Barn quilts abound in Shawano County

Quilt blocks on barns are becoming quite the trend, but they’re really popular in in Shawano County, Wis. You can find one on just about every rural road. I took photos of several when my family vacationed there over the summer. Enjoy! There also was an awesome field of sunflowers. It was really neat to […]

Join the Stripping in Paradise Fabric Exchange

We’re leaving the cold winter behind and headed to the tropics with the next Quilt Addicts Anonymous Fabric Exchange. My cheeky title for this quilt is Stripping in Paradise, and that’s because we are exchanging batik stripsĀ to make strip sets that will be cutĀ into squares and then turned into half square triangles to create the […]
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Get inside Shell Rummel’s creative process!

We’ve got a treat for you today. I sat down with Shell Rummel last week to chat all things fabric design and creative process. Shell and I have worked together for many years, collaborating on many projects where I brought her fabrics to life in quilt designs. So we always enjoy getting together to talk […]
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My daughter unboxes Unicorn Fabric!

I think my daughter Angela is the youngest quilter ever to receive fabric strike offs, the sample fabric the mill makes and sends to fabric manufacturers for review before the the line is printed in mass to be sent to quilt shops. We ordered Unicorn Love by Diane Neukirch to be delivered in August 2022, […]
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Bloopers!

Is the quilt shop haunted? What equipment failure happens this go around? Find out why the Quilt Addicts Anonymous video editor will always have a job!

Quilt retreat to-do list

If you ask my grandma, she thinks I sew all day long. Unfortunately that isn’t the case. The business end of running a quilting blog tends eat up more time than sewing and you’re usually more likely to find me in front of a computer than the sewing machine. But that is going to change […]

$10 antique store find

It’s official. At 13-months-old Angela has her first sewing machine. One of my favorite rainy day activities while on vacation in Shawano, Wisconsin, is visiting antique shops. Usually it is the same stuff year after year. Beer steins, tchotchkes, spoons, more junk than treasures. But occasionally I find something good. This trip it was a […]
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This Moda fabric is perfect for a summer quilt!

We just got in a Wild Blossoms Bundles by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics and it is PERFECT for a summer quilt! The vibrant blossoms, little bees buzzing around and a rainbow ombre of wildflowers that changes color across the entire width of fabric is absolutely fabulous. This is one of those fabric collections that […]