Hi Friends! Thanks for sharing your New Year’s resolutions!  I was inspired by your comments, thoughts and desire to be better and to be better to others.  I read each and every one of your comments.  I am impressed... Continue Reading

And for the past several years, they have invited me to come to the classroom and talk about quilts and why I love them. I do a bit of a show and tell, and they all get to handle the old and new quilts that I bring. They tell me about the book and I tell them about quilting. Continue Reading

I have walked the floors of Quilt Market in the Houston convention
center for three straight days…meeting and greeting some of the best people in the quiltingbiz who are showing their products. I have 3 suitcases full of things
I will be writing about in the next few months! Continue Reading

There is lots ‘o new stuff coming from the design studio of Amy Butler. She just emailed me an update…

Amy and her studio staff is busy making samples, designing and packaging her goodies as she readies for Quilt Market which will be held in Houston at the end of the month. Continue Reading

Artist/Designer, Anna Maria Horner writes more today about her fabric collections with Free Spirit Fabrics. Continue Reading

“People ask what is next, and frankly I don't know. But I do know this; life has offered me an incredible ride, one I could have never charted in my wildest dreams. To be able to touch people with the magic of quilting, people I might never meet, is an awesome honor, of which I am grateful”. Continue Reading

This organization also strives to honor with courage and compassion the thousands of surviving families, those who risked their lives to save others, and those who supported the United States of America in its darkest hours. May their lives serve as a healing balm to our wounded spirits and as eternal beacons, reaffirming our respect for life and freedom and inspiring an end to hatred, bigotry, ignorance, and intolerance. Continue Reading

Our quilts are simple. Almost anyone can make them, and usually very quickly. We are not about tricky piecing. We are about the joyous use of unexpected complex color stories. Continue Reading

I first became acquainted with the ladies of the “Bella Nonna Design Studio” while attending a school house lecture series they conducted at Quilt Market last year. Continue Reading

She learned to quilt on Monday.
Her stitches all were very fine.
She forgot to thaw out dinner.
so we went out to dine. Continue Reading

"This year was the 31 annual Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. This event takes over the very small town of Sisters (Population 947) for the second Saturday of July every year. This year more than 1200 quilts were displayed around town. Continue Reading

I think that at one time or another, us crafty people, have dreamed of having a designated space to work in—a studio (or a corner or a closet) to call our own. Continue Reading

Do you know that there are all kinds of things that can be made using Yo-Yo’s? Dolls, animals, clowns, quilts, pillows and more… Continue Reading

For a good time, a chance to meet some other quilters in your town or surrounding area and to be exposed to new quilting ideas, techniques and good deals…join your local quilt guild! Continue Reading

I had a chance to catch up with Robyn Pandolph while we were attending International Quilt Market last month. She is excited to now be designing for FreeSpirit Fabrics and she has been hard at work finishing up some new lines of fabric for them Continue Reading

If you are looking for something fresh and whimsical, Amy Bradley has the quilt patterns for you. Amy of Amy Bradley Designs has two new books out one called “Peek-A-Boo” and the other “Quilter’s Yearbook”. Continue Reading

Luckily, somewhere between Niagara Falls and the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY (I am traveling with boys, you see), my timing was perfect and the location was excellent and I found a quilt shop near our hotel that was open. Continue Reading

"Quilt-making started in Europe in the early 1700s, and immigrants brought the skill to the United States, where it started catching on in the late 1700s. Continue Reading

Read more about the Gee’s Bend quilt exhibit at Atlanta’s High Museum by “The Enlightened Hillbilly”. He attended the preview of the show and met some of the amazing women of Gee’s Bend Alabama who created these treasures. Continue Reading

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, beginning tomorrow, Friday March 25 and going until June 18 will feature the quilts of Gee’s Bend. Continue Reading

The US Postal service is issuing a group of stamps featuring ten quilts created by the African-American quilitng women of Gee’s Bend Alabama.  Continue Reading

Quilts. Quilts. Quilts. And lots of Gold Medals.I just got back from a dinner held at the home of Olympic champion, Peter Vidmar. His home, if you can imagine, is beautiful. And it holds many beautiful items, including hundreds of... Continue Reading

I am sad to say goodbye to crafty girl, Susan C. Druding, who has been the Quilting At About.com  guru for the last 9 years. She is moving on and leaving the “Quilting Guide” position.“Thank you for all the support... Continue Reading

What Billie taught was how the placement of your different values determines how a quilt block will look. Continue Reading