Category: Quilting


  • Happy Thanksgiving!!! Join us for our Primitive Christmas Open House

    Hello Everyone…I hope you are all stuffed and either ready to go shopping or ready to stitch or go to our site to shop for our Primitive  Christmas Open House! Shop Today-Sunday The photos here are the gifts I have designed  for you this year for 2013…They are Free with any $20 purchase you will get all…

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  • APQ Quilt-Along….color decisions…I hope you didn’t think I was going to keep you waiting long…

      As soon as I saw the quilt and had to make a decision on how I was to make It  I new I had to make it dramatic using blacks as my backgrounds…so scrappy blacks and then I thought…ok…lets go with black and cream/tan….that will make a neutral quilt that everyone will love, especially…

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  • American Patchwork & Quilting….Quilt-Along!!

    Quilt-Along…What in the heck is a Quilt- Along?….well the Editors of American Patchwork & Quilting have decided to start a Quilt- Along with one of the designs in their newest magazine on news stands December 3rd….some of you will have it sooner if you have the subscription…The designer is my favorite person who shares the…

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  • Floral Gatherings has arrived…

    Our UPS driver just had to laugh this day when his truck was full of our newest fabric line…Floral Gatherings…He was happy that we were so happy!!! Just in time for us to cut it for our last show in Overland Park Kansas,  our Christmas Open House and start cutting the 3 kits for the…

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  • Layer Cake Lemonade….blog post

    Hey Everyone…You are in for a treat today…I want you to meet Kimberly from Fat Quarters Shop…She has asked us to join her in promoting her new Layer Cake pattern called Layer Cake Lemonade…Click on her photo for a Tutorial and the top banner for a PDF of the pattern.   This pattern is perfect…

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  • the 100 quilt blocks magazine winners are…

    Recently was given this photo from one of my aunties…Gladys…I do not know how old my Dad is here but I am guessing late 20s.  If your husband isa car nut, can you ask him what make and year this car is? I would love to know and appreciate it…but anyway…my Dad painted cars for…

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  • Threads of Change…

    Hey Quilters!    Looking for a story book to read about a family (mostly women), heading west from New Orleans to avoid the Civil war?  You have to hop on over to Jodi Barrows’ (the square in a square gal)site and order the first book in this new series…The story is based on Jodi’s actual family…it…

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  • last weekend…

    I thought I would post about last weekend before this weekend happened…Nick and I went to the Oshkosh farmers market and came home with lots of goodies…I made several new dishes off of Pinterest so we had gathered all the “supplies” and we were going to enjoy the weekend at the lakehouse…I cooked and stitched…cleaning…

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  • Pieced summer blocks of the week…

    How is everyone doing on their PIECED BOW!  As you can see mine is all pieced together…I thought I should show you how I put them together…and I am revealing the antique quilt top used for inspiration….In the first photo I am showing the two quilts side by side….the one on the left is the…

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  • our summer freebie…Summer Blooms…visuals

    By now many of you have received your finishing kits for the Summer Freebie…Thank you so much for doing so…we love that we can give you all the blocks free during the summer event and we appreciate that you like our finished quilt enough to purchase our finishing kit and again support my business.  Again……

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