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Friendship Cross-X Block Swap, part 1
First, start with four blocks, and plan to send two to Krista in October. Realize that this was merely a good intention, and as you missed October’s Friendship Swap post, you’ll save them to…
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Y-Seam Tutorial
During Thanksgiving Week, I thought it was time to re-post this tutorial from Leanne’s blog, from the Third Quarter Finish-A-Long Tutorials. As background, I’ve been sewing and quilting for more years than I should…
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A Quiet Week
After the big TaDa! moment of getting Santa and his blocks and his neighborhood all done, it was a quiet week. No bee blocks. No quilting. No sewing, unless you count the samples that…
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Santa’s Village Quilt Top Completed
After three days of sewing non-stop, except for the time when I went out to Costco to buy vegetables, or the time I took to talk on the phone to my mother and others,…
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Some Friday Finishes
Working on some Christmas Trees to go around this guy: I finished up the center, bordered it with red, and arranged and sewed the blocks from my bee-mates in the Mid-Century Modern Bee. I…
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WIP Wednesday
I seem to be on an Amish trend. First the book announcement and a round-up of my Amish quilts, and then with this WIP Wednesday, news of my Amish With A Twist-2 BOM status.…
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What I Learned from the Cedars-Sinai Hospital Hallway Art
This collection started as a way to help a beloved husband heal. I was there to share some time with my sister, as her beloved husband is battling cancer. But when I went to…
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Harvest Weekend
With pumpkins and tawny hues and brown grasses prevalent in the colors at this time of year and in the Northern Hemisphere, falling temperatures, it triggers the idea of harvest: cutting the wheat, gathering…
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Childhood’s Wide Avenues, deconstructed
Thank you all for your lovely comments yesterday and for visiting the rest of the Four-In-Art quilts. The reveal day is one of my favorite days of all the blog writing I do, as…
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Childhood’s Wide Avenues
Childhood’s Wide Avenues is a quilt about memory, of fixing in time a place and a feeling. I grew up in the mountain west, in Provo, Utah, a town laid out in a grid…
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Santa So Far
I received two more blocks from my bee-mates today, and it was a good conclusion to a Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day in class. One boy cried, but not because of anything I…
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Back Porch Fabrics in Pacific Grove, CA
My friend Beth and I headed over to Pacific Grove to explore Back Porch Fabrics, located in Pacific Grove, California, just up the road from Carmel and next door to Monterey, California. It has…
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Pacific Grove Blues
Oh, yes, you’ve seen this before, but only (as the Australians say) as a flimsy, a quilt top. So I needed to get a few projects done and finished and this was next on…
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WIP: Bits and Pieces
I’m finishing up bits and pieces, collecting bits and pieces, and am covered with bits and pieces of thread (On Mondays and Wednesdays — my teaching days — I’m always worried I’ll stand up…
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America Is A Tune: October Schnibbles Quilt
America Is A Tune (it must be sung together) finished October 2013 Quilt #122 on my 200 Quilts List I was making this quilt all during the recent embarrassing shut-down of our country. It…
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Map Musings
Since the quarterly reveal date for our Four-In-Art is coming up in a couple of days, I thought it was high time to sit down and think about this new overall theme of Urban,…
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WIP Wednesday: Schnibbles Time, again
It’s Wednesday and it’s been a long time since I’ve linked up with the fabulous Lee at Freshly Pieced Fabrics and I mean to remedy that today. I’ve got all the Schnibbles bits up…
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Friendship Swap
Two of my Mid-Century Modern Bee buddies, Carla of Lollyquiltz and Susan of PatchworknPlay have teamed up to run a Friendship Swap of the Cross-X blocks. I had originally pled “no way!” but then…
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Two Blocks, Two Machines
Bees are interesting things. I’m in a new one and am still figuring out how it ticks when this block arrived in the mail. The instructions read to leave the quadrants unsewn as the…
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Finish-A-Long, Q3 Wrap-Up and Quarter 4 Goals
These were the goals of Quarter Three of the Finish-A-Long, hosted by Leanne of She Can Quilt. 1. Hunter’s Star is finished, and is renamed At the Bandstand, Under A Starry Night — Quilt…
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A Quibble and A Muse or Two
To prove to my Mid-Century Modern Bee, that I am on task, getting ready for their blocks, I decided to start on the center Santa. And instead of raw-edge fusible applique, I went with…
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Queen Bee for Mid-Century Modern
As Susan, one of our the members of our Mid-century Modern Bee says, I’m the Queen Bee this month. And I’ve chosen to have my bee-mates help me on my Christmas Quilt. But so…
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Juxtaposition • Quilt Finish
I finished my quilt, and I’ve titled it Juxtaposition. Every quilt teaches me something, and this one taught me to try again, to not get discouraged, to discover new ways of doing things. This…
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Sand, Sea, Schnibbles and Y-seams
Joyce Carol Oates, the very prolific American novelist and writer was asked what she did when she finished a novel. Did she go on vacation? Did she stare into space? “I read poetry,” she said.…
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Autumn Tote and Center Square
This week I spent holed up in hotel room, sewing on fun things left and right. And some not so fun things, that turned out to be fun things, once they turned out. The…
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At the Bandstand, Under a Starry Night
At the Bandstand, Under a Starry Night, front I’ve written about this quilt on this blog before, where I referred to it as Hunter’s Star, a description of the block. But now it is…
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Not All Dirt and Rocks
The quilting community is priceless–I see it on blogs, on Instagram, in quilt shops, and in smaller groups that gather together. And in my case, this week, the comments I received about my frustration…
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