·finish

Olfa Designer Spotlight for June

Hello everybody! I’ve got a free project tutorial up on Olfa’s website for their Designer Spotlight series for June and it’s perfect if you’re looking for a little summer…

·christmas

Festive Forest Quilt & Free Pattern

Hello everybody! It’s been awhile since my last post (understatement of the year), but I’m really happy to finally be able to share one of the projects I completed during my…

·emma's garden

Schnitzel and Boo Mini Quilt Swap

I had the pleasure of participating in the second round of the Schnitzel and Boo mini quilt swap and it was so much fun! But, wouldn’t ya know I forgot to take a picture of the…

·quilt

Toadstools Lap Quilt

Another project I finished quite some time ago was this little Toadstools quilt. It was supposed to be a small scale test quilt for a pattern I was working on for my Les Amis…

·challenge

Madrona Road Lap Quilt

Part of ushering a new year in is clearing out the old, so not only am I trying to wrap up current WIPs, but I'm finally getting around to writing about projects I actually…

·charisecreates

WIP Weekend

I’ve been trying my hand at designing my own quilt blocks with graph paper and colored pencils and it’s so much fun! I’m focusing on blocks that can be pieced with simple…

·baby

Emma's Personalized Quilt Backer

I'm pretty excited I was able to get two whole posts in this month! Okay, there's a little sarcasm there, but I really didn't believe it when everyone told me that once baby…

·baby

HMQG Baby Quilt

I’m in love with this sweet baby quilt the members of the Houston Modern Quilt Guild made for emma and me. The pattern is called a disappearing 9 patch and the reproduction…

·baby

WIP - emma's zig zag quilt

Yup, still working on emma's baby quilt, and am just now posting pics of the back. It's not a particularly complicated backer, but I think it has a sweet simplicity and I'm…

·baby

Peach, Yellow and Aqua

Happy 2013 everybody!! Can you believe it's a new year already? I usually sit down and make a very serious list of what I'm going to change and accomplish in the new year, but…

·arrows

Arrows Mini Quilt

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! I actually had two this year, lucky me. Once with my husband's family in Tyler, TX, and then again at our house with my…

·quilt

WIP – Mystery Motif Quilt

love long weekends when we stay in town, I not only can get so much done, but I feel like I can organize and plan the rest of the week better. Don’t get me wrong, I love…

·cheater quilt

Mr. Big Bot is in the House

It's always a great day when I get a Spoonflower package in the mailbox, and this was no exception. I hadn't ordered anything in awhile, so I had a lot of catching up to do…

·baby

“X’s & O’s” Quilt – Backyard Baby

Getting back in the swing of things, here’s a mini tutorial / diagram of the Backyard Baby “X’s and O’s” baby quilt I gave you a preview of a few months ago… better late than…

·cheater quilt

Spoonflower Weekly Contest - Robot Cheater Quilts

I finally managed to get a design finished and entered into Spoonflower's weekly fabric design contest, yay! It's been at least 2, maybe even 3 months since I've entered one…