I thought when my own kids were babies I had made them everything possible. Gosh, one time I obsessively built them a canvas playhouse on a...

Orphan Quilt Block to Nursery Pillow Some days, try as we might, technology fights us. So the pictures are what they are today with my apolo...

Quilter's Gathering at Berlin 2021 August 26, 27, 28th Quilter's Gathering in Berlin on Facebook Early in 2019, I was asked to teach...

The Close Ups I want to get this post out this morning as there's so much happening. May is a crazy month between garden and studio. Som...

Commuting Surely you expected I'd wear pink Crocs to work. I have a raspberry pink shirt on right now, too. Color is a powerful thing.

Little Blue Baskets I don't know how I missed the fact that this sampler was the 1865 Passion Sampler, but I did. So giving credit to Fr...

Happy Blogiversary to Pink Doxies! Six years of color-filled posts shared with friends and family, laughter, tears, and lots and lots of lov...

The Marathon Continues Custom quilting requires many times longer than an edge-to-edge, and at present I have stacks of quilts waitin...

It's All About the Numbers or Custom Quilting Takes Forever or  The World Feels Very Crazy at the Moment,  and This Project Will...

Together at Last The minute I had delivered the Bountiful Baskets quilt I was hard at work putting together the last blocks of Sp...

"Bountiful Baskets" There are more and more requests for custom quilting coming, and I always feel it's a great lea...

Reach In and Touch Them Don't they look alive? Like you could feel they're cool, rubbery leaves if you swept your fingers ac...

Cornerstone Dresden Plates Shall I admit that I have rarely, if ever, made a whole quilt from a pattern created by someone else? As I ...

A Friday Sneak Peak! I just can't stand it any longer. I'm not really good at secret projects, and have been dying to show yo...

Mixed Media Fantasy Have you noticed how many more digital prints your local quilt stores are carrying this year? They're everyw...

How Tweet It Is! We feed the birds throughout the fall, winter, and spring. Sure, on the edge of a large woods they can forage for fo...

Memories of My Garden My garden is not particularly planned. It's more of a jumble of plants I've bought or been...

Oh, the Romance of Rome! As they say, "All roads lead to Rome", but have you ever been to Rome? It was many moons past fo...

Dresden Block #2 I decided to show you the blocks in the order I made them. It's interesting how we intuitively change our fabr...

Spin Drift Pattern by Michelle McKillop  for Jen Kingwell Designs Are you ready for a few weeks full of quilter's eye candy?...