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 is my spot on the Book Tour for my friend Pat Sloan's Holiday Celebrations book! So many great projects in it - some for every season! I had a hard time just picking one project to work on. I actually couldn't, I had to...
Of course my last post in the beginning of April was about Goals for this year! That's probably why THIS post is so long overdue! I can't even remember what I was really working on in the Studio in April or May. Both Mandalas for those...
Well, late in the month, but Not the Very end of it. Spring has officially started, and here in the Pacific Northwest US, it is a typical rainy day. We found some daffodils popping up in the lawn and that made us both very happy because...
So A new month has begun! (okay the month had begun when I STARTED writing this post! Now it is over half over! Jinksies! Where DOES TIME go!?!? ) I JUST barely made the goal of getting the January Mandala of the Month done in the...
Good morning there, my friends. I am so happy to be back to the blogging. It has been a long summer and an even longer autumn here at the Blue Nickel. We emptied and sold my Dad's house and now our house is sold and we...
Hey there, Welcome to this morning! I thought I would wake your day up with this hot pink quilted image from a new book on Color/Thread and how they interact in Quilting by my friend Teri Lucas ! Teri and I go way back! To 2011...
So do you remember back to the beginning of this year? I barely do. One of my big goals this year was to bring new life into my blog. It is not easy because it is so much more work than Instagram! But you can say...
Welcome to Kristen Balouch's Enchanted Kingdom! I have been sitting with this fat quarter bundle for awhile trying to think what bigger project that I wanted to do with it. I started playing with it awhile ago here, but I got distracted for a bit....
I am a Hoarder Saver, you know. I save all of those little corner pieces that get cut off of mitered joints on binding and the corners of squares and rectangles when you add a corner - Snowball block style. And then eventually they get...