Curved Soup Bowl Hot Pad Cozy Tutorial

Download your PATTERN HERE!

Let’s make some Curved Soup Bowl Hot Pad Cozies!  Are you ready!

Let’s get our 10 inch square cut!  Easy Peasy!

Stitch your “X” on your fabric and batting!

Draw ...

DIY Handmade Holiday Gifts Tutorial

Making Handmade Holiday Gifts makes me excited for Holidays!  Creating Holiday gifts with the Cricut Maker just gives a professional look and cut!  

Soup Bowl Cozy – fabric sewing

Curved edges on the quilted cozy soup bowls softens their look.   They are so handy to make a set and stack on top of each other.  

Download Your Curved Soup Bowl Hotpad Cozy Pattern PDF

Enjoy a 9 page pdf pattern download with step by step instructions for the Curved ...

When I don’t get much creative time, I spend lots of time thinking about what I’ll do when I have it again. Ideas wander through my mind about projects, techniques and experiments. It’s a good thing and a bad thing all rolled into one. I love hanging out with ideas and have a hard time resisting new projects.
Here’s some of what I’ve been thinking about.
How my Art Quilt Group had a dye day (that I was unable to attend) and dyed cheesecloth and yarn in with their fabric. This created coordinating sets.
How ...

DIY Woodland Fox Fawn Owl Costume with Cricut

Easily create your own DIY Woodland Fox, Fawn or Owl Costume with Cricut!  These costumes went together so quickly and inexpensively too!

This Fawn DIY Easy Woodland Costume is going to create a smile on your littles face!  Can you notice the iron on white spots on the Fawn’s back?

Our Fox is just enchanting with the stuffed fur tail, toile skirt and fur vest.  All fabric purchased at Joann Fabric Store!

Felt colorful flowers accented by white fur make this headpiece endearing.

Our Owl looks wise and curious!  This DIY ...

Live Well Live Strong Quilt Sew Along

I’m bursting at the seams – excited to introduce the Live Well Live Strong Quilt Sew Along.  The Live Well Live Strong Quilt is all about Women’s Health & Wellness!  This quilt is a reflection of my growth as I have stitched & quilted through the years.  I wanted to share this with all of YOU!

You will find 26 blocks in this quilt with 26 different meanings of Health and Wellness!  The Live Well Live Strong Quilt with be a 6 month sew along with us making a block each week!  Live Videos ...

Sew Together & Finish Your Cricut Riley Blake Quilt Kit

Sew Together & Finish Your Cricut Riley Blake Quilt Kit!  Trying to support you in having no UFO’s (Unfinished Projects)!  I really want to give you all the tools to complete your quilt!

This Tribal Throw Quilt is so COZY that I made myself some hot cocoa and lite the fireplace!  It was so cozy that my Cavalier Spaniel, Lady, had to come snuggle too!

Here is the video all about finishing the Tribal Throw from Facebook! I’m sorry it went a bit fuzzy, as I was streaming live to ...

How to cut Riley Blake Quilt Kit Fabric on the Cricut Maker

How to cut Riley Blake Quilt Kit Fabric on the Cricut Maker

Let’s use a Riley Blake Cricut Comfort and Joy Quilt Kit to cut out fabric with the Cricut Maker!  This Possibilities Riley Blake Quilt Kit with the Comfort and Joy Fabric Collection will make a Tribal Throw Quilt.

In this video, I will show you how to prep your fabric and start cutting it out on the Cricut Maker.

Steps introduced in the video above:

Press your fabric with the Cricut EasyPress to put on ...

10 Ways the Cricut Maker Can Help With Quilting! Your New Bestfriend!

10 Ways the Cricut Maker Can Help With Quilting! Your New Bestfriend!

1. ACCURACY 

The Cricut Maker accurately cut out shapes to any quilt blocks.

This is especially critical when making a 6 inch square block with 29 pieces.  With any cutting error the block will not square up to fit into your quilt.  Even my puppy and tortoise can see that this is one squared up block!  Thank you Cricut Maker for the accurate cutting!

1. Quilting Will Be Enjoyable

Enjoy stitching your quilt pieces together with the accurate ...

How to Plan a Riley Blake Quilt Kit with the Cricut Maker

Cricut Maker Possibilities Quilt Kit with Riley Blake Designs Comfort and Joy Fabric is a quilting treat together!  Have you seen a quilt kit that can become one of four quilts?

Which quilt would you make with the Comfort & Joy fabric?  Checkmate Quilt? All Wrapped Up Quilt?  Star Burst Quilt?  or Big Star Quilt?    To see this quilt kit for sale in the Cricut Online Store click here.  

But wait….  There is more… in Cricut Design Space there is a Tribal Quilt that also works with the ...

I wrote this essay the day after I drove the McCarthy Road for the first time. That was in August 2001. The images are from the last ten years of driving this road including yesterday.

I start out going ten miles an hour down this dirt road that will lead me to McCarthy, Alaska. I can do this. 

I can do this. Even though I know the clanking tire jack in my backseat is there only for making music–I cannot change a tire.  The D, as in dog, I received in Driver’s Education marred my high school academic ...

Yes. The title is correct. I am still struggling to make a monthly update part of my life. Eventually, this update will become my e-newsletter. The current plan is to catch up—write August 2017 through June 2018—and then launch the newsletter. We will see. Any advice on this project would be most welcome.

August 2017 was a really good month.

I started it by writing an article for Quilting Arts Magazine. The article turned into a quilt which I would very much like to finish. I am calling it Four Play as I have four units/blocks/motifs ...

We left off with the flower fabrics chosen but nothing cut out.
I used the fabrics and the design as planned. Once I cut out all the flower pieces I auditioned leaf and stem fabrics the same way, by laying them out with the flowers.
After a lot of tracing, cutting and fusing it all came together.
I plan to add some greenery between the flowers to fill in some of the open spots, but not until everything else is appliqued.
For now I need to set it aside and work on a few other things. It took a lot ...