• Snow Happy Hearts for March

    It’s already the month of March, can you believe it?  Are you ready for #3 of Snow Happy Hearts? It’s a snowman with a PINK lamb for a friend!  I love pink lambs so of course I include one when I can.  March seems like the perfect pink lamb month. You’ll find the last of the Snow Happy Hearts fat quarter bundles on…

  • The best dottie mini charm quilt ever

    Guess what I’ve got for you today?  It’s the best Dottie Mini Charm Quilt Kit ever, according to Milkshake! I promise, if she thinks this kit is great, it is!  You’ll want to grab one of these kits while we have them in stock, because the pattern I designed to go with it is FREE!   Who doesn’t love dots, who…

  • Little Maya has arrived!

    There’s nothing like a new grandchild to make you feel good. It’s such a wondrous event.  Maya, my newest granddaughter, arrived on February 8th weighing in around 9 lbs. She’s Lily’s little sister. Lily has held her, kissed her and probably wondered in that head of hers, if she’s going to be going home sometime soon.  But as time passes they…

  • The making of an aurifil thread kit

    Just imagine, Moda and Aurifil ask you to design a small quilt and then choose thread colors to go with it.  It’s not as easy as it sounds! The first thing you’d have to do is open up this beautiful color palette of Aurifil threads!  Something happens to your heart when you see this many beautiful colors!  It’s like being turned loose in…

  • Snapshots

    It’s February 15th and time for block two of Snapshots, the Fat Quarter Shop quilt-along.  You can find the free block on the Jolly Jabber blog and it’s the perfect one for all of us.  It’s the sewing machine block! Just think, you can make a sewing machine any color you’d like!  This block is quick, easy and imagine, no applique needed.…

  • Designer Mystery has me dreaming of far away places

    Take 12 Moda designers, add some Moda fabric, ask each designer to design a block and what do you get?  It’s another wonderful, cute,  fabulous Designer Mystery Quilt that you’ll find at The Fat Quarter Shop! Rows of houses and snowmen.  It’s such a cute quilt, and I designed one of the blocks for it.  As the mystery unfolds, you’re going to be…