It was my mom’s birthday earlier this week. I sent her this beaded Friendship Bag: I also made her a tote bag from a Moda Bake Shop Tutorial: Close up of the stitching: Free-motion stitching on the back:

I have always been intimidated by free motion quilting, until now. My first attempts were awful: jumpy, inconsistent stitches, tension problems, stitches where I didn’t want them, etc. I was determined to improve this year. I have been working on six baby quilts for the local guild to donate to NICU babies. Pictures as soon [...]

Last year, I ran a contest here on the Quilting Gallery site, Charms for Charity. We raised 1,149 charms. Last January a couple friends and I started a charity sewing group and invited others to join us. We meet once a month. Several of the ladies in the group have never sewn before, never mind [...]

The quilt I made and the one I received for the Spring Blooms swap, plus goodies and a fabric postcard from Norway.

The quilts I created for the Quilt Shop Locator booth at Spring Market.

I started working on my Spring Blooms Mini Quilt last night. Looking for some border ideas.

Check out the gorgeous hats I made for Judy and I to wear at Market. All they need is a little bit of ribbon added so they can be tied under our chin. I’m sure we’ll be a great hit. Ok seriously, these are candy dishes, made from another of Geta Grama’s fabulous tutorials, Quilted [...]

Hi all, I decided to take a week off from blogging to let everyone get caught up reading the fabulous guest blogger posts from February. If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, please read the guidelines, then send me an email. In case you missed it in my newsletter, I’ve been accepted as a [...]

I realized as I’m writing my newsletter to go out later tonight (or tomorrow), that I haven’t posted photos of the Christmas quilts I made for my family. Oops! Here they are. I made each of my nieces a quilt. Dora for Lucy and Elmo for baby Alice. While these aren’t great works of art, [...]

Happy New Year everyone. I hope you had a nice holiday … I sure did. Here’s the latest report on the Charms for Charity Contest. If you would like to participate, the final contest drawing will be held January 31st. With the holidays over, the mail seems to be moving a lot quicker, so there’s [...]

Bee Sew Whimsical hosted a Secret Santa Honeypot Swap. Here’s what I mailed to my partner last night: My partner, Peggy from Quebec, sent me these very cute stockings with beads, which are now hanging in my kitchen. She also included 6 charms for the Charms for Charity contest stuffed in the stockings… I was [...]

Here’s the wedding quilt I made for my friends that were married this past summer. I used the Disappearing Nine Patch design (also called the Charm Square Quilt). I started with 12 fat quarters, which I cut up into 5″ charm squares, made the nine patches and cut them in 1/2. The finished block unit [...]