The theme for this week’s virtual quilt contest is Bugs and Birds. Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The first and second place winners will each get a copy of quilt author Marie Bostwick’s latest book, A THREAD SO THIN. Grab yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy the beautiful quilts [...]

The theme for this week’s virtual quilt contest is Spring Garden. Grab yourself a cup of coffe and enjoy the beautiful quilts below. Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner will win a $30 gift certificate to use as they wish from Jojo’s Quilt & Gift Shoppe. Voting is [...]

The theme for this week’s virtual quilt contest is Mothers. The quilts and the stories below are just wonderful. Many thanks to everyone that entered. Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner will win a $30 gift certificate to use as they wish from Around the Block Quilters Shop. [...]

by: Pannay Guigley Did you ever notice, the attitudes around you are infectious? If you find a group of friends who are in love with what they do, that radiates and enraptures you, and soon it is your new love. That is how I feel about the Quilt Shop I found when we moved from [...]

The theme for this week’s virtual quilt contest is On the Farm. Many thanks to everyone that entered. Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner will win a layer cake of their choice from the Fat Quarter Shop. Voting is open Friday – Sunday @ 11:59 p.m. One vote [...]

The theme for this week’s virtual quilt contest is Earth Day (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle). Many thanks to everyone that entered. Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner will win a 24-fat quarter pack of Wheels by My Minds Eye from The Quilted Fish. Voting is open Friday – Sunday [...]

Here’s my progress so far on Rachel’s Pinwheel Sampler Quilt Along. I was caught up at Easter, but now I’m behind the last three blocks blocks. Oh well, they’ll have to wait now until after Market and other deadlines get done first. I’m loving how these are coming together. Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 [...]

You’re going to want to grab a cup of java to browse through these gorgeous Scrappy Quilts for this week’s virtual quilt contest. Many thanks to everyone that entered. Scrappy quilts are a favourite of mine, and your quilts have provided me with so much inspiration. Now it’s time for you to vote for your [...]

I must admit, I was a little worried that this week’s Circles theme for the virtual quilt contest wouldn’t be very popular. Much to my surprise, so many of you have made fabulous quilts with circles. Thanks to everyone that entered. Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner will [...]

Just like any other quilter, it started someplace, somewhere and somehow. I started sewing when I was in high school and my first “real job” was working in a fabric store. As time went on, I worked for a drapery company and then did tailoring for a local men’s wear shop. After a few years, [...]

Grab yourself a cup of coffee, these quilts are fabulous. The theme for this week’s virtual quilt contest is Easter. Thanks to everyone that entered their fabulous quilts in the Weekly Themed Quilt Contest. Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourite!! The lucky winner with the most votes will win a Jelly [...]

I’m thrilled to be featured as a guest blogger! Quilting has always been such a relaxing past time for me. In 1976 I was working on a needle point picture of Mickey Mouse commemorating the 500 year anniversary of the bicentennial. I was flipping through Family Circle magazine and came across a picture of a [...]