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Since we’re heading into fall (my favorite season), I’m featuring a nice fall table runner pattern this month.

“Pomegranates and Pineapples” is an 18″ x 38″ pattern that you can make using a charm pack and a little bit of background, or raid your fall scraps and put one together.

The piecing is super simple, leaving you plenty of time to do the elegant appliqué that runs down each side.

Pineapples symbolize hospitality, and pomegranates symbolize love, so this table runner sets a very special and welcoming table. And there are plenty of oak leaves and acorns thrown ...

This month I’m featuring a quilt with colors that match the weather we’re having! I love this sunny palette, and I keep going back to it again and again — this color combo is just so cheery!

Anyway, this month’s featured pattern is AmpersAnd:

It’s available in print and PDF formats in my Etsy shop for only $5 during the month of August.

There is also an alternate free pattern available that you can appliqué on top of the quilt instead of the ampersand and make it a Halloween quilt. This spider pattern is available here: Spiderapplique ...

It’s officially summer!

Fireworks, picnics, baseball, excessive heat!

This month I’m featuring both of my patriotic small-project patterns.

Easy Strips and Stars:

This is a reversible, quilt-as-you-go table runner pattern. You can make it patriotic on one side, Christmas on the other, or any combination of holidays/occasions you wish!

If you don’t want to make your own, I also have listed the shop sample for sale, but there’s only one, so don’t delay on that decision!

The other pattern I’m featuring is Liberty Stars:

This pattern makes TWO buntings in one fell swoop ...

June’s featured pattern bargain is all about the lake life! It’s that time of year, people will be getting back out on the water, and this little design is a great way to decorate!

I’m featuring my Aweigh quilted pillow pattern.

The pattern is for a 14″ pillow, but the anchor design is actually quite versatile —

• • you can hand quilt the design, as I did for my pillow
• • you can machine quilt the design
• • you can reduce or enlarge the design to make it whatever size you need
• • you can make a wall quilt instead of a ...

What better pattern to feature in May than my Mayflowers pattern??

I designed this quilt to teach at the 2016 Arrow Rock Quilt Camp, and guess what’s going on the first week of this month, as well? The Arrow Rock Quilt Camp, once again! I’m not teaching there any more, but I thought it was a good time to feature this pattern.

It’s an easy appliqué pattern, surrounded on two sides by patchwork:

I made two different color options for my samples.

You can put your appliqué on a plain background, or a pieced background. And there ...

Meet my newest pattern — Take Two!

It’s a cute little movie-themed throw quilt that you can wrap up in to watch your favorite movies!

Take Two features 20 scrappy sampler star blocks set into a movie-reel-type sashing, and measures ~58″ x 70″. (I say approximately because it all depends on how you trim it as you make it, which is up to the individual maker.)

You can choose to appliqué the clapper on, or leave it off. You could also put someone’s name there instead of the words shown!

Or instructions are also included for an abbreviated version ...

This month I’m really wishing for spring to make it’s appearance for real. The grass is starting to green up, and I do have some daffodils blooming, so I really need the wind to stop blowing so hard, and a couple weeks without any rain. Soon the temperatures will rise enough that we can shut off the furnace and the goats will start shedding their winter fur.

And it’ll be time for flowers! Which I cannot grow since I don’t have a green thumb at all. The daffodils and lilacs are on their own, which is ...

Since I’m so ready for winter to be over with, I’m featuring my Springtime in Arrow Rock pattern for March, with all its bright, cheery colors!

This quilt was designed for the Arrow Rock Quilt Camp, and they came up with some wonderful quilts from it.

You get patterns for 17 different flower blocks, so not only can you make the quilt as shown, but the other possibilities are endless!

The quilt shown is 60″ x 80″, and you can read all about it HERE.

The pattern is now only available in PDF version, and it’s on ...

February’s featured pattern is “What the Hex?”

This pattern uses hexagons to teach you how to do set-in seams, so it’s a great one to learn on, and the possibilities for hexie arrangement are basically endless.

I designed this back when honeycombs were a thing from Moda. They’re no longer a thing from Moda these days, but the template is included in the pattern, so no worries. And rather than buying a pre-cut pack of hexies, you can cut them from your stash, which would actually be even better!

OK, now I want to go start another ...

I’m already dreaming of spring! I keep telling myself: “Every day is one day closer to spring.” We actually had thunderstorms last night — in January — complete with lots of lightning.

I always try to cheer myself up with brightly-colored quilting projects during the winter. And this little quilt is no exception. My newest pattern is called Posies in the Fencerow:

I originally designed this pattern for use in my beginning hand appliqué classes, and then carried it on over into beginning patchwork. It’s an easy one to learn on. Which means it’s also fairly quick to make ...

I’ve decided this year to do a featured pattern special each month. We’re starting out for January with a sweet Valentine’s-themed pattern called “Be Mine”, just in time for you to make up a sweet gift for a special Valentine in your life, or for yourself to decorate with!

This pattern makes a cute little wall hanging that could also be turned into a pillow.

The pattern features appliqué, but could also be used to make a simple stitchery project:

Enlarge it to make it the focal point of a sweet throw quilt, or reduce it down ...

I’m wishing all of you a most wonderful, warm, happy, peaceful, and very Merry Christmas. I really appreciate that you take the time to visit my little corner of the world and read what I have to say.

Fifty-seven years ago today, my mother was in the hospital giving birth to my baby brother, Darin. I’m sure that made for a memorable Christmas for her and our family. I was only 3 years old, so I don’t remember it being that eventful!

Barely in time for Christmas this year, I am finally introducing this year’s Prairie ...