Happy Cake Mix Monday and my Buttercream Quilt reveal! You are in for a sweet treat (pun intended). If you’re new to this quilt along, it is courtesy of the Fat Quarter Shop. Buttercream is just one of 16 quilts…
Greetings and welcome to my corner of Fat Quarter Shop’s Clementine Quilt Along! I’m a longtime lover of all things Fat Quarter Shop, including the many quilt alongs offered, and this gorgeous Clementine quilt is no exception. Getting Started…
If you are stopping by to see the Cake Mix Taffy Quilt, then you’re in the right place. Welcome to Cake Mix Monday with the Fat Quarter Shop!! I’m telling you now – this book is awesome. Published by It’s…
Hi everyone – today, I get to team up with the Fat Quarter Shop to share the Spool Souffle Quilt, which is so adorable and easy! Made from a layer cake, this is a free pattern designed by Joanna Figueroa…
This time last year I had finished weeks of intense study, furiously learning how to build this website and blog, creating clipart, headers and all the artwork to put on the site, and then I set it free to the…
Did you know that September is National Sewing Month? How great is it to have a passion for something that gets celebrated for an entire month of the year? It’s times like this that make me realize how much I…
Hi there. I’m sorry I haven’t posted in so very long. Since summer hit, the whole process of “finding balance” gets thrown out the window just a bit, and I struggle to keep it in focus. When I should be…
I’ve been gone so long from here that it’s really difficult to get started writing again. April and May were unusual months for us. Sadly, the same day I did my radio show for Pat Sloan, I made my usual…
I wanted to pop in and give a quick update on works in progress around here. I have my Globetrotting blocks completed and thought I would share them. I think I’m having a blue fetish these days so I’ve dug…
Yesterday I came across the #100happydays challenge which you can read about here. I love this idea! In a time when we’re all rushing to and fro, feeling too busy to enjoy the moment, this challenge is an opportunity to focus on…
Lots of sewing, gardening (woo hoo for warmer weather and longer days!), and Big 12 NCAA televised basketball going on around our little place. I figure before we hit the end of the first quarter of this year (already??) I…
I stole the first word of my headline. In fact, I’m practically stealing an entire post that I just read on another blogger’s site, but reading it gave me such a huge AHA moment it, it became the inspiration for…
I know I’m not the only one buried in snow today, so it seems like the perfect opportunity to do some sewing!! That being the case, I think everyone should be sewing with me, so I’m offering a 20% discount…
L ast week zipped right past, between getting the house into tip top shape for a Super Bowl party and lots and lots of packaging and sending out the new Fat Quarter Placemat I patterns. Now, I’m sitting here taking…
Ho! Ho! Ho! I wonder how many of you are still up at this moment, finishing the last stitches on bindings, ironing finished projects, wrapping them? I'm done with gifts for another season, many of them being test models for…
I'm behind a bit on my writing this week, but there are good reasons! First and foremost, reorganizing my sewing room, which brings me to what I am grateful for: having a designated area in which to sew. I can…
It's that time of year again. Halloween is over and our thoughts are now turning to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Trying to find a balance between work, our children's holiday activities, social engagements, shopping, baking, wrapping and sending Christmas cards, can…
Day 4 – Blogs: I love them. Blogging has changed the way we quilt. Not sure how to perform a certain technique? Google it, because I can promise you someone has blogged about it. Want to know the latest news…
Day 3 – rulers and templates: As I started gathering rulers and templates to photograph for this post, I came to the realization that an intervention might be in order. I seem to have a fetish for tools, similar to women…
I am blessed in so many ways: a loving husband, fun and "normal" families, and numerous stray cats that keep us entertained, just for starters! I have a job that I love, and I look forward to Mondays and getting to…
"Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” -Mark Twain. In other words, get your most dreaded task out of the way each day before you doing anything else. Today,…
I swear I'm like a little kid when I get attention – love it, love it, love it! Am I the only person around that gets this excited when people "like" and "comment" on Facebook and blog posts? Hopefully not!…
This month I started a new project…. ….and I love it! Each day, we receive a topic to write about and make a list. Some topics are simple, but others have been pretty thought provoking. I love scrapbooking but rarely get a chance…
This is what I do in an effort to avoid cleaning my sewing room. Overall, it was totally worth! I love that a simple batch of homemade bread dough can be turned into a dozen bierrocks, a small pan of cinnamon rolls…
My mother, Chelsea, has suffered from Alzheimer's the past two years. Every Saturday, my sisters and I faithfully make the trip to the home where she stays to visit with her. Recently, she was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, which…