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Go Green with scraps and GIVEAWAY!

Recently I was able to work with these fun fabrics for a quilt for McCall’s magazine. With magazine quilts I often have leftover fabrics, so these fabrics were just staring at me and wanted to be used for something else I was looking at my old patterns and thought I could use this GO GREEN …

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Witchy stitchy blog hop

It’s time for the witchy stitchy blog hop! When Carol posted about this blog hop I was a bit hesitant as I don’t celebrate Halloween at all and don’t like it, but I’m a sucker for blog hops! so I figured I could at least do something with pumpkins on it, so I signed up …

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Embroidery threads and making a pincushion

Recently, I bought more embroidery threads from simthreads on amazon  I bought this big pack of 63 colors  look how fun! the cones are small-ish but that’s great if you want lots of colors but don’t want to invest so much for each color.   When the threads arrived I had just gotten an email …

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Have you seen the new Accuquilt dies yet?

Have you seen the new Accuquilt dies yet?? First there’s this cute Christmas stocking! (I made a pattern for it but it’s not up yet, so I’ll show that later) but there’s already 3 patterns shown by the die Next is a cute gingerbread cookie die  Now I did write a pattern for Accuquilt for …

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Stacked Gears quilt story

It’s hard enough to keep a secret about a quilt going in a magazine! Then THIS happened…. I made this quilt in March (with “All Geared up” batiks from Island Batik) When magazines email with requests for designs it’s maybe 9 months before publication or at least 6 months! I’d submit a design or several …

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Pink and white nine patch baby quilt is done

  I had so much fun making this scrappy quilt and showing peeks on instagram.  The nine patches finish at 3″ so each square is 1 1/2″ cut! it was a breeze with the Accuquilt die   quickly I had a bunch of nine patches done and all with my SCRAPS! Then I sewed those …

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a TWOfer for Island Batik!

What’s a Twofer, you may ask?? It’s really two items sold for the price of one. But what I meant, you’ll see in a bit! So the theme for Island Batik ambassadors for November was TABLE TOPPERS! (Though as I was downloading the graphics for this I read it again and it was supposed to …

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