Mystique
Mystique Fabric is a new line by Katia Hoffman for Windham Fabrics. Katia sent me some small squares of these beautifully wintery, jewel-tone prints this summer...
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70273 Project
So last year I ran across this sad, horrible story from history and one wonderful woman's incredible response to it...
52 Quilters – 2017-Week 22
I am so honored this week to be part of the 52 Quilters Project started up by Chris Webb a few years ago. Primarily an Instagram concept 52Quilters is "an experiment in quilty communication. A new quilter every week!" Chris started this a while back -...
January 3, 2017
Happy New Year!!
Happy New Year, peeps! And I am so excited to have all the new people stopping by the Blue Nickel for the Splendid Sampler Bonus Block and Deco States Giveaway! Make sure you leave a comment on that post for a chance to win! Today's post is...
And then she was gone…..
My Mama died on Labor Day evening at 9:05pm. There is no easy, gentle way to put it. I guess I could have tried to be more eloquent with my words. But everything, including words, feel pretty raw at the moment. I feel weird telling people this...
Windham — Tiger Lily by Heather Ross
I think this is going to be the last blog post in the old look. So when you come back here and see the incredible NEW Blue Nickel Studios site that Sarah at SpunMonkey and I are working up, I hope you will like what...
New Bedford by Denyse Schmidt — The Winners and apologies.
So we have our two winners for the New Bedford Fat Quarter Bundles from last week's giveaway from Free Spirit! First, our winner here on the site was Cindi Johnston, who wrote: I’d love to get my hands on one of those bundles!! And our winner on Intsagram...
One Fabric Nation — New Bedford GIVEAWAY!!
So here's another project that you can do with your New Bedford prints when you race out to get them from your local quilt shop this week. I have always loved these little Scottie Dog Pillows. It just so happens that Denyse Schmidt has a pattern for...
Windham — Desk Job
Onto another day of CatchUp-2015! You can tell I took these pictures months ago. We've had a VERY dry summer here in the Pacific Northwest, and everything is pretty crispy French Fry colored out here in our back field now. I hope I don't lose too...
Windham — Bake
Let's just call July the Catch Up month here at the Blue Nickel, shall we? And since it's more than half over already, the "catching up" will likely go into August! So today's featured fabric line is Bake, a small set of prints by Julia Rothman...