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 […]
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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 […]
western sky quilt
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 […]
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 […]
a whole lot of november things.
in order to keep this post manageable, i had to write a lot of separate smaller posts about november happenings, but it’s still a big one. and even though as i write it, it’s only 12 days into december, all of these memories feel like they were months and months ago. so much stuff crammed […]