So you finished your first quilt top and you are so excited about it because it is beautiful. But what next? One of the most influential things I have ever read about how to quilt a quilt was at The Inbox Jaunt. Their #1 way to ruin a quilt top? Leave it in a box and never make it into a quilt. Now whenever I question if I’m making the right quilting decisions I remind myself that at least it…
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Baby Harry Potter
Read moreThere is a lot of Harry Potter fabric out there. (And I have serious plans for a lot of it.) But most of it isn’t exactly baby friendly. Enter Spoonflower. If you’ve never shopped at Spoonflower, you should. Independent designers upload their designs and you can shop them and then print onto a wide variety of fabrics: quilting cotton, jersey, linen canvas, and more. Or, if you are an artist, you can create and upload your own design onto fabric.…
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Drowning in Mistakes
Read moreSometimes you can plan and plan for months and everything still doesn’t work out. But when that happens, you need to have a support group, a glass of wine, and a seam ripper to correct your mistakes and move forward. I have these really good friends. Fun facts: they’re expecting their second baby, we spend a week at the beach together every year, and the male half of the couple is terrified of crabs and jellyfish. So, naturally, I started…
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March 2019 Wine of the Month
Read moreThe last weekend of February or the first weekend of March means that it’s time for Drunk Bus! I recognize that this not a holiday for most of you – but for my friends and I it is one of the best weekends of the year. Once a year we gather and do a wine tasting tour of Charlottesville area vineyards to celebrate one friend’s birthday. This year we did: Gabriele Rousse Flying Fox Valley Road Pollack Virginia does…