The Crossroads Of Arkansas Quilt – A Triadic Colour Scheme

by Jen | Stash Blasting Wednesday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stash Blasting Wednesday. Way back when at the beginning of the year as I was writing Colourful Friday posts I was also matching up colour scheme blocks for Stash Blasting Wednesday. The other day I decided that it was time to work on...

What Is The Cutting Gizmo?

by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday on Tuesday. I’ll make up Technique Tuesday on Thursday. This past weekend I was at Quilting By the Lake, a retreat put on by Wanda and Sue of Sew Squared and sponsored by Thimbles and Things of Orillia. The...

HOHOHO Appliqué Wall Hanging

by Jen | Story Time Monday

  Hey Everyone, welcome back to Story Time Monday. One day I decided to play with some Timtex that I had left over from some other project and make a Christmas wall hanging. I wanted it to be quite different and set to work creating a Santa hat. Once the hat was...

Stitch Along Sunday – November Week 3

by Jen | Stitch Along Sundays

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stitch Along Sunday. I can’t believe how fast the week flies by – it seems like I was just writing last weeks post and putting borders on half of the units for week 2. This weeks rules can be found on Ruth’s blog at...

Relief Printing With Lino Blocks & Water Soluble Inks – What Fun!

by Jen | Coffee Talk Saturday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Coffee Talk Saturday. No snapshots this week as I didn’t get behind the camera. A week ago Michael and I headed off to the museum in Orillia for a day of print making and playing with ink. Juliana Hawke, a friend of ours and well...

The Dog Bone Quilting Motif – This One’s For Soda

by Jen | Free Motion Friday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Free Motion Friday. This post is for Soda who loved her bones and treats. Sadly Soda left this world the other day but she will always be remembered for her unconditional love, stubbornness, love of running with the snowmobile and the...

What is Timtex?

by Jen | Cool Tool Thursday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Cool Tool Thursday. Timtex is a very stiff interfacing used in items such as bowls, bottom of a bag and postcards to name a few. This stiff interfacing can come plain or with fusible on both sides. As you can see in the photo above it is...

End Of The Cake

by Jen | Stash Blasting Wednesday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Stash Blasting Wednesday. The end of the cake refers to the layer cake that I used to create a strip quilt with a couple of weeks ago while at a retreat. These were some of the squares that I did not use as I didn’t feel trucks fit...

How To Make & Attach Hanging Tabs

by Jen | Technique Tuesday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Technique Tuesday. Finally I finished my October Stitch Along Sunday piece. There it is at the top of the page all bound and hanging. I didn’t do the traditional hanging sleeve this time but rather just tabs. Much faster and less...

Bright And Cheery Tree Skirt

by Jen | Story Time Monday

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Story Time Monday. This wonderful tree skirt I made for my niece several years ago. I promised her brother one a couple of years ago so had best get to that one soon. I am a huge fan of Laurel Burch designs and fabrics because they are so...