Category: Quilting


  • Randy’s Songbirds quilt…free quilt pattern!

    Hope everyone is enjoying this summer…we all in WI love-love-love summer…I especially love walking the dog and listening to the sounds of summer…the loons and the songbirds…which brings me to a great quilt made by Randy McCarty…He purchased a FQ tower of Songbirds and made this wonderful quilt. YES all from ONE FQ tower!!!…If you…

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  • Bow tie finish…

    I have been meaning to post this for a while and kind of forgot about it…but…here is my finished bow tie from the CA’s stores pieced SBOW from last summer… I got it back from Val while I was in Salt Lake…it took awhile for me to bind it as this years SBOW was more…

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  • Teaching tomorrow and Wednesday…

    Happy first day of Summer!!! We have a few spots left in my Scrappy Penny Flower Basket class tomorrow at the shop from 10-3pm.  Come join us in making this runner!  Bring your scissors…we have kits and all the supplies needed…treat yourself! Call the shop and get one of the last spots!      …

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  • Summer Blocks of the Week…finally!!!

    I’m just posting here just in case some of you are not signed up for the shop’s blog…Jessica did a fine job today posting about all THREE of our Summer Blocks of the Week…Please click HERE to read ALL the details that I may not mention in this post… We all have been working very…

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  • I have an Esty shop!!!

    Esty…why??? I already have a shop/website but… we may be able to reach a whole new set of shoppers on Etsy!…so with the help of Rose, who will be managing the Etsy store we hope you can help us find these projects a new home! We are starting to get overloaded with quilts and other…

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  • FRIVOLS!

    Did you know I have a Frivols tin?  Do you know what a Frivols tin is? They are cute tin boxes that feature a little quilt made with a current MODA fabric line.  There are 12 total…Mine is number 7!  Lucky no. Seven…that’s ME…Lucky to be able to share my love of fabric with my…

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  • Did you miss the podcast? Listen whenever you want!

    For those of you who may have missed the podcast you can listen at your convenience by clicking here and scroll down just a bit on Pat’s blog and you find it easily…PODCAST Pat Sloan and I go back a long way…she is super nice person and fun to hang out with…We are both blessed…

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  • and the winners are…

    Well…I promised I’d post the winners today from yesterday’s post and I will…I’ve made it to MI…only an hour getting through Chicago…and when I arrived at my hotel, I thought I could bring everything in at once…and while attempting this I also thought I could throw my garbage out too…well that’s where it all went…

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  • weekend at anchor point…

    Well I’ve been home a whole week…still moving “stuff” from the old house to the new…little by little…we are living at Anchor Point…but we still have about 40% of our stuff to move out of the old house…I spent some time sewing in my new studio…I am “functional”, but not “pretty” yet…I want to live…

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  • Missing home…already

    I know its been awhile since I’ve done a post and as promised I will post more…more about what I’m working on…more about our travels…more about classes, more about everything and yes…the Lakehouse too! So while I’m here in CA I’m thinking about the house, I lived there almost a week…we are 75% moved in…

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