Blog Index

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Early-May Accomplishments

    I finished my Gridsters Bee block for Rachel.  She asked for buzzy bees, as she is a beekeeper in the Midwest.  Her tutorial is *here,*  as well as links to her pattern, but I…

  • Belle Etoile du Jour

    Belle Etoile du Jour Quilt #181 of 200 quilts, 88″ square Began December 2016 • Finished May 2017 A couple of weeks ago, I had my son and grandson hold up the unquilted top of…

  • Four-in-Art Quarterly Challenge: Stained Glass Shadows

    Shadow owes its life to light. ~an old saying I am to provide the theme for our next quarterly challenge, and I choose Stained Glass Shadows.  I love the saturated lights left on floors, walls,…

  • Halfway There

    Halfway There Quilt # 180 13-1/2″ wide by 20″ tall That night, I was alone in bed in the guest room, five pillows behind me and one to each side, propping me up in…

  • Piggies!

    Piggies! Quilt #179 60″ wide by 76″ high Finished April 2017 All our signature blocks, close-up.  And who are these people?  My beemates from the Gridsters Bee.  You can find our work on Instagram: they…

  • Quilting System

    Some time ago, Oliver Burkeman, writing in the Guardian newspaper, discussed the idea of implementing “systems” rather than using goals when we are striving toward a new frontier, whether it be in quilting, or better…

  • Piggies! (and other stuff)

    Thanks to all who entered the Paintbrush Studios giveaway for the Painter’s Palette Solids.  I used the Husband Random Number Generator, and he picked Lisa J. for the scraps and Susan H. for the…

  • Guccilious Scraps Head into the World

    As promised, the scraps from my Guccilious quilt need to go out into the world, for others to enjoy this fabric and this particular range of colors.  And although this bundle accumulated quite a…

  • Guccilicious Moves On to a New Bracket

    So, I’ve been playing around some more with my Guccilicious bundle of Painter’s Palette Solids, and created this New York Beauty block ( *here*). It seems my bundle has made it into the Top Eight…

  • March Madness: Guccilicious and Sky Rocket Quilt

    Today is the day to vote for my bundle of fabrics titled Guccilicious,  *here* and on Instagram. On Friday, I introduced you to my bundle of colors, and the name, and today I’d like…

  • March Madness with Painter’s Palette Solids

    Today is the day we announce the Mad for Solids 2017, our quilty version of March Madness (we can’t let the basketball players have all the fun, can we?)  There are 16 quilters who…

  • March Madness Coming

    I have been working with Painter’s Palette Solids for nearly two years now in various capacities (quilt designer, mostly) and I love these fabrics not only for their wide range of colors, but also for…

  • Liberty USA Mini Quilt, 3

    Well, I finished up the top of my Liberty USA quilt.  And in other breaking news, I also was cleared to take off my sling.  My hands are now free-er than they were a…

  • Conducting an Image Search While Avoiding Pinterest

    I love Pinterest. But I also hate Pinterest when I’m trying to do an image search.  I recently was searching for “wonky row quilts” and everything took me right over to a Pinterest page, which is a…

  • Queen Bee for Gridsters: Piggies!

    I am the Queen Bee this month for the Gridsters Bee, and thought and thought and thought of what I could do.  I happened on this design while surfing the blogs, and something about…

  • The Grid, the Gridsters (and a wee bit of news)

    When I say the grid, you probably think of something like the image above: a rendition of the electrical grid in the United States. Or you might think of a street grid, or the computer grid,…

  • Liberty USA Mini Quilt, 2

    I’ve made some progress by getting the first (left) side sewn down.   It’s pretty wonky, but I’m leaving it as a testament to this wonky time in my life. In my pain-killer-addled brain…

  • Be My Valentine • 2017

    A creation from Way Back: a florid appliqué heart Valentine designed by Elinor Peace Bailey. (Pattern for heart blocks on this post.) Valentine Hearts, with a wee pocket with a wee Valentine note tucked…