The Vermont Quilt Festival just may be my favorite quilt show. One reason, the drive up is spectacular– it’s also located near Burlington on Lake Champlain which is a beautiful town to tool around. The show is unjuried;… Continue reading

     I’ve been wanting to blog about the Vermont Quilt Festival since I got back– the trouble is, there are WAY too many photos of gorgeous quilts! So I’m breaking it up into two photo heavy installments–  Part I:… Continue reading

Okay, we admit it… our heads have totally been in the clouds! It’s time to get back to earth, and some more gardening… we are so happy that June’s Flower Block of the Month was released in June! This month’s… Continue reading

Since the big finish of A New England Album, how long did you think it would be before another project got started… or two or three or four? What’s worse, my favorite embroidery machine is at the shop for a… Continue reading

Since we are wrapping up “Le Jardin Sow-a-Long,” I can’t resist sharing this cute story about what’s growing in my REAL garden! Last night as I was making dinner, my husband ran inside and yelled, “Grab the camera, and come… Continue reading

“A New England Album” shipped out to Vermont Quilt Festival yesterday! UFO no more. I couldn’t be more pleased… At the end of this year-and-a-half journey I feel nostalgic, so read on for some finishing tips, mixed in with some… Continue reading

    When finishing up our Summerhouse quilt, we wanted to do something special for the border. A Nautical Flag Block had hit the dust for being overly complicated—but the potential for a border really struck us!     It… Continue reading

Nautical Flag Border Tutorial Coming Soon! Continue reading

I did something unusual this month– I took a vacation! Now you might think that having my own sewing business is vacation every day of the year and you’d be right, but sometimes the artist in me needs to get… Continue reading

I made a big decision after releasing the finishing instructions for the Baltimore Album BOM…  Stitching the gridded border back and forth on my sewing machine got my rotator cuff all aggravated again, and a survey of my friends concluded that… Continue reading