• 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Quick Gifts

    I bought a few 5″ x 5″ black frames (inside opening) for quilt market to display some of my Halloween quilt blocks.  The blocks looked cute in the frames, but they were destined for my new Halloween quilt. So after market I removed the quilt blocks and I was left with empty frames that needed filling.   I decided to play around with some of those cute buttons…

  • Snapshots Quilt

    Remember the Snapshots quilt from Fat Quarter Shop that I’ve been making all year? Well, I’ve finally finished my version and it’s one of three quilts on Ebay up for auction by The Fat Quarter Shop!  All the proceeds from the sale of these quilts go to St. Jude Children’s Hospital! This was a really fun quilt to make and I’m grateful to…

  • Fat Quarter Baby

    We had some fun playing around with The Fat Quarter Shop’s new book “Fat Quarter Baby“.   It’s a book filled with 20 of the cutest baby quilts ever!  Ten quilts for little girls and 10 for little boys. If you’re looking for a quick and easy quilt for a baby boy, “Andrew” the whale is perfect.  He looks cute in so many fabrics.…