Rainbow & Calico Things, Williamsburg, Iowa

I’ve been shopping at Rainbow & Calico Things for years, but I’ve never actually been to the their rural location on a farm in Williamsburg, Iowa. The owner is a member of my quilt guild, so I’ve shopped from boxes she’s brought to quilt retreats and her booth at our quilt show. I have loved […]

2014 Block of the Month

Alright quilters, it’s time to challenge your sewing skill set with the Quilt Addicts Anonymous 2014 Block of the Month. Each month you’ll learn a new tips, tricks and efficiencies that will improve your quilting and give you the chance to try new blocks you might not want to make an entire quilt from. You’ll […]
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Strip Pieced Fat Quarter Quilt Pattern Fly Away

This month’s Stashin’ with Stephanie pattern is my favorite kind of pattern … one that looks complicated, but is pretty simple and fast once you break it down. This month we are using offset strip piecing to create vertical strip pieced rows that look like they are forming a “V”. The result looks a little […]

2016 BOM fabric swatch sneak peak

I’m starting to plan the 2016 BOM quilt pattern. I’ve got a layout planned out and am in the process of selecting fabrics. One of the fabric lines I’m considering is from Majestic Batiks, which makes hand-crafted batiks using Indonesia’s centuries-old method of hand dyeing fabric. There is a beautiful selection of fabrics available, but these are the […]

Satin, lace and a 4 a.m. finish

Satin and lace can be very scary materials to work with when you’re used to 100 percent quilting cotton, but I found that they really weren’t all that bad. The scariest part was whether or not I’d finish in time for my daughter’s baptism, not if the fabric would behave like a soaking wet kid […]
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Sew a fancy apron for entertaining FREE PATTERN!

We’ve got another Sew It Yourself video tutorial to share with you today on how to make a fancy apron that is perfect for hosting! Sew It Yourself is a new initiative from the Jaftex family of fabrics which includes FreeSpirit Fabrics, Henry Glass, Blank and Studio E. Their goal is to inspire sewists and […]