Month: August 2021

Quilt Along

A Place to Call Home Quilt Challenge

Does anyone else have piles of orphan quilt blocks lying around? When I design quilt blocks, a lot of times I make several or I don’t actually sew them into a project. This is especially true for my foundation paper piecing blocks. Several of my current orphan blocks are from when I began re-teaching myself […]

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Quilting

2021 Temperature Quilt Progress

I cannot believe it is already almost the end of August! The kids went back to school last week! My oldest is in 2nd grade and my youngest started preschool activities with me the this week. (Wish me luck!) Here is my 2021 temperature quilt progress. Seven months down and five to go! I’m still […]

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Blog Hop Crafters Edge Quilting Tutorials

Orange You Glad Blog Hop

The Challenge: Create something inspired by the color orange. Think orange, think citrus, think orange peel, or maybe the joke about “orange you glad we didn’t say banana!” Anything orange.  You decide. Well……Orange you glad I didn’t say BANANA peel? When shopping for fabrics, I found some banana fabric and knew that was the fabric I wanted […]

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Blog Hop Crafters Edge Tutorials

Orange You Glad Bonus Post!

Hello! I created this project after my first Blog Hop post was already complete. But since it fits into the description of the hop I wanted to share it along side my original post. If you are reading this post you either found my link on my Banana Beach Bag post or you joyfully explored […]

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Crafters Edge Tutorials

Mermaids & Dragon Scales

Crafter’s Edge dies are so versatile. You can use them for an entire project or just for a small detail. Today I want to share how I used the Mini Circle Set 2 to make my sewn zipper pouch a little extra special. The zipper pouch I made was designed by Geta Grama. You can […]

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