How about a fun scrap-friendly project that takes almost no time to stitch up?! I made this bench pillow out of bits and pieces I had left over from another project. It took me only 15 minutes to sew everything together, and I thought I’d show you how I did that. Have you seen the fusible interfacing that has grid lines marked on it? I have it in several sizes of grids, and depending on what size scraps you have, I think you can get grids marked as small as 1”! For this proje

Are you ready for a Winter Visit?! This is my latest pattern, and it's so much fun to make! These little Christmas wreaths go together quickly, and they can use up all kinds of scraps or stash. I've wanted to do a cardinal bird in a quilt for a while, so this worked out perfectly. This week, we filmed a new YouTube video where I walk through the cutting and assembly process for the wreath blocks. I also talk about the final assembly process once you have all the blocks done.

From a galaxy far, far away! Double Struck Star is one of my favorite patterns to make, and it is also one of the first designs I ever published. I've made this in Christmas colors in red, white, and blue, and also several times in the cover image colors of orange, green, and turquoise. It always looks amazing, made up, the magic is in the shade and color, no matter what fabrics you are using. I have been asked over and over again through the years to do a YouTube tutorial f

Over the years, I've received many comments and questions about my straight-line quilting technique. This is a question I often get when doing trunk shows, and I try to describe it while showing the quilts, but I've never done a blog showing my process. So, I spent a little time filming my straight-line quilting in action. I quilt almost all my quilts this way, it is super easy and fast! I do this style of quilting on my longarm, but you could do the same style on a domestic