Hi Everyone! Welcome to my first post as a 2023 Island Batik Ambassador. This is my third year and I am just as excited and honored to be doing this as I was on my first year. Four times a year the ambassadors participate in a blog hop. We are asked to make a particular type of quilt and are ...
We are moving right along in the Cotton Cuts Piazza puzzle mystery quilt. It’s time for clue number 7. I can’t believe it. We’ll be done in practically no time. As a reminder, I am doing the small version in the Maggiore colorway. It is a bright and patriotic combination of ...
We have lived in our house for about 15 years and have wanted to renovate our basement for a long time. Plans were finally put into place because I needed more space for my quilting business. We got our contractor set up, talked about the plans and the work was done. Join me as I take you on a ...
I am so proud to announce that I am once again an Island Batik Brand Ambassador for 2023. This marks my third year doing this and every year just keeps getting better and better. Wait until you see all of the gorgeous fabrics and goodies that we got for the first six months of the year. Thank ...
I am so excited to present my two new quilt patterns to you. Both of these quilts appeared in the Spring/Summer 2022 Island Batik catalog and are now for sale in my Etsy shop. I’d love to tell you a little bit more about each of them. Heart Strings Heart Strings is a sweet quilt that is ...
Welcome and have fun putting together clue number 6 of the Piazza puzzle mystery quilt from Cotton Cuts. This mystery quilt is loads of fun and it is the second one I have blogged along with. For this quilt I chose the Maggiore colorway and I am making the small version of the quilt. A bright ...
Guess what? As of this blog post we are half way through assembling the Cotton Cuts Piazza puzzle mystery quilt. Clue number 5 is easy and quick to assemble which is really nice because it is December and we all know how busy it gets around this time of the year. How much fun is this festive ...
Four times a year Island Batik ambassadors participate in a blog hop to show off their gorgeous new fabric lines. We are assigned one of the lines and asked to make a quilt of a certain style with the fabric. This time our challenge was to make a lone star quilt. Gulp! I’ve only ever made ...
Can you believe it is already time to assemble clue #4 of the Piazza puzzle mystery quilt from Cotton Cuts?! There are 2 sections to this month’s clue and a small glitch in the pattern, but no worries, my video shows you what to do. There are a lot of half square triangles this month, ...
I am over the moon excited to show you my latest quilt – Strength Training. I love the way this quilt turned out. When the people at the magazine told me it was going to be on the cover I couldn’t believe it. My quilt on the cover of a quilt magazine! Wow! This is my first pattern ...
After 10 long months it is finally time for my grand reveal of the Cotton Cuts Sew Sweet puzzle mystery quilt. Woohoo! This was so much fun to put together and now that I have the entire quilt together it looks fantastic. I’m so happy that I chose my colorway Churro. It has such soft ...
