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Liberty USA Mini Quilt, 1 (along with some “slow quilting”)
I have always wanted a patriotic mini-quilt, so before surgery, I prepped up these little stars, fused them down to 2 1/2″ squares of fabric and stitched them together in a block. I figured I…
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February Bee Block for Gridsters Bee: Pineapple!
IG: #gridsterbee Pineapple Block for Sherri for February 2017 This month, Sherri, of A Quilting Life, is our Queen Bee and she’s asked us to make her pineapple blocks. First step: make a mess…
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Deconstruction of Shimmery Tunnel of Memories • Four-in-Art Feb. 2107
This is the deconstruction post for my recent Four-in-Art Challenge of Shimmer. First off: what a lame title. I had another name picked for this (“Multiverse Snapshot”) which is a much cooler name, but I’d forgotten…
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Four-in-Art February 2017: Shimmery Tunnel of Memories
Every time I head to Washington, DC and go to the National Gallery of Art, I head downstairs to go through this light insulation by Leo Villarreal, titled Multiverse. The lights are static, then…
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About the Refugees
I don’t ordinarily post on this site news of a controversial nature, so if you don’t want see this, please click on by. This video was produced by my church and is about the…
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Road to California Quilt Show, 2017
The Road to California Quilt Show was held this past weekend, and I think it was my 22nd year of going…or something like that. The highlights for the first day are found on my…
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Magic Stars Quilt, with Sarah Jane fabrics
It begins here… …with fabric by Sarah Jane. A relative of mine fell in love with her work and asked me to make her a quilt for her daughter, who has a name similar to…
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Gridsters Bee • January 2017
IG: #gridsterbee Susan of PatchworknPlay starts off our new year of our Gridsters Bee with having us make her some New York Beauty blocks. She sent us to a webpage (Ulas Quiltseite–it’s German, but…
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Getting a Perspective on a New Year • 2017
My friend Leslie sent me this knitting gnome (so I had to share it with you), and although the holidays are past and gone, I think many of us have been as busy as…
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Spelling Bee 2016 Wrap-Up
UPDATE: This blog has migrated to quiltabecedary.blogspot.com. Last year I had this idea that I wanted to try, and so I rounded up some willing participants and we made ourselves a Spelling Bee. I…
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Mid-Century Modern Bee 2016 • Wrap-up
Four years ago, Cindy and I sat at this computer and designed this logo for a bee she was starting. She brilliantly gathered up a coterie of quilters, all over the age of 50,…
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Merry Christmas to all my Favorite Quilters!
Jolly Olde St. Nicholas Merry Christmas!
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A Little Christmas Treat: Spritz
I couldn’t resist this illustration of a a Spritz Christmas Cookie, as it looked so much like one of our quilts (first seen on They Draw and Cook). And don’t we all need a…
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A Little Christmas Tune: The Wexford Carol
Alison Krauss and Yo-Yo Ma perform “The Wexford Carol” I always try to put this up each Christmas season, as The Wexford Carol is one of my favorite Christmas carols, and I love this arrangement…
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To Do List and En Provence Mystery Quilt
In one month, I finished off two things. And added one: Quiltville Bonnie Hunter’s En Provence Mystery Quilt. In my defense, I also finished making all the words for the Alphabet Quilt, and just…
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Oh! Christmas Tree Quilt
Oh! Christmas Tree Quilt Quilt #175 Began January 2016 • Finished December 2016 It’s finally finished. I started this once I saw the QuiltMania magazine it was featured in. It is a pattern from…
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Final Bee Blocks for 2016
And….that’s a wrap! The Mid-Century Modern bee began four years ago, and I recently sewed the final blocks in Anna Maria Horner fabrics (as per the Queen Bee’s request). We were supposed to do the…
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Christmas Tree Block Swap
This picture-filled post shows when a bunch of the local Good Heart Quilters (my little quilting group) got together to trade Christmas Tree blocks (pattern found on this post). Usually we don’t meet in…
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Not Waving, but Drowning
Not Waving, But DrowningQuilt #17339″ high by 43″ wide This quilt began its life in a quilt block I designed, which I call Semaphore. My friend Cindy saw that and made a version for a fabric manufacturer,…
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Christmas Tree Block Swap
My friend Leisa saw a Christmas Tree Block Swap that was going on online, and said “Why don’t we do one like this with our group?” Sure, why not? We don’t have anything else going on,…
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Making Progress on Oh Christmas Tree Quilt
Remember this? And did you know there are (at this writing) about 35 days until Christmas? So I decided I’d better get to it. Since rolling around on the floor pin basting a quilt is…
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Illusion of Colors, based on a design by Kevin Umaña
Illusion of Colors Quilt, #172 24″ square This was the second of two designs I made using Uppercase Fabrics and designs from artist Kevin Umaña, who now lives in New York City. I first wrote…
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Shine: The Circles Quilt, finished
Shine: The Circles Quilt Quilt #170 This quilt finally finished, I took it out for a photography session with the help of my husband. I started sewing the first block in June of 2014,…
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This ‘N That • November 2016
First up is finally completing my little house quilt, which I titled Celebration. I thought it was a 4th of July house quilt, but now I think it may be sort of Christmasy (or…
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Six Ways to Blue, Deconstructed
This is a further discussion of the quilt I recently made for the quarterly challenge in our Four-in-Art group. I let this theme of “I’ve Got the Blues” simmer in my mind, thinking about…
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Six Ways to Blue, a Four-in-Art quilt for November 2016
Six Ways to Blue Quilt #169, November 2016 19 1/2″ high by 21″ wide #4 in the Color Series: I’ve Got the Blues Blues can mean too many things, all at once. Peacefulness, depression, sadness, the…
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