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Splendid Sampler Fun
Have you seen the activity over at The Splendid Sampler Website? It’s amazing to see all the blocks coming in! Many have been adding their own touch to the blocks, and so many looks are created just from the fabrics alone! You still have time to get started and remember this isn’t a race to the finish line. The Splendid Sampler goes on for an entire year and during that time life is going to get in the way. I sent my newest fabric line off to Moda and then took Saturday to start on my sampler blocks. Once I started sewing I was hooked. The blocks are so different, and many…
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The Splendid Sampler
If I handed you 100 free block patterns and told you that they would become a precious gift if you made them, would you pick your most treasured fabrics? Would you treat each block as if were something you’d be handing down to your family? Would you do your very best sewing and enjoy every moment? Would you schedule time every week for a year to finish this precious gift? Start picking your best fabrics (the fabrics that touch your heart when you look at them) and get ready for the gift of the year from Pat Sloan and Jane Davidson! These two designers are giving the quilting community 100 free quilt blocks, throughout 2016 and into…
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all in a row moda blog hop
Hi everyone and welcome to Anne and Laurie’s day on the Moda “All in a Row” blog hop! I’m not sure who at Moda decided how to assign teams, but when I heard I was partnered with Laurie from Minick & Simpson, I couldn’t have been happier. I have my own secret fan club for Minick & Simpson. I love everything they design, I buy their fabric and someday I’m going to applique one of Laurie’s beautiful quilts. For this blog hop we were asked to make each other’s row from the new book “All in a Row”, using our own fabric. Let me show you my row from the book……
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all in a row
All in a Row, from the Moda designers! If you haven’t seen this book yet, you’re going to want one! It’s the first of the Moda All-Stars books from Martingale. There are many more books to come and I predict you’ll want them all! The best thing about this book is that the proceeds go to No Kid Hungry, a charitable organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger. Isn’t that the greatest? Imagine, a book you can buy that will help a child! Moda’s doing a blog hop right now that you don’t want to miss. Each designer in the book was asked to make another designer’s row. Truth be told,…
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January, a fresh new month
I love the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. No one really expects me to be working so it gives me time to clean and reorganize. I use this week to take down Christmas decorations and clean my studio while I watch all the shows I’ve recorded over the past month. I think it might be the best week of the entire year! One of the first things I did last week, was to find a place for the beautiful white shelf my friend Robin gave me. It fits perfectly on top of the pottery barn hutch on my desk, and once I cleared the clutter off the hutch the rest was…
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Christmas Quilts
I’ve designed so many Christmas quilts over the years, my house is filled with them. Not all at once of course. Many remain folded on the shelves, waiting for a chance to be shared. From my very first one, Catch A Christmas Star, to my latest one, Mistletoe Lane, there are many in-between. I thought it’d be fun to decorate this blog post with them. Are you ready? Warning, this post is picture heavy! “Catch A Christmas Star” was my very first Christmas quilt, designed in 2004. “Snowman Country” came along in 2006: 2007 brought “All Things Christmas”: The Original Version of “Postcard Cuties for Winter” made its debut in 2008… …along…
