One of my favorite parts of the quilting community is getting to introduce you to other creative makers whose work inspires me. Today I'm so excited to share a fun holiday project from Tamara of Remi Vail Studio! Tamara is a talented designer from Minnesota who creates beautiful quilt and bag patterns, and she has […]
Y-Seams: 60 Degree Diamond Stars Tutorial
If you've ever admired those classic six-pointed star quilt blocks and wondered how to piece them together, this tutorial is for you! In this lesson, we'll use 60-degree diamond quilt templates to create stunning star blocks with precise Y-seam construction. You'll learn how to cut and machine-piece six 60-degree diamonds to form the star points, […]
Breast Cancer Awareness + Ways to Help
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Here is a list of simple service ideas to bring comfort by sewing for breast cancer patients. Also a couple of great fundraiser and awareness campaigns from By Annie and the Fat Quarter Shop, including free projects and quilt blocks.
Fat Quarter Pattern: A Stitch in Time
I recently updated one of my patterns, A Stitch in Time, to make it Fat Quarter Friendly! This traditional nine-patch-on-point pattern is a classic for a reason. And the reboot timing was perfect for making a quilt with my new, vintage-inspired fabric collection, Mary Catherine. I love how this one turned out using the retro […]
Squishy Stars: Free Quilt Pattern using Half Rectangle Triangles
Today I'm so excited to welcome guest contributor, Ashlee Doyle of Crinkly Quilts to the blog! Ashlee has such a fun, modern take on classic quilt blocks. Her bright, scrappy style will make you want to dive right into your fabric stash. In this guest post, Ashlee is sharing one of her favorite quilting techniques: […]
What's New On My Sewing Table - October 2025
It's been a few month since I've done What's New On My Sewing Table update. What with releasing a new quilt pattern, a new fabric collection, and teaching at a Quilting Event, there's been A LOT going on behind the scenes. I feel like I'm finally coming up for air. And with those deadlines behind […]
Mary Catherine Fabric Collection Available Now
I'm so excited! My 2025 fabric collection with Riley Blake Designs, Mary Catherine, is arriving in stores! I want to share some inspiration and quilts made with this sweet fabric range, filled with pastels, low volume prints and paired with some deeper hues of blue, muted red, and green. If you're looking for the Mary […]
Mastering Y Seams: Step-by-Step Tutorial for the Classic Lemoyne Star Quilt Block
I'm so excited to welcome today's guest contributor, Lindlee Smith of Plains and Pine! I have been folowing Lindlee's work for years. She is a talented quilt pattern designer with a love for modern star quilts, and she recently added "published author" to her list of accomplishments with her beautiful new book Lone Star Legacy […]
Healing and Hope at Garden of Quilts 2025
I recently attended the Garden of Quilts event where the quilts, the gardens and most importantly, the community, left me feeling both restored and inspired.
10 Tips for Quilting on Your Domestic Machine
Do you ever feel intimidated quilting on your home sewing machine? It doesn't have to be! In this post guest contributor Delia from A Stitch is a Stitch Quilt Co shares 10 best tips for machine quilting you can use on any home sewing machine. Tips include: basting and cleaning your machine to picking the […]
Meet Wrap the World With Quilts
Prepare to be inspired. I'm excited to introduce a cause that is near and dear to my heart: Wrap the World With Quilts. This grassroots nonprofit organization has a simple mission: deliver comfort, love, warmth, and healing to people in crisis - whether war or natural disaster - one handmade quilt at a time. Since […]
Meet the Briarcreek Blooms Quilt Pattern
I'm excited to introduce my latest new quilt pattern, Briarcreek Blooms! This rose wreath design is a little bit outside the box for me. I wanted to design a sweet, feminine pattern to go with my Mary Catherine fabric collection that will be arriving in stores in September. This collection is a bit of a […]
Quilting Tips: Choosing Batting For a Quilt
Ever been overwhelmed by the variety of batting (aka wadding) options available or which batting is the right choice for your quilt? This post will discuss how to choose batting for a quilt, including the different kinds of batting options. This post is originally part of the Beginning Quilt Series (or How to Make a Quilt […]
Finished 2025 Sampler Quilt
This week I finally finished up my version of the 2025 Riley Blake Designs (RBD) Quilt Block Sampler quilt. This is a free quilt along hosted by Riley Blake Designs starting every January and running through May and features 16 free unique quilt block patterns from different Riley Blake Designers as well as a free […]
From Viking-Age Textiles to Bunad Folk Costumes: A Brief History of Norway's Fiber Arts
Hello my fellow craft and textile lovers. Over the years I've loved sharing what I've learned about different historical and cultural fiber art traditions. This time lets talk about Scandinavia - Norway specifically. I've got Scandinavian roots and have always loved the look of traditional Scandinavian folk art. This summer I visited Norway and was […]
Easy Fall Sewing Projects: Quick Quilted Ideas for Autumn Decoration and Gifting
It's hard to believe that Fall is right around the corner! Personally, I'm so excited for cooler temps and golden days. Fall is my favorite season. In this post guest contributor, Stacey from Stacey Lee Creative is sharing a list of Easy Fall-inspired sewing projects to make for Fall decor and gifting. Or just get […]
What's On My Sewing Table - Summer 2025
It's been a hot minute (aka almost 2 months) since I shared a "what's on my sewing table" update. And currently, there is A LOT happening. I like to write these updates for a couple of reasons. First: to give a peek behind the scenes at what's in the works around here. Second: as a […]
Building Your Confidence in Free Motion Quilting with Stencils
What is your confidence level for machine quilting with your domestic sewing machine? I'll be the first to admit that my confidence is not super high - at least for free-motion quilting. So I was super intrigued when I first met Melodie from  SEW • HARMONY and she shared her flexible and useful machine quilting […]
Strip Piecing Basics
One of my favorite tips and tricks for faster and more efficient quilt making is using Strip Piecing. This process consists of sewing long strips of fabric together side by side and then rotary cutting across the strip set to create smaller units that are already pieced. Strip piecing is one of the best time-saving […]
My Connection to an Antique Pioneer Quilt, Cut in Half
I've got a remarkable story to share about a pioneer quilt made in 1857-and later cut in half. Here in Utah, Pioneer Day at the end of July marks the arrival of the first non-native settlers in 1847. This quilt was stitched by some of those early settlers, and both halves have miraculously survived to […]
Top Baby Quilt Tutorials
These are my Top 15 Free Baby Quilt Tutorials - everything from simple beginning patchwork, large scale stars, and more complex designs such as broken dishes, patchwork on point, and classic Economy quilt blocks.
Scrappy Fabric Pulls Made Easy
Have you ever stared at your overflowing scrap bin and thought, How do other quilters make scrappy quilts look so good? The secret often starts with something called a "fabric pull" -that just means selecting a group of fabrics that work well together in a quilt. When you're working with scraps, pulling fabrics might feel […]
Free Layer Cake Quilt Pattern: Oh Susannah
I've been on a quilt-with-precuts kick lately and today I've got another free precuts-friendly quilt pattern to share with you! This pattern features a traditional quilt block called the Susannah block, only blown-up to a large 16" x 16" scale block. This makes this block perfect for using 10" x 10" precuts - aka Layer […]
Ink & Inspiration: Tattoos in the Quilting Community
In this post guest contributor Jennifer Worthen shares a fun read about the evolution of Quilty-inspired tattoos. Jennifer, the writer behind the blog Slightly Biased Quilts, has been quilting since 2009 and is a modern pattern designer with a love for bold color and clean design. She shares her passion through approachable quilt patterns, lectures […]
Tips and Tricks: Working With Quilting Precuts
Recently I hosted a one-hour online class all about quilting with precuts-and today I'm sharing the highlights! If you've ever wondered what are quilting precuts and how do I use them, you're in the right place. Fabric bundles like Charm Packs, Layer Cakes, and Jelly Rolls take the stress out of choosing fabrics and eliminate […]
Advanced Piecing: Tumbling Block Quilt Tutorial
A few weeks ago I shared a post about advanced quilt-piecing techniques, specifically How to Machine Piece Hexagons with Y-Seams. This post is Part 2 of the series about advanced machine piecing where we'll talk about piecing the Y-Seams in diamonds with 60 degree angles to make a traditional Tumbling Quilt Block. If you're starting […]
Web-Piecing - a Quilting Shortcut
I'm a big fan of shortcuts when it comes to quilting. Today guest contributor, Lisa Donnelly shares one of my favorite techniques for when you're piecing lots of patchwork pieces together. Sometimes called "Web-Piecing" or "Net Piecing" this is an advanced (but super simple) application of Chain Piecing that saves time and thread by sewing […]
Checkered Garden Pastels Quilt
I finished and bound the Checkered Garden quilt that I've been making this spring. This quilt was inspired by some bundles of pastel fabrics that I found at a vendor booth at QuiltCon. They put me in the mood to make a scrappy Easter/pastel-inspired quilt for spring. I'm SO smitten with how it turned out. […]
What's On My Sewing Table June 2025
It's been a hot minute (or months) since I've shared a What's On My Sewing Table update. So I'm going to seize the opportunity today! There's a lot happening in my sewing room these days. (As well as a reality check underneath my sewing table. Read to the end for the full expose.) I like […]
A New Take on Jelly Roll Quilt Patterns
Precuts are one of my favorite inventions in the quilting universe. These standardized cuts of fabric have so many benefits. The fabric sets come in coordinated collections, so you don't have to stress about fabric matching, plus you get a large variety of prints without having to buy 20+ different pieces of fabric. They save […]
Meet my 2025 Fabric Collection: Mary Catherine
I'm so excited to officially share my newest fabric collection with Riley Blake Designs-Mary Catherine which will arrive in shops in September! This line is another sentimental one, as it's inspired by the 1950s childhoods of two important women in my life: my mom and my mother-in-law. These two women were born at the end […]
Finishing the Blocks from the 2025 RBD Challenge
Have you been following along with Riley Blake's 2025 Quilt Block Challenge? This week they released the final block. All of these blocks are free printable PDF quilt patterns and include access to a video tutorial walking you through each block. First of all, this week Riley Blake released the final free quilt block pattern […]
Machine Piecing Hexagons - Introduction to "Y" Seams
How do you feel about Y-Seams? Does the mention of Y-Seams have you quaking in your boots and heading for the hills? Well I'm here to take away the fear and stigma of the dreaded Y-Seam and help you build some serious skills. There are lots of tutorials and patterns that avidly proclaim, "No Y-Seams!" […]
What is Liberty of London?
What is Liberty of London and why is it famous in the quilting world? Liberty of London is a historic and inspiring department store in London's West End shopping district. The iconic Tudor-Revival store front is a London landmark and the architecture inside is equally enchanting. This department store is full of charming housewares, swanky […]
How to Calculate Backing with Quilt Geek, the Quilting Calculator App
Quilt Math can be a tedious part of the quilting process, but thanks to Quilt Geek, the quilting calculator app by Designed to Quilt, it's never been easier! Created by today's guest writers, Barbara and Ula, Quilt Geek simplifies the math involved in quilting, saving time and reducing errors. And this week only, the annual […]
London and William Morris - A Designer Who Changed the History of Fabric
If you've been around these parts for a while, you know I'm a Anglophile. In March I had the opportunity to visit London, my favorite city in the world, with my favorite girls. This trip I was also on a William Morris hunt. He's one of my favorite British artists of the 19th Century and […]
What's on my Sewing Table April '25
Time for another update/accountability report on what I'm currently working on. A bunch of these projects are "just for fun" and there is a cross-stitch project that is a long-term handwork project that I thoroughly enjoy. Checkered Garden Easter Quilt Progress I sewed my Checkered Garden blocks together this week. I have enjoyed this project […]
Book: Quilts in Modern Color, Creating Ombre Palettes
I've got a beautiful, brand new quilt pattern book to share with all of you! Modern quilt designer and author Amber Elliot is here to share about her new book, Quilts in Modern Color, Creating Ombré Palettes. Amber is a talented designer known for blending organic elements with geometric motifs to create contemporary designs inspired […]
7 Tips and Tools for Accurate Quilt Block Piecing
7 Tips and Tools to improve accuracy in complex quilt piecing
30 Ideas for Spring and Easter Sewing
Happy Spring everyone! As soon as March starts to roll around, I'm ready for a change of scenery and temperature. Today I'm pulling out all my Spring and Easter decorations! Even though early spring is somewhat inconsistent about the weather, it's still hopeful to feel like warm and sunshine are on their way sometime soon. […]