Blog Index

  • The Calendar is my Friend. Repeat.

    I read this cartoon, from Stephan Pastis, some time ago, and I’ve saved it as it seems like it hits a bit too close to home with that wasting time on social media thing.…

  • Frivols 3

    Time for the third Frivols box to reveal its secrets, and to be made into a quilt. I loved the reproduction/traditional fabrics as they appealed to another side of my fabric-loving self.  I don’t…

  • QuiltCon 2018 Wrap-Up

    QuiltCon is so many things: a quilt show, a conference with great speakers and classes, shopping–complete with short demonstrations going on, a chance to meet Famous Quilters, a chance to hang out with friends…

  • Windowpane: Frivols 2 – Finished

    Windowpane, Quilt #196 26″ square • February 2018 I have finished Frivols #2, and maybe it was just because I was listening to another Maisie Hobbs mystery, but I had things go awry in…

  • Rainbow Gardens and Quilt Mascot?

    My Rainbow Gardens has made its way out into the world.  I was contacted by the Victoria Quilter’s Guild in Victoria, B.C. (Canada) to ask if it was all right if they used my…

  • Annularity II

    This is the story of the design of my quilt Annularity.  It is also the story of Annularity II, which will hang at QuiltCon in Paintbrush Studios Booth.              …

  • We Need to Fix This

    For those of you who live in the United States, you may have seen this picture of this Florida high schooler, standing in front of a wall that reminds me of a log cabin…

  • Cinque Terra Tiles • Improv Applique (Part 2)

    This is the story of my Improv Appliqué Demo, coming up at QuiltCon 2018 in Pasadena.  In the last post, you saw me making a whole gang of these little bits squares, some with slightly…

  • Cinque Terra Tiles • Improv Applique (Part 1)

    The kind folk at Paintbrush Studios asked me (some time ago) to give a demo at QuiltCon 2018.  I set to wondering what I could teach in a short amount of time (20-30 minutes)…

  • Winter Pines • Finished!

      Winter Pines Quilt No. 193 73″ high by 64″ wide You saw the sewing of Winter Pines and I’m back to tell you it’s finished. The backing is an oldie from the stash;…

  • Frivols 2

    We’re back for another episode of Make Those Frivols! 2018 Today I’m working on Frivols Tin #2, with a line of fabrics from Moda’s Minick and Simpson. Of course the cute little giveaway in…

  • Basket Block Tutorial • February 2018 • (Gridster Bee Month for Me!)

    I belong to an online bee called the Gridsters, and February is my month to choose a block that my beemates make for me.  You can find all our work on Instagram, using the…

  • Road to California 2018

    Ready, set, go into a busy week: Tuesday: Cynthia England’s class with Lisa, my pal, who has moved away to Utah.  That’s Cynthia’s class sample, above.  I loved taking a class with Cynthia as I…

  • Frivols 1 Is Finished!

    Caitlin’s Baby Quilt • Quilt #19240″ (approx) square I finished the first Frivol and I finished it early — before the end of January, so I was pretty happy with THAT deadline.  As I…

  • Gridster Bee Begins 2018

    Carol kicked off the Gridsters this year, doing a little throwback to fall, for she said she wanted to make herself a quilt for autumn.  She asked us to use this tutorial from The…

  • Frivols! (Time to Do Another Undone Project)

    I think I mentioned somewhere along the way, that I had collected a full set of Frivols tins, shown above.  Two other quilters, Kelley and Karen, mentioned that they had a full set, too.…

  • Winter Pines

    It all began here, with a visit to Gardner’s Quilt shop in Utah, where I saw this quilt.  I realized I had many fabrics that would work, so purchased only the pine boughs and…

  • Happy Old Year Ending • 2017

    This year’s main quilting events: Shoulder surgery in January, which pretty much sidelined me for a long time.  That’s at the top of the list, because whatever I did after that was like icing on…

  • Criss-Cross Quilt Top

    Criss-Cross Christmas Quilt, top finished December 2017 59 ” by 68″ It all started when my friend Leisa gave me a mini-charm pack of Merrily fabrics by Gingiber.  Then the Fat Quarter Shop had…

  • Merry Christmas 2017

    Merry Christmas, everyone!

  • Bee Blocks for Gridsters • December 2017

    Four of us got together to do the last block of 2017 for Afton, of Quilting Mod. She’d asked that we do a cake from Patty Sloniger’s pattern (for Michael Miller Fabrics), and Afton…

  • Bojagi and the Chojun Textile & Quilt Art Museum • Seoul, South Korea

    It was the last day of our trip to Tokyo and Seoul.  I was laying in bed, so so tired from our trip, and already the events and obligations of home were pressing in.…

  • Tiny Tree and Teeny Trees

    I’m decorating for Christmas and wanted to change out my Tiny Quilt from Autumn to Christmas, but then got wondering how a teeny-weeny quilt would look, so got busy.  These little quilts fit onto…

  • Fabric Shopping in Tokyo and Seoul

    This is the second post on shopping for fabric in Toyko and South Korea.  My last post talked about the famous Tomato Fabrics and Nippori Fabric Town. It looks like I’m standing in a…

  • Zipperstop Zippers Giveaway!

    That’s all–a giveaway of zippers from Zipperstop, USA recipients only, no international. I’ll choose two winners, one from this blog and one from Instagram, so leave a comment in both places to get two chances. [Backstory:…

  • Shopping for Fabric in Tokyo, Part I

    First, just to get you in the mood for how big, how huge, how overwhelming Tokyo can be, let’s Sing A Song (click on link below):     It’s from a video taken at…

  • A Tiny Quilt for Autumn

    So, one day I just had to do some creating.  Not following a big-deal pattern with billions of pieces, but a little project that just allowed me to follow a simple set of instructions…