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September 12, 2018 quilt inspiration•Strip quilts•work in progress

Progress on Carolina Mingle Quilt

Hello sweet friends! If you’ve been following along with me on IG then you probably seen all the pictures...
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July 18, 2017 how to: quilt patterns•quilt inspiration•rescue quilts•The Rescue Quilts

The Rescue Quilts – #1 – A Tumbler Quilt – the find and the pattern

The Rescue Quilt series is about finishing up quilt tops that were never completed and then remaking the pattern.  Sometimes I find easier / modern ways to make the quilt pattern, and sometimes I change up the pattern a bit to freshen things up. Sometimes I will offer the quilt pattern to you free, sometimes it will be a paid pattern in my pattern shop. The goal is to honor the quilt maker who made the quilt top by completing their project, to not waste good craftsmanship (usually done by hand), to ogle long ago yummy fabrics, and to...

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July 5, 2017 quilt inspiration•traveling quilt•wandering quilts

Wandering Quilt – Nicole’s – I.am.blessed

Just in case you are not familiar with traveling quilts here is the idea: Each member of your group creates a starter block and usually writes a journal with details, theme and style they would like their quilt to end up. You send your starter block to another member in your group (usually there is a list, and you send it to the next lady on the list), they have a month to add on to your starter block and get your quilt going. Then, they send it to the next woman on the list and so on and...

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June 27, 2017 quilt inspiration•traveling quilt•wandering quilts

Wandering Quilt – Lara’s Field Study quilt

Just in case you are not familiar with traveling quilts here is the idea: Each member of your group creates a starter block and usually writes a journal with details, theme and style they would like their quilt to end up. You send your starter block to another member in your group (usually there is a list, and you send it to the next lady on the list), they have a month to add on to your starter block and get your quilt going. Then, they send it to the next woman on the list and so on and...

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April 20, 2017 craftsy classes•Meaningful fabric choices•quilt inspiration•quilt pattern details

Quilt Beginnings – Quote Quilt and all the supplies

Inspiration. It’s a pretty amazing feeling.  I don’t always have it, but when I do it almost feels like my mind is soaring. Ideas.  Feelings.  Excitement. There is usually a beginning. From about this past November – January, I was reading The Lord of the Rings books.  I know, I know.  I used to hate when those movies would come on TV and my husband would watch them and I get annoyed, but I really just missed ‘it’.  I didn’t get it.  Until I did. I’m not sure what possessed me to start reading the books, but it was...

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April 8, 2017 quilt inspiration•traveling quilt•wandering quilts

Wandering Quilt – Rebecca’s Dandelion quilt + an update on my honey bee quilt

Just in case you are not familiar with traveling quilts here is the idea:  Each member of your group creates a starter block and usually writes a journal with details, theme and style they would like their quilt to end up.  You send your starter block to another member in your group (usually there is a list, and you send it to the next lady on the list), they have a month to add on to your starter block and get your quilt going.  Then, they send it to the next woman on the list and so on and...

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March 26, 2017 quilt inspiration•traveling quilt•wandering quilts

Wandering Quilt – Sea Aquarium, Alissa’s

Just in case you are not familiar with traveling quilts here is the idea:  Each member of your group creates a starter block and usually writes a journal with details, theme and style they would like their quilt to end up.  You send your starter block to another member in your group (usually there is a list, and you send it to the next lady on the list), they have a month to add on to your starter block and get your quilt going.  Then, they send it to the next woman on the list and so on and...

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March 22, 2017 Meaningful fabric choices•quilt finish•quilt inspiration•Quilt Reveal

Quilt Reveal – 100 days Sky quilt

So there are quilts that you make that are super quick.  There are quilts that you make to get rid of your scraps.  There are quilts that you make that you are dying to make.  Then there are slow making epic quilts.  You know the ones.  The ones that might take you multiple months, years, etc because of their complexity. The ones you start gung-ho making, then get sick of and not touch for long expansions of time, and then start working on like a mad woman because you are all in love again. This is one of those...

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March 5, 2017 hexagon quilts•quilt inspiration•work in progress

The Nora Hexagon quilt

This is a quilt that has been brewing in my head ever since I finished my great grandmother’s quilt. I look at her quilt everyday.  It’s still on the back of my sofa. And I wanted to re-create her quilt, but make it much more modern looking.  I also wanted to blow it up huge so it didn’t take me months and months worth of handwork.   I was thinking I’d write a pattern for this one, but it just sat there in my head and I did nothing with the idea until a few weeks ago.  I had...

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February 19, 2017 hexagon quilts•quilt inspiration•Quilt Reveal•scrappy quilts•Strip quilts

Quilt Reveal – hexagon quilt #3

  A little history The hexagon quilt goes by many names throughout history:  Honeycomb, Mosaic and sometimes Six Sided Patchwork.  It’s beginnings were random layouts without too much attempt at color or design. The first hexagon quilt pattern was published in 1830 in The Godey’s Ladies Book according to WomenFolk.com.  It was popular because a quiltmaker could use many tiny scraps of cloth and it was soon realized that the design possibilities were endless. By 1930, hexagon quilts had mostly ceased to be random and became patterns that we know today like “grandmother’s flower garden” or “Field of Diamonds”....

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February 8, 2017 craftsy classes•quilt inspiration•traveling quilt•wandering quilts

Wandering Quilt – Tree of Life, Susan’s

Hey, hey! Today I’m talking about Wandering Quilt.  Wandering Quilt is a traveling quilt group I’m in that runs January to October of this year. Just in case you are not familiar with traveling quilts here is the idea:  Each member of your group creates a starter block and usually writes a journal with details, theme and style they would like their quilt to end up.  You send your starter block to another member in your group (usually there is a list, and you send it to the next lady on the list), they have a month to add...

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January 5, 2017 embroidery•quilt inspiration•traveling quilt•wandering quilts•work in progress

A wandering quilt – mine, the honey bee quilt

This month I start a journey with a new traveling quilt group called Wandering Quilt. I have done a traveling quilt group before in 2015 and received an incredible quilt that I never posted about.  Maybe I should post that soon.  Here is a pic of that quilt in case you are interested. That project really tested my skills.  Our group had some incredibly talented women and I doubt I measured up, but I was honored to be a part of their group. Just in case you are not familiar with traveling quilts here is the idea:  Each member...

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