Dear Santa, c/o The Fat Quarter Shop

Dear Santa,
We’ve been ever such nice quilters this year! Remember when we got started on quilting projects and then could have abandoned them in favor of newer, better projects? Well, we didn’t! (OK, we didn’t always. But we must have finished a solid 10% of the projects we started! [...]

Happy Quiltaversary To Us!

It was exactly a year ago today that we were bitten by the quilting bug, thanks to a quick trip to Pennington Quilt Works to buy a charm pack for Boomer for Christmas! What a fateful day! We’ve both been stunned by how fabulously fun quilting is. A year ago we were [...]

Taking Stock of the Works in Progress: Pookie Edition

It’s been almost a year since we both started quilting, and it seems like now is a great time to step back and take stock of what’s in our active pipelines right now. We’ve both just finished up some quilts and are revving up on exciting new projects — so what’s on tap?
When I last [...]

Taking Stock Of The Works In Progress: Schnookie Edition

It’s been almost a year since we both started quilting, and it seems like now is a great time to step back and take stock of what’s in our active pipelines right now. We’ve both just finished up some quilts and are revving up on exciting new projects — so what’s on tap?

Over the [...]

Wherein We Try Our Hands At Sewing

My side of the couch, where I do all my quilting and stitching, is on the left side. This is nice because I get a fabulous view of the garden and the trees across the street. This is not nice because I’m constantly dropping my spool of thread and scissors over the side; [...]

Quilting Progress Report: Schnookie Edition

I have been on such a productive quilting spree lately that I’ve been terribly remiss about stopping and actually documenting it. In the seven weeks since I finished Squaresville (and there will be an extensive photoshoot for it, I promise), I’ve pieced the entire top of Amy Butler’s Midwest Modern quilt (and didn’t take [...]

Quilting Progress Report: Pookie Edition

My last quilting progress report was two months ago; I had just finished binding “Merry Go Round” and piecing the top for “Prairie Gothic”. Since then, I’ve finished… nothing. Nothing at all. But I have had a lots of irons in the fire, and have been expanding my pipeline of projects well [...]

Ugly City, Under Construction

Quite a few months ago (March, I think?) we went to a quilting convention and expo. We thought it would be super-dorky, but it turned out to be a bacchanal of beautiful fabrics and quilt patterns and marvelousness; we emerged with our life savings greatly depleted but our fabric stash greatly improved. One [...]

Sage Advice

Recently, IPB Proper was home to some advice columns from some “NHL players”, so I figure why not bring the helpful hints over here to the sister-blog? It’s occurred to me that while I’ve shared all manner of pictures and stories of my crafting, I’ve not imparted the number one most important lesson of [...]

Merry Go Round

Ever since Boomer and I gave Schnookie her 30’s scrap quilt for her birthday, she’s been raving about what a fabulous blanket it is. Cool in the summer and warm in the winter, always perfectly in tune with the other blankets on the bed, and forever in a state of “Bert and Ernie Bed” [...]