Little bits and pieces of news and free projects for quilters: DIY furniture for your sewing room, mystery quilt and a novellini, charity events and more.

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

Take a look into the sewing spaces of other quilters and enter for a chance to win a 1-year subscription to Evernote Premium.

I recently completed a new web site for Gail Garber, a very talented quilter, author and teacher. Gail’s giving away two copies of her new book: Flying Colors.

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!

You’ll notice two common themes among my favourites quilting bloggers for 2010: colour and inspiration.

Chase away the winter blues and and have some fun solving this Quilting Mystery. Become a Quilt Detective and win prizes.

I love watching videos to learn new quilting techniques. Here are some of my favourite YouTube channels. The Missouri Star Quilt Company has a huge selection of awesome videos ranging from beginner to more advanced to using specific cuts of fabric. This is one of my favourite, showing a new (to me anyway) way to [...]

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 [...]

Bradie from A Quilty Kind of Girl will be hosting a Summer Star Sampler Quilt Along, starting July 6th (hey that’s my birthday!). Tutorials will be available every Tuesday on Bradie’s site with instructions for two blocks per week, followed by the center medallion, then borders. Check the blog post to download the fabric requirements. [...]

I have a confession, I have yet to start my “New from Old” quilt, for the Alliance of American Quilts contest. It’s due at the end of May. I plan to work on it when I return from Spring Quilt Market, and get it in the mail just in time to meet the deadline. Talk [...]

This week’s Shout Out Thursday blogger is The Quilt Rat. She’s a fabulous quilter and doodler and always has inspiring projects she’s working on. She shares her trials and errors and I’ve learned a lot just by reading her blog the past several months. We had fabulous weather in Ontario over the Easter weekend. Check [...]