Skein and Hook

Today I'm back in the Moda Bake Shop with the tutorial for my  Festive Quilt ! As soon as we caught glimpses of Vintage Holiday last year, I started dreaming up quilt patterns using it. I came up with this design.  I love how the Ohio Stars twinkle!  I designed the border to look like little Christmas tree! But guess what?! This quilt design also looks amazing as a non-holiday quilt too!  Make sure you scroll all the way down to the bottom of my Moda Bake Shop post to see it mocked up in Painted Garden by Crystal Manning!  I'm making that version soon ;) Head on over to  Moda Bake Shop  to get the free tutorial!  Remember, I'd love to see your versions of Festive! Tag me on Instagram  @skeinandhook  and tag your project as #festivequilt or send me an email!  Enjoy the pattern!

Today I'm back on the Moda Bake Shop with the tutorial for my Picnic Fireworks Quilt ! I really enjoyed making this quilt and have greatly been anticipating the pattern release!  This quilt is made from Moda Fabrics Picnic Basket Wovens .  These are lusciously soft wovens and I'm so happy with how they performed in this quilt. I'm planning on making more things from this line...I'm thinking dresses for my girls, cloth napkins for our picnics, and a picnic bag.  Stay tuned :) These fabrics ship to store in May.  I'll be selling some in my Etsy shop .  Get in touch now if you'd like to reserve a fat quarter bundle.  Also, I can make a few kits for this quilt so if you'd like to preorder one, contact me through Etsy . Head on over to  Moda Bake Shop  to get the free tutorial!  Remember, I'd love to see your versions of Picnic Fireworks! Tag me on Instagram  @skeinandhook  and tag your project as #pic...

I've recently become a Chef at Moda Bake Shop and I'm having so much fun!  My first design was this block in their Countdown to Christmas.  My next design, that was shared on their blog last week, is my All Squares Quilt . I absolutely adore this quilt and the potential for versatility.  I used Farmhouse Reds by Minnick & Simpson.  I love this collection...the reds and whites are amazing.  But here are so many possibilities for this quilt...since the larger squares are 8", you can really show off large fabric designs if you'd like and do low volumes for the smaller squares. Here are some more pictures... Head over to Moda Bake Shop for the tutorial .  Enjoy!

This fall I started working on quilts for each of my children.  I'm going in order of need right now :)  My youngest daughter and my son needed quilts first because during the winter, their bedrooms get cooler than the other bedrooms in the house. My daughter is up first.  I got this Elea Lutz's Little Dolly fabric in from Riley Blake and I thought it was just so adorable, I couldn't resist using it for her quilt. I didn't follow a pattern.  But here is what I did...I knew I wanted to do little squares, so I decided on a 16-patch.  I used a fat quarter bundle and cut 2- 2.5-inch strips from each fabric from the longer side of the FQ.  Then I joined 4 strips together, pressed, and then cut 2.5-inch strips off of that.  Next, I joined 4 of those together to make one 16-patch.  I made 12 16-patches so that my quilt would be 3 16-patches across and 4 16-patches down. I separated the 16-patches with 2.5 inch strips and I separated th...

In the beginning of this summer, I decided that I wanted to enjoy lots of family picnics this summer.  My girls love eating outside and sitting on top of a blanket on the ground has even more appeal to them then eating at a picnic table.  In the past we grabbed whatever crocheted blanket was around and took it with us.  But, I decided that a dedicated picnic blanket would be better for us.  And also I think it would make for special memories and nostalgia to use the same blanket every time we picnicked.   We have 6 people in our family- my husband and I and our 4 kids.  So, I new this needed to be somewhat big so that we could all comfortably sit and enjoy a meal.   I settled on Gooseberry by Lella Boutique for the fabric.  This fabric reminded me of my childhood and I think it is so, so beautiful.  I thought over patterns for a while and ended up using this one .  The tutorial by Missouri Star Quilt Company was aweso...