I met Lynette at a craft show earlier this year and she asked about t-shirt quilts. Her daughter played softball at Cedar Crest College and wanted a way to use and enjoy all the t-shirts she had collected over the years. So we decided on a queen sized t-shirt quilt. She placed her order on…
I just love stripes when creating Halloween totes. Here is another set that I whipped up this week. The sides are a fun Halloween candy print: The inner lining is candy corns on a purple background. Of course there is a mobile phone pocket. Hopefully there are no tricks and all treats with this cute bag!
We are at the Ridgewood Craft Fair today in Ridgewood, NJ. This is a great event with lots of vendors all through the center of town. Fortunately the rain appears to be holding off. Our booth is starting to look more organized. It is tough to balance looking like you have a comprehensive offering while…
I am a little late making Halloween bags as it was a long summer but I have three done, three half way there, three cut and three that have fabric pulled. Here is the first batch. I love, love, love this fabric. The horizontal stripe of the focus fabric with the coordinating stripe for the…
I am a summer girl, but I love fall too – the first chill in the air, sweater weather, tennis, and crock pot Sundays with the NFL on TV. I seem to be at my most productive when it comes to sewing and I love the way the holidays pile up – first Halloween with…
I spent the majority of last week at Stream Health, a conference that my company hosted to elevate dialogue about technology and healthcare. This was clearly for my day job, so you are probably wondering what it has to do with sewing and quilting. Well, one of the activities was called Ignite. Ignite presentations are…
I bought this awesome Zoofari line of fabric close to two years ago, planning to make a baby quilt for a friend. She had wanted blue and green, so I thought this would be perfect, but she wanted LIGHT blue and LIGHT green. So, this fabric, along with the brown/orange color way, was added to…
I am enjoying a cup of coffee this morning and was scrolling Facebook to see all of the shiny, happy faces heading off to school when I came across this funny haha from the California Arts Council on a fellow quilter’s Facebook page. I really got a kick out of this, especially as I go…
What are you tips and tricks to help you get more done? I have a few things I do that help me be more productive and also help me maintain some semblance of order around my stash. First, after I cut a project out, I try to decide what to do with the scraps right…
