Sometimes I feel like there is always time for a holiday project and this one may be just what you are looking for. This is my easy Christmas fusible appliqué mini quilt and it may just be my new favorite Christmas design. The quilt measures about 12″ square and can be made as a wall ...
Have you had a chance to check out my “Fast & Easy Quilt Blocks” series over on my my YouTube channel ? This will be my 12th block in the series. They are all fun and easy to make. In addition, they are terrific scrap busters and I love a good scrap buster! Join me while you ...
Sometimes you just want to get a quilt done and you don’t feel like cutting those 2 1/2″ strips for the binding. This is the ideal solution for you. Follow along with me as I show you how to bind a quilt the quilt backing. Using the backing as binding is easy to do. However there ...
Do you like unboxings as much as I do? Here’s my second one as a Missouri Star Quilt Company affiliate. I am really enjoying this and can’t wait to show you what I got in my July Missouri Star Quilt Company unboxing. You will probably be able to tell that I love fabric and I am ...
About a year ago I wrote a blog post and did a video on how to fussy cut and it included 7 easy blocks that were good for the process. People enjoyed it so much that I decided to add some more. These blocks are, for the most part, a little bit trickier, but are still not difficult. They just ...
My Prisms blog hop has finished up and I am overwhelmed with the stunning creations that the participating quilters made with these fabrics from Island Batik. Prisms was designed by Kathy Engle for Claudia Porter of Create with Claudia (me!). It is a fabric line full of bright jewel tones and ...
I am over the moon excited to be debuting my very first signature fabric line with Island Batik. Full of 20 bright jewel tones, I have designed 4 quilts to showcase the fabrics. Not only that, but 10 friends are using some of the fabrics to make some fun projects. My Prisms blog hop begins on ...
One of my favorite things is making quilt blocks. They usually come together fairly quickly and the best part is they can be turned into larger quilts. It also fun to see what kind of secondary designs quilts can make. That is why I came up with my “Fast & Easy Quilt Blocks” ...
Picture this…you are at your favorite quilt shop and you see a quilt pattern that you absolutely love. You buy it, bring it home, start working on it and then Wham…you hit a road block and never finish it. We’ve all been there and it can be pretty frustrating. Hopefully my ...
This year I decided to join a wonderful quilting event called Quilt Block Mania. Every month designers come up with a quilt block pattern that corresponds to a particular topic. This month’s topic was drinks. We can come up with any design we want and I decided to come up with something ...
Well my first visit to QuiltCon is in the books and wow was it fantastic. In 2024 it was held in Raleigh, NC and as soon as I saw where it was going to be when it was announced I knew that I was going to go. I went to North Carolina State University and graduated in the 1980s. It has been a ...
