This was the final week of Doohikey Designs Wistful Winds Blog Tour. Designer Shari Butler had such a talented group of women creating absolutely amazing projects. Elizabeth Evans of Simple Simon and Company created this beautiful Granny-Squared Quilt. See more pictures and the tutorial here. …
Block Nine of the Cozy Christmas Sew Along
We are on the Block Nine of the Cozy Christmas Sew Along with Lori Holt of A Bee In My Bonnet. It’s time to deck the halls with holly on this block. There is a nice back stitch embroidery detail on the holly leaves that adds texture. You get a peek inside Lori’s Sewing…
Wistful Winds Blog Tour Recap
It’s the first complete week of the Wistful Winds blog tour. Shari of Doohikey Designs has a terrific group of bloggers and designers creating wonderful projects. Take a look! Amanda of Jedi Craft Girl created this breezy quilt with a tutorial. Amy from Diary of a Quilter made this sweet baby quilt. Meagan and Kristi…
Doohikey Designs Wistful Winds Blog Tour begins today!
Shari Butler of Doohikey Designs has her Wistful Winds blog tour starting today. Shari said this collection was created, ”With a playful and vintage inspired feel, this collection was created to be enjoyed by everyone of all ages. The colors were curated carefully to create a happy, yet soft color palette to be enjoyed…
Cozy Christmas Sew Along Block 8
We’re on the Block Eight of Lori Holt’s Cozy Christmas Sew Along. It’s a cup of cocoa with marshmallows! She uses binding in this block. Let’s take a closer look at how it’s done. Lori uses a 1/4” bias binding maker to create the cup handle. The bias tool makes it so much…
Cozy Christmas Sew Along – Week Six Block Six
It’s week six of the Cozy Christmas Sew Along with Lori Holt of A Bee In My Bonnet! So that means Block Six– The Stocking! Here’s the block in progress…. And, here’s our version! If you are following along, you’ll have a lovely holiday quilt finished in November! There’s still time to join us and catch up….
Cozy Christmas Sew Along – Week Five
It’s Week Five of the Cozy Christmas Sew Along with Lori Holt of A Bee In My Bonnet. It’s time for a snowman! There’s a little embroidery involved in giving this snowman his personality. There are so many ways to use these block outside of the wonderful quilt. The candy cane binding on the pillow…
Bittersweet – The Blog Tour – Continues!
We’re excited that Sue Daley’s Bittersweet Blog Tour continues this week. The quilt is her Quatro Colors pattern using All Around the Octagon templates and her collection Bittersweet. You can find them at you favorite quilt fabric source. This week the tour continues with She Quilts A Lot making a lovely pillow project, Fabric Pixie…
Cozy Christmas Sew Along – Week Four
It’s week four of Lori Holt’s Cozy Christmas Sew Along and we have the Wreath! As always each Monday Lori posts a step-by-step tutorial on how to make each block on her blog A Bee In My Bonnet. Here’s the wonderful quilt we’re working towards using the Cozy Christmas collection! And, here’s our version! You find…
Project Design Team Wednesday ~ Saw Tooth Star Quilt Block Tutorial
Hello my fellow fabric friends! I’m Amy Smart and I share my fabric obsession projects at my blog Diary of a Quilter. Last week I made a cute little mini stars quilt using Sedef Imer’s Sweet Orchard collection of which you can see an abundance of adorable projects here this week). I chose to use…