One Day until Valentine's Day. I hope you bought everything you needed, because the stores are wiped out! Here today at the Blue Nickel, we are once again at a #OneFabricNation post. This time featuring Joel Dewberry's Wander line. Definitely Wander comes with a Southwestern theme in non traditional...
Happy Pre-Valentines Day! I had been planning on presenting a whole week's worth of fun Valentine Day craft ideas from a variety of sources. But since it is February 12th already (Where the heck did JANUARY GO?) I will be lumping a bunch together now. You...
I talked a little about the grand year-long adventure starting this month called The Splendid Sampler Sew Along awhile back. Here's my first "official" post on the Blue Nickel about it. Already there are over 10,000 quilters joining this Amazing project dreamed up by Pat and Jane in which...
Well, I finished the Pastel Flame On! top. What do you think? If you missed it, I showed you the beginnings of this quilt here when I introduced David Walker's Sweethearts line for Free Spirit Fabrics. I am so delighted with how different this quilt looks compared...
And the Classes are OUT!!! Here's my line up for Summer 2016 Quilters' Affair Event of the Summer! I am so thrilled to be teaching in Sisters, Oregon again this summer. This will be my 4th summer teaching there and I am just as excited as ever...
And here's another giveaway for the end of the year! Aren't these fun? I love reading all of your comments! Today's giveaway will be two fat quarter bundles of Fibs and Fables by Anna Maria Horner. And again, at least for this round, let's do one bundle given away to a...
Happy Pre-Holiday Rush, people! Today's post is a quick little "Kinda-Related-To-The-Holidays" sorta post. In a tongue-in-cheek-commercial-jab sorta way. Wow that was a bunch of reckless grammar/punctuation carnage. You'd think an English major would know better. Oh well...
Hey there Peeps, About time I announced these winners to you! Two winners again, one from the blog comments and one from the Instagram comments. On the blog, Sandy wrote: Gorgeous fabric, and what a fun pattern!! Thanks for a chance!! And on Instagram Abbey simply wrote: So beautiful! I sent...
Okay the last post of October here at the Blue Nickel...
So, I am back from Quilt Market! I haven't been since Pittsburgh Spring Quilt Market 2014. I have missed it. But getting ready for Market was just as crazy as ever. This glorious line Fibs and Fables has been in my hot little hands since August...