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Oh my goodness. I can’t begin to tell you how long this community quilt has been at my house waiting for me to give it some attention. All I can say is that it’s embarrassingly long. In my push to get the projects on my sewing room island finished, this one managed to make it …

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Ray recently shared some pictures of the Airing of the Quilts. It is a quilt sale fundraiser that his church sponsors. All of the money from the sales is used to help outreach programs that their church sponsors. I am going to photo bomb you with pictures. Most of the quilts you have already seen …

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Last Saturday was our local guild show for Worldwide Quilting Day at our small shopping mall. The stands and black drapes were set up along a wall, and the entries were pinned to them. The show was set up and ready to view before the mall opened. There were 31 entries, and visitors in the mall were encouraged to vote for their three favorites.

As usual, the creativity and imagination of our members is amazing. This challenge was all about imagination, so even more so this year. In most of the entries, the challenge fabric was easy to see, which ...

Some time ago, Ila sent me a UFO she was not happy with. I told her I’d finish it and donate it to a needy cause. Kelli was at my house and she is the one that sewed the blocks together. Kelli got the blocks sewn together, and it was my job to put the …

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We were plunged back into Christmasy looking winter on Saturday. It was beautiful outside in my woods.

This Wednesday morning is cool, windchill making it -18C but the sun is shining so another very pretty wintry looking day. But staying this cool means no melting today.

I've been trying to choose which of my quilt tops to get to ...

Hey friends…I’m popping in here on a rare Sunday evening post. I’ve failed to let you know about my return to YouTube. My daughter Kalissa said, “Mom. Do you realize people are waiting for you to come back to YouTube? It’s been almost a year since you posted there.” I’ll admit…it has been almost a …

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It's very slow...

It's a log cabin quilt. How hard can it be? Very hard and confusing if I don't pay close attention to it.

I try to set myself up with every quilt I make with a plan to be more efficient in my piecing. A big part of that is organizing the blocks into stacks that can be chain pieced. Again, it's a log cabin block...but a very big block! Each block finishes at 37", and that's 47 logs plus the center square. And the majority of those logs each have two ...

I have the Extra Long & Quilting Magic Pins, which I use. I did not know Taylor Seville also had Applique, Silk and Patchwork Magic Pins.

They offer 2 fabulous “Try Me” packs. These packs give you a chance to see the variety Taylor Seville offers.

When I design a OBW, I number each column across the top of the quilt and across the bottom section. I have been cutting up scrap paper and numbering them for the number of columns I have. A tedious little job.

Magic pins have these great Flathead pins in Applique, Patchwork, Quilting, Alphabet and Extra ...

I have been enjoying lovely spring weather this weekend and got stuck into some serious garden tidying. I borrowed a more powerful pressure washer and got rid of the winter slime. It was a messy job but worth it. I had to stop when the old flaky paint looked like it might wash off the walls. I repainted the front of my shed which had gone green and most of the fence which is pretty rotten. After mowing the grass and buying Nessie a new basketball, I felt very satisfied. I even cut down a sycamore tree that was growing ...

The third Saturday in March is Worldwide Quilting Day, and our local guild always celebrates it with a challenge show. Our members are given a challenge theme and purchase a fat quarter of the challenge fabric we have to use. This year, the challenge was “Looking Out My Back Door”, and we were admonished not to take it literally. It is taken from the Creedence Clearwater Revival song about imagination. Some of the lyrics were given to us at a meeting last fall. Like these:

There’s a giant doing cartwheels, a statue wearin’ high heels
Look at all the ...

 The theme for the Project Quilting challenge this week is A Happy Handful. We were to make something small, that would fit in your hand.

I tend to have a hard time keeping my projects small and simple, so I thought it would be nice to make a hanging, Something like a row of prosperity hens but maybe something else.  Since I have a bunch of elephants in the house, I figure I could just make those. The picture is a set of elephants I already own, but I wasn't planning on making anything that elaborate. And I am ...

I’m once again in my usual quandary: what designs to use when quilting my latest quilt top, which is to be a gift. I’ve finished the top, which is called Exploding Heart, and I’m planning to sandwich the backing, batting, and top when I can have uninterrupted use of our one and only table, which […]

You might remember I was working on a quilt called Train Tracks. I had planned on making it bigger, thus more blocks…but then, after the blocks were made, I decided to add a border instead. Here is that quilt… That quilt is still a top…I need to get it on the longarm. I had an …

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Pull.

Cut.

Piece.

I love the start of a new project!

This Scrappy Star Quilt is quite a stash buster! It is fat-quarter-friendly, too, so get the pattern and star sewing stars!

Geo Stars. Photo courtesy of Quilter’s World.

My newest quilt, Geo Stars, has just been published in the Spring 2026 issue of Quilter’s World – Precut Quilts Made Easy by Annie’s Attic. The quilt measures 70″ x 70,” and the blocks finish at 20″. The nine blocks come together very fast!

I worked with fat quarters from the Chromatics collection by FreeSpirit Fabrics. I repeated the light blue around the blocks to bring a little harmony to ...

Night Garden panel by Rubin Design Studio, exclusively for eQuilter.com , measures 29″ x 44″.

I cut my strips 3.25″ to yield 5″ finished hexies. Night Garden produced 182 hexies. I could place 5.5 hexies or 11 columns across the top and bottom sections.

If you use a pointed tip Star 60 tool or First Choice ruler to cut your equilateral triangles, the same strip can be used to cut Star 60 diamonds. The 3.75″ strip above yielded a 6″ finished hexies and a diamond for a 6″ Star 60 Unit (12″ star), (Blunt tip ruler changes ...

With a blizzard ongoing here in Wisconsin, and a Kona Storm in Hawaii, it’s a good time to focus on color for a bit.

On many (most) of the patterns I produce, both custom and for the internet, I suggest colorways that folks can purchase from a single manufacturer. Exceptions are when colors need to be very close to the same hue and value. An ombre fabric can often provide the subtle shadings (for example, in a wedding gown) to give the suggestion of curves and shadows. In rare cases, you can have fabric custom dyed. In the case ...

The theme is Happy Handful in which we make something small enough to hold in your hand. My Pocket Hugs would work for that. 

Marsha Cooper wanted more information about these, but she may be a no-reply blogger, so I will answer here. It is not a formal organization or anything, so they can be any size, or shape. Pocket Hugs are little things you can make (or buy) to give ...

 This week was Project Quilting Challenge week, with today being the submission date. But since I submitted a quilt earlier in the week, I felt like my "off week" started early, and I have been busy relishing my time off.

I finished a bonus quilt.  I showed both of my quilt finishes in my last two posts.  Then, I worked on making progress on already started quilts. 

 I added some more patches to repair the bunk bed quilt my mother made. counted what still needs to be made for my Lupine and Laughter quilt.

And there is always the chaos factor.

Case in point: a few weekends ago I went to Marshall Dry Goods with one of the besties. I purchased flannel to make two receiving blankets for our great-grandson that's due to arrive in April. I was thinking I had plenty of time to make them. But two weeks ago, darling granddaughter landed in the ER, was admitted to the hospital due to complications, was told she would stay two weeks to allow little man to grow a bit more, then told it would be three weeks, and he was born a ...