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A friend handed me two layer cakes and asked me to make two quilts.

Sure! Any excuse is a good excuse, right?!

The first step was to decide how to honor the pink but at the same time make quilts that were large enough. And maybe not JUST pink.

So, I added green. One quilt got light green (this picture doesn’t capture the color well).

VERY mini-tutorial: Cut the 10″ squares in half to create bars 5″x10″. Add 5″ squares. This idea would work with any layer cake. Uses 33 10″ squares. Finished at 59″x71″.

And one ...

Welcome to the 2026 Fall Fortnight Event! Over the next two weeks, we’ll have many Autumn inspired quilting and embroidery projects for you to do along with a new recipe, cards, and a special charity project with specials or giveaways on every post!

Today we begin the Fall Fortnight Quilt Along. I have designed an oversized table topper or wall hanging for you that measures about 60-inches square. If you’d like to make the project into a throw size, just make three more Block A Lattice blocks,and two more Star Blocks. This isn’t a mystery, so ...

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 ...

I’ve finished my latest paper-piecing project! I love this bird, but I absolutely hated how it was made. Don’t get me wrong, though; the fabrics and colors are amazing, and I do enjoy paper piecing. However, this is a new-to-me kind of paper piecing, and I didn’t enjoy it at all. That’s fine; lots of people […]

So, it’s been a while and I found myself getting inimidated on how much I needed to catch up on so I’m just gong to jump in and give you a highlights reel kind of post.

Quilting

I recently finished this top from one of the Project Quilting Challenges. The theme was, I think, about vacations? I remember that I couldn’t get the top quilted in order ot meet the deadline and ended up doing a pincushion. The signal flag blocks spell out “Let’s go” if you read them from top left to right and from ...

…and some perspective. 

Being in the new sewing room is wonderful. Being in the fabric/cutting room is wonderful. I hope this is a long-lasting solution to the hiccups I’ve had in my quest to make more of anything. 

Mod Owls Revival has been the top priority because the last class session is Thursday. I started on the flying geese last Friday. They were constructed in the four-at-a-time no-waste method. This is not my favorite way to construct flying geese, but I followed the cutting directions for creating them the way the pattern designer instructed, and decided I would ...

I have so many autumn quilts in everything from bed size to table top and more. Over the past couple of years, I have sold a bunch of them on Sample Sales. But I still have plenty left to decorate our home in practically every room. There are so many ways to incorporate quilts in your decor and I hope today’s post may give you a few ideas. Obviously, a quilt can go on a bed, and I will sometimes put one flat so the whole quilt is visible. I made two fall print pillowcases a few years ago ...

There’s a whole lotta cutting going on.

My, oh my. I sat down at my new table a few days ago and sewed for the first time at home in about six weeks. And then I did it again for six hours for two days in a row! And I slept! Ah, quilting, you are so good for me.

But back to Mod Owls—When I cut the pieces for the quilt a few weeks ago, I cut out more than necessary. I don’t want to make the quilt bigger; I wanted to make sure I had plenty ...

 Although yesterday was our Monday sewing day, I didn't spend much time with the group. I had a doctor's appointment. Why? 

Well, I think I cracked/dislocated/broke a rib. I know—what a silly thing to happen. But the way it happened really worried me. I was at the physio, and I was on my tummy and getting some compressions on my back and POP - I heard something, and I felt something so strong that my leg flew up in the air as a reflex. 

I thought nothing of it until later, when the pain would NOT ...

 Ich weiß nicht, wie es Euch geht, aber ich habe immer große Schwierigkeiten mich für ein Quilting zu entscheiden. Das ist auch der Grund, warum ich so viele Tops habe. Ich finde es sehr schwierig, das endgültige Quilting fertigzustellen.

Über unsere UFO-Challenge habe ich begonnen, mich mehr damit zu beschäftigen und zwar zielgerichtet zu beschäftigen, d.h. nicht nur nachdenken, sondern auch quilten. Das erfreuliche Ergebnis ist, dass einige Quilts tatsächlich fertig geworden sind. Manche Entscheidungen sind gut gewesen, andere nicht so optimal.

Freemotion-Quilting

Meinen Checkered Garden Quilt habe ich mit einem all-over Quilting fertiggestellt. Ich habe geschwankt zwischen einem ...

This was never even a UFO. Just 2 pieces of flannel I picked up probably 10 years ago at Joann's in Amarillo, TX. I still think it's cute and thought it was high time it became a quiltIt finishes 45"x51" and as fast as I've been handing out baby quilts lately, it won't be long before it makes it's way home to welcome a new arrival.It's not a cheater cloth - it's actually pieced, but it came that

I have made a bit of an attempt to check that the cupboards are in order at work – everyone thinks I am the only person who knows where anything is;) Most of my week was taken up with longarm tuition. After 2 years this has really taken off so it is a pity that it will have to come to a halt, although some people seem to think that I can transfer all of the skills I have accrued in 18 years and it will just take them a couple of hours to pick up…

I am so fed up ...

Yay! It’s finally done. Mostly.

I have no doubts that if you’re one of my regular readers, you know that I’m easily pleased by little (and some big) things that happen around here. The Hubs overthinks construction on the level that I overthink everything else, and I have to admit that sometimes he has better ideas than me. Yes, I can own that. So while I had what I thought were “there’s no way it won’t be anything but this” moments, serendipitous epiphanies happen while you’re arranging and rearranging, and they make me happy ...

Not too long ago, the Cresco Ladies dropped off a bag of quilt tops. I sorted through them, getting them ready to send out to finishers. As I was sorting, I came across this top… Oh, I loved it! The colors were great. It looked like a perfect picnic quilt. That’s when I decided I …

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I know you have been wondering what I decided to do with all those leftover flying geese. Well, today you find out. When I finished the Busy Bees quilt, I had enough time to put a lullaby quilt together for entry in the Mountain State Fair. I thought, something cute with a border of flying geese would be nice. I had the idea of just a simple round robin to start, and I decided the center should be an embroidery. So, I went to my embroidery library for some bee related motifs. The category rules state that the lullaby quilt ...

As most of you know, I’ve been busy working on the quilt Midnight Flight. It’s from this book, More Adventures with Leaders and Enders by Bonnie Hunter. You can find the book HERE. The book was sitting by my sewing machine as I was piecing the border. I flipped the book open, wondering how many …

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I’ve told you all that I am trying to clean my sewing room. It is going okay. The only problem, it doesn’t look like I’ve done a thing in the sewing room. It’s because I keep saying YES. I know in the current world we are supposed to practice saying NO…but I don’t want to. …

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In my previous post, I was talking about resetting and reframing my practice. I’m happy to report, that I feel more grounded and I’ve been excited about things again. One additional thing I did do was reviewed my accomplishments this year and gave myself time to reflect, allowing myself to be in those moments (I forget to do this and it was pleasantly surprising).

This is my Job…

I needed to reframe how I talk about my practice, it is my job therefore I need to treat and talk about it as such. In light of that, I ...

The gallery wall needed another piece of art. Fortunately, I had a rainbow in my sewing studio. I have collected Kona solids for years—decades, really—so there was no shortage of color to choose from. Pulling fabrics for this project was probably my favorite part. There is something very satisfying about watching a pile of individual … … Continue reading →