It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Time for cookies! Check out this blog post for instructions on how to make an oven mitt super easy and quick to sew to make Christmas baking even more fun. We're also sharing the recipe for some delicious cookies so you can start using your mitt right away. For the Moda Blockheads quilt along we're heading into the final sprint, announcing a giveaway for a Layer Cake from this week's host, Sherri McConnell.

In this week's blog post, we're sharing the instructions for some cozy log cabin pillows made with our Mochi Linen Quote Panels to jazz up your home! We also move on to block 43 of our Moda Blockheads quilt along and have some exciting news to reveal ...

This week we share a free pattern for a practical yet stylish iPad case featuring the Chill Mochi Linen collection. You’ll never guess where I found my inspiration for this print… Read the post to find out. And for our Moda Blockheads sew along we continue with block 41, hosted by the Australian designer Jen Kingwell, who is known for her amazing hand-sewn quilts.

One of the nice side effects of being a grandmother is the fun of surprising your grandchildren with homemade gifts. I love to sew for my grandson and the latest thing I made for him is this cute fall sweater from an excavator print (because excavators are his favorite thing at the moment)! I really wanted to share the pictures of this cutie in his new sweater with you. And it’s time for Block 40 in our Moda Blockheads quilt along, hosted this week by Janet Clare.

Do you have a lot of scraps? This blog post shows how you can put those small pieces of your favorite fabric to good use and protect your table along the way - with some lovely mug rugs and placemats. A fun project to create a set for your own or sew one for a friend. And we continue in our Blockheads Quilt Along with Block 39 by Robin Pickens.

If you want to spice up your shopping trips a bit, we have just the right companion for you here. We have sewn this handy market bag with our Mochi Linen fabric line “Chill”. You can find the link to the fabrics and the pattern by Anna Graham aka Noodlehead in this blog post. We also present the latest block from our Moda Blockheads quilt along, Block 38 - Fractured Rainbow, by Stacy Iest Hsu.

We are relaunching our popular Twisted Geese pattern in a new design, made with fabrics from the JUST RED collection. For the next five days you’ll get a 20% discount on the RED GEESE pattern and can start sewing right away with the help of our newest YouTube tutorial. And like every Wednesday we present the next block for our mutual quilt along project: Block 37, FIXER UPPER, hosted by the young and modern quilt designer Vanessa Goertzen.

Don’t miss the third wintery mini quilt project from my Chill Mochi Linen series! Striking Starks is made from a beautiful neutral color palette of fabrics from my SPOTTED collection, which works with traditional as well as modern interior styles. And of course we share the newest block 36 from our mutual quilt along project, hosted by Laurie Simpson.