What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

Life is a whirlwind of extremes. Happy times; hard times. Miracles and loss. But as our hearts are stretched in a thousand directions, they sure do grow! 

If you’re anything like me, you pour your emotions into your quilts. And this week’s quilt is bursting with love!

Watch Jenny stitch up the wildly popular Exploding Hearts quilt by Laura Piland for Slice of Pi Quilts. This stunning heart quilt is a triumph of triangles with half-square triangles, hourglass blocks, and quarter-square triangles, too. (We love Exploding Hearts SO MUCH, we created a kit with the pattern and beautiful ...

I know you all love a good modern can print and today we have not one, but TWO! 

Plus there are fabulous new arrivals from Art Gallery Fabrics and new beginner kits for those of you who are just getting started, or who want a fast and easy project. 

First up we’ve got Little Forester Fusion, a collaborative collection from the Art Gallery Fabrics designers where they each contribute one of their favorite prints and it is all colored to match.

Little Forester would make a fabulous kids quilt that could work for baby through grade school. Or you ...

We’ve got a treat for you today! Not only do we have lots of new quilty arrivals to check out, I also got a chance to chat with FreeSpirit fabric designer Shell Rummel about her new collection Time & Tide.

So we’ll take a peak at all the new goodies we have in the shop, including Time & Tide, and then learn about the inspiration behind the collection and little bit about Shell’s life as an artist.

Shell and I have collaborated on projects before and I have made, or am planning to make something from every single collection ...