August 2025 Progress

This month has been incredibly productive! I managed to stay on track with my quilting goals for my block-of-the-month projects and finished the longarming on all my quilt tops completed through 2024. At one point, I had 11 quilt tops waiting to be quilted. That number may not seem like much to som…

Home Town Sew Along Completed

This quilt feels like the perfect way to wrap up my Lori Holt applique' journey. It’s called Home Town, and it uses her fabric collection of the same name. At 74” x 84” it’s a big one (and probably my last this size 😉), but so worth it. The quilt was part of a sew along using Lori Holt’s Sew Si…

Bee Vintage Quilt

The Bee Vintage Sew Along began on July 10, 2023, and was designed to last 21 weeks—wrapping up by August 25, 2023 if you followed the schedule. I, however, found myself a little behind and didn’t finish my quilt top until September 17, 2023. That was right in the middle of preparing for our big mo…

Scrappiness is Happiness Quilt

One of my favorite things about quilting is how every stitch tells a little piece of a story, and this quilt has certainly done that for me. On November 6, 2022, my favorite designer, Lori Holt, began a sew along using her book Scrappiness is Happiness. Inside were 32 different quilts—each one char…

My Happy Place Quilt

Every quilt has a story, and this one—fittingly called My Happy Place—is especially close to my heart. The fabrics are from Lori Holt with Bee in My Bonnet, “Stitch” and “Bee Backgrounds” collections, and from the very first time I spotted this quilt on Fat Quarter Shop, I knew it was meant for me.…