Did your thoughts immediately jump to something a bit naughty? Well just get your mind right out of the gutter! This blog is about quilty things ya know, not about smut. This year's edition of the Modern Mini Mystery Round Robin is about to end soon and my thoughts have been about what's...

The last Teacher Quilt top went together the fastest of all! I started it Friday afternoon and I finished it right before dinner last night. I started with 2 charm packs of Flora by Lauren & Jessi Jung for Moda and 6 - 1/4 yards of coordinating solids. The charms were arranged into groups...

I love receiving emails like this one. "Congratulations Michele! You are one of my weekly winners for the pack of Aurifil Threads." That great news came from Christa of Christa Quilts Wednesday afternoon as part of her Year of Weekly Giveaways. My package arrived yesterday afternoon....

Can you believe this? It is insane! It is the end of May, Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer and this is today's high temperature. The rain will return later today and the temps will then drop. Yesterday was worse. Rain all day, bone chilling cold and a high of only 49 degrees....

Amongst all the other things going on here lately...work, a special day trip, a recent upheaval for us and 20+ other kindergarten families at my kids' school and the normal life things such as dishes and laundry, it took me just under a week to start and complete the 3rd teacher quilt top. This...

Do you remember when I was interviewed by the Curator of Exhibits of the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska in early March? It was a great interview, we had so much to talk about, and in the end I will get a copy of her research project on the 100 Good Wishes Quilt tradition. During...

The box of fabrics collected by Kris from Joey's friends arrive a few days ago and with the ones sent by all my quilty friends, I have 121 squares. As soon as I got the chance I laid them all out on my great room floor to get an overall sense of the colors I have to work with. Kris originally wanted...

Ta Da! My long arm machine now has a name. Here and forever more she shall be known as Penelope! I just knew that the perfect name would come along for my new-to-me long arm machine and last night it did. While surfing through my blog reading, low and behold on someone's blog she posted about...

Thank you to everyone that entered my Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day! The number of comments astounded me. I think that is the highest total I've ever gotten on a post. I really enjoyed reading all of your comments and for those of you that are wishing for something specific for Mother's Day, I hope your wish comes true. And now on to the fun part...announcing the winners of my giveaway x 2. Mr. Random...

The switch from Google Reader to a new reader hasn't happened for me yet. I'm not the type to rush into things like this and when the announcement came out and a ton of people moved in the first couple of weeks, I sat back, watched and listened to what others were saying about their experiences with...

 The top of the 2nd of the 4 teacher quilts for this year's end of school year thank you gifts is done. This one only took me 4 days to sew together, working in the evenings and finishing up today. Friday evening I started piecing the blocks.  These were really easy and went together...

Update: This giveaway is now closed! The big bi-annual day Giveaway Day hosted by Sew Mama Sew is here! I don't know about you but I love winning giveaways and hosting some is fun too. "Meeting" lots of new quilting bloggers is always a good thing. So what am I offering up today? The...

Because I was buried getting the Crimson Diamonds quilt and the Friends Together Together-Little Artists' quilt done for the school's silent auction fundraiser done, the 1st teacher quilt that I worked on, though started in early March, wasn't finished until Wednesday night. Yesterday I rushed...