Quilt Block Mania – December 2025
by lsmith | Dec 2, 2025 | Blog Hop, Quilting Tips
Introducing Father Time: Ringing Out the Year, One Stitch at a Time This week I get to do one of my favorite things in my holiday prep…I pull out my nutcracker collection. Not the digital ones — the real ones.All 50+ of them. (Yes, I’m still collecting. No, I’m not...October Patterns
by lsmith | Oct 27, 2025 | Quilting Tips
Quilting on the Side
by lsmith | Oct 27, 2025 | Quilting Tips
My Podcast Chat with Tori & Andi I love to tell stories. It’s probably the Irish in me. So when my friend Tori asked me to join her and Andi on the Quilting on the Side podcast, I was both flattered and excited. Talking with them felt like sitting down with...
From Santa Fe to the Sewing Room
by lsmith | Aug 27, 2025 | Quilting Tips
Finding Your Artistic Voice Last week, my husband and I wandered through Santa Fe, where adobe walls glow like warm sand at sunset and creativity hangs in the air like chile peppers drying in the plaza. While we at lunch at the Plaza Cafe, I was distracted by a...
The Basic Anatomy of the Blanket Stitch
by lsmith | Aug 13, 2025 | Applique Quilting, Quilting Tips
(aka The Backbone + The Bite) Some folks call it a buttonhole stitch, but here’s how I see it:Think of the blanket stitch as a little “L” shape repeated along your edge. The backbone runs parallel to the appliqué edge. The bite reaches in toward the center of your...