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Happy Old Year Ending 2019
I am a firm believer in making lists. There are Best Seller Lists, To-Do Lists, Grocery Lists, Honey-Do Lists, in short, lists for everything. A grand event in my world is making a list…
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Christmas Gifts
Since all the recipients of my handmade Christmas gifts have received — and opened — their presents, I can now share what I made for my four children. Gifts for adult children and their…
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Guatemala Fabrics, Sights and Scenes
I figured in December that a post about High Productivity and Strenuous Piecing and Hours of Quilting might better be replaced with something of lower impact. So, let’s go to Guatemala, look at fabric…
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Oh My Stars Where Have I Been?
I could say to the moon and maybe to the stars, and back. I could say Guatemala, but you already know I’ve returned home from there. I could say sick, but now I’m better,…
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My Small World Top • flimsy finish
It’s done! I decided to forge with ahead My Small World because basically, nothing else in my life was getting done with that mess in the sewing room, and I wanted to be finished…
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Sing for Joy • Quilt Finish
Sing for Joy • Quilt #226 This is the second of my Three Hard Quilts to Make for 2019. It’s a lovely day now that Sing for Joy is finished. Here was my recipe in…
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My Small World • Section 3 & 4
I know you are thinking, no — praying — that someday soon I will be through with This Quilt, and believeyoume, you are not the only one hoping and praying that I can add…
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Making: Another view
Recently I attended a lecture by David Taylor (at PIQF), which was humorous and interesting. One interesting fact was, that while he did these incredible quilts with very detailed applique and quilting — most…
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Citrus Belt Quilters Guild Visit • October 2019
The Citrus Belt Quilters Guild offered their members one of my Two-for-One Classes this week, and since it was October, several of the workshop members went for a Halloween themed mini-quilt. We worked on…
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Pacific International Quilt Festival • 2019
But first! I’ll be speaking and giving a workshop locally, at the Citrus Belt Quilters Guild. The lecture, titled Abecedary of Quilts, will be on Friday morning, October 25th. The Workshop, which is a…
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My Small World 2019, sections 1 and 2 finished
In my Instagram search box, sometimes the bots throw interesting things up there for me to see — like this cartoon of the sad, then very happy dog, courtesy of a little tender care…
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A Piece of Her Mind: DAR Exhibit 2019
When my husband and I traveled to Washington, D.C. recently, we took in an exhibit at the DAR Museum titled, A Piece of Her Mind. It had a focus on how technology — in…
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Revisiting the Red and White Pinwheel
Interestingly, I get a lot of mail about this quilt. It must be on a boatload of Pinterest boards, but the pattern for this quilt has gone missing. It was originally published in a…
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Do You Tweet?
Perhaps the UCR Science News was looking for something other than Nobel-prize generating stories or research about saving the world from cancer, but I’m happy that the editor liked my quilts, sent to him…
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Maintain vs. Innovate
I’ve been reading a series of articles by Andrew Russell and Lee Vinsel, two academics who have noted that we tend to focus on innovation and ignore maintaining. Maintain? Innovate? When I insert this…
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Antelope Valley Quilt Association Visit • September 2019
I drove up to Antelope Valley, nearly two hours away from my home, and joined the ladies at a local church for their monthly meeting (shown here during their break). It is in capable…
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Crossroads & Simply Moderne Magazine
Crossroads began in a mix of bright violet, purple, sailor blue, deep aqua, with some bright green, yellow and a touch of black. In other words, this quilt began like so many of mine…
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This and That • September 2019
Free Motion Quilting can be one of the main challenges we quilters face after we’ve gotten down the basics of piecing and other construction methods. Now we want to stitch and shape and sculpt…
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My Small World, redux
It’s not often I get to have a re-do on Quilts-I-Once-Started-But-Abandoned, but there’s a fresh breeze in the air this fall, with another go-round of Jen Kingwell’s My Small World quilt. Paula James (@the_secret_sewer)…
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City Streets Pattern Release
City Streets now has another rendition. I made it up in a 15″ block pattern, and broke into my meager Tula stash to create a colorful quilt. This pattern is made for beginners, with…
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Betsy’s Creation • Quilt Finish
I found this 1920s vintage park with a grandstand in a small town just to the north of me and took my husband and my most recent finished quilt there, so we could do…
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Inland Empire Quilters Quild
The classroom behind me was abuzz as I set up my Shine quilt on its frame. I turned around to see that the room had filled up with women from the Inland Empire Quilters…
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Pass Patchers Quilt Guild
I’m leading off this post about my visit to the Pass Patchers Quilt Guild, with a look at the friendly faces and bright smiles of the talented quilters who were at the workshop today.…
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Happy August 2019 • This and That
When I looked outside in my garden today, the zucchini plant had wilted from the heat, mirroring how I felt inside. However, unlike my spectacularly unproductive zucchini plant [we’ve only had ONE], I’ve been…
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City Streets • Quilt Finish
Recently my husband and I took my latest quilt, City Streets, out to a small branch library in our town for some photos. It was a deserted Sunday afternoon, perfect for us to find…
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