Wow! Long time since I’ve blogged anything. It’s been a wild ride with getting ready to go to market, and all the other wonderful springtime things. So, we are really trying to branch a little further into the garment sewing world. There are after all, other things to do besides just sewing quilts! There are so many things to sew. I just recently started getting patterns from a company where

I am so honored to have been asked to contribute to the booth for Spring Market 2016. They contacted me to create some things for their booth using fabric that no one has seen yet. It will be for ordering this spring. I can’t wait to get started. It’s a surprise, and I can’t show it to anyone, but the box arrived yesterday at the shop. This will be a

I think everyone is ready for spring. It’s here but we just had a lot of snow dumped on us. They say that farmers like these late winter/early spring snows. The moisture can soak into the ground without being erosive. I’m not a farmer, that’s just me repeating what I hear but it sounds good to me. The best kind of projects are ones that turn out really cute but

I love to teach enthusiastic sewists to make these umbrellas. I was asked to teach this class at our local technical college this past week. I could only teach about 8 at a time, so if you tried to sign up and didn’t get to take the class, please try again next year. Or, you can come to the shop and take the class too. The women that I taught

I haven’t been blogging in a long time. The thing is, when you’re writing a book, you can’t blog about it because everything is in secret. You can’t plaster your creations over the internet, and so it may give the illusion that you aren’t working on anything new. Arrgh! Well, I have been working my tail off to meet my deadlines. I will have a second book turned in and

I think I may have talked a little about the lamps that I have been making. I decided to get rings made so that you could make lamps using your favorite fabrics. There are so many uses for fabric. People seem to forget that there is a whole world of things that you can make besides quilts. Yes, quilting may be our favorite, but in the same realm is home

I love all my customers, but there are some that just click. Peggy Jensen is one of those. She comes in with her husband, who is also a terrific guy. Well, they’re becoming grandparents so this is a very exciting time for them. Then, Peggy made a quilt for her son. All the fabrics are from the Bungalow. I had a great time picking them out with her. She has

We are having a monthly challenge. It is described in a previous post. The fabric is an olive fabric that is tons of fun. Debbie Laffin entered the challenge. If you enter you can win a great fat quarter pack. There’s still time to come in and enter. She entered this sweet little mini. It only has to be something small. You have until March to get it done. It

I was throwing together fabric combinations for an ad. I wanted to show the great fabrics that we will have for the Fabric Fashion Show in March. This is a really fun event. It is a sold out event every year. What we do is we put groupings of fabric together. I usually choose the customers that really wow me when they come in to the shop. They are the

How many of you have done mini-swaps on Instagram? Quite a few, I bet. I just finished one and it was really fun. I haven’t received my mini quilt yet, but I have sent mine off. In this one, you could choose to send internationally or stay in the states. I figured that since I am older and more established, I should be generous and choose an international partner. I