Last week I shared some photos of the beautiful quilts in the quilt show hosted by the Rockbridge Pieceworkers Quilt Guild in Lexington, VA. I promised more, so here are few others from the show. This charming little quilt was Ann Gruner's first quilt as a serious quilter, appropriately titled A First. It took "a... Continue Reading →

Last week I was on vacation at our cabin in the Shenenadoah Valley. Since I was going to be spending the week there, I decided to enter 3 of my quilts in the fair. Fun! And guess what? I won a blue ribbon in the Domestic Machine Quilted category! I also decided to join the... Continue Reading →

Tips, Resources, and Links to get you started with Free Motion Quilting!

I haven't been quilting much lately, but I have been spending time designing quilts in EQ8. It's so easy to lose hours just lost in quilt design on the computer! If you own EQ8, you know what I'm talking about. Since I can't show you any real quilts in progress, here are few 'virtual' beauties... Continue Reading →

It's time for the big reveal: ta-da! I know the quilting in this photo is impossible to see, but it was an excellent choice for this quilt top. Believe it or not, Rebecca chose a gold-colored thread for the quilting and it truly was perfect. It didn't fight with the color and gave just the... Continue Reading →

I've taken the quilt to Rebecca Mullins, a long-arm quilter in our guild who does fantastic work. We immediately hit it off last year when she designed the quilting on the raffle quilt I designed for our guild's triennial quilt show. I want her to quilt this special quilt. For those of us without a... Continue Reading →

It was a long search for backing fabric for the log cabin quilt. I wanted a black fabric with subtle coloring and it had to be patterned. No solid fabrics in this quilt! Turns out that is not so easy to find. Finally I located just what wanted at Missouri Star. They had just enough... Continue Reading →