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 2025 Annual Review

Most significant achievements:

Starting to use the bigger building, although still under renovation!

Late April, during shop hop we moved our fabrics into the front section of the building so that we'd have a bit more room with all the traffic.

New Patterns - find all the ...

 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 ...

At least, I helped my husband design the pattern for Puzzle Santa....speaking of which...

Here's what you missed on Glee ...

 I've had a week.

I did finally carve out a little creative energy to ...

Okay, I'm not one to complain, but who ever thought putting 4 values of wool strips in one little thumb print size circle sounded like a fun, needs to take a long look at their definition of fun!  I spent my rug hooking time this week doing gradated grapes.  In 4 different gradations.  In two different purples.  Not only is it a lot of work trying to get your loops somewhat smooth in little circles but also it's a lot of, "so where is the light source for this grape?  Is that dark enough?  Is this one of ...

Shirley, hooked by Kyoko Okamura, 40" by 37"

 So, I'm onto my 2nd big project- Autumn Fruit designed by Pearl McGown & Jane McGown Flynn.  I'm still pretty shocked that I got this lovely pattern on linen with all the wool kitted out and class instructions all for $20 on eBay.  The more I looked at the project, the more I realized what an amazing deal it was.  Not to mention, it's a perfect 2nd project.  First it will teach me to follow a pattern and also shows me how to gradate the pattern to give it depth ...

This week's progress

To all my US readers, Happy 4th - I feel so blessed to be an American. Hope you get some time with ones you love.  

WoW everyone, thank you for the warm welcome back.  It's always nice to see the internet being used for actually bringing people together.  It's funny, the minute I finally got myself writing and creating, all the normal ideas would pop in my head.  My workflow the last 15 years have been that during my week, I'll get ideas on blog posts and then jot them down quick before they ...

Sunday afternoon sewing time was quite productive this week. I trimmed the Stip Mirage quilt for my great niece and made the label for her quilt. I made the label for my Barn Star Sampler, and I got the binding sewn to the front and have been working on hand stitching it to the back.… Continue reading WIP Progress

 2024 Annual Review

Most significant achievements:

24 Karat Rondure -- continued its show circuit 

Juried into these 2024 shows:

Road to California (only 20 quilts in the category...super honored to be there)

Mancuso - QuiltFest - South Carolina -- organizers asked me to move it into another category indicating they thought it would compete better. Hmmm. Since I didn't attend, I don't know, and it didn't place. But someone I knew when they were in high school (I was a bit younger) happened to be at the show and noticed my quilt. How fun!

 pic courtesy of Mark and Cheri ...

The Island Batik February Challenge and Blog Hop is co-sponsored by Studio 180 Design who provided tools to all the ambassadors to make the table/bed runner. 

So many droolworthy fabric collections and fabulous projects for inspiration! Here is the complete line-up.

WEEK 1

February 4:

• Kim Jamieson-Hirst, Chatterbox Quilts
• Emily Leachman, The Darling Dogwood

February 5:

• Brittany Fisher, Bobbin with Brittany

February 6:

• Mania Hatzioannidi, Mania for Quilts
• Carol Stanek, Stitch With Color

November 7:

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 1 and Giveaway

WEEK 2

February 10:

• Connie Kresin Campbell, Freemotion by the River
• Leah Malasky, Quilted Delights

February 11 ...

In a heartfelt journey of transformation, we embraced change, moving closer to our grandchildren, and creating a new dream studio. Through meticulous design and cherished memories, I built a space brimming with intention, comfort, and inspiration. Blessed with love, light, and creativity, it reflects a life dedicated to passion and purpose. Continue reading →

It is a busy time in the Sew Preeti Quilts studio but cannot show anything much yet. So here is a catch up post. Hope you are handling the heat well so far. It is only going to get worse :-(

All Island Batik ambassadors were invited to become affiliates for the Missouri Star Quilt Company, and I was accepted :-) 

This means that if you order over $50 from Missouri Star, you will get 20% off your order and I will receive a small commission. Thank you for your support!

Here is what I got.

Steam a Seam 2 Stabilizer and ...

 I was looking back at previous posts (and when I say "back" I mean wayyyyyy back) and I realized that

So here is how to design a representational block when you can't draw but you know how to use a laptop, pencil and tracing paper.

1.  Come up with an Idea.  Since these blocks are ...

January, July, February, October, April, May Cows

This week my husband and I got optimistic and started Spring Cleaning our spare bedroom.  This room, aka, Tessa's second bedroom has ended up storing all the odds and ends we're not quite sure what to do with.  (are we the only ones with rooms like this?) Of course, it got worse when Tessa moved out since her odds and ends are now in there too.  Included in this menagerie of stuff, are my UFOs.  A while back I did actually weed this group down to pieces I  wanted to finish ...

 2023 Annual Review

Most significant achievements:

24 Karat Rondure -- a collaboration between myself and Nancy Cargo was juried into all 5 AQS Shows and will now be at Road 2 California in 2024.

Ribbons received:

2023 - "Eternal Hope" - a 365 Block Challenge, colored in my own way with an extra border receives Envy Award at Tri-Cities Quilt Show

2023 - Lincoln County Fair - Best of Show (mid size quilts) - "Midnight Garden"

Last year on May, I organised a month-long workshop on scrap management and scrappy quilt projects. The workshop included two different scrap patterns to make:

1. Scrappy Jacob’s Ladder quilt
2. Harvest Moon (a tutorial by Megan Collins)

I chose to make the scrappy Jacob’s Ladder quilt, as it was on my bucket list for millions of years. I really love the work Blue Elephant Stitches is doing, and back in the day of the blogging season a Value Quiltalong was organised and this quilt was her project. I will write more details on that part later on when the ...

In the heart of my quilting haven, where threads and fabrics entwine to create stories stitched in color, a new patchwork adventure unfolds. Join me, in a new project that started in 2022, and is about to end. The marriage of english paper piecing and applique has always been a successfull one, and if you add some scrapiness than it is a match made in heaven!

At the heart of this project are the 6-point stars, each handcrafted using the English paper piecing technique and a favorite scrap fabric. As the stars are pieced together, they are applied onto a ...