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  • FINISHED! Matching Twin Postage Stamp Quilts

    Every time I’ve worked on these quilts lately, I’ve joked that they’re five years in the making. Today, I looked back at the past posts I’ve shared of their progress, and…

  • Twin Postage Stamp Quilts for the Little Girls

    About a zillion years ago, I roped myself into a postage stamp quilt project.  It was when our littlest was really little; in about two months, she turns three, and there…

  • Postage Stamp Quilt Progress

    I’m in Austin for QuiltCon the rest of this week, so it seems appropriate that I share the progress I’ve been making on the matching postage stamp quilts I’m putting together…

  • Scrap Project Bucket #1: Postage Stamp Quilt

    I love these little fabric buckets.  They have, I know, been done a dozens times over, but somehow the revelation that they’d be a perfect way to organize my scrap projects…

  • Oakshott Cotton Challenge

      I agreed to be part of the Oakshott Ruby Mini-Quilt Challenge with Sew, Mama, Sew mostly because I didn’t really know anything about Oakshott cottons.  I think I had a vague…

  • Geranium Pink is the New Black

    Currently, this is our girls’ room.  Our six-year-old and three-year-old share this space, and we’ve only recently moved out the crib and made way for a bigger bed.  It was the…

  • Our New (Old) House

    In the fall of 2011, my husband and I bought a new house.  Well, new to us: it’s a 1968 ranch on an acre lot.  And the previous owner wasn’t really…

  • #scrappytripalong

    Good heavens.  That Instagram.  It’s a breeding ground for quilt viruses.  And this one was a treasure to suffer through.  Thanks to Katy, Rita and Brenda, the #scrappytripalong sprang up between…

  • Modern Designs for Classic Quilts Giveaway!

    When I was working on Stitch Savvy, there were a few hairy moments.  The book has 25 projects, and I had one week to shoot ALL the step-by-step photos for the…

  • Tony Danza is Getting Bigger

    Well, we’re making progress on Tony Danza, but it is slooooooow.  And I’m a little worried about his eyes. The biggest issue is that postage stamp quilts, by their nature, are…

  • T-Minus 9 Weeks to Tony Danza

    I have been malingering over my Tony Danza quilt for quilt a while now.  The ladies at the shop never did fully believe that it would ever see the light of…

  • LBD and The Big List

    Two things going on here: One, I’m finally sewing in the lining on the Little Black Dress I made with my Fall Wardrobe e-course class back in…what, September?  October?  It was…

  • Antique Quilts: Guest Post from Jennifer

    We’re still unpacking from our move, and then re-packing for our family vacation (an unfortunate fluke of scheduling that they fell right on top of one another, but one does not…