Registration is now open for the Quilted Fabric Basket Swap. The creative possibilities are endless. Have fun and make new quilting friends around the world.

Winners have been chosen for last week’s Aurifil blog hop. Download the free blocks too.

Check out this week’s edition of Bits and Pieces of quilting stuff found around the web including a free garden-themed BOM from Jinny Beyer and my favourite digital tools.

Today’s my special day in the first-ever Aurifil Blog Hop. Check out why I think Aurifil threads are Irresistible, download my Hidden Star, and enter for your chance to win some threads.

Talking Threads is an exciting 10 part series about the colourful world of contemporary textile art, and you can watch it for free.

The beginning of the new year is always very exciting in quilting blog land with new block of the months, quilt alongs and challenges getting under way. More than 25 great projects to start!

Are you ready? It’s time for a new swap! For this swap, we’ll be making TWO mug rugs to send to our secret partner.

Download the files for Erin Russek’s gorgeous Florabunda Block of the Month project before January 5th.

Below are some super cute projects and tutorials for you to enjoy! Here’s a simple and inexpensive way to organize your bobbins with the Sassy Crafter’s DIY bobbin organizer. Would make a great stocking stuffer. Felicia took the above tutorial one step further by using pinking shears for her bobbin organizers. These are just too [...]

Congratulations to #61 Brigitte for winning Elisa Wilson’s pattern and template give-away from last week’s guest blogger post. Thanks to everyone that shared their favourite beginner’s quilting tips. Here’s Brigitte’s tip: My first quilt teacher always made us rip out anything that was not precise. At the time I thought it ludicrous but realized in [...]

The other day, I was browsing around the Moda Bake Shop and came across this bright and cheerful Coupon Clutch Tutorial. I had the pleasure to meet Julie from jaybird quilts a couple of months back in Lancaster. Her tutorials are always fantastic. While I don’t really collect coupons, I love the size and shape [...]

Ryan Walsh of I’m Just A Guy Who Quilts, put together a fabulous tutorial for this mini quilt. It’s called Bundles of Joy Quilt and finishes at 24″ x 28″. You’ll need one charm pack and one yard of coordinating fabric. Lots of step-by-step pictures to walk you through how to put this mini quilt [...]