Circles

Water World by Willow Leaf

The machine quilting patterns that flow and loop are my favorites. This lead to the title for my blog. The more I thought about it, I found that there are a lot of circles in quilting.Along the Way by Anne Bright

Yo-Yos, buttons and beads are some great circular quilt embellishments. There are also blocks that use circles such as drunkards path and double wedding ring.

I have to say though that my favorite circles in quilting are circles of friends! It is always great to quilt the day away with friends!

What circles in quilting do you enjoy?

More Calendar Quilts

I forgot to mention about the calendar contest that if you have a quilt we have quilted in 09 and have a great picture of it, please email it to me! I would love to post it here and enter it in the contest! Email photos to CalendarPhotos@WagnerQuilting.com

Here are some more quilts we have fallen in love with! Too bad we don't get to keep them!

Here are a couple sunbonnet sues quilted in Sunbonnet Sue, Double Hearts and stippling!



This darling Snowman quilt has blocks with hand embroidered little snowman faces! We quilted it with Snazzy Snowflake.




This last quilt was unbelievable and huge! We spent several days doing the custom quilting. If you look close you'll see that some of the blocks are actually folded like origami! We decided to keep the quilting simple and only used this little Candy Twist block in different sizes, but it took thousands of them!

Quilting Calendar Contest

This year we have decided to start a new promotion...We are photographing some of our favorite customer quilts and at the end of the year we'll put together a calendar. All entries are quilts brought to our studio for quilting in 2009. Winners will receive gift certificates to our studio! I will be posting many of the photos here so you can tell me which are your favorites!











This quilt was pieced using a beautiful selection of reproduction fabrics and we quilted it in Rhapsody. We all fell in love with it! Photos just don't do it justice.

Dr. Laura on Motherhood

Dr. Laura has written another book! This one is about one of my favorite things-Motherhood. It is going to be released on April 7th! I love being a mommy, even though it is often exhausting. This book praises mothers for raising their children! A little encouragement is always helpful.

I enjoyed one of her previous books, The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands and once or twice a year skim over it again for a refresher. I would highly recommend this book for any woman considering marriage, recently married or married for years.

Girls' night!

Saturday my husband took my little guy to see the monster truck show and so my daughter and I hosted a girls' night at home! Notice he has a monster truck in his hands. He never goes anywhere without that truck, he even sleeps with it.

The girls and I started off with some yummy food… Wendy’s six layer salad was fantastic and Gwen saved the hamburgers from scorching after I walked away and the whole thing went up in flames. Thanks Gwen!!!

We also make these darling pinwheels from Heather Bailey! They were supposed to be a daughter craft with a little help from mom but after painting the dowels, the little girls ended up watching a movie while the moms assembled. The top eyelet got easier with practice! This photogenic little one was more than happy to pose for me while the others ran around making their pinwheels spin!

Stampin' Up & Heather Bailey

I am a huge Heather Bailey fan....

Today I found the new online catalog for Stampin' Up and yes I browsed through all 202 pages! A little ways in, I found these darling Jelly Bean Boxes. I had found the tutorial for it earlier on Heather's blog. Heather your stuff rocks! Oh and the catalog was great too!

A Little More Info

I have always been a crafty girl and come from generations of crafty women. My mom taught me to sew when I was probably 7 or 8. I have memories of making my younger brother clothes from my mom's scrap box when she was at work. Unfortunately, I didn't always remember to leave room for the seam allowances in my creations so they never fit. My brother was a good sport and still tried to put them on. In college I took a clothing construction class just to validate my home taught techniques and of course my mom was right as mothers always are. It was after that class I decided to make my first quilt. It was a wall hanging with appliqued flowers and pieced borders. I was instantly hooked. My knowledge of quilting techniques grew as I spent a year of early mornings with a newborn watching Alex Anderson host Simply Quilts. Thanks Alex!!! I still make my kids Halloween costumes but when my machine has a project running through it, it is most likely a quilt. I love quilting because it allows me to be creative, work with color and to be challenged. I could spend all day at my sewing machine with Taylor swift playing on Pandora.

My interest in how the human body works also started when I was young. We had a set of encyclopedias and the entry on the human body was read through many times over. Becoming a nurse was an easy option for me because I love science and people. I also knew it would be a job I could do and have children. When I started nursing school, I didn’t know what nurses did except take care of people. I soon found out that the nurse's job is to act as a patient advocate…the middle man who’s concern is to make sure the patient is getting the care they need. I love being a nurse and I am lucky enough to work in labor and delivery-a field I love!

I enjoy doing a gazillion other things... singing, dancing, playing the piano, reading, hiking, biking, swimming, crocheting, scrapbooking, cooking... My newest interest has been learning Creative Studio-a computer program for designing and web programming. Tutvid has the best video tutorials!


I am lucky to be married to a great man with big dreams. He inspires me to reach for the stars. I also have two little gems of children. I am sure you will see lots of pics of them as they grow with this blog.