Knitting Therapy With The Moonbeam Shrug

by Jen | Coffee Talk Saturday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Coffee Talk Saturday. As you probably noticed there was no mail in your inbox this morning – there will be two on Sunday. I didn’t get my post written yesterday due to a family emergency. Hence the posts the next few days may...

Change Is Good: Creating Outside The Box

by Jen | Coffee Talk Saturday, Free Motion Friday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Free Motion Friday. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about what I have been creating and writing about on my blog since the beginning of the year. And as much as I like patchwork and all the designs that can be created with...

Fray Block: What Is It And Does It Work?

by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday. My tool this week is Fray Block by June Tailor. This is not something I have used much of until I started adding couching to my work. Fray Block is a liquid used to coat the ends of yarn or wool so they do not fray and...

Sewing Up The Scrap Crazy Pieces Into Blocks

by Jen | Stash Blasting Wednesday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stash Blasting Wednesday. Yesterday I used the Scrap Crazy Templates to cut up some strips of fabric into pieces using those 4 templates. Today I am going to cut a few more pieces and then sew them all up and create a masterpiece. Well,...

How To Use The Scrap Crazy Templates

by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday, Stash Blasting Wednesday, Technique Tuesday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. A couple of weeks ago I introduced a new set of templates on Cool Tool Thursday called the Scrap Crazy 6″ templates. I am really excited to start using these little templates as they have so many possibilities and I am...

Modern Linear Lines: Mug Rug #7

by Jen | Mug Rug Monday, Stash Blasting Wednesday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Mug Rug Monday. This week I have gone a bit different and a little more modern from the 6 previous mug rugs. I chose 4 fabrics to create mug rug #7 with. I used the two prints to make one of my Rectangles & Squares quilts a few years...

Stitch Along Sunday – February 2015 Week 3

by Jen | Stitch Along Sundays

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stitch Along Sunday. Last week I added some couching to the hand dyed fabric I chose as the background. And today I am going to add in some more stitching with the threads I chose way back in Week 1. For this week’s full set of...

UFO Spotlight: The Wreath Quilt Finale

by Jen | Stitch Along Sundays, UFO Spotlight

Hey Everyone, welcome back to UFO Spotlight Saturday. Well, the last post for The Wreath Quilt has finally arrived. It started out as a small Stitch Along Sunday piece and has ended up as a wall hanging at 26 inches square. Last Saturday I left off with wanting to add...

Poppies For Pat

by Jen | Colourful Friday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Colourful Friday. I was trolling through my photo library and found this photo of a poppy wall hanging that I made many years ago. It is a McKenna Ryan pattern and was part of one of her block of the month quilts. I only did the one block...

The Curved Corner Cutter From Creative Grids

by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday. This week’s tool is the Multi-sized Curved Corner Cutter from Creative Grids. A great tool for making rounded corners on placemats, table toppers, wall hangings and anything else you want to put a curved corner...