Author Archives: Melissa

When Mrs. Schmenkman speaks up, one tends to listen. Amy Lobsiger of the tutorial gold mine blog, Mrs. Schmenkman Quilts, caught an error in the June-July 2011 issue of Quilter’s Home, specifically in the pattern for Scott Hansen’s Crossroads quilt … Continue reading →

The weekdays are blowing by on hot, dry breezes, which means if you don’t have a pool to plunge into during the oven-like afternoons, you’d better have a compelling project to keep you in the sewing room, hugging those AC … Continue reading →

Relax! Those margaritas you guzzled poolside over the weekend did not send you into a Rip VanWinklesque sleep until the chilly days of January. That’s just the name of the latest (and belated) Friday Freebie: Happy New Year by Ann … Continue reading →

Nope, that’s not the weather report, no matter how desperately our q-friends in fire-plagued Arizona and Florida are hankering after the wet stuff. (Wish! The same goes for New Mexico, parts of Texas and other places parched by drought.) It … Continue reading →

Time for another blast of free quiltiness….this week’s Friday Freebie is Crazy Daisy by Tracy Ward of 3-B Girls Quilts in San Antonio, Texas. This sorta-scrappy number with whimsical appliqued flowers would work up quickly to give you something fresh … Continue reading →

We know…Friday is waning, but isn’t it always a good time for a fun, free quilt pattern? And here’s this week’s gift: Go Bananas by Susan Guzman of SuzGuz Designs.                     … Continue reading →

Just when you thought you couldn’t stagger one more step through the work week…here’s Friiiiiiiidayyyyy!  (Loud and sustained applause.) And that means another Friday Freebie. Today, we’re gifting you with a fun little number from a chick who oozes fun. … Continue reading →

No way, baby! Even as Jake and Melissa cruise the aisles at Spring Quilt Market this very second, Q-bies, never let it be said that we forget our promises. We may be hundreds of miles from the little, fabric-swamped closets … Continue reading →