A couple of days ago I saw over at Quokka Quilts a fun little giveaway linky thing for choosing your own Blogger's Bundle from all the luscious goodies at the Fat Quarter Shop. I'm always up for a giveaway. While I don't have a ton of free time to do much today, I thought I could accomplish...

Look what I have won in the Quilters Gallery Blog Hop Party! It is a "Jelly Girl" pattern from Fig Tree & Company and a jelly roll of Moda's Fruitcake line by Basic Grey. While I do like holiday theme fabrics, what I like a lot more about this line is the fact that it isn't the typical Christmas...

I hope you all can understand my reason for not picking and announcing the winner of my giveaway yesterday. You see my baby girl was sick all Saturday night and I literally got no sleep at all. I sat up with her in a chair the entire night. She had a fever and slept only about 20 minutes and then woke coughing and crying. This went on for hours and hours, until the sun finally came up. So after...

My poor girl is gathering dust, or I should more correctly say is that her cover is gathering dust. Lots of it. (And yes I believe she is a girl but I have yet to come up with an appropriate name for her. Any suggestions? I WANT to give her some attention. I honest and truly do. But I don't know...

I just want to quickly post here that I am reading all your fun comments on my giveaway but I just don't have any time at the moment to reply to your emails. I would like to though. You see, we were on vacation last week (not a great thing during the holiday season that is so busy anyway), Sunshine's birthday happened during our trip but I still have her daycare class party today and her family...

When I saw the info on this upcoming party, I immediately wanted to join in. But what in the world to give away I ask myself? I really don't have an over abundance of stuff and not much time at the moment to shop for something really cool that others would clammer for. Well it didn't take long for...

This is my completed wall hanging from my Quilting 101 class that still sits waiting to be quilted. While I had all my other quilting done by my long arm quilting magician, I think I want to try to do this one myself. But I'm not sure exactly what sort of quilting to do on it. I sure could use your...

  I've joined the party! Have you? It is going to be a blast and loaded with give-aways. I can't wait. My give-away is extra special so make sure you get back here when the party starts. You won't want to miss out on winning something that is absolutley to die for...

Welcome! So this is my new blog, my place to write about my adventures in quilting. My spot to document the projects without the future gift receipents finding out. And my home for exploring all that I love about color and all that I continue to learn each and every day about the shades and the...

I finally finished the binding on this cuddle quilt called Loving Sunshine for my daughter last night. I used the Flowers in the Sunshine pattern by Sweet Jane and the Luv U fabrics by Deb Strain for Moda. This is another example of my thinking 'I have no idea of what I will do with this'...

In trying to find the best way for me to get the hand stitching on the bindings actually done, I've had to try a few different things. With the first binding, I just held it in place while I stitched. Not very comfortable or conducive to working fast. The 2nd binding I actually pinned in place...

Thistles and Vines This is the very first quilt I ever made. It is from the pattern my BFF learned at her Beginning Quilting class. With the help of her instructions and a number of books, I self taught myself the blocks and put it together. The top was completed in January 2010 but since...

The mailman was very kind to me this week. Loads of new goodies arrived to dazzle me with creating desire. Thanks to a friend's need to destash, my stash got a huge infusion and has grown by leaps and bounds. Most of these are fat quarters but some are actually fat halves. All told probably about...

A couple of weeks ago the light bulb in my head went off when I came up with the idea to make Jammer's teachers lap quilts for their end of year gifts. Why in the world am I thinking about this now you ask? Because I want all the classmates families to be part of it and for that, it takes time and...

Just outside the door of my studio is a half wall that overlooks our great room which has turned out to be a terrific place for managing rows in progress. With the limited space in my studio, this works out well for keeping the pieces neat and wrinkle free. The view from below. Kinda cool...

Welcome! Glad you are along for the ride. My life in the quilting world, both online and offline, is getting bigger and bigger by the day and so after much thought, I decided to separate some of that from my personal blog. Plus I have a lot of projects in the works that are gifts or secrets and I want to write about the processes hence the need to create a place to do just that without the secrets...