of great pictures and I want to share them all! But don’t worry – I won’t…I’ll try really hard to just show you the best of the best. We loaded into our van at 4am […]
June Off Season Project QUILTING Challenge – Texture
I just spent an amazing 9 days on vacation. Well- technically 6.5 of them were amazing…2.5 were spent in the van…but that really wasn’t too bad either. Our family rented a little house about a block off the beach in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This is the first time we’ve taken this long […]
A Lovely Year of Finishes–June Goal Setting
I can’t believe it’s already June and I can’t believe that I actually finished all my May Goals. Not only did I have a very unlucky beginning of the month but I was away on a family vacation for the last week of it. It was an amazing trip and I can guarantee you’ll be […]
WINNER for the BONUS Project QUILTING Challenge: Fat Quarter Shop Fabric Bundle – Tradition Times Three
Nine amazing quilts were created for the BONUS Project Quilting Challenge: Fat Quarter Shop Fabric Bundle – Tradition Times Three. I just love seeing how everyone took the same bundle of fabrics and created nine quilt that all look so different! 1. respiratory therapy, 2. Squares All Around, 3. Flight of the Seagulls, 4. Monkeying […]
Barn Quilt Week–Color 4
Let’s see how the Farmer’s Daughter Quilt turned out with the fourth color added. Farmer’s Daughter I found some skinny frog tape and tried that even though the humidity was still high. I would definitely recommend the wider tape…I may have over lapped a few times. Four coats of Navy Blue on and it was […]
Barn Quilt Week–Color 3
Barn Quilt Week continues – today we’ll look at the 3rd color added to the barn quilt. For one of them – it means the quilt is done and ready for hanging! Old Windmill I ran out of frog tape so I had to go to my blue painters tape. I probably should have gone […]
city sampler quilt along: blocks 1, 2 and 3
It’s no secret that I love Tula Pink. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw that a fabulous group of blogger’s had organized a Tula Pink City Sampler Quilt Along. Of course – I was in! I decided for my blocks I would use some of my printed whites – I have TONS […]
Barn Quilt Week–Color 2
Happy Wednesday! Barn Quilt week continues as I move onto the second color of each quilt! Old Windmill The first step for the second color is to tape off the area I’m going to paint.I chose ‘Star Yellow’ for the second color on the Old Windmill Barn Quilt.Four coats of paint later, I pulled the […]
Barn Quilt Week–Color 1
Now that I had the first color all taped out it was time to paint the first color. Barn Quilts are actually really simple to do – they just take time. Each color needs four coats of paint. These quilts are going to be permanently exposed to all sorts of elements and need to hold […]