Blog Index

  • Post-QuiltCon Musings

    This was QuiltCon 2015. No, wait.  This was QuiltCon. What was interesting was meeting people that had been 2D to me, through correspondence and jpeg images, and having them become 3D persons.  I think…

  • Sips and Gulps, Digital Style

    I’ve been preparing for my unit on Digital Media and how it affects our critical thinking, as that’s my students’ next paper.  I’ve read a ton of articles, and read a lot about how…

  • Clutch Purse and Bee Block–Feb 2015

    For February’s Mid-Century Modern Bee Block, Carla asked us to make the paper-pieced birthday cake found on the Ellison Lane blog.  If you decide to make this, note that the default printer settings are…

  • New Hexagon Millefiore Quilt Along

    That title is a mouthful.  Did I get it all? Katja Marek, who wrote this book, is hosting Mother Hen to all of us as we work our way towards having a new version…

  • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, a Four-in-art Quilt

    Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening #1 in the Literature Series Quilt #142 Moving a different direction, the Four-in-Art quilters have chosen a year-long theme of Literature for this current series, and within…

  • Circles Block #8, EPP Sew-A-Long

    This is Circles Block #8 of my EPP Circles Block Sew-A-Long. It all started way up there on the really tall archway in the church in Ljubljana, Slovenia where I first spotted this lovely circle.  I…

  • A Lovely Time at Road to California 2015

    This was my big weekend at Road to California where I got to see three of my quilts hanging at the Road to California quilt show.  I enjoyed every minute of it.  Above, St.…

  • January’s Odds-N-Ends

    One of the Christmas gifts I gave was a Snap Bag, which uses lengths of metal measuring tape to keep it closed.  I had wanted to try these snap bags forever, so I bought…

  • Limping Along, Pineapple-Style

    Take 1 (really it’s about Take 23).  While it’s fun to look at, I think it looks like I stuck the quilt in a light socket or something.  The petal/leaf things are like right…

  • Resolutions vs. Being the Best Self I Can Be

    from *here*  I read this article, “Resolving to Create a New You”  in the New York Times last week.  I cut it out, kept it by my sewing machine and read it all week…

  • Pineapple Quilt Borders: Progress?

    I laid out all the pineapple blocks on a grey, cloudy, rainy day, but their brightness and color made them fun to work with (Yucky photographs, though.)  I thought about all my bee mates…

  • False Dawn (and a Giveaway!)

    False Dawn Pieced and Quilted by Elizabeth Eastmond #138 of 200 Quilts 41 1/2″ high by 36″ wide Made for the Modern Quilt Guild Cotton Couture Classics Challenge Michael Miller, a manufacturer of fabrics,…

  • SHINE Circles Block 7, EPP Sew-A-Long

    It’s a new year, and with our new circles block #7, we’ve turned the corner and are more than halfway done.  Yes, this does look remarkably similar to Block #1, because it is–only I’ve…

  • Queen Bee for Mid-Century Modern, 2015

    I’m Queen Bee again in my Mid-Century Modern Bee, and I know you are all surprised to see me again so soon.  We had a reshuffling of months and I moved from November to this…

  • Happy Old Year Ending: 2014

    I see wrap-up posts often on people’s blogs, and while I feel like my 200 Quilts List (above) is sort of a way to move through my quilts, I present, one more time, 2014’s…

  • Merry Christmas 2014

    Allison Krauss and YoYo Ma: The Wexford Carol

  • Pineapple Blocks

    Before I descend into cooking and cleaning and more cooking and a bunch of dishes and family for Christmas, I thought I’d post all the pineapple blocks together.  This is a combined effort of the Always…

  • Welcome to Sew Mama Sew Visitors

    Today at Sew Mama Sew, Debbie Jeske of A Quilter’s Table has rounded up fifteen binding tutorials; my Faced Binding Tutorial is one of them.  *Here’s a link* to that complete list, which has…

  • Colorwheel Blossom is Finished!

    Colorwheel Blossom Pieced, Appliqued and Quilted 48″ square No. 140 on 200 Quilts List This was the quilt top in April 2014, held aloft by my husband.  Then it went AWOL for a while,…

  • Christmas Tree Skirt

    Christmas Tree Skirt 2014Quilt #141 on the 200 Quilts List(Post updated August 2019) Here I laid out the old Christmas Tree Skirt on top of the new one;  it was made in the early…

  • QuiltCon/Quilt Show Fun

    I’ve been entering quilt shows since about the time I moved here to Southern California.  The closest one was Road to California, and in those days, I always was accepted.  Schooling interrupted my quilting,…

  • Mini Sew-Together Bag

    Woohoo!!  It’s a Mini Sew Together Bag! A Mini Sew Together Bag has two pockets and is smaller than its big sister. (Two Regular Sew Together Bags and Four Mini Sew Together Bags) While…

  • Lora’s Quilt

    To Lora, with Love Quilt #139 Pieced by Elizabeth Eastmond, Quilted by Lisa J (Lora’s niece and my friend) This was the quilt top, and it measures 54″ tall and 43″ wide, before quilting…

  • Nice to See You, Christmas Quilts!

    We have a tradition that nothing Christmas happens until after the Thanksgiving meal.  In the Old Days, when I had children at home, we’d sing Christmas carols that afternoon, a cluster of us at…

  • Home Stretch: an Illusion

    I finished up the quilting on the inner white field (background to the petal part) and thought–“Good!  I’m in the home stretch!”  Au contraire, mon ami. The next morning I got up and marked…

  • Colorwheel Blossom in Progress

    Because of all the wonderful and encouraging comments from last post, I kept going.  This is an in-progress update.  Inner blossoms quilted.  Inner background quilted.  Moving on today to small border, then final large…

  • Don’t Let the Process Overtake the Purpose

    So here’s a dream story. I was driving someone home on a cliffside road, maybe it was the side of a dormant volcano or something–things are awfully hard to pin down in dreams.  The…