Blog Index

  • Project Folio–Part II

    This is part two of the tutorial for the Project Folio.  Click *here* for part one. STEP TWO: Making the Front Vinyl Window The side (1 1/2″ wide) strips go on first, on the shorter…

  • Project Portfolio Tutorial–Part I

    A long time ago, in a foreign market, I bought zip portfolios to hold stuff.  But they weren’t always quite right–too small, too rigid–for my projects, too wrong-sized.  So I decided this summer to…

  • Four-in-Art: Maps

    The Four-in-Art group has chosen Urban as our overarching theme for this next year of quilts.  We will reveal quilts on the first of November in 2013, and February, May and August of 2014.…

  • Summer Giveaway Winners

    You are all winners in my book–just take a look at all that was accomplished this summer! I’m generally terrible at picking winners; I personally LOATHE the random number generator, but don’t mind their…

  • On the Occasion of an Anniversary

    The Passionate Shepherd To His Love With apologies to Christopher Marlowe, 1592 Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and vallies, dales and fields,…

  • Summer Giveaway

    So why a giveaway? Oh, I don’t know–it’s coming down to the end of summer, I picked up a couple of cute things at Long Beach Quilt Show, and why not? The top photo…

  • This and That and a New Baby

    While the rest of us have been having a summer, my son and his wife have been having a baby: they flew to Iowa (sweet corn country) to pick up their newest son, making…

  • Faced Binding Tutorial

    A faced binding is applied to the front of your quilt and is wrapped to the back.  If done well, it can’t be seen at all from the front, allowing the last border of…

  • Congruence, Deconstructed

    Our reveal for the fourth challenge quilt in our art group, Four-in-Art Quilters, was yesterday and today I’ll tell you how it came together. I first started by looking a what seemed like billions…

  • Congruence, a Four-in-Art Challenge Quilt

    Congruence, #4 in the Four-in-Art Nature series In one of Mary Oliver’s poem, “Praise,” she watches an owl “as it flies over the water” with its “heart-shaped face,” hunting down “some little life. . .…

  • Amish With a Twist 2–progress

    Today I’m all caught up with my Amish With A Twist-2 Block of the Month program with the completion of these four, plus the components shown below. I think these will eventually become part…

  • Retreating from the World, Quilt-style

    Last weekend, along with a ton of other quilters in various locations, countries and states, my small sewing group (named The Good Heart Quilters) had their second annual retreat.  First off, a little game:…

  • Design Wall Recover, In Progress Quilts

    Linking up to Lee’s Freshly Pieced with this post. First up, re-cover my pin wall. (1) How I built my pin wall: 2 sheets of 1/2″ foam core art board taped side by side,…

  • Citrus

    Citrus, 31-1/2″ square, finished July 2013 This is a simple Schnibbles quilt, with rail fence and sawtooth star blocks, in bright citrusy colors. The back, with my sister’s gift of a tea towel as…

  • Latest Schnibbles is Taking Shape

    This is the Schnibbles pattern chosen for this month’s Parade of Schnibbles, hosted by Sherri and Sinta, a design called Lincoln. While I love the red, cream and blue and it is appropriate for…

  • Finish-A-Long, Quarter 3 Goals

    It’s that time again, time to set out some goals for the next quarter.  The rules state that they have to be projects that you need to finish, and since I’ve been laid up…

  • Owls

    Our Four-in-Art theme this round is Owls, under the year-long theme of Nature.  When Betty chose it, I went blank.  Then she wrote about it, I did a search on Flickr, and ideas starting…

  • Wanna Swap?

    My little quilt group, The Good Heart Quilters, is having our annual retreat, and has decided to do Debbie’s Polaroid Block Swap.  But we wouldn’t mind if a few of you wanted to play.…

  • Amish With A Twist Progress

    I’ve been working on the Amish With A Twist, Series Two, and I’m happy to say I am all caught up now.  Above is Flying Geese. Bowtie was next. Rolling Stone, and I while…

  • Finsh-A-Long–Second Quarter Report

    First, on July 3rd, I’m guest hosting today over at Leanne’s, of She Can Quilt, where I have written a tutorial for making a faced binding on a quilt (used on Kaleidoscope). This tutorial…

  • Block of the Month: Starts and Re-starts

    I’ve been working on Amish With a Twist–part II, having sewn up some strip sets before I went under the knife for foot surgery, then cut them apart: While this is how the pattern…

  • Village Faire

    Village Faire, quilt #117 on my 200 Quilts List A part of the Year of Schnibbles, hosted by Sherri and Sinta. This quilt reminded me of summer days, of green lawns that you can…

  • WIP–Bee Blocks (post revised)

    UPDATE: I’ve revised this post, because this morning I realized that TODAY is Wednesday, not yesterday (when I’d originally written it: we’re a little foggy on life over here), so today I am linking up with Lee…

  • Kaleidoscope

    At long last,  I have finished Kaleidoscope. Here she is on the fence, all quilted and bound and ready to be hung up in our home.  The first picture was merely the top, unquilted,…

  • Temporarily Out of Service

    This is what I put up on Instagram, in between woozy episodes of a drug-induced haze.  Gotta’ love those drugs, however.  I did stay up late the night before my surgery putting a binding…

  • City Quilter Gallery

    I love to visit City Quilter in New York City, for not only do they have amazing fabrics, they also have an attached art quilt gallery.  The exhibit when I was there was Deb…

  • Geek 8 Competition–Spoonflower Fabrics

    The link to look at the fabrics, read about the designers is *here.* Like many of you, I’m a fabric geek–love the texture, the designs, love having a wide range of fabrics to choose…