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I know I've been missing lately. I'm sorry guys, but I've been so sick that I just haven't had the energy to sew.  I know, shocking right?!?  But I'm starting to feel better and actually touched the sewing machine last night so we're getting back on track.  But....today's the day for our February link up for our Not So Last Minute Christmas Quilt Along!!!  This month, we're linking up our bells...

I did shovel snow yesterday.  Lots more came and lots blew away.  Here's what we are left with this morning; a lot of little snowflake siblings are joining this. Still no mountains in sight.  Happy to be inside, safe, warm, and with a lot of choices for hot meals and beverages! Albuquerque is claiming they experienced their highest single-day snowfall since records were started in 1931.  Far

Time to check in on the mosaic wall. I have 3 more sections done to share with you today.

This one is my absolute favorite so far and I can't even drink beer! When I started slumping bottles I slumped this beer bottle flat. It had been laying on the hall bench for months because I didn't have anything to do with it but couldn't yet toss it out. After waling by it about 500 times I finally thought to see if it would stick to the wall and it did! It stayed there until I brought ...

Hi friends! Trying to get back into a normal schedule at home…who knew that would take over a week…

His first name is Trey = third.
His middle name is Tama = son
Who doesn't love Triangles = three sides

=== all of this equals a meaningful design for a sweet little boy.

Random straight stitching across the equilateral triangles.

Notice the T's on the back?

Inspired by Zen Chic's Building Block quilt.

Happy Saturday, Friends.  It’s hard for me to believe the week is over!   This was meant to be posted yesterday, but life and work happened.  Today, I am happy to share with you my Oh, Happy Stars! quilt — it is the cover quilt of my book Recreating Antique Quilts.  A special thank you to Mrs. Miles for inspiring Oh, Happy Stars!

My Oh, Happy Stars! is inspired by a Double Irish Chain with Sawtooth Star quilt, made by Mrs. Frank Miles from New Jersey (circa 1840-1850).

You can see that Mrs. Miles’ quilt is much scrappier than my Oh ...

Quilt show news to report–

“Snow Buddies” which is currently showing at Mid Atlantic Quilt Festival in VA has received an Honorable Mention Award.

“Splash”, which was rejected by Quilt National,  has been juried in to the AQS show in Paducah in April.

I spent yesterday afternoon checking it over for loose threads ends and adding it’s documentation tag and re-blocking it to get rid of the facing marks so it would be ready to go when the time comes.

Then I prepared the backing fabric for the prairie fire quilt. I am using a piece of home dec ...

This is Linda’s All Roads Lead to the Sea quilt and the pattern is designed by Country Creations in Alberta, Canada.  It is a beautiful pictorial quilt and she asked for custom quilting.  I don’t get a lot of landscape quilts so this was a bit of a challenge for me but I enjoy a good challenge.  I wanted to add a lot of texture but not distract from the piecing.  Started with a simple piano key design in the outer border and large random swirls in the sky.  I stitched in the ditch around all the landscape ...

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My birthday is tomorrow, so why not celebrate with a sale this weekend! All PDF patterns are 20% off, all you have to do is enter the coupon code: birthday26.

Thank you for celebrating with us! Now, I think it is time to cash in on my birthday wish - an entire day of uninterrupted sewing =]

Boy did I have a hard time with this week’s theme for some reason – but here are the two stars that I made.  I was really running behind this week because of everything else going on.

On a cold, icy night, there’s nothing like Chicken & Dumplings. My mom made the best dumplings and Chad used to beg her to make them for him. It seems like everyone makes them differently and though most all of them are good, these are the ones I love. Earlier in the week, I had […]

Are you doing the new Project Linus Mystery?

It's a lot of Fun-Fun!

Here are my Clues 1, 2, 3 and the Bonus "Shamrock" block!  I promise these are easy blocks to do, and  it's for a good cause!  I hope you join in! Clue #4 comes online tomorrow. You can catch up quickly!

We have winners!!! The numbers were chosen via this random generator. There were 5 entries posted here, and one via email.

I'll go backwards.

Fourth place, the Sonoma Rose pin, goes to Joanne. She said, "I liked The Giving Quilt too. Thanks for the chance!"
Third place, one of The Giving Quilt pins, goes to Helen (email entry). She said, "I like them all."
Second place, the other Giving Quilt pin, goes to Quilting Babcia. She said, "I'd love to win/read this new book as I've loved all the others that I've had a chance ...

Těsně před Vánocemi jsem si dala velký úkol - ušít dětem naše domácí divadýlko. Už jsem po tom toužila dávno. V hlavě jsem si střádala strašně moc nápadů, jak by vlastně naše divadélko mělo vypadat. Co vychytat... Ale myslím, že to promýšlení stálo za to. A hlavně proč to dělat jednoduše, když to jde složitě. Divadýlko nám už visí v obýváku a doplnili jsme spoustu maňásků. Divadlo se zavěšuje na strop. Máme dřevěné podhledy, takže lze umístit v podstatě kamokoliv, stačí hřebíček a divadýlko už...