• 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……

  • 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,…

  • 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…