Welcome to Week 17 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! If you haven’t started yet, no worries! The link up at the bottom of the post will be open all year so be sure to check back to see what other fellow creatives have made with this week’s exercises. Read more about the challenge here. Without further ado, here are my 7 for this week…...
Happy Birthday to me (yesterday)!!! For my birthday, I treated myself to a really fun sewing retreat!!! I’ve talked about Modern Stitching Affair (MSA) before, but it’s finally here!!! YAY! Tara Curtis from Wefty Needle and Sara Lawson from Sew Sweetness are the two instructors for the event. I am SO excited to learn from both of these amazing women. We had lots of prep...
April is almost over which means you only have a few days to get your blocks in for prizes!!! I am reminding you that the April Color Challenge link up is OPEN!!! YAY!!! Make sure to head over to Patterns By Jen’s blog to link up. If you missed the kickoff of the challenge, you still have time to make something ORANGE and enter! Read...
Welcome to Week 2 of the New Quilt Bloggers Blog Hop! This is the second year I have participated in this awesome blog hop! I learned from and met a lot of amazing quilters that I hope you will visit as well! During this blog hop, YOU will have a chance to win some amazing prizes from the sponsors of this blog hop, more information...
Spring is here!!! Well, at least 60 degree weather for the first time in 2018! Week 16 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! I was flipping through all the pages that I’ve completed and just thought about how far I’ve come with at least the creative thought process. If you haven’t started yet, no worries! The link up at the bottom of the post...
Typically I balance my weeks with secret sewing and shareable sewing. However this week, I did a LOT of secret sewing and very little (aka none) shareable sewing! I can’t wait to be able to share some of the projects I have been working on with everyone in the (near-ish) future. I did want to share a new project that I’ve given myself. It shouldn’t...
My favorite quilt block variation is the star block including the sawtooth star, the Ohio star, and really any shape of a star! This month the Island Batik Ambassador Challenge was to dig into the history of quilting and create a quilt inspired by the history. The fabrics featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik and are a part of the...
Who would have thought Week 15 of 2018 would be a historic blizzard in Minnesota?! So much snow the last 24 hours… it definitely feels like February rather than April. Week 15 of the 365 Days Of Art Challenge! Can you believe we are over 100 exercises in!? If you haven’t started yet, no worries! The link up at the bottom of the post will...
Happy Friday!!! It’s the 13th and only 13 more days till my birthday… but most importantly it’s Friday!!! I go home later today, leave this beautiful 80 degree weather in Kansas to the impending foot of snow at home. I also realize I forgot to post the winners of the Michael Miller Challenge at Sewtopia (read my recap here). Jane won 1st prize for this...
Do you ever feel like you need a recovery after a super fun vacation? I am still recovering from Sewtopia and trying to get caught up with my day job and everything that I missed while I was away. So what exactly is Sewtopia? Sewtopia is a sewing retreat that is now offered 3 different times during the year: in the spring, summer (new this year), and fall! The fall...
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