Category: Quilting


  • New designs for our Primitive Christmas Event

    I am still nursing a “tennis elbow” injury from stitching too much…I wanted this event to be the biggest one so far…so I stitched and stitched for Quilt Market/Festival and this event in October…all before I left for Houston…so the crew could work on all the kits while we were gone…and in return…I still can’t…

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  • Our Primitive Christmas Event…

    Today is the day of our Primitive Christmas Event…Even through we let you start shopping early…because we learned “stuff happens” and it did…you crashed our new server…which I guess needs to be bigger for the months of November and December…but all is up and running again so you should all be able to place your…

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  • Love Mini Quilts?…

    I want to tell you about another great compilation from Lissa Alexander for Martingale books!  This book is the third in a series of books by a bunch of Moda designers!  I think this might be my favorite yet so far…you know I love me some mini quilts…but there are lots of mini quilts in…

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  • The Magic of Christmas-Block 2

    Ready for the next block?… Thank you for waiting patiently while we shipped out fabrics for all of you wonderful followers who want to make this awesome quilt!…If you are still waiting for yours we only have about 20 orders that did not ship out-we are either waiting for an updated CC or we have…

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  • The magic of christmas update…

    I hope you are all enjoying our last month of summer!!! We are getting our driveway put in today!!! Yay!!! It’s winding down…almost finished and then I can blog more about Anchor Point!!!     But I wanted to let you know of this amazing problem I have…we have lots and lots of people who…

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  • The magic of Christmas…Stitch Along Block 1

    Ahh…theres nothing like a red and white quilt…After seeing this photograph taken of my guest bedroom from the American Patchwork & Quilting photoshoot, I want to make my own red/white sampler quilt.  To make sure I really do it I decided to do it as a Stitch Along…I am calling it “The Magic of Christmas”…and…

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  • Today was the day…

    Today was the day I finally got my OWN copy of the American Patchwork & Quilting October issue! Featuring Primitive Gatherings with ME on the cover!!! I wasn’t going to believe it until I really saw it in person!! Which was yesterday…but today Beth a student in my workshop brought me a copy!!!! I admit…I…

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  • Christmas in July…Stitching words onto our wool projects…

    I want to share with you a couple of ways to “transfer” lettering/wording to our wool projects…To be honest I can draw the words/lettering on with my dependable Clover white liquid chalk marker on most anything…but sometimes you want something just perfect…In the case of this Angel Tree Skirt I wanted the FONT to turn…

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  • Quilts from Christmas Gatherings…

    Sorry about that 6 month thing…why do we celebrate Christmas in July if it is not half way??? I just assumed that was why…so I didn’t even count them…but that might be just what I really need is an extra month!!! I want to share the quilts in the book tonight…. First up…Boxes of Candy……

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  • Christmas in July…

    Today is July 25th…6 (Edit-5months sorry) months til Christmas 2016…So if we start now…we can get some hand made gifts done…as we know they are the best!!! I have been so busy I never did a post on my Christmas Gatherings Moda Fabric and book of the same name..So if you don’t mind… I want…

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