Just For Charity...................................

This year my Charity project is so create a version of the Fat Quarter Shop's Charity quilt, Crossroads. The supply list is now available!

This year the charity we are supporting is the March of Dimes foundation and we will be raising funds to help their efforts to fight premature births. We hope you will sew along and donate to this amazing cause through our fundraising link:

March of Dimes

download our Fabric Requirements PDF. 

And if you want to make the quilt just like the above, you can order a kit

BUY THE KIT HERE, they are LIMITED!

Here is the schedule…

• January 15 Fabric Requirements
• February 15 House Block
• March 15 Diamond Block
• April 15 Friendship Block
• May 15 Family Block
• June 15 Intersection Block
• July 15 Chain Block
• August 15 Finishing
• September 15 Pieced Backing
• We will begin auctioning our quilt around September 1^st , 2016

For more information about the quilt along, please visit our blog here:

Fat Quarter Shop

The Splendid Sampler

A super Collaboration between Pat Sloan and Jane Davidson plus 83 other designers!

Check out Splendid Sampler

• This is a mystery that consists of 100 spectacular 6” finished quilt blocks. All different techniques from pieced, to applique, to embroidery, to English Paper Piecing (EPP) and Paper piecing.
• The blocks are released 2 a week, with 2 holiday breaks for Christmas Day and New Year’s day
• There is no supply list. We will be sharing fabrics used by the designers in upcoming articles so you have an idea of what we gave them to use.
• There will be two Splendid colorways shown.
• There will be a layout given in the future, we’ll give a supply list for the setting. 
• We will also have giveaways, a way to share your blocks via link party quilt show, a list of tutorials, and exciting ideas for how to quilt this from a master quilter on our team!
• The blocks are free until March 2017. 
• The first block is Valentines day Feb 14, 2016.
• Each Sunday and Thursday a new block is released.

It's That Time Again!

January Spin-in 2016

Destin, Florida

Let the Fun Begin!

Let's Read...................

Every January my friend posts the books that she'll read throughout the year.  It's always an interesting and diverse list and I'm anxious to see what she has chosen.  I follow along with her as she writes her review of each book--so, here is her list for 2016:

1. The Four Swans: A Novel of Cornwall, 1795-1797, Winston Graham (1976)
2. One Zentangle a Day, Beckah Krahula (2012)
3. Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are, Danny Gregory (2015)
4. The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Berge, Robert Murphy and Ivan Terestchenko (2009)

And if you want to wet your appetite with more interesting and diverse books,

look no further than 40 Books to Unlock Your Creativity

Latest Bonnie

I like that some of my quilting friends are advancing quite rapidly on

Bonnie Hunter's latest mystery--actually, it isn't a mystery anymore

as the quilt has been revealed.

I'm still chugging along on step 4 or is it 3?

I like the assembly line stitching--until you get a phone call

from a friend and you must stop to chat

All those above will or should turn out to look like this

And the box, on the left, is filled with stitched parts, that should look like the ones on the right.

Just need to spend time pressing those suckers.

oh, humm, I think I'll have another cup of coffee and think about

my Organizational Skills....................

Scrap Organization--

A Quilting Life has wonderful suggestions on how to organize your

fabric scraps.  Take a look!  Great ideas!

I thought it would help me get my act together 

and put all those fabric scraps into a decent order.

Look!  I made a start............

and these are cut 2.5" square--Nice, huh?

and then................

there is that huge bin of scraps in the closet to go through............

oh, well,

think I'll leave those for another day!

Did You Know?

There are so many facts that I didn't know about our history, especially the Civil War.

Recently, I came across an article about Roswell Mill and women.

Since I'm a weaver and very interested in the production of fiber, this was a story to read carefully.  The Mills of the South had women workers, some with children on site.

Read this story and wonder--how could this happen?

I've been reading this book, especially since our annual spin-in theme is "Cotton Candy".

What a story!  Our daily life is surrounded by so many cotton products--want to read,

give me a shout--