After finishing piecing a row of quilt blocks I checked the stitch count on the BERNINA 560 and it’s just over 1.5 million stitches since the last service. That was just over five years ago. That’s not a lot of stitches when 3 million per year is average expected. I clearly have not been doing… Continue reading Welcome to 2026
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Well, I sure didn't mean to step away from my blog for months and months, but here we are! I have no excuses really and lots to share with you so let's get to it, shall we?
My most recent quilt finish is Seasons in the Sun, my entry for the Pantone Quilt Challenge this year. In case this challenge is new to you, Pantone chooses a color of the year ever year, this year it is Peach Fuzz. Not really a favorite color of mine, but when you combine it with shades of teal and aqua anything ...
read moreI always look forward to the announcement of Pantone's color of the year. This year's colors really resonated with me...

Illuminating and Ultimate Gray. Both beautiful, separately and together. In fact, I have decorated my guest bedroom and bath in these colors. So it felt good to dive in and use them together in a small quilt. Small because the McKinney Modern Quilt Guild will be displaying them in the display case at the library again this year, as we did in 2019.
I actually made my quilt several months ago. After I pattern tested my friend Jane ...
read moreMy friend Jayne (Twiggy and Opal) has released a new quilt pattern today and it's a winner! I was so thankful that she asked me to test it out for her. I had so much fun with it and just love the finished quilt top....
You can (and really should!) purchase a copy of the pattern here.
I had so much fun with the design I decided to see how small I could go with the blocks. The other day I made this two color block...
which led me to pulling out the pantone colors of the year.... Ultimate ...
read moreIt’s that time of the year! Have you chosen a color of the year for your personal creative works? I
read moreThe 2020 KONA Color of the Year is here and we have sew many quilts ready for it! The gorgeous color is one of our new favorites and reminds us of rich, emerald jewels! This year’s color of the year is Enchanted, a beautiful, deep color we cannot keep our eyes off of and cannot wait to start using in our quilty projects! Robert Kaufman’s quilting cotton line, KONA Cottons, identifies one color every year to make their color of the year and designs free patterns and projects to display the bright color chosen to represent that year ...
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