The day is finally here! flew to Texas to be a guest designer on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, last March (2022). Finally, the episode is up online at The QuiltShow (a membership streaming service)! My show episode is 3209 and airs today...
Today I have a special post brought to you by my dear friends at Country Threads. I have known Mary and Connie since I first discovered the "professional" world of quilting back in the early 90's. Yeah it's been awhile.Mary and Connie were THE THING...
Today's post is a continuation of the Tie One On Story - primarily the Tjap Mini Stories of the each design motifs. Posting quite a bit later than I had originally planned, but here it is!! The Tjaps (pronounced "chops" but I want to call them...
Today I thought I would tell you the fabric story behind my first collection of Modern Batiks for Banyan Batiks. This post is part one of the story, and mostly an overview of the whole collection. Here I give you the back drop and talk...
Hey there, it's my day on the OLFAholidays tour! When Yvonne at Olfa wanted to know if I wanted to be on the OLFAholidays tour, of course, I said yes! Any chance to tell you about cool stuff that can help you make quilts!! Here's a Story...
So my question for you today is this - Why do you stop by the Blue Nickel? How can the Blue Nickel become a great quilting blog? Or maybe the question is what can make the Blue Nickel blog a better quilting blog? The other...
Welcome to my day on the Blog Tour for Patty Young's Flit and Bloom! I was so glad to be asked to be part of Patty's Blog Tour, I always love the chance to play with new fabric, Right?! First a little bit about Patty that you...
I feel like I have been waiting forever for this quilt to make it's world appearance in American Patchwork and Quilting. Please help me give a big welcome to Sparkle, the newest Urban Folk Quilt pattern from the Blue Nickel Studios. [caption id="attachment_53505" align="alignnone" width="754"] Used with permission...
Hey there! Remember the Splendid Sampler project that I was talking about earlier in the year? Well, I am finally getting back to it. Today I have block 65 from Siobhan Rogers. Here is the link to the Splendid Sampler site. You can find the pattern...
Last day of August today. Really? I barely remember June and July. Well, I do remember a week in July. That week in Sisters, Oregon teaching at Quilters Affair. That is always an awesome time! So as we head into the autumn days in the...