Coming Together!

The worst part of quilting?  Top construction!

I love making the blocks - each and every one.

Choosing fabrics to play together, cutting, sewing, pressing, sewing some more.  I love everything about this whole process.

And then the real work comes...there are many ways to sew a quilt top together.

If the blocks are simple enough I can web the whole top in continuous rows where rows are held together by chaining threads between the blocks.  Easy Peasy.

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Quilting Behind The Scenes!

With the release of our Four Patch Fun Leader & Ender Challenge yesterday came so many inquiries of "What Else Is Under Your Needle?!?!" and I think I am finally to a point where I can share what's been going on in the studio for the past many months.

Many months?

Yes...because this project started out on a whim with inspiration from a vintage quilt used as the background of one of my Quiltville Quotes.  A photo I took while antique mall wandering.

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2025 Leader & Ender Challenge: Four Patch Fun!

Hey hey, Quiltvillians!
It's Time! (Finally!)
Our yearly Quiltville Leader & Ender challenge begins today.
Things to know:
Leader & Ender challenges are given so that you have "SOMETHING" to stitch in between the lines of chain-stitching other things.
These little units are made as "sew-betweens" instead of using a folded over, thread covered throw away scrap to keep your piecing continuous and always leaving "something" under the presser foot of your machine to hold your place while you go press pieces from your current project.
If you have this finished in 2 weeks it doesn't count. Please play along with all of us and make it alongside the projects you are already working on.  It is not a race.  There is not a prize if you finish first. We won't be impressed.  LOL!

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Mississippi Meets Virginia!

As I gather and edit photos, plan and type up this post, the Mississippi Quilters are heading out car by car and beginning their journeys back home.

What was supposed to be the rainiest retreat on record turned out to be not so bad - just a few showers here and there, some middle-of-the night thunder bumpers that brought the temperatures back down into the pleasant range -

And nothing disrupted the quilting, chatting, laughing, and of course the eating of wonderful meals prepared by their own hands.

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