Welcome to Needle and Thread Thursday, friends! This week, I've been working on a happy new quilt, and all the blocks are done!
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
A Spring Quilt and NTT
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The NEW Stash Statement!
Hey there, friends. Needle and Thread Thursday is taking a little break this week so I can share some huge news. The NEW and improved Stash Statement is now available in my Etsy shop!
And finally, the NEW Stash Statement has a new price point. Fox Chapel/Landauer prices their books a little differently, so it's actually less expensive than when it was first released. If you've wanted to add this book to your library, there's no better time!
Since this book is a re-release, I'm not planning a new blog tour, but you won't want to miss all of the amazing versions of these quilts from the original release. Each one of these superstar bloggers made a project from the book, and included their honest review of the structured improv process and the book itself. Everything is linked here for you, and I've included the links to each original design as well.
I hope you'll take a few minutes to check out the amazing quilts included in this lineup! And I also hope you'll consider adding the NEW Stash Statement to your library.
The NEW Stash Statement is available in my Etsy shop now. You can find it HERE, or by clicking on the book cover on the top left sidebar. It will also be available on Amazon and everywhere else you usually buy books in mid-May. Thanks so much, friends!
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
April Sponsor News!
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Eclipse and Oklahoma!
Hey there, friends! It's been a great week around here, including a solar eclipse day trip. Though we worried about cloud cover in central Arkansas (only about 2.5 hours from us), we ended up with lovely weather and four full minutes of totality. Though my son and I traveled to Paducah for the eclipse in 2017 (with my mom and grandmother), my husband was on a work trip and missed that one. So, a total solar eclipse was a new experience for him, as well as for my son's girlfriend, who also came along with us on Monday. Even though I experienced the 2017 eclipse, this one was no less amazing.
And now, at the time of posting, I'm actually on my way to visit Bartlesville, Oklahoma. No sewing this week, but plenty of other great things going on.
So, let's go ahead and check out a few highlights from last week's party. Deb at A Scrappy Quilter showed off this finish-
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
A Spring Color Palette
Welcome to Needle and Thread Thursday, y'all! I've still been enjoying the outdoors this week with yet another landscaping project I'm pretty sure this is the last one! I decided to dig up some monkey grass in a narrow flower bed alongside our driveway (planted by the previous owners of our house), and replace it with plants I actually love (dense monkey grass was the ONLY thing in that flower bed). The monkey grass filled seventeen garbage bags, and I listed them on a local resale site (for free). All seventeen bags were claimed within an hour! I don't love monkey grass, but it makes me happy that someone does, and that perfectly healthy plants didn't get thrown away.
And all this outdoor time inspired me to pull this cheerful spring color palette out of my cabinet. I'm not sure what I'm going to make just yet, but the colors make me smile.
Once again, last week's party was awesome! Check out this gorgeous quilt top from Maggie at Making a Lather-
This quilt from Quilting Gail is a beauty!
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Happy NTT!
Welcome to Needle and Thread Thursday, y'all. I wasn't kidding when I said last week that I love yard work so much that I even help my friends. After two exceptionally hard winters, two of my very good friends are doing lots of reevaluating what plants are actually hardy enough for this area, and lots of replanting. And yep! You guessed it. I've been to the nursery and right there digging holes with each of them this week.
Last week's party had lots to ogle though! I love this sweet quilt from Susan at Patchwork n Play-
This fun quilt is from Jan at The Colorful Fabriholic-
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Lots of Landscaping and NTT
Welcome to Needle and Thread Thursday and happy spring, y'all! I know I've probably mentioned how much I love working in my yard, but in case you don't already know- at my house, I am the grass-cutter, the leaf-raker, and the flower planter. My husband is wonderful and is almost always working alongside me, especially with jobs that are too big for me to handle alone. I prefer yard work over the gym, so I insist on doing as much as possible without his help so I can skip my evening workout. I love yard work so much that I even help my friends with theirs, lol!
The spring weather makes it easy to be outside, and since I returned from North Carolina, we have been hard at work adding a HUGE flower bed along our back fence.
So, let's check out some of my favorite links from last week. I love this sweet quilt top from Anne-Marie at Stories From the Sewing Room-