Zig Zag Quilt

Zig Zag Quilt

If you follow along on our Facebook Page you know what a free pattern junkie I am. I love finding them and I love sharing them. Facebook is such a perfect medium for stuff like that. Here’s an album of all the free patterns we’ve linked to if you need to catch up. I have…

Speedy Baked Ziti

speedy baked ziti

I’ve been on a mission over the past several months to add some new recipes into our week night dinner routine. After a series of rejects (including the one where I thought I was making soup and it ended up being a paella type stovetop dish) I was ready to take a break. Along comes…

Snow Day

Snow Day Porch

We got our annual blast of snow here in the Northwest and it made for a glorious day of falling flakes and beautifully blanketed trees. Due to the infrequency of a big storm, there’s little effort put into clearing roads. It generally melts away in a day or two. Schools close and most people hole…

Stitch Lab Pattern Friday – Thimble Blossoms Little Ones

Thimble Blossoms - Little Ones

Project: Thimble Blossoms Little Ones Quilt Pattern Dimensions: 36″ x 48″ for the pattern – Diana’s measures 41″ x 60″ Sewist: Diana When Diana discovered Little Ones she imagined beach balls, summer, sun and sandcastles. She’d been on the lookout for a quilt to make with the Sea Gem Studio solids color stack and found it…

Diana Knits the Vite Cowl

The Vite Cowl

Diana is one of many talented knitters on the Pink Chalk Team. We flipped out when she came to work wearing her Vite Cowl last week. Free pattern on Ravelry by Kristi Johnson. One skein of Cascade Magnum and size 15 needles.