Blog Index

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Quilting. . . and a Sticky Question

    It begins here.  I printed off a picture of my quilt, then took a fine-point sharpie to “quilt” in the designs I thought I would do. Then this happens.  Over and over, on each…

  • From Baskets to a Museum–more quilts in Utah

    While visiting relatives in Utah, just before I tucked into the new semester of teaching (which would explain why I have been AWOL for a couple of weeks), my husband and I headed to…

  • Totes (Like I Need Another One)

    My mother used to have a stack of boxes back beside the freezer in the garage.  They were mailing boxes, gift boxes, boxes to put your pet turtle in, and boxes that were there…

  • Elaine’s Quilt Block–Salt Lake City, Utah

    Whenever we go to Utah to visit relatives, I try to find a quilt shop to visit.  Elaine’s Quilt Block quilt shop is very close to my sister-in-law’s house, which could be verrrry dangerous,…

  • Saturday Check-in

    We put the Four-In-Art Quilts up above my window in my sewing room.  I like seeing them all lined up.  I don’t really live in a jungle.  It just looks like it from this…

  • WIP–An Oldie, But Goodie

    I made this for my youngest son’s college freshman dorm bed when he went off to school, lo these many years ago (now he’s married, has a job and is getting his masters). I…

  • Bee Blocks & Winner of Project Folio

    First, while my husband and I were watching Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway in Three Days of the Condor, I leaned over to him and said, “Give me a number between one and sixteen.”…

  • Elizabeth’s Project Folio–Part III (Bringing it Home)

    Elizabeth’s Project Folio, front and filled with my next project, a bag made of Keiko Goke fabric Elizabeth’s Project Folio, back Elizabeth’s Project Folio, interior of blue folio These are not only good for…