An Interview with Natalia Bonner of Piece N Quilt - Fat Quarter Shop

A few weeks ago my friends from Fat Quarter Shop came to Utah, they spent a whole day with me. 

We started out with a fun interview, yes I had a cold that day. :)

Watch the whole video, we may have spilled some beans in there!

All Aboard ~ Quilt and Wall Hanging

The girls over at It's Sew Emma have been VERY busy piecing darling quilts for quilt market. This quilt and wall hanging are their new All Aboard pattern featuring Flats by Angela Yosten.

I machine quilted both the twin size quilt and the wall hanging and I totally fell in love with the pattern. 

The size of the blocks makes the quilt fun to make and any little boy, or girl, would love to have this quilt! :)

You can pre-order the patter for All Aboard over at It's Sew Emma.

Kits for All Aboard are also available for pre-order over at Fat Quarter Shop.

Flats fabric is also available for pre-order over at Fat Quarter Shop.

Embroidery Applique

Over the past couple years Kathleen and I have been playing around quite a bit with embroidery applique, we love the fresh, clean, fun look that it can add to simple creations, like our favorite burp cloths.

Recently Kathleen has been designing her own embroidery applique designs, more about this in the next few months, and stitching them out on burp cloths.

Yesterday she stitched out this darling butterfly, yes, on a burp cloth, how adorable!

She also stitched out this fun fish a couple weeks ago, so fun isn't it! :)

Here is our free burp cloth tutorial.

Hope you're all having a great week! Happy May!

Boxes of quilts.....

Have you been wondering why things have been a little quiet around here lately???

Well, here's the reason... quilt market!

Even though I'm not going to be attending spring quilt market a little part of me will be there, lots and lots of quilts that I've machine quilted.

I've been putting in a lot of hours here at the studio machine quilting and I wish I could share photos of every quilt as I finish them, but they are top secret.... for a couple more weeks. :)

Last Friday I'm pretty sure the UPS man decided he hated me..... well, not really, but the boxes in the photo above all arrived the same day. Inside were 26 quilts!

After I shared the photo of the boxes over on instagram a few of you were a little worried about me, not to be too alarmed, 21 of the quilts that arrived I had already machine quilted, whew!

Hope everyone is having a great start to the week! I cannot believe it's already almost MAY! Where has the last month gone?

Little Tools

When I bought my long-arm quilting machine 6 years ago I never imagined that I'd have to learn to become a mechanic as well as a machine quilter. 

I can't complain, my machine has been awesome and for as much abuse as it deals with every single day, and some nights, it's an awesome machine.

However, last night I had decided to stay late and work, planning to get a lot done and try to catch up on some quilt market quilting. After about an hour of quilting in silence, meaning with no kids, my machine quit, just quit, it was doing all sorts of crazy things, like stitching when I wasn't even near it and not stitching when I wanted it to. I was so stressed out, and of course it was after the dealer had closed. I went home and didn't sleep well because I was so stressed about the machine. So, this morning I called the dealer, of course they were busy, so I waited a while. Finally I was able to talk to them and they easily could tell what was the problem. The start button had broken and so my machine thought that I was holding down on it. I am so proud of myself, the tools and parts for the long-arm are tiny, but I replaced the button all by myself! 

Maybe I was born to be a mechanic......okay, never-mind, I'll just stick with machine quitling. :)

Have a great weekend!

Flower Girl Quilt

Darcy pieced this darling Flower Girl quilt as a gift for her mother. I love the bright happy fabrics that she used.

Darcy sent me the quilt and asked me to machine quilt an all over flower type pattern.

I love the final result. So dang cute!

Thanks for letting me machine quilt another darling quilt Darcy.

Pattern for this quilt is Flower Girl by Thimble Blossoms and can be purchased at Fat Quarter Shop.

Quilts and More - Summer 2013

This morning I ran to the grocery store to pick up a few items before I started the day. When I was there I decided to pick up a copy of the Summer 2013 issue of Quilts and More.

When I opened it up I was super duper excited to see the Moda Bake Shop ad right inside the cover, squee! I love Moda Bake Shop!

Then I flipped through a couple more pages and was so excited to see Kimberly of Main Street Market Desings, Circus, Circus quilt pattern featured inside!

Last spring I was able to machine quilt this darling quilt for Kimberly featuring her pattern and her darling fabric.

It's always such a huge honor to see your name in print.

Patchwork Life - Quilt

Have you stopped by Moda Bake Shop recently? Of course there is always something fun going on over there, and yes, I'm in the process of "baking" up something new as well.

Yesterday Sara of It's Sew Emma shared a darling new free tutorial, the quilt is called Patchwork Life and I machine quilted the darling quilt for her.

Hop on over to Moda Bake Shop today to see the complete tutorial.

Large-Block Quilts - by Vickie Eapen

Today I get to take part in Vickie Eapen's blog tour and help introduce her new book, Large-Block Quilts, 16 Quick and Easy Quilt Patterns... 

.... and I'm super excited to share a couple quilts in particular in this new book!

So, not only does Vickie's book have 16 super cute quick quilt patterns I machine quilted a few of those quilts for her.

Thanks for letting me be in tinsy part of your book journey Vickie!

If you haven't already make sure to hop on over to Vickie's blog and visit all of the stops on her blog tour.

Also, you can purchase your own copy of Lare-Block Quilts here.

Dresden Plate

Yesterday I spent most of my day machine quilting a darling quilt for Karen of Nellie's Needles, for her quilt market booth. 

Since the quilt is for quilt market I can't share the whole quilt, but it turned out fabulous, and my very favorite part was the machine quilting on the dresden plates.

I just love how they turned out....so I had to share!

Hope you all have a great weekend!