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Welcome to my stop on the Quilt Block Mania Blog Hop. Each of the designers participating in the hop are sharing a block pattern inspired by this month’s theme, which is Forest!

I love walking in the woods, and for this month’s block I imagined a quiet evening in the woods at Christmas. Above, a single star lights the way. The only witness? A tiny cardinal.

To learn how to get my free pattern, see How Do I Get the Free Silent Witness Pattern? at the end of this post.

To me, a cardinal ...

Welcome to my stop on the Quilt Block Mania Blog Hop. Each of the designers participating in the hop are sharing a block pattern inspired by this month’s theme, which is Kitchen!

I love cooking—almost as much as I love quilting! And when I thought about this month’s theme, I knew I wanted to depict two indispensable kitchen tools that happen to go by the same name—spatulas.

Not sure why they share the same name. Sure is confusing. But I know I wouldn’t be able to cook without them!

To learn how to get my ...

Welcome to my stop on the Quilt Block Mania Blog Hop. Each of the designers participating in the hop are sharing a block pattern inspired by this month’s theme, which is the Baby!

Who doesn’t love babies? They are so soft and sweet. A few years back, my fellow Island Batik Ambassadors celebrated a newborn by making its mother a quilt. We each designed a block and made it. One Ambassador sewed them all together and another quilted and bound it.

My block was an elephant rattle. I’m not sure how I got the notion, but I ...

Welcome to my stop on the Quilt Block Mania Blog Hop. Each of the designers participating in the hop are sharing a block pattern inspired by this month’s theme, which is the Fall!

Fall is my favorite time of the year. I love to see the leaves changing color. The sheer number of colors I see in the leaves during the Fall simply amazes me.

To learn how to get my free pattern, see How Do I Get the Free Autumn Leaf Pattern? at the end of this post.

I got married in the fall ...

Welcome to my stop on the Quilt Block Mania Blog Hop. Each of the designers participating in the hop are sharing a block pattern inspired by this month’s theme, which is the Circus!

My favorite thing I associate with a circus is elephants. Frankly I prefer to think of elephants out in the wild, so I made my elephant wild and free, and happily blowing its trunk!

To learn how to get my free pattern, see How Do I Get the Free Elephant Pattern? at the end of this post.

My grandfather owned a circus ...

It's finally arrived - the last day of this year's 12 Days of Christmas in July blog hop!  I hope, like me, you've been wonderfully inspired with great ideas.  Maybe, like me, you've also had a chance to walk down memory lane in your Pinterest or blog feed! I will confess - I even found pictures of an annual quilt I made for Lilli that I had completely forgotten about!  

Today we have a chance to hop over to Karrin's blog, Karrin's Crazy World, as she shares some of the gifts she has been ...

It's Day Ten of the Twelve Days of Christmas in July Blog Hop, and today we get to visit with Carole of From My Carolina Home again!  This will be the second part of her project, and I for one am looking forward to seeing the finale!  I've also got the next steps in our quilt-along - assembly of the wall hanging, or the next block for our quilt people.  Hop on over to Carole's and see what's going on there, then come back for those next steps!

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Welcome to day six of the Twelve Days of Christmas in July 2023!  We are halfway through, but there's still so much fun ahead of us.  Have you been inspired yet?  And remember - if you want to be a stop on the blog hop next year, let me know early!  Because, after all, it's never too early to start thinking about Christmas!

Today we have what should be a very fun stop on the hop.  Kate of Arts and Socks is going to share a fun project with us! I know what it is but I ...

My subdivision won't allow us to have chickens, so unfortunately I can't provide three French hens for today's hop!  (But since it's Sunday, maybe I'll go get some fried chicken for lunch... yum!)  Instead, we have a blogpost from my friend Carole over at From My Carolina Home.  Carole's always doing fun things on her blog and I can't wait to see what she's up to.  I know that she's planning something with all this....

Good morning, and welcome to the first day of this year's 12 Days of Christmas in July!  There are some exciting things happening here over the next twelve days - a little bit different from past years, because taking a year off (through no choice of my own!) and getting a late start wreaked havoc on getting more bloggers this year - but we have some great bloggers who are participating, and I'll also have some of my own favorite Christmas ideas to share with you.  So strap in and get ready for a little Christmas overload - maybe ...

Welcome to my stop on the Quilt Block Mania Blog Hop. Each of the designers participating in the hop are sharing a block pattern inspired by this month’s theme, which is Quilting.

One of my most irreplaceable quilting tools are my Clover Wonder Clips. I love these darlings!

To learn how to get my free pattern, see How Do I Get the Free Wonder Clips Pattern? at the end of this post.

Really. I use Wonder Clips to hold my binding of course, but also lots of other things like holding a zipper in place ...

Welcome to my stop on the Quilt Block Mania Blog Hop. Each of the designers participating in the hop are sharing a block pattern inspired by this month’s theme, which is Places.

I had a hard time with this one I will admit. Should I do London? Paris? Somewhere in Ireland? Finally though I hit on the one place I love to return to as often as I can—the beach!

To learn how to get my free pattern, see How Do I Get the Free Beach Pattern? at the end of this post.

As ...

Welcome to my stop on the Quilt Block Mania Blog Hop. Each of the designers participating in the hop are sharing a block pattern inspired by this month’s theme, which is Friendship.

Here is Best Friends!

To learn how to get my free pattern, see How Do I Get the Free Best Friends Pattern? at the end of this post.

I have always loved the classic Friendship Star, so for this month’s block I decided to play with that. To me, the large and small stars represent two friends embracing each other.

Welcome to my stop on the Quilt Block Mania Blog Hop. Each of the designers participating in the hop are sharing a block pattern inspired by this month’s theme, which is Neighborhood.

Welcome to Funky Town!

When I heard the theme, I immediately thought of curvy, wacky, colorful houses a la Dr. Seuss and I knew I wanted to design a funky town!

Here’s my fabric pull. I started with bright prints with interesting textures, then added some matching solids. To polish everything off, I pulled from my stack of ...

Welcome to my day on the Bits and Pieces blog hop!

The twelve day celebration of this gorgeous Island Batik collection started Friday, March 24th. Every day on the hop you’ll be able to visit another designer to see Bits and Pieces featured in a quilt project. Such inspiration!

Bits and Pieces is a Signature collection by Sherry @ Powered by Quilting. Sherry is a super talented quilter, and a fellow member of the Partners in Design.

Bits and Pieces is arriving in stores now. Click here to find a quilt store near you that carries ...

Welcome to my stop on the Quilt Block Mania Blog Hop. Each of the designers participating in the hop are sharing a block pattern inspired by this month’s theme, which is Floral.

Followers know that my favorite color is purple. So when I heard this month’s theme, I instantly thought I should do a purple flower. And what better purple flower than a violet?

Violets, by the way, were given in the past as a sign of faithfulness and everlasting love. Violets also symbolize remembrance. Wouldn’t this make a great block to remember ...

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The idea for the hop is to find an old quilt book on your shelf and make something from it.

Here is my book:

The Quilting Bible from the Singer Sewing Reference Library

copyright 1997

This book has been sitting in my sewing room because I was intrigued by this project:

I have had this piece of fabric forever.

It was time to use it.

My Contemporary Crazy Border Quilt was fun and totally ...