Blog Index

  • The Universe Delivers

    So I was pretty bummed about not being able to make up this into a larger quilt, or not being able to use it (see last post for explanation), but then VOILA! that old…

  • More Copyright: It’s My Quilt and I’ll Name It What I Want To

    Okay here’s a tricky one for you copyright fiends, experts and fanatics: 1–Famous Quilter (who you have revered in the past) gives you permission to teach a class using a block of her own design,…

  • Thursday’s Randoming

    Cindy says I need to have Random Things on my Random Post. Okay, here goes. While this is a diagram of a student brain, a Teacher Brain could be similar except: where it says…

  • Keeping the Brain Alive

    Yes, my brain is pretty dead after grading a stack of 10-page research papers, but after seeing all the twenty-somethings at school today, I have to say that their brains are pretty dead, too.…

  • Bee Blocks for May: Angles and Arrows

    Debbie, from the Always Bee Learning Bee, asked us to make giant triangles, following this tutorial from The Modern Quilt Guild.  It was pretty straight forward, but I measured three times before cutting once,…

  • Elizabeth’s Lollypop Trees, final

    Elizabeth’s Lollypop Trees began May 2011 • finished April 2014 A Kaffee Fassett Lotus Blossom print for the back, and I am finally done.  I know you’ve seen an overabundance of photos of this…

  • Changes Art Quilt, Deconstructed

    Thursday, May 1st, was the reveal for our second series of Art Quilts.  This year’s theme is Urban, and this quarter’s challenge was Landmark.  And as is my usual, I do a post on how…

  • Change, a Four-in-Art Quilt

    Change #3 in the Urban Series, Landmark Quarterly Challenge Quilt #131 (Y Mountain.  Photo courtesy of Judy Cannon) This is the landmark I grew up with, a letter on a mountain in Provo, Utah.…

  • Quilt Labels, part II

    First up, some answers to all those questions that came in about the label post I did a while back.  I provided a tutorial for my easy-peasy way to back your fabric with freezer…

  • Shadow Owes Its Life To Light

    What do you do when the quilt you just finished is too big for your improvised outdoor home photo studio? You try to photograph it anyway. Shadow Owes Its Life to Light Began July 2013…

  • Cross-X Last Call

    Well, my Cross-X Friendship Swap partner has a new gig in town: she’s expecting a baby, and I’m more than happy for her!  So, since we were so near our goal, we decided to…

  • Amish With a Twist II Update

    When I returned from our little visit to the East Coast, my quilter called me and said the Amish With a Twist-2 quilt was finished. I was really happy to jet over to her…

  • Goals for Quarter2 of 2014

    Okay, translation: 1. Finish Lollypop Trees quilt.  I need to finish up the quilting, sew on the sleeve, label and binding.  Still looking for a name. 2. Quilt the Sol Lewitt’s Quilting Basics quilt.…

  • Happy Easter

  • Quilter Missing In Action

    Wow.  Have a Giveaway and then go AWOL (*Absent Without Leave*).  Where have I been?  Grading.  Prepping.  It’s about this time of year that I can just feel the end of the semester looking…

  • Giveaway Winners

    While you were all thinking hard about how you’d like to serve up your citrus (and okay, now you have to send me those recipes you promised!!), I was hard at work in Washington…

  • Giveaway!!

    Yippe Skippee!! It’s a giveaway over here at OPQuilt.com and I’ve got two prizes for you to choose from.  Of course you could say either, and that’s just fine too. Our citrus trees are…

  • Quilting Makes/Breaks the Quilt

    As you know, I recently finished quilting the Lollypop Quilt that I’d been working on for about two hundred years or so, and so appreciated all your comments about taking time to sit back…

  • Dones and Do-Overs

    So, is the Lollypop Tree Quilt all done?  Was it completed by the goal date?  Yes. . . and no.  Last night about 9 p.m. when I couldn’t quilt one more stitch, I laid…

  • Friendship Cross-X Block Swap, March

    Krista and I decided we were impatient about getting these done, so we sped into hyper-quilt-drive and did a double batch for this month’s swap.  Above is one set, all stacked together. . .…

  • Quilting the Lollypop Tree Quilt, I

    Still working on the lollies, or my Lollypop Tree Quilt. I took the quilt to my quilter and she basted it together for me, which has actually worked pretty well.  Usually I crawl around…

  • FMQ Lollypop Tree & A Beauty Shot

    I started free-motion quilting my Lollypop Tree quilt.  It has sat for nearly a year while I did Life and thought about how to start.  I had quilted my Christmas Treat, but the spaces…

  • Working on My Stuff

    My first issue of Uppercase magazine arrived.  It’s on my nightstand and I can hardly wait. I also took a trip to Purl Soho-West Coast (in Orange County, California) where I picked up some more…

  • Sol Lewitt’s Patchwork Primer

    In class this semester, one of the types of poems that we studied were “form” poems, or poems that have a prescribed meter, rhyme scheme, and even construction, such as a ballad, a sonnet,…

  • Inspiration Strikes Everywhere

    On this, National Quilting Day, I thought I’d share two videos from the magazine Uppercase, which recently published work from Bari J. (The above picture is from the magazine’s website.)  They apparently are having a…

  • WIP Wednesday (Selvage Blocks)

    Okay, these 20″ blocks are addicting.  Someone on IG commented on my selvage stash, but the whole thing could fit into a gallon ziploc bag.  There are all those selvages on my stash, however.…

  • Selvage Block-A-Long

    I joined Diane’s Selvage Block-A-Long Flickr group some time ago, but didn’t have anything to show off for it. Now I finally have this lovely burst of orange.  I used Poppyprint’s tutorial, figuring “Why…