It is FIG TREE CONTEST time!!

…. amazing prize for this contest from the lovely folks at MODA for all 6 winners!! Welcome to April and the Fig Tree contest in the line up of MODA's 12 Designers/12Contests!! We are so glad to be participating in this year long MODA adventure of creativity and contests [so far we have seen fun contests from French General, Sweetwater and Me & My Sister].For those of you who are new around here, welcome! For those of you who "talk" to me everyday on Instagram or elsewhere, welcome back! I sure hope that you…

2016 Mystery Fig Tree Sampler

As I write this, I should be finishing up the binding on this lovely 2016 project. My Instagram friends urged me to finish up the binding so that I could consider it a February finish and that is just the cheering section I need right about now to get this one done! UPDATE: BINDING DONE [see last photo] !! Sometimes I absolutely love binding and sometimes… well sometimes not so much [usually depending on what else I have to do at the same time]! These annual samplers have surely become my favorite projects of all time. The one from 2015…

Little Box of Figs 2016

Our first year of LITTLE BOX OF FIGS has come to a close and we are so proud of the kits and patterns we have created for this program as well as all our favorite notions and little goodies that we had the chance to include in each box. So here is a quick summary of the 2016 program…   BOX #1               BOX #2               Box #3                 Box #4               For those…

Teaching Adventures

Hello my Quilty Friends! Its been a while since I have blogged and I sooooo want to get back into a better habit of doing this because it really is a place where I can share so much more than I am able to do on Instagram, which is where I am most of the time these days. Why? Because it is SO MUCH EASIER for me and with the totally insane schedule I seem to keep, EASIER is sometimes the only way it will happen!  I would love it if you would join me there if you haven…

WOOL BOM INFO

WOOL TUTORIAL I Hello my wool friends! For those of you who are participating in our RETRO FARMHOUSE WOOL BOM or our WOOL & PATTERN ONLY BOM, as promised welcome to the first of several tutorials on wool throughout this year’s program. Your instructions are on their way to you and will have a lot of this information written out for you in written format but I know that many of you are visual learners so you want to see exactly what I do and how I do it via pictures.   For those of you who are…