DIY Quilt Stencils With Your Cricut — Free Template!

I am getting ready to free motion quilt a couple of projects that have been stacking up for a while. Even though I tend to eyeball designs, or rely on the quilt blocks themselves as guidelines for various designs, sometimes it helps to add additional centering marks. You can use a pounce pad, chalk pencil,…

Happy New Years

Cutting Quilt Blocks with Cricut Maker

My husband was awesome this year and bought me a brand new Cricut Maker 3! I am also the happy owner of an Explore Air 2, which I have used for many craft projects, including applique quilt blocks and embroidery cut files. I love the creativity and precision that the computer-aided tools bring to my…

November and December Projects

In which I show off some of my November and December quilting and craft finishes.

Sew Much Fun Free Quilt Block

Free quilt block pattern!

Frosty Flakes Quilt Pattern

If you happen to have read the November/December 2021 issue of McCalls' Quilting, then you might have spied a familiar byline in one of the quilt designs. This pattern is one I originally called simply, Grandma's Red Quilt, because it was fashioned after an antique quilt hand pieced and hand quilted by my great grandmother.…

Sew Much Fun

Welcome to everyone following along with the Sew Much Fun block tour. Every week, another lovely designer will be posting a new, FREE!, sewing-themed quilt block. https://www.appliquesquiltsandmore.com/blog/sew-much-fun-tour-week-26-196897 This is week 6 already, and this week features an adorable pin cushion by Appliques, Quilts, and More. Check them out, download your free pattern. While you're there,…

Busy Hands

School started, the day job is nuts, and I am starting to long for pumpkin spice season. Sewing helps relax me through all the stress of daily life. I can't see all day, unfortunately--I do have a day job employer who would frown on it. But on a rare day of remote work where I…

The Swimsuit Project

Over the past two weeks I tried my hands at sewing my own swimsuit. I've had fabric and elastic sitting in my stash for a couple of years, and finally felt like diving in. The pattern I chose was Oasis from Ellie and Mac. Their patterns come in PDF form, so my first challenge was…

5 Quilting Tools Under $20

Quilting can be spendy. I learned how to sew in middle school back when my income consisted of money I earned babysitting for neighborhood families. All the way through the early years of my career, I carefully weighed each dollar I spent on sewing supplies because, like most of us, it was a tradeoff between…