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I made good use of the holiday by spending most of it in the sewing room. We don’t have family close by, which makes holidays free days with better food.

I’ve wanted to rearrange my sewing room for a while now. Long story short, the sewing table my husband and I built to fit both my sewing and storage needs has not been in my sewing room for years. It’s now back in the sewing room, and a dresser and the portable table are gone. It gives me much needed storage and more open space.

It also ...

Christmas presents are nice, but sometimes you get something that is truly amazing. This is one of those times.

My third son, currently stationed in Poland with the US Army, sent this. We opened early at his request.

Mouth wide open astonishment. I LOVE it!

It still smells of fresh-cut wood and finish, some of my favorite smells, and has a place of honor in, what I now must call, the Quilting Cave (fka Sewing Room, or Laundry Room). 

ps–If you are interested, here is the link to the company: 3D Woodworker. Highly recommended.

Moving right along now on this last row of blocks for the Carpenter’s Wheel.  The green block turned out great – I’m glad I grabbed that color off the shelf from the left overs from the toddler quilt for this one. I added it to the bottom row on the floor – keep in mind […]

Most of my fabric is not in yardage it is from a collection of scraps saved from the last 30 years or so with additions of some yardage and fat quarters added several times a year mainly through sales but not in every instance.  Doing the Rainbow Scrap Challenge over the previous 3 years or […]

 Well, July came and went. It was a whirlwind of a month. 

It has  been somewhat busy. We had family from Utah and California come to visit this month so I spent a lot of time sitting around playing cards, talking, going out to eat, you get the picture.  I was able to get a lot of knitting done, because I can do that while visiting, but not as much sewing as I was hoping. 

The one big thing that I did accomplish for the month of July was getting the studio finished. The last thing done this month was ...

It's long over due, that is to de-clutter and organize my studio.

I made a quilt for my son but didn't get it back until we returned from NC.  He had a golden retriever that passed away.  She was our dog first then when he moved out he took her with him..  That dog just adored him!  So when she passed away I decided to include a nod to her in his quilt.  I used Holiday Homies by Tula Pink.  It has a golden with glasses.  I used the pattern called Comfort and

I am back to a messy table after experimenting with Star Blocks to add to my Snail’s Trail quilt – I didn’t like it so I will not be making it – but must say that if someone has not started to make one and thinking of it – consider your colors first – it […]

A light rainy day kept me mostly inside yesterday – I did get out to take a few photos of the flowers that are still blooming but other than that I was cleaning the sewing machine – it was in need.  Although this photo doesn’t actually show all that I pulled out it does show […]

Yesterday really was too busy but I got a lot done.  Started with getting the flannel quilt ready for the frame, then running to Hobby Lobby to find a container to store all of my thread more neatly then what I was doing with it (3 boxes plus a small cardboard box) – so now […]

I am trying to get the sewing room straightened out and more things up higher instead of lower (not going to happen, too much stuff!) and I got a little bit done but not a lot.  I forgot to take a before photo – but I had the canvas boxes in the next photo stacked […]

I find the Snail’s Trail to be an easy block and got all 4 – 8 inch blocks done in an hour. Up on the wall – I am linking to Texas Quilt Gal for To Do Tuesday – this week I will try to get my Arkansas Traveler blocks done and maybe my one […]

Well after I moved everything around on my tables on Saturday I thought I better try the new arrangement out to make sure it would work – it didn’t!!  I was very unhappy with it and put everything back where it was. Why you might ask – I wasn’t thinking of how warm the desk […]

With the extra supports up on the shelves to hold my Accuquilt system (all the dies) it was time to figure out how to rearrange my tables so that I could keep my Go Big out all the time and not keep folding it up and putting it behind my sewing machine – this machine […]

While working on the small quilt for the Fat Quarter Shop that I can’t share right now I am also work on hexies and other things here and there – like looking through my thread for the next quilt on the frame – which will be Yuletide Gatherings – the flannel quilt mainly from the […]

Moving on to the next sections of Noriko’s Star will be a little complicated for awhile as I figure out placement – there will be six sides (I think that this row of turquoise color) hexies will be in One area is sewn in place and working on the second – the area in between […]

Hello, friends! Today is the day I’m sharing my updated A Quilting Life Sewing Room Tour | May 2022 edition. If you’ve been following along here over the past while, you know that I’ve been working on my sewing room for about two years (since we moved). We had some major home improvement projects that […]

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 I had these in 2020 in turquoise and they sold out quickly. The fabric company decided to offer it again, but changed the turquoise to red for the re-release. Below is a photo of the original one that I made up to cover one of the Bernina 930 machines I have in the classroom at my shop.