If you follow San Francisco Stitch Co. and you do machine embroidery, we hope you’ve been following this month’s free stitch-a-long! To accent our Creepy Crawly Countdown Calendars, we’re making a matching table topper for under our candy bowls on… Continue reading

It was the first week in September when Meg sent me this breathtaking photo from her garden. Thinking of the Flower Basket of the Month, I immediately changed gears from Sunflowers to Zinnias.  Anyone who knows me, knows I don’t… Continue reading

We all know what a UFO is… but a “Forever Project” is a very special sub-category. It is the one that has NOT been tossed into the closet– you are still actively working on it. But it is so detailed… Continue reading

This is a follow up to my post in mid-June– if you remember, a momma snapper, the momma of ALL snappers, laid eggs in my front garden. I googled in and marked the 90 day hatching on my calendar and… Continue reading

     I know this subject getting a bit old, but winning the AQS ribbon is such a weird and wonderful set of events, there are just some last thoughts and some thanks… then I am ready to get back… Continue reading

Friends– Exciting news. After three years on the quilt show circuit, this year is turning out really well. Read on… the ball just left the stadium! “A New England Album” was submitted to the new AQS Fall Paducah Quilt Show–… Continue reading

I have been obsessed with this block since I saw a whole quilt of it at a show, completely done in red and white solids. So when I happened upon this Fat Quarter Shop Stitch along, it just seemed like fate!… Continue reading

     More eye candy from Mancuso! In additional to the main, juried show, there were a bunch of challenges and special exhibits… one just seem to run on from the next, so I wasn’t always sure what I was… Continue reading

A couple of weeks ago, I went to the World Quilt Show in New England– I had never been to one of these Mancuso shows before, and was I ever glad I went! Not only did they have quilts from… Continue reading

    Before our last farewell to the Bayberry Quilt show, I just wanted to show you our booth! Left to right, that’s Meg, from customer service, me, and then Tere who co-wrote the Summerhouse book with me. I realized… Continue reading