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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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First WIP Post of Summer 2013
It’s the first post of summer–the first Works In Progress post, thanks to Lee, of Freshly Pieced. I put together the sections for the Schnibbles block, trimming it up as the pattern recommended (we’re…
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Using the Other Side of Fabrics
First off, after I finally figured out how to use Mr. Random Number Generator, and making sure that comment included a trip, I’m happy to announce that the winner of the Itsy Bitsy Scissors…
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Punching the Creative Buttons
{NOTE: If you are looking for the teensy scissor giveaway, you can find it *here.*} ************************************* If you’ve never traveled to New York City, the question of whether that city is worth all the…
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Pins and Needles, in New York City
I’ve been in New York City for a week, and while there I discovered a new quilting/fabric shop, on the upper East Side, a few blocks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It’s called…
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FAL Progress: not much
This is one of those I-think-I’ll-beat-myself-up posts. I’m participating in the Finish-A-Long this quarter, after having such a gang-busting last quarter. Really, I was hot hot hot. These were my goals. 1. I glimpsed…
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Christine’s Philadelphia
At the last post, we were in the bakery section of Bottega Louie and I had a big surprise for my sister Christine. It was Christine’s Philadelphia, a quilt celebrating her life and her…
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Hot Mitts, take two
Just a little something I put together. . . . . .for my daughter-in-law Kim, who, when I posted them on Instagram said she liked them and “hint, hint.” I was happy she wanted…
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Spoolin’ Around
This is my latest Schnibbles quilt: Spoolin’ Around. Sherri, Sinta and I assume, Carrie, pick the Schnibbles pattern we are going to use, but then we all go to town putting it together in…
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To Reply, or Not to Reply? Blogging Buzz
I guess the first thing to get out of the way is to ask one of the big questions: No, that’s not it. The big question is: why do you blog? And if you…
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Entering the Grading Galaxy
(She moans. Loudly.) But! I will return, because I excel in Grading Avoidance–a skill not all possess, but my guess is if you are a college English Teacher, you probably do. GA, we call…
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Spoonflower’s Geeks
Last year Spoonflower had a contest titled Fabric 8, in which they selected 8 contestants to design a line of linked fabrics. I loved following that group and reading about their choices. This year’s…
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It’s Wednesday, so WIP on
Finally! I have a use for my phone app, purchased so long ago and hardly used. Anyone else like that? Yep, it’s Wednesday so that means I’m thinking about my works in progress. Well,…
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Feather
When Suz of PatchworkNPlay said she wanted to do an Anna Maria Horner Feather for her monthly block (I think that link will get you there or just Google it), I started in on…
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Doleket, deconstructed
When the theme of fire was announced for our Four-in-Art group, I immediately thought of all those days spent roasting marshmallows over campfires, just like Betty did. And then afterward, when people would gather…
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Doleket: Four-in-Art #3 Reveal!
Doleket While no one really knows how the prophet Abraham came to know God, many a rabbi has told a tale, a midrash, about this event. One famous one is how Abraham came upon…
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WIPs, early
I have the Four-in-Art reveal tomorrow, so am writing about my works in progress today. DONE Take Me Back to Italy, both a Schnibbles quilt and a Finish-A-Long quilt Four-In-Art #3 (check back tomorrow)…
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QuiltPro Quilt Software
I’ve used QuiltPro software for about a decade now, choosing it first because it worked on a Mac as well as a PC (I’m a Mac user, and Electric Quilt has ignored people like…
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Take Me Back to Italy!
I have this thing for Italy. So when I saw Va Bene!, a line of fabrics depicting scenes and buildings and landmarks from Italy, it had to come home with me. Many of our…
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WIP–Not the last person to post–Wednesday
The last few weeks I’ve been the last person to post on Lee’s WIP Wednesday over at her blog Freshly Pieced. Or at least in the last five. There’s a whole bunch of us…
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