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How do you feel about fancy hats? What about bourbon? And, how about horses? If you are saying yes to all three, you are after my own Derby heart!

The first Saturday in May is the annual Running of the Roses and here in Louisville, the whole town comes to a stop to watch the horses run. This year the long shot, Rich Strike, won. It was incredibly exciting!

To honor the Kentucky Derby I created the Run for the Roses quilt and showed how it was made on Episode 3913 of the Love of Quilting PBS show. It features ...

What a crazy, fantastic month! I just got back from Golden, Colorado where we recorded the national PBS show Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting 4000 series. I always have a wonderful time with Sara Gallegos as we share some amazing quilts, phenomenal tips and a few laughs along the way.

This time you’ll never believe what the hardest part for me was but it happened on day one of taping the Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting 4000th series. The line I was supposed to say on camera was, “You are watching the 4000 series of Love of ...

I have two quilts featured in the latest edition of the Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting magazine (get yourself a signed copy here!). The first was my Louisville Spirit quilt which I talked about previously. The second quilt was my Flamingo Stampede quilt!

Generally, the big brains who pick the patterns that run in the magazine put out a call for submissions around a theme. This edition of the magazine was “birds”. Now… let’s all pause for a moment because I want you to think about what kind of quilt comes to mind when I say “birds”. Well ...

My triplets have graduated from college!! That sentence is a heart stopper for me. I am so blessed to have these amazing humans in my world and the fact that I was blessed enough to be their momma makes me incredibly thankful. Of course, a big event like graduating from college also requires a quilt to be made in commemoration. Thus, the Louisville Spirit quilt was born!

However, because there are three of them…. that was a HUGE project! I wanted to make something fast, simple, and something that didn’t require a lot of brain power because being a ...

Do you have a bucket list quilt? You know, that quilt pattern you’ve always wanted to make but just haven’t gotten around to it? Well, last year while Sara and I were recording one of the episodes of the Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting show on PBS, I asked Sara what her bucket list quilt would be. She said New York Beauty.

I love that pattern too, but my bucket list quilt is a log cabin. I’m not sure how I’ve gone this long without making one but I just haven’t. So, I told ...

Ponder with me, if you will, the traditional Birds in the Air quilt block. Think about how you’d piece this. First, you’d make a half square triangle, right? And then you’d sew two smaller triangles to each side being very careful about those bias edges. Finally, you’d sew a larger triangle to the opposite side.

And then you’d reevaluate your life choices as you realize that your pattern will require a BUNCH of these little birds in the air. But… what if I told you I found a way to make them FOUR AT A ...

I recently realized I never officially announced something pretty major in my world here in my blog. I got married! You’d think it wouldn’t have taken me so long to share the news with you but right after my honeymoon COVID locked the world down and we all had bigger things on our minds. read more

I have a confession. I’m not sure how I grew up in the seventies without watching the Brady Bunch. Maybe I was watching Bewitched too much to have time for the Brady Bunch? My husband shakes his head when any pop culture reference to the show flies over my head. But, while I’ve never seen an episode, I do know that, “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!” comes from the Brady Bunch! Were you a fan?

Marcia was played by Maureen McCormick who is now a fabric designer for Moda! Her debut line is called A Blooming Bunch (isn’t that ...

Some fabrics have a siren song that just pulls you in and you simply HAVE to make something with it. Yeah… I know you know that feeling! The entire line of the Bee Grateful fabrics from Moda that were designed by Deb Strain were impossible to resist. So, I designed a quilt for them that appears in the July/August 2021 edition of Love of Quilting magazine!

Lately I’ve been fascinated by asymmetrical blocks. These types of blocks have the ability to make secondary designs where they come together and I love how versatile they are. Plus, for this ...

April is one of my favorite months of the year. Why? Because this is the month I get to record the Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting season 3800 for PBS! We record four shows a day for a week out in Colorado and it is a brutal schedule but my co-host, Sara Gallegos, makes this so fun!

I can’t wait for you to see all the quilts we have planned for Love of Quilting Season 3800. One of the quilts I know you’ll love is Songbird Stars. Take a look at that pieced outside border made up ...

I recently moved into a new house and while packing up my old home I found my stash of Love of Quilting magazines from when I started quilting about 20 years ago. As I flipped through the pages I had to laugh a bit. If you had told me then that I would someday co-host the PBS show, Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting…. I’d have told you that you were NUTS! I could never had dreamed that big!

I’ve been lucky enough to have many of my quilts featured in the magazine over the years but I ...