Normally, as a former English teacher, I wouldn’t write a title like that, but it seems to fit, since that’s what I wanted to write about for my guest blog. I have three blogs, you see, and some people think that’s crazy, but it works for me. While I’m a pretty creative person (okay, I’m [...]

Greetings everyone! Here is something about me and making quilts in my corner of the world. Cheers from sunny Bulgaria! It is a beautiful country with the oldest processed gold on the planet and talented people.

I am currently almost 6 months into my self-imposed challenge to go an entire year without buying any fabric. Am I crazy? Maybe a bit. But I realized that every time I bought new fabric, I tended to use it in a project. My stash, collected over years and years was going mostly unused. I [...]

Thank you Michele for allowing me to be a guest blogger! I was thrilled when I found out what day I got to blog! I thought of all of the things I could say about my love of quilting and what draws me to this wonderful hobby, I finally decided that I would share with [...]

My name is Cathy McKillip and I have been the owner of Wish Upon A Quilt for the last 9 months. After spending 20 years in the corporate world (healthcare and software development), I decided to take the plunge (I’m also a scuba diver) and follow my passion-fabric, quilting and sewing! I am excited that [...]

hey yall. i’m rachel from p.s. i quilt i’m SUPER excited to be a guest blogger on quilting gallery. {thanks michele.} let’s see…where to begin… it all started when i was 16 in home ec class. i thought that our home ec teacher was the bomb. she was young, hip, and could totally hang with [...]

I started quilting in 1993 as a way to get out of the house :) I had two little kids and was living in a new town. The guild was newly formed and had just 20 or so members. I knew nothing about quilting but I had always enjoyed sewing. I had learned to sew [...]

Quilt Historian, Researcher, Speaker and Future Art Quilt Maker Thank you Michele for inviting my personal words and thoughts for the Quilting Gallery website. I didn’t want to write the usual story about how I got started in quilting and what I like about quilting; besides it is on my website. For you I decided [...]

Angels, saints, sinners, strange beasts. Fire eye-browed women and prickly landscapes step out of the air and into my work. I can’t help it. These odd characters and scenes aren’t predetermined, they just happen. I don’t use patterns, rarely make sketches, refuse to pin, never measure (except at the very end), sometimes I don’t even [...]

“Busy hands are happy hands,” so Grandmother always said, patiently teaching me how to thread a needle, as I fumbled with the thimble. I have long since abandoned thimble-usage. My rough, calloused thumbs are proof. My grandmother’s example as she tenderly taught me, has stuck with me through the years. I am able to stick [...]

your own quilting history, how did you get started quilting My introduction to quilting was a bit like a religious experience…. Well, I’m not too sure what a religious experience is like because I’m not religious, but…. I’ve seen it in movies and "I want what she’s having" I was a fashion designer at the [...]

Greetings, Quilters! I’m so pleased to be invited to be a guest blogger (thanks, Michele!) and to connect with other quilters. I am Annie Unrein, a pattern designer and teacher who lives in St. George, Utah, and Sitka, Alaska. (Yes, I truly have the best of both worlds, as I get to enjoy the sunny [...]