Category Archives: Quilting

Spring Quilt Market 2011 Giveaway Winners

Thank you for all the thoughtful comments left on the Quilt Market Trend Report post. I read every last one and learned a lot. It’s given me more ideas than I know what to do with! Extremely inspiring and that feels great. Thanks for the boost! Here are the list of winners. Look for an…

Spring Quilt Market 2011 – Market Report + Giveaway

10 days later I’m finally feeling back on schedule after attending Spring Quilt Market in Salt Lake City. The weather was beautiful and the city welcoming. The day-to-day routine of running a business can be consuming to the point I don’t even realize it’s devoured me until I get away for a few days. I…

Aurifil Blog Hop Winners

Thank you for all the fabulous comments on Aurifil Thread. I’m seriously ready to purchase a thread suitcase for personal use (if I don’t win one, you have till March 10 to enter your guess, Pat Sloan has a great post with pictures of the chest and how to enter your guess). In addition to…

Aurifil Blog Hop – The Letter A

Updated on 8/9/11: Download all nine blocks from the hop on the Aurifil website. Admission: I never really cared what type of thread I used. OK, stop cringing. I’m a color gal and I just never gave it much thought. Ah Ha!: That would be the moment I wound my bobbin with 50 wt Aurifil…

Queensland Flood Appeal Auction

1/25/11 – The auction is now closed. Thank you for the generous bids and congratulations to the winner Bronya!!! Natural disasters and the devastation they wreak always leave me at a loss for words. The sadness goes straight to my heart. The magnitude of destruction caused by flooding in Queensland has reached unprecedented proportions. Toni…

Halloween Quilt – Third Time’s a Charm

And she drifted off to sleep knowing the quilt was finally complete pink chalk fabrics ~*~ new arrivals ~*~ free patterns ~*~ on sale

Halloween Quilt – Spider Web Log Cabin Block Tutorial

The biggest challenge I encountered with these Halloween blocks was the setting. I had 8 blocks and no matter how I put them on the design wall, I didn’t like the result. After a lot of dead-end attempts at different settings, I finally realized one block was dragging the whole thing down: The characters in…

Halloween Quilt – Pieced!

Piecing is complete. I absolutely LOVE the addition of the Kona frames. Onward with the quilting! pink chalk fabrics ~*~ new arrivals ~*~ free patterns ~*~ on sale

Progress

I spent Sunday afternoon working on a setting for the Halloween blocks. There’s one big problem with pulling out a UFO which is that it’s most likely a UFO because you didn’t know where to take the project in the first place. That’s why it’s been sitting in a bag for 3 years. The one…

Busy Bees – August Block

More Busy Bees virtual quilting bee blocks. August was for Amber of One Shabby Chick. If you’re not familiar with virtual quilting bees, they generally work as follows (at least I think this is how they work given I’ve now participated in a whopping 2 bees including this one !) There’s an organizer for the…