Shop Hop Rocks!
April means it’s time once again for the annual Kansas Nebraska Shop Hop! We participated in our first one last year and have done two Shop Hop related treks so far this year. … Read more
April means it’s time once again for the annual Kansas Nebraska Shop Hop! We participated in our first one last year and have done two Shop Hop related treks so far this year. … Read more
Here are the 7 of my favorite quilt blocks from all that I sewed last year. (You can see the first 6 here in My Favorite Quilt Blocks: 2022, part one. All 13 … Read more
Here are a few of my favorite quilt blocks from the ones I sewed in my first year of sewing, 2022. Larger versions are available on Flickr. This is part one of two … Read more
Inspired by an image I saw, I decided to create my own version of a winter quilting block. The basic idea is to cut out various size “pine trees” from your favorite fabrics, … Read more
This is the story of how I created a small, simple quilt using a charm pack (42, 5″ pre-cut squares). Eight months ago, when I was just beginning to learn how to quilt, … Read more
Earlier this year we participated in our first quilt store Shop Hop. Basically, you visit participating quilt shops and register for prizes, pick up small gifts, etc. It was fun and when the … Read more
Quilting and painting and baking and gardening (and kittens!), these are a few of my favorite things! I had a very unproductive month in July (not counting the setup of a new home … Read more
We recently did our first quilt store Shop Hop, details below! The way it works is you visit participating area quilting and sewing shops. You show them your guide and they put in … Read more
We attended the Sunflower Journey Quilt show in Abilene, Kansas in late March. I’d never been to a quilt show, so had little in the way of expectations. What we found was a … Read more
Continuing were I left off last post, I’ve created a few new quilt blocks and I’ve done my first bit of actual quilting! I’ve created a number of different blocks over the past … Read more