Last Sunday, I packed up my sewing machine, my blocks, and all my sashings and cornerstones and headed to my mother-in-law’s quilting room where she had a big enough design wall that I could lay out my quilt blocks before I sewed it all together. Above is all my blocks in their initial layout.  I […]

The Prairie Heritage Quilt Show is not on it’s regularly schedule weekend – it’s actually starting today and goes through Tuesday. If you’re in the Sun Prairie Area be sure to stop by and check out all the amazing work from people – and there’s a great vendor area too!  One of my favorite vendor’s […]

   "Celebration" This pattern is by Marilyn Foreman of Quilt Moments. Sample quilt constructed and quilted by Toni Kirschbaum When Barb revealed that we were going to make the ‘Celebration’ Quilt for the 2012 retreat I was really excited!  I loved everything about this quilt – the design, the BIG blocks, the fun *tweaks* Barb […]

Yesterday I used the random number generator to choose the winner of Marie Bostwick’s newest book ‘Ties that Bind.  The comment that won was… Mary said… I love to read, but I don’t think I could narrow it down to just one favorite book. It’s like picking a favorite fabric! I have read one of […]

I intended to show you my progress on these quilts every week on Monday, but I’m sure you’ve noticed they are happening a bit more sporadically than that.  I have decided that it’s better to post when there’s actually some progress to post about than to show nothing.  I think I have made some decent […]

This is another great sashing tutorial that I’ll be referring back to in future sashings for the Home Sweet Home Quilt Along.  If you just want to make just a single Window Pane it will also work great as a cornerstone.  We’ll be using pretty small pieces so it’s a great way to use up […]

Last week, I took my two oldest daughter’s to see The Lorax in the theatre.  They both LOVED the movie and I enjoyed it as well.  If you haven’t seen it – one of the main parts of the movie is about the Truffala Trees – and I must say – I wish I could […]

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”   […]