-
Not $ewing in Geneva
I know what you are thinking: what? more traveling? Well, my husband Dave is a scientist who studies genetic toxicology and was asked by the World Health Organization to come and work on a…
-
Hallowe’en 1904 QAL–Step Four
It’s the WONKY STARS step! If you are appliquéing your stars onto your smaller background blocks, go for it and we’ll see you next month. For the rest of you, even those not making…
-
Spectrum: A Colorwheel Quilt
Spectrum: A Colorwheel Quilt Quilt No. 153 You’ve seen this beauty before, as I’ve been working on it steadily since last summer. Since this summer is about to arrive, I thought I should finish…
-
Riverside Sawtooth, a finished quilt top
Riverside Sawtooth, the name I’ve given for this original block of mine, has been finished — or at least the top has. It is a compilation of bee blocks from the Mid-Century Bee, as well…
-
Oh Christmas Tree QAL –STEP 4
Today is Step 4 of our Oh Christmas Tree Quilt-a-Long (#ohchristmastreeqal), following a pattern by Wendy of FlyingFishKits and which was published in Simply Moderne issue #3, by QuiltMania. As always, we have an…
-
Good Friday: Four-in-Art Challenge • May 2016
Good Friday Quilt No. 164, May 2016 #2 in the Color Series: Music This quilt was inspired by time spent in Antonio Gaudi’s magnificent creation of La Sagrada Familia, a basilica in Barcelona, Spain. We visited…
-
Downtime Sewing • Odds ‘n’ Ends
Or as my friend used to say, “Time flies whether you are having fun or not.” So what have I been doing? Blocks for our Spelling Bee for Carla, who has just opening a…
-
New Quilting Machine
So here’s a short story: This all started two years ago when I test drove a Bernina FancyPants Machine during one of my Road to California classes. That thing could do everything but cook…
-
Hallowe’en 1904 QAL–Step Three
Welcome again to the Hallowe’en 1904 Quilt-A-Long. As a refresher, we are making this quilt, a pattern from Blackbird Designs. I must admit it took me a while to re-orient myself to what-the-heck-I-am-doing in…
-
Song and Color • Prepping for Four-in-Art Quilt
It’s hard to believe that just over two weeks ago, I was sitting in La Sagrada Familia in the center of the nave (they’d roped off the center section to protect it from the…
-
A Little Inspiration, A Little Bit of Work
Sometimes, like after I’ve been gone from sewing for a while, I need to ease my way back into the creating. Sometimes I like to visit blogs by quilters, such as Jane Sassaman. (from…
-
Oh Christmas Tree QAL • STEP 3
Here we are again, gathering together for the next step of the Oh Christmas Tree Quilt-A-Long (#ohchristmastreeqal), using the pattern found in Quiltmania’s Simply Moderne, issue #3, designed by Wendy Williams of Flying Fish…
-
The Thread in Spain Stays Mainly on the Train
The title of this post came from Cathy, one of my Instagram readers, after I posted the above photo. I was on a train, in Spain, wrapping thread onto a little organizer. It totally cracked me up,…
-
Three Mini Quilts and a Few Thoughts on Deliberate Practice
I started this July 2015, and you know what happened to me shortly after that, so it was nice to get it fixed up and quilted, because I’d had a purpose in mind:…
-
Oh, yeah. My take on QuiltCon.
This popped up in my email one morning, and it about wraps it all up, as far as I’m concerned. No, I never met Claudia, but I did meet a few other fine quilters, including…
-
Hallowe’en 1904 QAL–Step Two
STEP TWO: CUT!! Happy March 13th! My friend Leisa and I got busy this month, cutting up our fabrics so we could show you this step. I’ve made some alterations to our Master Plan…
-
Teaching Schedule through Late Summer
I’ve signed up to teach a few classes at our local quilt shop, The Quilter’s Cocoon, and thought I’d let you know about them. The first three are mini quilts, where you learn a…
-
Roaring into March
First off the bat, the winners of the giveaway, using the Husband Random Name Generator were: Janice, who wrote: “WOW! I just began following your blog and missed the start up of this QAL.…
-
Oh Christmas Tree-QAL–Step 2
I’ve been haunting the IG feed #ohchristmastreeqal and love seeing all the progress of where the trees are and how things are coming along. We’ll finish this tree up in no time flat, but…
-
QuiltCon Prepping Fun
Since I will taking a class from Lizzy House on Block Printing (see random sample from web, above), and since I decided I’d had enough of “have-to” sewing, I wanted to just whip up something…
-
Lanyard Tutorial for Quilt Shows
I didn’t have a lanyard last year at QuiltCon, and my pins slipped and slid everywhere, beside the fact that I jingle-jangled as I walked. I wanted one of those spiffy ones, where I…
-
Halloween 1904 Quilt-A-Long
(Picture borrowed from the amazing Thelma of Cupcakes and Daisies here) So now that the Spelling Bee is underway for the year, as well as some other quilt-a-longs I’m involved in (Oh Christmas Tree) I…
-
February’s Procrastination
I did the Husband Random Name Generator today and Diane Nelson is the winner of the pearl cotton bubbles. Congratulations, Diane! I mailed them off this afternoon to you. Glad you are making good…
-
Oh Christmas Tree QAL–Step 1
I’ve been busy shopping for wools, wool felts, felted wools and all combos in between. See below for an explanation of what they all are, although you’ve probably figured it out by now. For…
-
Friend and Foe: Four-in-Art Challenge • Feb 2016
Friend & Foe Quilt No. 156, February 2016 #1 in the Color Series: Microscope We have a new year and new members (see below) and a new theme: Color. And this quarter’s challenge was “microscope.” So…
-
Chuck Nohara • January 2016 blocks finished
Happy to report that I finished my January’s Chuck Nohara Blocks a few days early, even with totally redoing the house on the hill block (#cn968). (The upper left fabrics are from Sherri and…
-
Reflections on Road to California 2016
It was a lovely ride. Road to California began as a local quilt juried quilt show that over 20+ years has built itself up to be a nationally-ranked show with outstanding quilts in all categories.…
OccasionalPiece--Quilt! 