Blog Index

  • 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…

  • Grand Central Terminal Contest Quilts

    The winners of the Grand Central Terminal Quilt Contest have been announced by New York City’s fabulous quilt shop: The City Quilter.  This contest was held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Grand Central…

  • WIP, RP, BB Can’t You See?

    That’s Works in Progress, Rainbow Petals, Bee Blocks, can’t you see?  I just liked the rhythm of it all, especially after the previous post, with Emily Dickinson, a reclusive but prolific American poet, writing…

  • Don’t Put Up My Thread and Needle

    Don’t put up my Thread and Needle (617) by Emily Dickinson Don’t put up my Thread and Needle— I’ll begin to Sew When the Birds begin to whistle— Better Stitches—so— These were bent—my sight…

  • Making My Own Quilt Labels

    Something I did last month was rewarding: I joined a quilt guild again.  I am a member of one for a while, then time or distance or a crazy life overtakes me and I…

  • March Cross-X Blocks

    It’s Cross-X Blocks time again!  The last Friday of every month, Krista of KristaStitched and I post about our swaps that we’ve done.  Above are the eight blocks I made for February, four for…

  • Tiny Envelopes Quilt

    Tiny Envelopes Quilt #129 on the 200 Quilts List I was happy and pleased to hang this one out on my back-fence studio, and be able to see the shading of the Kona Snow…

  • A Grand Day Out: The Valley Quilters Quilt Show

    It was a beautiful day that the Valley Quilters held their quilt show, and I had a morning free, so I headed down to Hemet, about 40 minutes away from my house.  I like…

  • This and That, February Version

    This made me laugh this week, as I had NO life, yet TOO MUCH work.  A bit out of balance.  Papers to grade, lessons plans to prep, more grading, ACK!!   Finally, yesterday afternoon…