whilst traveling about the country, i picked up a lot of fabric, including quite a bounty of halloween themed fabric. i also might have ordered a bundle of the cutest halloween line ever and had it shipped home. basically, i now own considerably more fabric that i can ever use in my lifetime. so, when […]
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quilt town, usa.
our main reason for a layover in kansas city was to see some good pals who live in the area. but, an untimely illness ran through their entire family, and they weren’t feeling up to it (and it seemed slightly unwise, even if they had already had the covid previously). so, with my day freed […]
the iNtErNaTiOnAl quilt museum.
when derek informed me that we were spending a couple of days in lincoln, nebraska, i got to work googling, yelping, trip advisoring, and all trails-ing, to see what things there might possibly be to do in lincoln. aside from our obligatory capitol trip and homestead national monument, i didn’t find much for kid friendly […]
honey bee pillow
After I finished Anna’s book nerd quilt, I needed a new project to keep my momentum. I didn’t want to start a new full blown quilt, so I made an impulse purchase of the honeymaker paper pieced pattern, and got to work on a new spring/summer themed pillow for our collection. I had high hopes […]
epic book nerd quilt for my book nerd kid.
Just before I started my virtual teaching gig, I started this book quilt for Anna, my book loving middle kid, whose turn it was in the rotation for a new quilt. (Isaac and Hazel both received matching Minecraft quilts last year). Ever since I laid eyes on the Tall Tales paper pieced block by kidgiddy, […]
christmas stitching.
once i had reclaimed my sewing room for myself, i had quite a prolific christmas sewing season. i kicked things off with making a few items for the girls. i had been planning to make them some aprons for a long time, but it wasn’t until i was picking up something else at joann’s and […]
matchy-ish minecraft (mom of the year) quilts.
it has been a really REALLY long time since i have made a quilt for isaac (nine years to be exact), and he has been asking for a minecraft quilt for quite awhile, so finally, one day, i pulled the trigger. i had him pick out twenty characters/blocks that he wanted and then set off […]
ghost town quilt.aka: my first and possibly only halloween quilt.
i’ve never really been much of a halloween enthusiast, much less a halloween quilter. but, when my friend dana from old red barn co started posting sneak peaks of a halloween ghost town quilt she was making a pattern for, i knew i had to join the fun. the best part about the quilt is […]
an epic unicorn pillow and other random finishes.
over the summer, i had a bit of a lull in my quilting mojo. i’m not sure why. coronavirus fatigue? tired of looking at my same old fabrics? grumpy from losing my dedicated quilt room? some of all? either way, i decided to look for a paper pieced project to jump start things. they give […]
epic amh quilt 2.0
during a spontaneous trip to my local quilt shop, i discovered they carried some fabrics from the newest line (hindsight) of one of my favorite designers (anna maria horner). even though i just completed my (first) epic anna maria horner quilt, it was inspiration to make another. i’ve had my eye on a herringbone quilt […]