PLEASED TO MEET YOU!

I'm Kathy and I"m so happy you are here. 
I've been blogging for about 18 months and today 
  I am happy to be a part of

Let me begin with where my kwilting is TODAY

and take you back to 20 years ago and where it began.  

I am kwilting and binding these kwilts now.

1. Plus design (In Color Order Tut)  2.  Flip Side - Rachel Griffin
3.  Wonky Crosses (Sew Mama Sew Tut)   4.  Perfect 10 (Swirly Girl Pattern) Baby Kwilt

2012 and 2013 Kwilts

Some of these kwilts are in my ETSY store 
1. Down Under Baby Kwilt (ESTY)  2. Madrona Road Challenge Kwilt  3. Sherbet Pips Baby Kwilt (ESTY)
4. Happy Endings Baby Kwilt  (SOLD) 5. Scrappy Baby Stacked Coins (ETSY)  6..Little Apples Baby Kwilt (ETSY)
7. Nighty Nite Owl (SOLD)   8. Owl Be Seeing You (ETSY)   9. Bugs in Masons Jars (SOLD)

 I love to make bags!!!
The last bag is my own design and the flower
is made from up-cycled bra parts. That tutorial is here.

1. All People Quilt Tut  2. Juliet Bag  (OSU colors and scarf)  3. Bow Tucks Bag
4. Sara's Carryall by It's Sew Kay  5. Annabelle Bag   6. Scrap Bag Cutie (Whistlepig Creek)
8. Juliet Bag   9. Go Girl Go-Tammy Tadd (2nd place in a show) 9. My Fa-BRA-ka-da-BRA bag

I began kwilting 20 years ago in a "traditional"  group at work. 

Have taken a ga-zillion kwilting classes,

taught a few classes, designed a couple patterns and tutorials.  

Kwilts from that Era

1. Aussie prints - My Boomerang Won't Come Back  2. Amy Butler-Turning 20 pattern 3. Mystery Kwilt
4. Friendship Signature Kwilt 5. Strips and Curves  6. Pumpkins Gone Wild-Layer Cake Desgin
7. Holiday Bargello  8. Halloween Twister 9. Turning Twenty design in batiks

click here to see all about my sewing space. 

 I have been in kwilt guilds for many years...
until last year, mostly traditional groups.
Today I find myself enjoying the inspiration 
 from my friends in the

 I am totally involved in community service with 

making kwilts for patients undergoing cancer treatments.

Click to see what wonderful work is done by volunteers at

The James Stitching Sisters 

 I also help with JSS administrative tasks (behind the scenes)

and am coordinating the Quilts of Comfort challenge for 2014.

From 2005 - 2013, 7,060 quilts have been distributed 

Now about Kwilty Pleasures Blog...
I began my blog in the fall of 2011

 I had less than 20 followers for a VERY long time. 

I really didn't understand what all the hoopla was about!!!
But, I knew I love to write...love technology...love kwilting...
Blogging had to be what I should be doing!

  is my registered trademark name I was using for my patterns,
classes, bag labels, etc. Sseemed perfect for my blog name.  

A Kwilty Pleasure is anything fabric or fiber in
the kwilting world that puts a smile on your face and 
fills your creative soul with pleasure.  

 I love to participate in blog hops, blogger kwilt shows,

blogger give-aways, linky parties, blogger swaps 

and I will participate in a kwilt-along or a bee in the future.

I don't have any sponsors but would like to know more about 

how to engage them?  Any suggestions?

When I am not Kwilting or Blogging 
you will find me in My Garden 

or watching The Ohio State Buckeyes...because... 

I hope you find my blog worthy of a return visit.  
And of course, I would love for you to... 

 If you made it this far...then here is something fun
most people don't know about me...
 Meet Raheja, Middle Eastern Dancer
Many "Egyptian Moons" ago, belly dancing was my creative outlet.  I danced for 15 years, taught it for 13 years.

Agean Supper Club, 1978, Live Greek Music and Raheja performing a sword dance)

To see my "About Me" FUN FACT list...click here.

Thanks to Bev, at Plum and June, for organizing a great hop!
A complete listing of bloggers is here.

Thank you so much for stopping by!
It's truly been my Kwilty Pleasure!  

and now..please go meet these wonderful bloggers today!

 

July 19

Karen @ Little Birdie Quilting Studio

Kathy @ Kwilty Pleasures (that's me)

Katie @ Snuggle Up With A Dish From Karma 

Alison @ Making Happyness

Ella and Nesta @ Ella & Nesta's Little Room

Adrienne @ Chezzetcook Modern Quilts

Nicole @ Modern Handcraft

Aylin @ AyliN-Nilya

Kelsey and Amanda @ Everyday Fray