I have a point to make. It’s a very important point. We all go to quilt shows (well, pre-Covid we did). We love to look at the quilts. And though we are all genuinely nice people that appreciate great and lesser works of art, face it, we all have our pet peeves. You do, you know it. It’s okay to say it. There aren’t supposed to be any quilt police

So, I bet you’re wondering how this will all unfold? Well, it will unfold as a block of the month. There are 5 blocks, as opposed to 12. A year long block of the month simply drags on far too long. People tend to lose interest. A month is not a long time to get something done. In the quilt world a month goes by very, very quickly. What tends

Shot cottons are amazing. They are a type of weave that read as a solid. They are woven using two different colors of thread along the warp and along the weft. When you weave the different colors it gives a radiance to the fabric like nothing else. The fabric changes as you move, and as it moves. It doesn’t change color, rather, it changes the intensity and the appearance ever

If you have never ever worked with shot cottons, or you have but it’s been awhile, you need to revisit them or start soon. What are Shot Cottons? Well, first off, I want to show you the quilt that I made recently for Studio e Fabrics. I designed this quilt. It’s called Roaring 20s. There was little to be excited about at the beginning of 2020, and things seemed to

Here are my decision trees from my lecture on Quilts for Scrap Lovers, Rainbow Quilts for Scrap Lovers and Sensational Quilts for Scrap Lovers. You can feel free to direct people to my site and help them to understand these if you have seen one of my lectures. I love nothing more than to help people make sense of the scrap disorganization that eventually ensues when working with piles of

Here’s a simple, quick idea. I love table runners, and I wax poetic about them all the time. The reason for this is because I am not a good cook, but I can set a pretty table. After you clean up your kitchen, and you set a table runner on the table, it’s a little treat for you every time you round that corner into the kitchen. My daughter came

So for now, I am just calling this Barb’s table runner. It’s a beaut isn’t it? When my striped fabric from Studio e first came out, I was so excited to see how many fabrics it worked well with. I was shocked at the number of gorgeous fabrics that it went with. It goes with so many of the Free Spirit fabrics. It’s perfect with Tula Pink’s Linework, and it’s

This door banner couldn’t be cuter or simpler. All you need are the following: Santa panel from Moda 1/4 yard solid red fabric 3/4 yard fabric for back 3/4 yard piece of batting 1/8 yard binding Cut your Santa panel so that it is squared up. It can be a rectangle or a square, but make sure that the corners are square using a quilting ruler. Measure the bottom of