This is a day late, but I now have most of the sample items up for sale in my online shop! There are small throw quilts, baby quilts, mini quilts, pillows covers, drawstring bags, zipper pouches, bags, and more. I'll be continuing to add items this morning, including a bunch of tote bags.

Shop the sale here.

Thank you as always for your support!

Quick Update: Moving Sale

Hello! Stopping in to make a quick announcement about my moving sale. I'll be listing destash items for sale on my @jenidestash Instagram account this Saturday morning. There will be lots of scrap bags (quilting cotton, solids, knit, voile, rayon), some yardage, stash boxes, hand dyed indigo FQ bundles, books, project leftovers, etc.

On Monday, I’ll start listing items for my sample sale, which will be held in my online shop (quilts, bags, minis, etc). I’ll share more info about that on Monday.

Shop News: Money Saving Pattern Bundles

Happy Wednesday! Today I have a little shop news to share. You can now find three different pattern bundles available in my shop! These bundles come with pre-selected patterns and offer a discount over buying the patterns individually. Hint, hint: These bundles would make great gifts!

The Bag Making Bundle

First up, the Bag Making Bundle. This bundle features three of my bag patterns: the Lined Drawstring Bag Pattern, the Triplizip Zipper Pouch Pattern, and the Elemental Tote Pattern. All three patterns feature easy to customize bags, and are suitable for beginners. Even if you've never made a tote or installed a zipper before, you can make these bags. For seasoned sewers, they're all great basics! The bundle is available as digital PDF download or physical paper copies. It's $20, so you'll save $7!

Buy the PDF bundle here: The Bag Making PDF Pattern Bundle
Buy the paper bundle here: The Bag Making PAPER Pattern Bundle

Here are the included patterns:

Lined Drawstring Bag Pattern


Triplizip Zipper Pouch Pattern


The Elemental Tote Pattern

The Quilt Making Bundle

Next up, the Quilt Making Bundle. This bundle features three geometric quilt patterns: the Side Braid Quilt Pattern, the Arithmetic Quilt Pattern and the Triangularity Quilt Pattern. Explore different shapes in these fat quarter friendly quilts. Between the three patterns there are two Side Braid quilt options, five Triangularity quilt options + custom sizing, and eighteen Arithmetic quilt options. That’s twenty-five different quilt options! The bundle is available as digital PDF download or physical paper copies. It's $20, so you'll save $7!

Buy the PDF bundle here: The Quilt Making PDF Pattern Bundle
Buy the paper bundle here: The Quilt Making PAPER Pattern Bundle

Here are the included patterns:

Side Braid Quilt Pattern


Arithmetic Quilt Pattern


Triangularity Quilt Pattern

The Simple Quilt Bundle

Finally, the Simple Quilt Bundle. This bundle features all five of my postcard patterns: the Honeydew Quilt Pattern, the Stellar Quilt Pattern, the Lazy Daisy Quilt Pattern, the Fractal Quilt Pattern, and the Offset Quilt Pattern. This bundle is perfect for a beginning quilter, or anyone interested in making quick quilts. These patterns are simple and straight forward, you'll be cutting and stitching them up in no time! The bundle is available as digital PDF download or physical paper copies. It's $15, so you'll save $7.50!

Buy the PDF bundle here: The Simple Quilt PDF Pattern Bundle
Buy the paper bundle here: The Simple Quilt PAPER Pattern Bundle

Here are the included patterns:

Honeydew Quilt Pattern


Stellar Quilt Pattern


Lazy Daisy Quilt Pattern


Fractal Quilt Pattern


Offset Quilt Pattern

October Monthly Report

Happy November! It's time for October's monthly report. See past reports here.


So, for the past three weeks we've been traveling. This included time at home in Ohio, a much needed vacation to the beach (Captiva Island, FL), and a short trip to our new state...Connecticut! We spent a whirlwind few days in our new city of New Haven finding a place to live and getting a quick look around. We're moving sometime in early/mid December, so we are in major moving prep mode now that we're back in Madison. It's been pretty stressful, but it feels like we can see the light at the end of the tunnel which is good.

To lighten the crafty load, I'll be having a big moving destash of fabric/yarn and a sample sale this month. I'll post here with more details soon.


Finished up my house quilt last month, see the block tutorial for this quilt here. Will share the finish soon!


It was a quilty month! Finished and shared my Halloween Nine Patch Quilt this month. Just in time for Halloween.


And finally, shared my finished Harvest Log Cabin Quilt (and tutorial) this past month! Yay for quilts!


To keep myself accountable for my stash goals, I'm tracking my yardage for fabric and yarn each month. Read more about how I track my here. Here is how I did in October:

October Fabric
Used up: 27.25 yards
Brought in: 6 yards
Net: -21.25 yards
Year to date: -178.25 yards

October Yarn
Used up: 0 yards
Brought in: 0 yards
Net: 0 yards
Year to date: -3731.5 yards

I'm really pleased with how much I was able to get done this month, especially considering I was away from my sewing room from the 17th until the end of the month. I kept the incoming fabric down and managed to finish two quilts!


I think we can pretty much breeze past the goal section from now on. I am not expecting to be able to work towards too many of my crafty goals the rest of the year. I'm sad that I haven't been able to make more progress, but know it will be easier next year once we are settled again.

I'm sure no one is surprised that I organized the shells I picked up on vacation by type and then size or color. Not all of these came home with us, but I love shelling. My favorite beach activity!


Love this snapshot of George, who took a nap on his log. :)

Have a Great Month!