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The Gothic Raven panel is by Rubin Design Studio exclusively for eQuilter.com. It measures 29″ x 44″.

I absolutely love this panel.

I was so surprised by how much color i got out of this panel. I thought it would be much darker. But it is brilliant with color.

The Gothic Raven measures 80″ x 70″ unquilted. I cut my strips 3.25″ wide to yield 5″ finished hexies and 10″ finished Star 60 units made with First Choice rulers and the Star 60 Tool by Studio 180 Design.

The Gothic Raven watches over the Night Garden along with ...

This Bottled Water Quilt block is a fun and simple make, and so easy to customize! The large blue labels finish at

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I’ve had this quilt in progress since last August. The jelly roll I found went nicely with a butterfly panel plucked from the rehome table at guild that I planned to cut apart. I thought it would be the perfect pairing for a Spotlight Pattern quilt. This quilt is available for purchase, skip to the end if you are interested.

I pulled some sets of strips and began sewing them together.

Then I cut the butterfly motifs apart. At this point, I realized that the butterflies would not trim to the size in the pattern. So, I set them ...

Last week was hot – it got up to the mid 30’s C and was just as warm inside at work which is not ideal for making quilts. I even missed my old workshop which rarely went above 10 degrees C and was always colder inside than out. All I wanted to do after work was sit very still in my cool cottage with a cup of tea.

Apart from watering my plants every day, trying to keep the tomatoes alive, I planted some flowers and seeds in an old paddling pool. Slightly foolishly – I climbed down a ladder to ...

I have a baby shower later this summer and am in need of a quick baby quilt I can whip up. I have several tried and true go-to patterns but I’m in the mood for something different this time.

I was going through my quilt books and came across the Two Timer pattern in the first Stripology Mixology book. Let’s pull some fabrics out and make a block and see what we think.

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 A new project found it's way under my needle this week.WAY back in 2012, I won this FQ bundle in a giveaway from Amy at Diary of a Quilter.It's called Tend the Earth by Deb Strain and it's been patiently waiting on a shelf for a long time. I've been eyeing the Ramona quilt pattern for a while and I had a sudden hankering to put the two together. I wanted a few more low volume prints so

I’ve been reading the magazines I got at the bookshop at the show, and many of them are Quilting Arts. I signed up for their emails, and recently they had a reader challenge. It was called Into Nature. Here is the challenge “Create a small art quilt (6” x 9”, vertical orientation) that reflects your personal connection to the natural world. Explore nature-related themes—leaves, stems, roots, flowers, spores, seeds, or growth cycles—as inspiration for this challenge. Your ideas might come from a specific place, a fleeting moment outdoors, a beloved garden, or abstract responses to nature’s ...

My local quilt group is working on a BOM again this year, this one designed by our “fearless leader”. She’s a talented quilter/designer who has had some quilts published in a magazine, and she volunteered to do this one for us this year. She made the blocks 8″ square, with a separate tree block to […]

 Thank you for all of your very kind comments lately. I don't know what's going on but I stayed up late Thursday night and replied back to all of them individually and then I had a long influx of emails telling me they were undeliverable.

 Well, friends, it seems that I am saying hello once again after a long absence. For the few who still visit, all these years later, you know that much has happened in the past ten years. I spent time recently scrolling through old posts, and I cannot believe that this blog began in 2008. That's getting dangerously close to twenty years ago! What a different world it is today. Not only for me, but the blogging community. It is very different from when I began blogging, as a way to stay connected and talk about quilts and gardening while ...

 Good evening, friends. It's been a while. How are you? We are doing well here in the northern most part of Ohio. I have gardening and quilting on the brain, and so that's what I've been doing a lot of.

I am still working, but a little closer to home these days. Not that this has given me much more free time, I do have teenagers and small children after all. But it has made the drive home shorter and allowed me to sleep in just a little bit longer in the mornings. 

I have decided to ...

The gift gallery at the show was really spectacular with well over 1000 items to choose from. Isn’t shopping fun! But, I put in way too much, with over 100 items. Granted, 40 of them were fabric stars that were displayed on one mug rack and 30 were handmade cards in a basket, but I still had much too much left over. The small room had every wall covered plus three tables in the middle covered with items, along with several quilt racks, and more outside the door.

Some of what I made for the show were items any ...

Download this free beginner quilt pattern now and make this project in one day. Big blocks, easy technique, beautiful quilt!

Aromatherapy Quilt – click here to download the pattern

Are you ready for a fast project? I designed the Aromatherapy Quilt for Dear Stella’s Fall in Love collection. It measures 65″ x 65″ and can be used as a wall hanging for a bold decor statement or as a throw. Either way, it comes together quickly, so keep this pattern handy for those times when the occasion demands a handmade gift but time is short.

Dark and light prints added ...

So last week, I told about a quilt top I bought at the thrift store for 50 cents. If you missed the blog post, you can read it HERE. This is a reminder of what it looked like. I mentioned in the blog post that I was thinking about trying to find the background fabric …

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Outdoors, the world is awakening; every thing from the biggest to the tiniest is changing now. I'm out tramping about three times a day so as not to miss anything. I almost missed the White Trilliums, Ontario's provincial flower. They are a little scarce here on our property and bloom far apart so was happy to spy this one. 

This past weekend was our Western North Carolina Quilters Guild’s biannual Garden of Quilts show, and what a show it was! The amount of work and volunteers it takes to put it on is staggering, but the inspiration is worth the effort. I don’t know how many quilts were on display, but it had to be over 150 in sizes from small wall hangings up to large bed quilts. There were traditional pieced quilts, modern art quilts, whimsical applique, and ones with intensive hand work. Then there were vendors with fabrics and notions, a used bookstore and a ...

When we left off last time, the front and back of the tote were complete and ready for assembly. If you missed the first part with the cutting directions and initial construction, click on Sew Pretty Tote.

Because I want to work on this while it is flat as long as possible, the first thing to do for assembly is to sew the front and back together on bottom seam. I use clips instead of pins for this due to the bulk.

Lay the piece out, and hard press the seam open. Then press from the top side to set ...

Fairy Boutique by White Owl Textiles for Lumin Fabrics is such a beautiful panel.

The entire Fairy Boutique collection is fabulous. Estimated Ship Date is July 2026.

I had so much fun cutting out my equilateral triangles and diamonds for my 10″ stars using my First Choice Rulers and Star 60 Tool by Studio 180 Design. I cut 3.25″ strips that yielded 5″ finished hexies. From the same 3.25″ strips I cut diamonds to make 10″ finished Stars using my Star 60 Tool.

It always amazes me how much creating a One Block Wonder with hexies from ...