I prepared this blog post several years ago but then totally forgot about it. Due to our season of quarantine and having two little kids stu...

Something kind of cool happened yesterday ... I was checking my blog analytics when lo and behold, I found 4000+ referrals from Facebook! ...

While almost every quilter enjoys notions ... I think a lot of us really love to collect rulers. Each new one we add to the collection prom...

I used to not care about threads. I figured black, white, and a tan were all I needed. I bought Gutermann 100% Polyester from Jo-Ann. When I...

One day, I was sewing a binding on, and as I was turning a corner, "crunch." Or, that's what it sounded like. I've never h...

For anybody who doesn't quilt on a frame, drag is a huge issue. I'd go out on a limb and say it's the biggest issue, even more s...

As I look around my sewing room and others' sewing rooms I was quite amazed at how many things that are there that were designed for oth...

I've had my lovely Pfaff for a few months now. I'm still very much in love with this machine, but I'm now able to give a slightl...

In order to cut out the puppy eyes for the Puppy Pieces quilt I'm making, I needed 70 little circles. I thought it would take too long t...

English Paper Piecing is quite different from other types of piecing I do. Instead of being in my sewing room, hunched over the cutting tabl...

I've added some simple quilting calculators to figure out backing & binding, especially useful when I customize a given pattern to s...

Yesterday the missing corner piece of the portable design wall arrived from Cheryl Ann , so I assembled the portable wall last night. Even t...