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Chuck Nohara Quilt Top Finished!
We interrupt this tour of France and the European Patchwork Meeting to bring you breaking news: I finished the Chuck Nohara Quilt Top! My husband held it up for me, but it’s big —…
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Gabrielle Paquin: Design and Graphics
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. Moseying along the main street, we headed to Site #7, the Eligse St-Louis, where I wanted to see the French quilter Gabrielle Paquin.…
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A Study in Opposities: Lea Stansal and Mary Koval
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. I am posting my experiences at the recent European Patchwork Meeting, held in a series of four small towns in the Alsace region…
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Quilt Show Contest • or • Concours International du Carrefour Européen du Patchwork 2017
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. How’s that for a title? This post is all about the official competition of the Patchwork Meeting, and I have a sampling of…
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Shopping at the European Quilt Meeting
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page. The brains of the meeting. I’d done some prepwork (looking at the website) so I knew what I wanted to see. The very…
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European Patchwork Meeting • September 2017
All posts in order are on the European Patchwork (Carrefour) page (both years listed). When my husband had the chance to work again in Geneva, France and we found out the European Patchwork Meeting…
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The Visual Story of a Sewing Kit
Okay–here’s what helps keep me busy while I’m watching hours of footage about the Hurricane Harvey disaster: hand-sewing. So I came up with my own little sewing kit. Start Here, with this rough sketch…
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Mr. Golden Sun
Mr. Golden Sun Quilt No. 187 13″ by 16″ tall We had a great time on Monday, watching our partial eclipse. I’d made eclipse cookies, people brought lemonade, and we all cheered when the…
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Solar Eclipse Block • 2017
Since I am completely ga-ga over the 2017 Solar Eclipse, happening August 21st (and I already have the next on penciled in on my calendar–April 2024, if you must know) when searching for decorations…
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August Gridster Block • 2017
This month we are doing blocks for Debbie, who requested that we make blocks from the Moda Be My Neighbor quilt, from 2016. I found all the free, downloadable blocks on Sew Let’s Quilt…
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Not All That Wanders Is Lost • Traveling Threads Bee Quilt is Finished
Not All That Wanders Is Lost 47″ high by 56″ wide Quilt No. 186 In March 2015, Megan asked me to be a part of a Traveling Threads Bee. My initial post about the…
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Rose Window • Four-in-Art Quilt
It’s Four-in-Art Challenge Reveal day today, the penultimate challenge in 2017. We began this art mini-quilt group in November of 2012, and we are in our fifth year. Bette, Rachel and I have been…
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Hot Mitts • July 2017
It was time. When I last made hot mitts, it was 2013 and now, many hot pans later, I was in desperate need of new hot mitts. Scary picture of old mitts, below. I…
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July’s Gridster Bee Block
Here’s the block I made for the July Gridster Bee, for Carol. It was a fun make, made easy by this tutorial from Sara Noda. (She also has a blog post on her completed…
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creative block
(Yes. Lower case title, just to reclaim some of my quirkiness.) I recently posted about taking a break from the creative world, from the quilty world, from whatever and while I was gone, I…
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Time for Refueling
I’m Elizabeth, the girl behind the pump that fuels this blog. I’m a quilter, mother, grandmother, wife, reader, writer, cook, housecleaner, recent PT-goer, free-motion-quilter. My driver’s license lies about my weight, my age, and…
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Happy Fourth of July • 2017!!
Happy Fourth of July! A long time ago I lived in Washington, DC for a year, and our quilt guild (Mt. Vernon, a chapter of Quilts Unlimited of Virginia) was pretty active. We met…
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Riley’s Quilt
Red, White, and Blue giveaway info is at the end of this post. Many thanks to all who entered! If my grandchildren come to visit me long enough, we can crank out a quilt.…
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Red, White, and Blue Star
Welcome to Day 4 of the Patriotic Palette Blog Hop, hosted by Paintbrush Studios and Painter’s Palette Solids! Red, White, and Blue Star • Quilt #183 25″ square, made from Painter’s Palette Solids A…
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A Tiny Quilt for Summer
I made this for an exchange at my Guild Night, but then my daughter and her family came into town and I didn’t go, so now I have my own little quilt. It has…
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Inching through June • 2017
So, I really have to get serious about my Chuck Nohara quilt borders, because it’s acting like New Jersey’s Bridgegate: closing down my creative roads. So here it is where I left it. I…
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Sweet Land of Liberty
Sweet Land of Liberty Quilt #182 28″ square I started this in January, prepping up the stars and beginning the hand-blanket-stitching a couple of days after my rotator cuff surgery. This was a bright…
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Rainbow Gardens, redux
Rainbow Gardens (the original) was made for a swap back in 2015, and I always wished I’d kept it for myself. So this week I did the next, best thing: I made a new…
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Let’s Get Crackin’: Finish This! • June 2017
Okay, so I used up my old list with crossing stuff off and writing stuff on. It’s a bit dispiriting to see some quilts that never seem to launch, but I’ll give it a…
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One Life • Many Lives
This has to do with quilting, but it doesn’t start out that way. It starts out this way, with a two-year old girl posed on her family’s front lawn. Then all of a sudden, I…
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Single Binding on a Mini Quilt
We all put double layers of fabric bindings on our larger quilts, but have you thought about using a single binding on a smaller quilt? It’s quicker, flatter, and really–are you going to wear out those…
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Trunk Show • Raincross Quilt Guild
Flier for my Trunk Show: The meeting starts at 6 p.m. at the Janet Goeske Senior Center, in Riverside, California.
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