i really started off 2024 on a quilt making rampage. before i even finished the strawberry quilt, i was making plans for a western sky quilt. (pattern by plains and pines). i found an array of shot cottons in the perfect palette for my vision at a local shop and it was game on. this […]
making stuff with needles and thread
scrappy strawbs quilt
for quite awhile, i had been admiring the super scrappy strawberry blocks and quilts filling my instagram feed, at the hands of sewmaryhappy. finally, enough was enough, and i set out to make my own. i pulled together all of my pink scraps and got to work. it was so much fun to fussy cut […]
a gift for a quilty friend.
for. my work pal kathy’s birthday, i made a rainbow-y paper pieced old timey sewing machine mini quilt. it turned out way better than i expected and i think she loved it. and now i’m reminded that i need to start thinking about her birthday again… the pattern is by quiet play designs. i quilted […]
december sewing.
every christmas, the sewing comes to a screeching halt and my quilt room turns into santa’s workshop. but, i managed to squeeze in a couple of quick projects before that happened in 2023. (remember, if you will, i’m typing this up over a year later). firstly, i whipped up a cool ruby star scrappy saw […]
lidbom family stocking upgrade.
a long long long time ago, when i was a few days past my due date for the hazelnut, and she didn’t have a stocking to match the rest of the family, and i happened to find myself at a sewing event with my quilt guild, i decided to make her a patchwork stocking, even […]
a fast fall foliage finish.
after spending a zillion hours on my scrappy halloween spooky village quilt, i wanted my next quilt to be a quick and easy finish. i bought all the fabrics from a new fall-ish line we have at the shop, selected a relatively simple pattern, and immediately got to work. of course, because i can’t just […]
go bills. pillow version.
a few years back, i decided to try my hand at foundation paper piecing pattern drafting. of course, since it was in the middle of a successful football season, trying to create a fabric version of the bills logo was the only logical choice. except that it wasn’t. at least maybe not for my first […]
a very haunted halloween spooky village quilt.
i recently completed construction on my spooky village neighborhood and all thirty dwellings are inhabited by a myriad of various halloween citizens. i absolutely could not be more pleased with how this one turned out, from the bright happy colors, to the quilting, to the scrappiness, and mostly to all of the fussy cuts. now […]
a bear baby quilt for my baby’s bro’s baby bear.
my baby brother jake and his lovely wife erika are expecting their second baby boy in november, so of course the kid needs a quilt from his future favorite aunt. once erika and jake settled on the name barrett, complete with all the bear related nicknames imaginable (bear, little bear, brother bear, baby bear, bearbear….), […]
fanny pack attack.
one evening, while mindlessly scrolling instagram, i happened upon a post for the emerson crossbody bag by the blanket statement, and i knew i had to have it. and let’s be clear, we all know this is a fanny pack, riding the wave of the current trend of crossbody bags. either way, i have been […]