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I�m STILL reeling from all the quilty goodness we experienced during my time with the Prairie Star quilters in Illinois this week! It was a whirlwind three days � with two lectures and three workshops filling every waking moment. We were a hive of busy bees doing what we love best, spending the time with those who also love what we love. It was a great visit! And the showing and sharing of wonderful quilts just kept coming. Of course we love it when extreme scrappy quilts are completed and shown with pride � as in this Perkiomen Daydreams from Scraps & Shirttails . All 10,000 squares just sparkling with scrappy memories. There are a TON of photos in the slide show further down, but I wanted to take a few minutes and show you some still photos of some AMAZING vintage pieces. Did You Click to Read the Whole Story?

Good Evening, Quiltvillians! It�s been a crazy busy day here in the mail order fulfillment center, AKA The Hunter Dining Room. I am so tickled about the arrival of our long awaited Quiltville Quilter�s Date Keeper , and Quilty Pencil Set s ! Packages are being bundled up, signed, sealed and sent off as I type to get them on their way to YOU. But this little gift-away needs attending to, so I�m taking a wee break to see that it gets done on time. Who is ready to win the June Quilty Box ? Did You Click to Read the Whole Story?

I dragged my weary carcass through my front door at 2:30am this morning. WHAT. A. DAY! (folks resting, sleeping, plugged in to wherever they can � this is the corridor between the �plane train� stations in the Atlanta airport underground.) Things were beautiful in Chicago, the problem happened to be Atlanta and the storm systems that put Atlanta on ground lock down for more than 2 hours � creating the proverbial tail spin reaction. My flight out of O�Hare was delayed a couple of hours, my flight once I arrived in Atlanta first moved from a 7:29pm departure, to a 8pm departure, then a 9pm departure, then a 9:45pm departure�.and a gate change�to a 10:15pm departure, only to find the plane had a problem and a new plane was ordered. Then our 11:15pm departure turned into a 12:30am departure as we sat on the plane for more than an hour while they shuffled baggage around. Glamor job?  THINK AGAIN! But at least you can get a decent dinner at the Atlanta airport! Waiting at baggage claim f...

I met yesterday for round three of workshops hosted by the Prairie Star Quilters of St. Charles, Illinois. Yes, we really did pack 2 lectures and 3 workshops into a mere 3 days. (I have a feeling I�ll be napping my way home on today�s flights!) One of the questions that came up yesterday was �What is your favorite or most popular workshop to teach?� Did You Click to Read the Whole Story?

I�ve lived many places in my life, but with the first 7 years of my life, and every summer from the time I was 12 being spent in Minnesota, watching for thunderstorms was always part of the magic of summer. Conditions can turn on a dime, and during our afternoon workshop we were caught watching the weather progression on our phones, checking to see what was coming this way � stopping to sew and stand by the windows to watch the downpours � making guesses how long it would take before it either petered out or moved on� Summer rain. The heavy soaking kind that doesn�t cool anything off, but rather steams things up all the more! Weather like this has a direct effect on conditions within any sewing space. Get the A/C running! Something has to dry up the humidity! And as it goes � we come prepared to layer in sweaters while we sew�. Did You Click to Read the Whole Story?

So happy to have met these gals who came all the way down from Minnesota (And wore the shirts saying so!) to join us for our Cathedral Stars workshop day hosted by the Prairie Stars quilters of St Charles, Illinois! My new friend on the left made a list of 50 things she wanted to do starting her 50th birthday and workshop with me was high on her list � and this fit right into her summer schedule! And even more fun when her mom and life long childhood friend could come along for the ride, too. I understand that has been much detouring and quilt-shop-hopping happening on this trek. Great memories in the making, ladies! Did You Click to Read the Whole Story?

Hello from beautiful St. Charles, Illinois! St. Charles of the beautiful Fox river and lovely summers with parks and paddle boats and abundant things to see and do! For those who don�t know the metro Chicago area (such as myself!) I asked my driver, Rachel where we were in relation to downtown Chicago. And just like anyone would do these days�.(Except for Michiganders, who will always put up a hand and show you by pointing at their palm!) she pulled out her phone, expanded a map by pinching and pulling on the screen with her fingers, and showed me. I get it now! We are a bit northwest of the city. Just on the outskirts of countryside and farmland. It feels like small-town Midwest, yet it is so connected to so many things within a short drive. Just wonderful! Knowing that I liked history, scenic drives, and since it was a Sunday in the early evening, she had hatched a plan to take me to dinner in a converted old church, a walk along the river afterwards and just enjoying the evening...

I�m off to St Charles, Illinois today �via Chicago O�Hare! It�s a later morning flight, which is kind of nice. I can take my time getting myself out the door, which means I have time to write this post � because last night was BUSY BUSY with a Quilt-Cam of double trouble variety via Facebook Live! Did you catch it? If not, don�t worry. It will be embedded right here at the bottom of this post � so read on, my friends � read on! The June Quilty Box is full of romantic flavor with some gorgeous Florabunda fabrics by Melanie Testa . What is a Quilty Box ? Here are some highlights to keep in mind: Did You Click to Read the Whole Story?

It was a day of lost things found �things discovered hiding in plain sight. The last morning at the cabin means a bit of tidying up so that things are nice when I next return. I looked everywhere for the blasted vacuum. I checked, rechecked, and triple checked every closet, every place that it may be found. I checked the Utility room, the garage, and even asked the hubster when his flight landed in Detroit if he had taken it out to his man shed. I had completely given up hope when I turned around and saw it right next to the Accuquilt. It had been here the whole time. I had walked past it at least a dozen times yesterday morning, passing right by it to double-triple-check the utility room for the vacuum. Not to mention how many times I have walked past it every day several times a day for the past week. I did a ton of cutting at this Accuquilt Studio this week, prepping future projects. Yet I couldn�t see this vacuum sitting right here? Nuts! I must be completely losing my mind. Did Y...

It was a day of new faces and new off-the-beaten-path places - And even the gently intermittent summer rain didn�t slow us down. You can definitely forget cell phone connectivity out here, and leave it behind gratefully while you reconnect with nature and the surrounding ever-present history of this place. Independence, Virginia. The Town of Independence came into being in 1850 as the settlement of a dispute about where to locate the county seat. At that time, a controversy arose between the people of Old Town and people of the Elk Creek area. Each group wanted the County seat in its area. The final decision, made by three commissioners from adjacent counties, was to locate on the site favored by a group of "independents" and to call the town Independence. These commissioners hiked to the top of Point Lookout Mountain and looked down into a grove of trees where 5 streams met and decided that would be the site for the new town. Independence, Virginia is located 15 miles west o...

I caught the Summer Solstice at 6:07am this morning, rocking on the porch at the cabin. Hello Summer, 2018! There are some Quilt-Cam type announcements further down, be sure you read to the end. No skimming! I have been working in the basement studio space at the cabin for most of the week � cranking on upcoming things. So many things � All needing to be ready within the next few months! While I love my space at the cabin � ANY four walls can start closing in on a person after a while and I needed a change of venue. Options are good, right? My post to my Quiltville's Open Studio Group on Facebook simply read: Did You Click to Read the Whole Story?

Yes. This is a black and white photo. It�s nearly July. Do you know what black & white photos mean?? The vagueness of updates over the next several months may spark the realization that we have MUCH FUN ahead -- Our next Leader & Ender challenge starts in just a couple of weeks � could this be what I was cutting for? Perhaps! And perhaps the cutting and organizing, pulling and culling and matching and planning also extends into what will be posted by Halloween -- Our next Quiltville Mystery season is just around the corner. It might seem a long way off for you � but for me, behind the scenes, things are ramping up. Did You Click to Read the Whole Story?

I have been unable to find the missing gate remote. No Clicker Anywhere! I have nearly disassembled the van, searched under seats, in between seats and the center console, in the doors � everywhere. I have NO idea where it ended up, but I�m afraid I�ll have to admit defeat on this one thing. At some point it slid off my visor into the black hole of the Quilter's Bermuda triangle. There are other �generic� remotes out there that can be programmed to work with this gate � it�s just the principle of the thing. And the fact that I can�t resolve in my mind just what happened keeps it circling round and round and round � there is no closure other than to accept that it is gone. I think there is a life lesson in that, don�t you? Sometimes there is no reason why something is gone � it just is. It�s not worth stewing about. But once the antique mall folks said �Nope, nothing here in our lost and found�..� I made a beeline to the back corner to see if something I saw earlier was still ther...

This may look simple enough to set up, but let me tell you � I had one dead end after another, and was about to throw my hands up and call it a day. My thought was to simply pull the treadle machine out on to the front porch from the dining room. Not a long haul, but it does involve CARRYING the machine cabinet because you can�t roll those metal wheels over the threshold due to the risk of damaging the wood with the vintage metal wheels. The machine is on carpet sliders in the house, but by the time you reach the threshold you are going to lose those and have to lift the cabinet to get it up and over anyway. Were I to have a second person at hand, it wouldn�t be hard, but as I was only one � it went like this: Slide the machine cabinet with the beautiful gifted Singer VS 2 to the first raised threshold. Remove machine head from cabinet to lighten the load. Carry the cabinet out the front door and set it on the porch. Replace sliders as to not damage the porch paint. Slide into desi...

This photo is a new clipping that came into my life within the last month or so. My niece Emilee, my brother Mark�s eldest is into genealogy and has found some amazing things online by searching newspaper records, old school year books (found a photo of my mom at 16!) and we have benefited greatly from her searching. What a gift � these things that were thought lost, or never even knew they existed. This photo is of my dad�s dad � my Grandpa Wilkinson who passed away when I was two. My brothers never knew him. I remember him faintly. And here he is as a young man, just having returned from WWII with a bit of his story. I was in tears reading this as I never really �KNEW� this man. He was taken from us far too soon. My dad is the cutie patootie blond 5 1/2 year old in the front with short shorts - named for his father. The other crazy family thing is just how much my brother Scott looks like Grandpa. Serious family resemblance. And I love that. Did You Click to Read the Whole Stor...

This is the �Calm Before the Storm� of 2018. I know it, and I can feel it. Yesterday I got notification that the Quiltville Date Keepers are on their way via Yellow Freight from California. They should be arriving � about the same time as I leave for Chicago. That just figures, now doesn�t it? The pencil sets will be following sometime after. And when I am back, we will be into the 4th of July holiday week - So THIS week. This very precious time while waiting for things to arrive, I am focusing on tying up some loose ends. Making progress on things that have been pushed aside. Getting things closer to finishes, and ready to start new things. Did You Click to Read the Whole Story?

North Carolina to South Carolina and back - Then North Carolina up to Virginia to stay! All told it was about 300 miles, and I felt it by the time I finally sat down to dinner at about 8pm. When Christine contacted me about her downsizing to move, and that they lived in an old Victorian house in Blacksburg, South Carolina and had some twin beds for the Inn, I was so excited! There was a little plotting, a lot of planning, and I have to thank her good friend Kim for meeting me at Christine�s house for pick-up as Christine is in Colorado with her grandkids! It takes a Quilt Village to pull this all together. Did You Click to Read the Whole Story?

This meeting was full up to the gills with visiting quilters � SO exciting! Could it be they were driven indoors due to the way-to-early-in-June oppressive heat wave? Any place with A/C is a boon, and when it involves quilters and quilting, even better! The parade of Quiltville quilts happens AFTER I speak, with the �everything else quilty� being shown before. It works well that way, and those who bring Quiltville quilts add to my presentation, often times bringing quilts that I didn�t bring myself � being limited to 2 bags at 50 lbs each. They did more than fill in the gaps � they brought the show stoppers! Did You Click to Read the Whole Story?

I met with the quilters of Lee�s Summit, Missouri yesterday for a whirlwind day of scrappy quilt goodness! And Ii got the tee shirt to prove it! My thanks to this fun group of ladies for making me one of their tribe for the day � it was SEW MUCH FUN! You know, ANY DAY that starts with laughter is a good day, and this one was off and running from the moment I stepped foot in the building. Energy levels were high, machines were revved up and ready to roar and roar we did! Did You Click to Read the Whole Story?