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 […]

Continuing on in the sashing tutorials for the Home Sweet Home Quilt Along – Diane has come up with a few really fun additions.  Here’s the first one from her: String a Flower Garden Sashing from Diane Lapacek I chose a wide variety of bright fabric strings to make this Flower Garden sashing. Cutting Instructions: […]

Happy Monday everyone!  Today is going to be my ‘Monday Birthday Celebration’ and I plan on quilting all day!  The girls are heading to the sitter and I’ll be in my room playing away and I can’t wait!!!  One of the things I’ll be working on is this fabulous new bonus block from Marcia’s Crafty […]

I know some people dread the big milestone birthday’s but I have to say – I pretty much LOVE all birthdays!  It’s a great way to celebrate and a wonderful excuse to spend time with friends and family you may not get to see as much as you would like.  And that’s exactly what I […]