Welcome to Patches and Pieces!

I am so excited about the new blog! It will allow me to stay in closer touch with my quilting friends and my customers at Homemade Stitches, and make new friends here. I hope I can bring you lots of good information too.

It will also let me share with you the day-to-day goings on - some are pretty funny! - at Homemade Stitches. This isn't funny: Lately I am flat on my back after some necessary but rather painful and annoying surgery (you don't want to know!). Time at home lets me work on quilting though, and that is always good for the soul, right?

It also gives me time to read. . .and something really exciting is up here - HS appears in the new book by Meg Cox, The Quilter's Catalog: A Comprehensive Resource GuideI have received my copy and WOW, what a great book! It is so well-researched and written, and contains so much really useful information, tips and patterns. I am so honored to be a part of it. Thanks, Meg, and congrats on your great work!