It feels like both. I’ve been working all week to get patterns uploaded to Payhip. It’s been an ordeal, but I think I’ve done it, correctly, I hope. Yesterday a package arrived from Northcott with fabric for several of the designs that have been in their Look Books. First is Santa’s Tree Farm, see it […]
Garden Chain
This version of Garden Chain showcases Island Batik’s Winter Wonders collection, out in stores now. As usual, I used Deb Tucker’s rulers. I used the Studio 180 V-Block® ruler for the star points. And the Corner Pop® for the Snowball Blocks. The colors are much more vibrant than the pictures show. The large Snowball blocks […]
It’s been awhile!
Why does life always get in the way? This seems to be the one thing I keep putting off. What have I done in the last two and a half months?? We had a nice long fall. I got my flower bulbs and potatoes dug and put away. I planted some new spring flower bulbs, […]
Correction to Receding tablerunner pattern
Someone recently contacted me with a mistake in the pattern for this little quilt. Page 3 Step 3w should be: together (2) 10 and (1) Unit u. The colors are reversed in the diagram in x, they should be:
Another Tumbleweed
Here is the last (for now at least) Tumbleweed. The fabric is Moda’s Tulip Tango. I think this is my favorite out of the five. This is such beautiful fabric. The others are too, but this one is so vibrant, so colorful. Here they all are: Clockwise from the top left: Moda’s Tulip Tango, Northcott’s […]
Tumbleweed
I’ve made several samples of this pattern for the Old Creamery. The first was with the All Minnesota Shop Hop Fabric. Tumbleweed is about 29″ square (depending on seam allowances and how much the quilting shrinks it). I had this all done and pictures taken for the cover when I noticed I had the green […]
Abby’s Star Flower
I had two designs accepted by Island Batik for the Fall/Winter 2021 catalog. First is Abby’s Star Flower in the Fall 2021 Mountain Gems Collection. What beautiful fabric! This is an older pattern, named by my granddaughter Abby. She said it looked like a star or a flower. So Gramma turned that into Abby’s Star […]
AMNSH quilts – Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed is a 29″ x 29″ tabletopper or wallhanging. To me, it looked like a tumbleweed from the start and was an easy one to name–sometimes the naming is the hardest part of a new pattern. This new pattern has room for 4 Store squares, 4 Regional squares, and 1 State square. But if you […]
AMNSH quilts-Snowballs-the one in the magazine
I’ve been working on the quilts that we plan on kitting at the Creamery for the All Minnesota Shop Hop coming up in 22 days. So far we haven’t received the fabric. It appears to be as slow coming as all other fabric has been for the last 2 years. I hope it gets here […]
More winter
Since it’s still dark, it’s hard to tell exactly what it’s like outside, but I do know it’s snowing and blowing. The forecast yesterday was for 12-18 inches of snow. At least this time of the winter, it won’t last too long. I hope. I have pattern writing to do, and I think I just […]