because i am not. these will be the last two coneflower themed projects for a bit. but i make no promises for next spring or so. i lied. i make a promise. there’s more coming in spring. 🙂 anyways. i wanted to make an epic bday gift for my pal heather’s birthday. so, i stealthily […]
making stuff with needles and thread
spiky rainbowy stars quilt. (stara).
one day, i was just minding my own business at work, when teresa (boss/owner) informed us that a new collection had arrived and we needed to cut fat quarter bundles from it. well, that new collection was glaze, by libs eliot and with each and every fat quarter i sliced and folded, my love grew […]
in my coneflower block era.
all the way back in spring, i became mildly obsessed with an fpp coneflower block that i happened upon whilst perusing instagram. originally, i only had plans to use it for some totes i made for hazel’s teachers. but i then i just kept going and made a few gifts for my quilty friends in […]
hey boo.
in july, our halloween and christmas fabric started rolling into the shop. everytime i worked, i was staring straight at this cute new moda line of halloween fabrics called “hey boo”. it was completely different from all of my other halloween fabrics and after ogling it for a couple weeks, on one slow afternoon, i […]
national park quilt #2: everglades for derek
i feel like i’ve told this tale before, but i’ll recap. when we came off the road a few years back, derek purchased me an obscene amount of national park prints and panels. panels aren’t my favorite to sew with, but i’m making a (minimal) effort. i made this arches themed quilt for ike a […]
teacher totes magotes.
when i first laid eyes on the fpp coneflower blocks on instagram (and then later in love patchwork and quilting magazine), i knew it was the perfet starting point for gifts for hazel’s two wonderful fourth grade teachers. i did some research on their “favorites” lists from the beginning of the year and dove right […]
fpp coneflower obsession begins.
one day, i was just scrolling through instagram, when a post about a paper pieced coneflower caught my attention. it would change my life. i scoured the internet for this pattern, finally procured it, via an online version of a magazine, and in very short order, had stitched up my first block. i knew these […]
samples and gifts.
sometimes, at the quilt shop, we get a product or pattern that “needs” an example, or a sample, to be constructed for display to the customers. when we received some adorable camping themed panels with one of our collections, i planned to make them up either way, so it worked out that i could make […]
presents for our visitors.
during our time living in the rv on the road, we met so many awesome people who became lifelong friends. when we were in palm desert, california, we ended up in the same campground with jenn and brandy jackson, who were only cyberspace instagram friends up until that moment. we immediately hit it off, and […]
a quilt for my college roomie
for the last 15-ish years, my college roommate and basketball teammate and her family have lived just down the road in greensboro. you would think this would mean we got together all the time, but alas, sadly, we didn’t make the most of this opportunity. then. her husband got his dream job, in nyc, and […]