Welcome to our new home!

Welcome to our new home my friends! This is the first official post from the new blog platform. What do you guys think? Everything from the old blog has been transferred over as if we never even left so you will still be able to access everything that we have written about since we started. But this new blog has so much more info and its all neatly organized for you in new categories and links and all kinds of fun things. In the next couple of days I will give you guys a tour of all the fun new…

Introducing FARMHOUSE II GOODIES

Goodies? What kinds of goodies you might ask? Well… in our industry, we call them Finished Goods. Which is just a fancy way of saying that we are putting our designs on a variety of things other than yardage. We have several to share with you today and there are more in the works all the time. If you have followed along with us for a long time, you might remember when we used to do fabric Finished Goods all the time. We had aprons and pincushions and backpacks. We made tablecloths and organizers and other fun stuff. Then…

Introducing FARMHOUSE II

Hello my Quilting Friends! We are slowly digging ourselves out from Quilt Market and I have so many different things to share with you but I thought it was high time that I introduced everyone to our brand new upcoming collection, FARMHOUSE II. Due to the popularity of our first Farmhouse collection [to be completely honest, it might have been one of my all time favorite fabric collections that I have ever designed] several years ago, I thought it was time to do a "take two" with new prints and the same classic color palette that we all…

Zigzag Quilting

Recently I made an oversized pillow for my upcoming book, Christmas Figs, with the lovely ladies at FQS and I needed to quilt it. Well my long time friend and quilter, Diana, no longer lives right around the corner from my house so unless I wanted to ship the pillow to her in the Pacific Northwest, I needed to figure out a solution on my own. Plus there was that whole deadline thing happening too. So I had seen some "uneven" straight line quilting that I loved before, something about the lines the moment they became uneven, made…

Introducing CHRISTMAS FIGS!

Hello My Friends! I know that's in well past Christmas and not yet Christmas in July but in case you haven't already heard about this… we have a Christmas collection due out this year and I'm so excited!! Introducing… CHRISTMAS FIGS, due out in stores in June 2018 just in time for all of those wonderful projects that all of you organized ladies and gentlemen start on in July!  The collection is filled with fabulous red, green and ivory blender prints with a few Christmas prints thrown in. But the rest…