I’m still in California. I am just reeling over how beautiful the Golden Gate Bridge is. I love art deco design. I also love any type of design from the arts and crafts movement. The Arts and Crafts movement occured during the progressive era, or just after the turn of the century, some time in the early 1920s. Why does that design sensibility just sing to me? Everyone has their

I’m so excited to be teaching in Livermore California next week. I’ve never been to that part of California. Actually, I’ve only been to California twice before in my life. The shop will be well tended to by my excellent employees, so I am not worried at all to leave things behind. The class that I am teaching is at a show that takes place in a garden center. I’m

This is a great opportunity to win a $50 gift card to the Bungalow. Come in and purchase your light shade kit and cord kit. The creativity is unlimited when you make one of these shades. Decorate it however you want. The uses for these are great. You can hang it over a favorite chair, your bed or sewing machine. Because they plug into the wall, you don’t need an

We have a new baby at the Bungalow and it’s our window shades. These window shades are a clutch roller system. They’re not on a spring, so they don’t slip down throughout the course of the day. What I mean by this is that many people try and cover a regular, spring loaded shade with fabric. If you do this, the fabric is too heavy for the spring loaded shade

I actually have tendonitis in my hands. I thought it was arthritis but my husband said it was a tendonitis from all the sewing that I have been doing. Right before Quilt Expo it is crunch time. I have been working on things all year, and now it’s about a week and a half away. I love quilt expo. I am actually teaching this year. It will be about my

Guidelines for Cuddle Blankets: For these cuddle blankets you will be choosing your strips and arranging them. Once you’ve chosen your arrangement you’re ready to sew them together. Shannon Fabrics’ website has a lot of great tutorials and suggestions about the best way to work with these wonderful substrates. Always use a walking foot when putting your strips together or just working with Cuddle in general. Pin Pin Pin! You

I just made the most adorable quilt for a little child. It uses the panel from Gingiber for Moda Fabrics called “Thicket”. It’s woodland animals and it’s so cute, dramatic, different! It is truly unique. All I had to do was border it out. But I wanted to do something with it that was worthy of a fabric called “Thicket” that had to do with woodland animals. So, I put

I would really love to do a sew-a-long with the blocks and I am sure that we will. I am pushing on to get all 50 done. I have the patterns, but I don’t have them all sewn yet. I can’t release the pattern until I have tried it myself and have it done. Even when you think it all seems right, you can be fooled. So, I don’t want