From The ‘Pick Me’ Pile Of UFO’s – Thinking Outside The Box

by Jen | Story Time Monday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Story Time Monday. I was at a friend’s a couple of weeks ago and we were chatting as quilter’s do about this, that and anything but mainly quilting. She asked me what I thought about this project she hadn’t finished and...

Foam Shapes As Quilting Templates

by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday

  Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday. The other day I was at the dollar store looking for something in particular and ended up in the craft aisle. Now most of the things in this aisle have no relation to quilting what so ever but then I saw these...

What Are Leaders And Enders?

by Jen | Technique Tuesday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. You may have heard quilter’s talk about using leaders and enders. I had heard these terms many times and didn’t have a clue what they were talking about until I went to a trunk show last fall and was...

Stitch Along Sunday – March Week 4

by Jen | Stitch Along Sundays

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stitch Along Sunday. This week’s rules were to quilt our piece in any manner we wished. We could also add some appliqué if we wanted but it was optional. I chose not to as I figured the piece was busy enough without adding something...

Variation On The Courthouse Steps Block

by Jen | Stash Blasting Wednesday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stash Blasting Wednesday. It has been a bit since the last log cabin block. In fact so long I can’t even remember which one it was, oh yah that’s right it was Log Cabin in the Round. How could I forget seeing how I used my...

Snail’s Trail – A Tetradic Colour Scheme

by Jen | Story Time Monday, UFO Spotlight

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Story Time Monday. I decided that Monday would be my day to work on UFO’s to ensure that I was indeed working on them and hopefully completing some of them. Last week I became a little obsessed and spent another day working on them...

Stitch Along Sunday – March Week 3

by Jen | Stitch Along Sundays

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stitch Along Sunday. Here we are back at Sunday again and the next installment of Stitch Along Sunday. This week the rules are a bit more extensive and can be found on Ruth’s blog – Rules Week 3.  If you missed what I did last...

Adding Contrast To Quilts: Couching

by Jen | Technique Tuesday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. With a focus of adding texture and contrast to a quilt this week’s technique is couching. To learn how and what couching is check out my blog post from last year – What is Couching? Couching can be added to...

Stitch Along Sunday – March Week 2

by Jen | Stitch Along Sundays

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stitch Along Sunday. Last week for week one of the March stitch along we dove into our scrap bins and came out with some fabric – not hard to do when it is overflowing with fabric. I had 3 different sets and decided to use both of...

Encaustic Art – Playing With Crayola Crayons

by Jen | Coffee Talk Saturday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Coffee Talk Saturday. The other day half the members of the fibre arts group I belong to went to an Encaustic workshop with Patty Chapman of WaxDreams, a local Encaustic artist in Barrie. I had no idea what I was going to be doing when I...