Quilting Tools and Fabric – It all Works Together

You don’t NEED all the fancy quilting tools and gadgets to quilt. Heck! Some fabric, a scissor, needle, and thread will get a quilt top done. But man, that’s going to take – forever!   I can’t imagine hand-piecing a quilt because I’ve never tried it. (It is on my bucket list of things I’d like

A Joyful Quilting Life

I didn’t start quilting to open a shop. But when I did open my shop, I thought I lost my joyful quilting life. When I opened my shop 12 years ago, I got wrapped up in how long it took to make a quilt, the stats, and how much I wasn’t making per hour. I

It’s The Simple Gifts

It’s the simple gifts that can brighten our day Hubby washes the dishes at night and leaves them in the dish drainer. And I put them away in the morning. But this morning? I woke up to an empty dish drainer! Putting a handful of dishes away takes only a few minutes. It doesn’t seem

A Joyful Experiment

One morning, while spending time in prayer and writing in my journal, a joyful idea popped into my head. No matter what happens during the day, find the joy in it and write them down. It’s all about the Little Joyful Things These joys don’t have to be humongous things like winning the lottery. In

Are You Working Against Yourself?

You start working against yourself if your thinking pattern starts with I hate this or that… Let me show you what I’m talking about. When I opened my shop in 2012, it was merely a diversion of sorts, something to do for fun.     It wasn’t open for very long when I started dreaming of