Category: Site News


  • Join us as nine bloggers participate in the first-ever Aurifil blog hop. We’ve each designed a block for you and there will be prizes!

  • The winners of the one-year subscription to the Premium version of Evernote have been chosen. Read about their organizational challenges.

  • Moving Servers

    Just like moving houses, moving servers is no fun and can be very stressful. I think I have a lot more gray hairs now than I did a week ago.

  • Woohoo!! The new Quilt Guilds section is now ready for Guilds to start entering their information. The Guilds will be organized geographically by country and sub-divided into province and state for Canada and the USA. Each Guild will be able to add links to their web site, blog, Facebook, Twitter and email, as well as…

  • I’m very excited to participate in Pat Sloan’s The Edge Blog Hop this coming week. My day is Saturday, October 2nd and I’ll be sharing a family-favourite cookie recipe and a short story of one of my first quilts. Have you heard about the new The Edge rulers from Sullivan’s? It sharpens your rotary cutting…

  • I’ve made changes to the advertising rates for the Quilt Shop Locator to better reflect the current economic times. I understand how difficult it is for a quilt shop or online quilting retailer to attract new customers. It’s a tough market out there! Advertising in the Locator is very inexpensive. There’s no long-term commitment. You…

  • I made some changes last week to the Quilting Bloggers directory. For each blog, you’ll now see the latest 3 blog posts. I’ve also added integration with Facebook, so you can “Like” blogs here and share them with your friends on Facebook. If you’re blog is not showing the latest posts, there are generally two…

  • Congratulations to #120 Avery Claire for winning Patsy Thompson’s Free Motion Fun…with Feathers! DVD. I’ll be sending you an email to get your mailing address. Here’s Avery’s tip: I absolutely adore feathers….they look so elegant on a quilt. My favorite quilting tip is to do a LOT of practice quilting by making baby quilts. They…

  • Email is now working. However, if you sent me something this morning (Friday), I probably did not get it if I haven’t answered you. Please resend. Thanks for your patience and understanding!

  • I was so excited to learn that Quilting Gallery was chosen as one of the top 55 favourite blogs for quilters in the latest issue of Quilter’s Home magazine. Check us out on pg. 17, middle column. Last month, we were also chosen as the blog pick of the month in the local Ottawa computer…