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My HOCUS POCUS potholders were designed to be used as an oven mitt, as well as a potholder, or a hot pad. I keep mine hanging on my microwave for easy access, but they are almost too cute to use!

Here is my Christmas version of the double potholders…SANTA CLAUSE POTHOLDERS. I am in love with these Jolly Old St. Nicks!

Here are some of my other popular Halloween patterns…

SPOOKY SPIDER looks adorable in this pillow created by a customer.

FRAIDY CAT is one of my many black cat patterns. I love it’s simple shape. Here’s ...

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to find a cute Halloween panel with some additional pieces of fabric from the same line at a local quilt show. I knew immediately I wanted to use them for my high school classroom.

Halloween isn’t really celebrated as a family event here in the Netherlands, it is more of a teenager and adult party with lots of horror elements. I am not really a horror fan but I do like the vintage Halloween style with black cats, bats, a few ghosts and carved pumpkins.

The images on the panel are not ...

The other day I wrote about leaving my wallet at the store and thinking I didn't have access to any money, so I wouldn't be able to buy any food except what was in the hotel snack bar that I could charge to my room. I considered setting up a digital wallet on my phone so I could have access to my credit card and perhaps even my debit card. I really don't understand the wallet, so I have never investigated it. 

Then I realized I have a digital wallet with my Tim's app. When I ...

Yesterday was a transition day. While I accomplished stuff, I was almost like a slug on a rug! I wasn't going anywhere fast! But that's OK. I don't really have any time-sensitive stuff to deal with, but there are always loads that I want to accomplish. 

I started by spending almost an hour in the backyard weeding and cleaning up! I decided to cave and call the gardener guy, who will come next week, but in the meantime, I'll continue to clean up so it doesn't look like a complete jungle. It's really not ...

Get ready for our spooktacular Boo To You Mystery Quilt and Stitch Along filled with sweet surprises and de-frightful fun! Starting Monday, August 3rd, each new week reveals the mysteries of the Boo To You Quilt and Cross Stitch patterns one block and section at a time. Like we’ve done in Halloween Mystery Quilt Alongs past, we won’t reveal the look of the quilt just yet!

The fun continues every Monday with a freshly-frightening FREE quilt block and cross stitch pattern on the Boo To You Mystery Quilt and Stitch Along Supply Page. Then, join us on ...

Haven't we heard that many times? Well, that situation came up several times yesterday, and I should KNOW BETTER. 

I'm working on a project that isn't hard, but it involves MANY steps, and I've had to get super creative to make it work. I'm sure there's a better way, but this is the way that works for me. When I completed the first part of the project yesterday, I was happy, but I was a bit disappointed that I had tried to economize on the process, and it wasn't quite what I envisioned ...

Yesterday was a special day, and I almost missed it until I saw someone post about it last night. And someone mentioned it on the blog yesterday. It was Winter Solstice Day. While this means winter has officially arrived, it also means that each day is a little longer. Well, the day isn't longer (don't we wish!), but the sunlight is a little longer. I don't care if the daylight is only a few seconds longer— soon it will be summer! Don't worry -- I like winter, and as long as you dress appropriately, it's not ...

With Fall Fortnight beginning in just two days, let’s have a chat today. Autumn is slowly arriving, with some varieties of trees already turning, but most have not begun yet. Late October is generally our peak for fall color, so it is a bit early yet. Plus the weather needs to get a lot cooler for the trees to be turning.

Stepping out on the veranda one morning, I found a spider had been very busy. This web was beautifully done, lovely in its symmetry. It is really difficult to photograph a web as the camera just refuses to ...

Well, it was off to the gym bright and early this morning to meet with Brooke. Can you believe it's been almost three months since I last worked out with her? Why? I was on vacation, then traveling, and now she's much busier than before! ACK -- I have to go on Thursday at 5 AM, not Friday, because someone else has that slot. 

And it was another productive day. The odd job is done and waiting to be picked up later today. I spent the afternoon doing some sewing, and everything turned out well. I'm also trying ...

Happily, the stencil brush and paint crayon did NOT even make the lost and found list. While walking the girls, I had my thinking cap on. Where the heck could that little bag be? Then I thought that if I searched the blog, I might have mentioned the darn thing. When I got home, I searched the blog for "stencil brush." I had to go through several posts about stencil brushes for applique, which I use all the time. But then there it was - a picture! The post was relatively recent - May 8, 2024. I wasn't even working on ...

No dreams, and if there were, I don't remember them. 

Yep - at this rate, I might get one or two things off that table by Christmas! I only finished the third of those three small projects - that's it! And I didn't do much else either, but that's OK because I stopped to chat with a neighbor about dogs on my walk, had a snooze, and read a bit, plus DH and I went to his golf club for Thanksgiving lunch. No need to mess up the kitchen! It was great, and I didn't feel like ...

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I love creating variations of the Ribbon Candy pattern. The design Sprout resembles sprouting seeds or maybe a small flame trying to grow. Or perhaps it resembles a swamp monster if you are in the Halloween mood.

This whimsical freemotion design can be used in a wider border but it can be stitched out in rows to too as an edge to edge. It looks great in quilts with themes like plants, horticulture, nature, flame, fire, growth.

Pattern Tutorial

This design has a series of decorative elements: a curl, a set of s-curves and a set of ...

Starting with the 10th Hexi spiral block this year, this time in light pale blues

I kind of like it! Surprised myself with that! I finished hand sewing the hexies while watching the premier of this season's Amazing Race (and sewed two in the middle wrong, having to rip out and resew

last time DH said he liked them turned a different way (I was too dazzled ...

Halloween is getting closer, and I have a few small quilty projects planned to get done before then. I have shared a few freemotion designs in the past that suit the scary season, and I will share them again below.

This weeks’ design is called Hair, maybe not specifically named after Cousin Itt from the Addams family, but if the shoe fits…! The random and free-flowing design Hair looks just like ghosts flying and tumbling through the air, don’t you think? Maybe it makes you think of flowing water or kelp too. The edge to edge design Hair is ...