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I hear so often ” I wish I had more time to sew” from many of my quilting friends. Our lives get busy, especially if you are still raising a family. It’s common to push that which gives us respite from the “crazy” to the back burner, only to realize later that our “cup is…

My journey through the Stone Gate began at the encouragement of my mom. Having gone through a personally challenging period in my life, she gently persauded me to try quilting. Much to my delight, quilting was a new found outlet for me. I have been greatly blessed by the mentoring that I have received from…

I am a firm believer in remembering our past so that we can learn from the successes and failures of previous generations.  This principle applies to so many areas and I believe we can find elements of quilting history that need to be remembered and duplicated. A Look Back Early Americans found quilting to be…

I thrive on order and checklists. I like to be busy but I also crave quiet alone time. I’m an introvert who is learning to force myself to be okay with periods of required extroverted time. One of the greatest blessings of homeschooling my children is that I am able to have a greater sense…

This past fall, my mom introduced me the National Quilt Museum’s School Block Challenge.  The challenge is for school age students to learn the art of quilting and put those skills into action.  Its an effort of passing the skill onto the next generation.  The students would be given three fabrics that all would need…

A few months back, following a conversation with my mom, I decided to enter one of my personally designed quilts into a juried quilt show.  Specifically, QuiltFest Jacksonville. We were short on time, both on my end and on my mom’s end (she was going to quilt it), so I scurried around, finished my design, pulled…

Getting started with the free motion quilting has been hard. Its been a mental thing for me and not something I just wanted to do. Embracing the learning process for it has been harder with this than other aspects of quilting. So it was of no surprise to me that I found a million other…

This week I posted on my Facebook wall that my kids had started a “Puzzlathon”.  Due to them getting along, not playing electronics, and my love for puzzles, I allowed them to continue for days despite it delaying my projects.  That was until Friday night when I finally bit the bullet and laid my quilt out…

Some of my earliest memories involve seeing my dad study and use architectural drawings.  When I was young, my dad built houses so blueprints were always present in our home.  As I got older, blueprints gave way to architectural drawings and concept proposals for remodels or woodwork , with great focus on details.  “Goo gah”…