Jennifer Houlden

Christmas really is just around the corner and now that I have all my projects for others completed I thought that I would make something for myself – what a novel idea! How many of us actually make things for ourselves at Christmas? So follow along this week as I …

I love thread! Thread comes in such a wide variety of colors, weights, shines and shapes of spools. Lately I have been doing a lot of playing with heavier weight threads in my machine and have been very impressed with the outcome and look that I get from quilting with …

Do you love your iron? Well, I’ve been using my new iron for the last couple of days and I’m loving it. Prior to getting this iron I would have just said an iron is an iron is an iron but not any more. I’ve discovered 7 key features of …

Today I’m going to finish making my quilted scissor holder in 6 easy steps and who knows maybe make a couple more. I think they might be rather addictive especially seeing how many different fabrics can be used and embellishments to dress them up. Yesterday I ended the post with …

My scissors all seem to sit in a drawer and then when it’s time to take them to class I have nothing to put them in and they just get thrown into the bag with everything else. I even have the perfect ruler for making the shape of the scissor …