A quilt for my best friend Do you have that friend – the one you love dearly. The one you want to share life with as long as there is life to be shared? Whether you’re miles apart or close by but so very busy, this is your person. The person that you just re-click with the moment you’re reunited. The person that knows your most humbling details and still, somehow, loves you all the same. The one you’d trust to clean out your drawers and closet should you die unexpectedly. (Since they probably already know much of what you…
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Turning Fabric Scraps and Batting Leftovers into a Quick Holiday Finish I recently shared one of my favorite quilt reveals so far in this year’s 52 Quilts Challenge – a Mini Quilt Swap finish. For my swap partner, I made a sweet Christmas table runner using primarily fabrics from Tiny Christmas by Lizzy House for Moda, with a few additional prints to round out the palette. My swap partner loves Christmas trees, so I chose the Under the Pines pattern by Heather Peterson of Anka’s Treasures. The project challenged my precision cutting, quarter-inch seams, and machine quilting skills—but it turned…
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From UFO to WIP to Finish – Week 2 of the 52 Quilts Challenge Some projects never really leave you — they just wait quietly in drawers until you’re ready to return. This week’s quilt finish waited patiently in a Ziploc bag with the pattern teasingly on top. That is, until the 52 Quilts Challenge gave me the perfect reason to finally finish it. Originally, I planned to finish a witch’s-brew wall hanging for Week 2, but I couldn’t find it anywhere – probably buried in my UFO galaxy somewhere in the studio. Sigh… another Halloween I suppose… Plan…
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Colorful quilt fabric collage representing the 52 Quilts Challenge weekly finishes.
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Week 1 of the 52 Quilts Challenge: From fabric squares to finished quilt — a glimpse of Gia’s Color Wash Disappearing 9-Patch journey, stitched one block for a sweet friend and sweet baby.
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A Whirlwind Few Weeks Two weeks ago I officially announced the re-launch of the 52 Quilts Challenge! I shared my “why” and gave a sneak peek of just a few of the UFOs orbiting in my studio galaxy. (If you saw my Instagram posts this week, you know there are plenty more where those came from!) In today’s post, I’ll be sharing how I’ve been preparing for the 52 Quilts Challenge… Between then and now, I’ve been mostly catching up and getting organized for the challenge. Sort of. That is to say, — I mapped out my overall attack strategy…
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Join me on the 52 Quilts Challenge! Discover how I plan to create 52 quilts in just 52 weeks for fun and creativity.
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Are you a serial quilt starter like me? Last week, I shared how September feels like my real new year — a time for fresh starts, goal setting, and big dreams. It’s when possibilities feel endless and hope is everywhere… kind of like walking into a perfectly organized office supply store. You know that feeling? Rows of neatly stacked notebooks, pens, and planners. Everything lined up, full of potential. The promise of order, productivity, and maybe even a whole new you. That’s how new beginnings feel to me — exciting, hopeful, shiny. My Not-So-Secret Secret: Hi, I’m Angel, a Serial…
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Mapping out a Quilt Challenge Plan Two years ago—on Halloween of all days—I kicked off the wildly ambitious “52 Quilts in 52 Weeks Challenge.” And honestly? I was flying high for a few weeks… until I realized my old website just wasn’t up to the task. It couldn’t support comments, community, or the bigger vision I had for documenting this journey. So I hit pause on the quilt challenge plan. Fast forward through two years of me bumbling my way through WordPress, stalling out more times than I’d like to admit, and finally (finally!) getting things up and running—this blog…