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  • The Murder Mystery Quilt: Sew It to Solve It

    FOR THE 2020 PROJECT, VISIT The Murder Mystery Quilt SITE! In the first grade, when I was six years old, my class did a unit on Ancient Egypt.  I was, as most children are,…

  • Advent Calendar Sew-A-Long

    Years ago, I re-created my mother’s Advent calendar and interpreted it as a quilt-as-you-go project, complete with template.  The year I finally buckled down to make this for our family, I…

  • Antique Quilt Sections in Shadowboxes

    When my mother went away to college, her grandmother made her this quilt for her dorm room bed. When I went away to college, my mother gave it to me for…

  • Yo-Yos Got My Temperature Rising

    The weather is warming up nicely (at last), and I’m hand sewing like a madwoman these days. These little beauties are all samples for my workshop as part of Camp Aloha…

  • 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…

  • Valentine Silhouette Wall Hanging

    This quilt was made well over two years ago for a book proposal, but the project ended up not being included in Stitch Savvy.  When we moved into our new house,…

  • #scrappytripalong Finish!

    It is finished!  My #scrappytripalong quilt is all done–and I could not be more in love, seriously. What’s really funny (although I totally should not admit this here, because I’m sure…

  • Paving Stones Quilt

    Another exciting day on the Stitch Savvy blog tour! Today, Katy from Monkey Do (you might know her by her Twitter/Instagram handle I’m A Ginger Monkey) is sharing her fave projects…

  • Reversible Quilted Satchel

    Another day for the Stitch Savvy blog tour!  I’m seriously delighted today that Faith from Fresh Lemons is sharing her favorite projects from the book–she writes some of the best quilt…

  • #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…

  • do.Good Stitches Trust Circle Herringbone Quilt

    Another finish for the Circle of Trust! This is the herringbone block from Alisa’s Modern Block of the Month for Sew, Mama, Sew this past year, and it is spectacular. The…

  • Tony Danza Meets His Quilt!

    On Saturday night, the internet brought me and Tony Danza together.  And it was magic. If you’ve been following along, you know that around the time we moved into the shop…