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Lately there has been a few clothes and t-shirt quilts hanging out in the sewing cottage.  Sewing with clothes, t-shirts and other pieces of clothing can be tricky.  If you don’t get it all

It is a little early to start thinking about this, Mother’s Day just passed byand all, but a quilt for dad takes time.  I wanted to make sure that if this was in your

The warmer days are hitting around here and there will for sure be a need to start carrying around a water bottle.  So, for this weeks 52 UFO Quilt Block Pick Up- how about

After hanging out at the show last week and being surrounded by so many totally talented machine quilters, I thought it might be a good idea to have a list where you can find

Last week I had a wonderful time with my mom and some other gals wandering around the HMQS {Home Machine Quilting Show}.  Man, I love this show! It is so inspiring and overwhelming really.

Round Robin Winter Wonderland by ~ Dawn’s design for the Round Robin brings us back to the forest.  The beauty of the row quilt is that you can sew these into any kind of

A quilt label might be the easiest way to use a UFO Quilt block.  Seriously.  That is if you do a quilt label.  Do you? I don’t always remember to use them….unless they are

I love sewing stuffed animals and sewing dolls.  I am pretty much smiling the whole time.  They have their own little character and personality– and I love it.  I’m almost like Geppetto from Pinocchio.

A few weekends ago I was so fortunate to hang out with my most bestest online friend, Heather and meet some new ones!  I hooked up with a ticket to go to SNAP! with

My Machine Quilting Story: I started off my ‘machine quilting life’ with an in the cabinet White sewing machine.  After I ran that one to the ground and was no longer able to stitch

I have been lingering around on this for a few months now….. me knowing.  You not.  It’s been killing me to keep it all to myself!  It has finally come that I can reveal

The fun thing with a mug rug pattern is that you can adjust it for whatever size you like! The typical size is around 7 1/2″ X 9 1/2″ but if you have some