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Every year, Riley Blake Designs releases their Block Challenge, and this year, they’re revealing the final layout from the start! The 2025 RBD Block Challenge quilt is a great way to connect with the quilting community and learn new techniques and block designs. To help get your creativity flowing, Lori Holt colored the quilt in her Piece and Plenty collection with Riley Blake Designs. The pretty pinks and pops of aqua that Lori picked are sew fun!

You’re Invited

The 2025 Challenge will begin on January 14th and end on May 27th, with new block patterns being released ...

Piecing a Scrappy Back for the Hope’s Path Quilt

Sometimes quilting projects don’t go as planned—like when I completely forgot to order backing for the Hope’s Path Quilt. This is a quilt that is so is special to me. I share the rights with Quilts for a Cause. An organization that raises money to combat cancer by selling quilts. I was working under a tight, self imposed deadline. While it might sound stressful, it turned into an unexpected creative opportunity!

Why? Well, I decided to piece together a Snazzy Stripy Quilt Back made solely from my ...

Exciting News: My Nightlight Quilt is in Make Modern Magazine!

I’m beyond thrilled to share some amazing news with you all—I’m featured in this month’s Make Modern Magazine! read more

Hello again! I’m Marissa, a quilting newbie, and I’m sharing the journey of making my first ever quilt here with you on the Jolly Jabber. Today is all about my experience finishing up and binding my Mosaic Quilt, and you can keep reading to find out more!

Finishing Up My First Quilt

I had a great time finishing up my Mosaic Quilt. If the piecing of my blocks was a ...

Hello again! I’m Marissa, a quilting newbie, and I’m sharing the journey of making my first ever quilt here with you on the Jolly Jabber. Today, I’m sharing my experience cutting and piecing the blocks for my Mosaic Quilt, and you can read on to find out more!

Also, if you missed the first part of this series, where I introduced myself and shared my plans, you’ll want to read that before ...

I have a weakness for pouches, I love them! I love to make them. They are great for organizing not just make up essentials but quilting essentials, EPP kits, first aid supplies for your home or car, quick grab and take office supplies for on the road, there is literally no end to the multitude of uses you can find for pouches.What a fun way to use up your scraps! For this pouch I have used some

Chirp chirp! Give a little wave to the newest and cutest table topper – Hello Birdie!

Fly away with Riley Blake’s famous bluebird! Table Toppers can add pizzazz to a table, and who wouldn’t want to adorn their table (or wall or baby’s room) with cute little birds?

This bird is too cute to resist, and you can find it in three versions – appliqué, paper-pieced and traditional – on the Riley Blake Designs website.

Finishing at 40″ x 40,” Hello Birdie is a free quilt pattern designed using Hush Hush, Riley Blake Design’s latest neutral fabric collection. Hush ...

Dreaming in Sea Glass 

Currently, I’m pretending I’m at the beach. Baking in the sun, enjoying the birds as they dance with the waves, breathing in the salty air, thinking about the Terracotta Fiori quilt, and searching for shells as I trek across the sandy shore. 

That is where this quilt is taking me… That is what I channeled every time I took a stitch. 

I’ve become enamored with solid fabrics — I’m using them more and more in the projects I make. They are so interesting because you are creating your own pallet like this one ...

I love color!!  I have had a few different favorites throughout my life.  Hunter green.  Purple.  Teal.  Pink.  With each color I fall in love with I simply add it to my pallet, still loving all the colors that came before it.  When I was in college (and many years after it) I went through a purple phase.  Purple was the color in my wedding.  I had deep purple calla lilies and light purple bridesmaid dresses.  I made all the centerpieces for all of the tables.  They started out clear glass vases from Joann’s.  I cut and glued skinny ...

Hello and Happy Summer! I hope you are all doing well since my last check in. Life has been very busy here with the kids, sports, friends, the end of school and trying to meet all of my work deadlines. I thought I would pop in quick to tell you about a couple of those work related things.

First of all, my Snowed In collection with Riley Blake Designs is hitting stores now! It was such a fun line to create and I’m really excited to have a holiday/winter line out again. It feels like it’s been ...

Serendipity Charity Quilt Along - Week 5

The Fat Quarter Shop Serendipity Quilt Along is in week 5.  Are you quilting along? Join the fun, make a quilt and raise awareness of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Learn more at Fat Quarter Shop. Get the Fat Quarter Shop exclusive fabric requirements PDF.  Every two weeks, they release a new quilt block.

Week 5 - Fateful  Block Row

This week, we make the Fateful block. Below, is the mock-up of the Bee Cross Stitch colors I selected. Go, get the pattern.  

My quilt features Lori Holt’s new fabric line Bee Cross Stitch.

NOTE: The ...

A couple months back I watched The Queen’s Gambit on netflix. It’s an excellent mini series that opens up the world of chess and sheds light on how it functioned in the ’60s. It is created from the pages of a novel by Walter Tevis written in 1983 also titled The Queen’s Gambit.

Chess is something that I have never played. I love the checkerboard and all of the pieces that go with the board, like the knights, king, and queen. But no one has ever explained the game to me. The mini series has inspired me ...

Serendipity QAL - Make-A-Wish Foundation

The Fat Quarter Shop Serendipity Quilt Along has begun!  Join the fun, make a quilt and raise awareness of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Learn more at Fat Quarter Shop. Get the Fat Quarter Shop exclusive fabric requirements PDF.

My Serendipity quilt features Lori Holt’s new fabric line Bee Cross Stitch. The fabric for this project was generously provided by Riley Blake Designs.

Lucky Row One is released today. Above, is the mock-up of the Bee Cross Stitch colors I selected for row one.

The half-square triangles in this block were quickly made with Thangles.

Join us ...

How is it Friday already??  I went through some of my fabrics that I have made a few quilts from and decided to liberate some more fabric.  I hope you will be excited to give my fabric a new place to call home.  My home is smoke free and cat friendly.  Buyer pays shipping.  PLEASE leave me an email if you claim something as otherwise I have no way to get in touch with you.  Shipping will be

I am sew excited to be working with a new line from Riley Blake Designs. Sandy Gervais is the creator of this whimsical line of Oh Happy Day fabric. This line was inspired by Sandy’s love for sunny days, “The bright sunny colors make me happy!” It features reds, yellows, blues, and greens. The way that those colors pop with the dark black background is perfect! An example of this is the main print. The line is bright and cheerful with inspirational quotes and is full of texture.

I recorded a video on New Year’s (when I unboxed ...

New Year’s is right around the corner. Meaning the end of the year is less than 20 days away. Since I will be spending New Year’s hunkered down at home (in my bubble), I decided it would be fun to create an easy and fun project. SO… my New Year’s gift to you is a tutorial on how to make this Sparkling Table Runner. 

The Sparkling Table Runner features large flying geese made up of half square triangles. For me, it is the perfect icon for the transition from 2020 to 2021 because I can’t wait ...

We have stepped into fall here in Tucson and the mornings are so nice. This year, life has been truly altering and there are so many things that I miss doing. I love Farmers Markets! On Saturdays when I can find time to run, I like to park at the Farmers Market so I can check out a few booths and get a little exercise in. All before I start sewing. These cooler days have me wanting to get out and about, so I made the perfect bag to take shopping as soon as I am mentally ready to get ...

I am calling this "Appli-Play."

For a quilter who was once wrote many times that I was afraid of applique,

I have come a long way. 

Tutorial Coming Soon ... :-)

I am playing with these fabrics today.

This is Petals and Pots by Riley Blake Designs

I am also playing with the small cut off pieces. 

I have a sample project done that I hope to be sharing next week.

This pretty fabric is making a gloomy gray day bright and happy.

May your sewing place be bright and happy today.

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