Blog Index

  • Really? It’s Wednesday?

    I’m not yet “jammified” (in my p.j.’s) but I could be, for how energetic I (don’t) feel.  Bob Hope noted that “You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.”  So…

  • Finish-A-Long First Quarter Wrap-Up

    I joined Leanne’s Finish-A-Long because I had too many quilts malingering in the closet together, and thought this might help me.  This post is a wrap-up of my first quarter with FAL. My opening…

  • Wonky Pillow Shams

    Breaking News!! Last Finish-A-Long Project Slides Under the Wire! Pillow Shams Now in 3D! Ooooh! And a reminder for Sewing Corners! Check back tomorrow for a complete wrap-up of the first quarter of Finish-A-Long…

  • Snapshot: Polaroid Quilt finished

    Debbie of A Quilter’s Table hosted a Polaroids swap last summer, and although I put together the top fairly quickly, I didn’t send it to the quilter’s because I wanted to do the quilting.…

  • This and That for a WIP Wednesday

    Many thanks to Lee of Freshly Pieced Fabrics for hosting all of us quilters on WIP Wednesday. Picked up this pattern at the Glendale Quilt Show and slid in one more project before my…

  • Bostonian Bag and a Wrap-up

    While this post has lots of pictures of my recent class, the Bostonian Bag (which they titled Bag Bostonian), it is NOT a tutorial nor are there any patterns. For this you’ll need to…

  • Chris’ Welcome-to-the-Family Quilt

    This is where I was Wednesday morning, after listening to hours and hours of a new audio book: Beautiful Ruins.  My mother’s still reading listening to it, so I’ll withhold my review until later.…

  • Another Sashless Quilt

    Starting another sashless quilt, based on what I did in the Sunshine and Shadow Quilt Tutorial.  But this one’s for my newest grandson Chris, adopted into our family this past December.  Chris is eleven,…

  • Hot Mitts

    No, this isn’t a reference to our past election and Governor Romney. This is in rereference to my hideously stained and abused and damaged kitchen hot mitts.  I went to buy some new ones…

  • Google Reader, exiting stage left

    I have blog followers (subscribers) on Google Reader, and I also use Google Reader.  A LOT. So it was worth paying attention to the news when Google announced it was discontinuing Google Reader.  While…

  • More Projects?? Must Be Spring

    What is it about spring that makes us open up our windows, welcome the sun and add more projects to our already stacked lists?  I played hooky from my stacks of grading by heading down…

  • Bee Projects, et al

    I’d participated in the Far Flung Bee last year, and although one member never sent her blocks, I had enough to make a project for Spring. I’d been to my local quilt shop (LQS,…

  • Star Mother’s Youngest Child quilt

    Here’s my second finish for March: Star Mother’s Youngest Child.  The book, from which the title of this quilt is taken, was about Star Mother’s youngest boy who came to earth to experience Christmas…

  • Once There Was A Snowman

    I’ve had my first finish for March with Once There Was a Snowman.  As I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, I’m thinking that I’m several months early with this Christmas quilt, rather than 3 months late.…

  • Lollypop Tree Top Finished

    Rhonda and I started talking about this about three years ago, thinking we’d do it together.  We’d both admired it, yet were daunted by all the work.  Yep, it was a lot of work,…

  • Road to California Quilt Show 2013—part III

    This is the final post on the quilts I saw at Road. Fiesta Mexico was made by Karen Kay Buckley and quilted by Renae Haddadin. The back was amazing, with all the colored thread.…

  • Road to California 2013–part II

    The next two posts are photo-heavy, but I decided to put the quilts I wanted to show you up in two, rather than three posts. (BTW, these are in no particular order.) Laurie Wozniak’s…

  • WIP and FAL are real motivation!

    I’ve been doing Lee’s Work In Progress Wednesdays for a long time now, and I love participating and reading her blog.  Head back there to see more of what others are working on. And…

  • Road to California 2013–part I

    Okay, here’s a truth.  When you are sewing your brains out, you aren’t  blogging much.  And since I’ve been on a tear with a couple of quilts, I haven’t yet given the recap of…

  • Lollypop Tree Blocks Completed

    All stitched down.  But I remembered in the middle of the night, that I wasn’t done stitching. I still have the border blocks to finish.  But first, I’m going to enjoy being at this…

  • Lollypop Trees Rise Again: Blocks 4, 5, 6

    One advantage to being in a group like Leanne’s Finish-A-Long (FAL), is that you have a reason to pull those unfinished projects to the front of the line, rather than letting good solid work…

  • Low-Volume: Quilters Slang?

    Have you seen the phrase “low volume” used lately in the quilt world?  I have, in many places, and it’s confused me to no end.  How is it that we quilters have come up…

  • Hexies, Bee Blocks and Betty’s Tile Quilt

    I finished sewing this together during the last Downton Abbey.  I love it.  But now what do I do with this?  Moving on. . . Cindy, of Live A Colorful Life, asked us to…

  • Sunshine and Shadow Quilt Tutorial

    Here’s the recipe for the quilt I gave to my sister-in-law, Janice.  But I think you’ll notice how “lopsided” the block is–and that’s because I wanted to eliminate the sashing step, including it in…

  • Sunshine and Shadow

    Thanks be to you for all your sweet and touching comments about my brother-in-law’s passing away this week.  I read all of them to my husband (it’s his sister’s husband who died) and will…

  • On A Day Like This

    What do you serve for dinner on a day like this?  It’s a day where the food needs to be hearty and warm and go down easily in between the tears.  Soup?  Spaghetti made…

  • One Black Leaf, deconstructed

    Inspired by Betty’s photos, I took One Black Leaf outside to be photographed by her sister trees, because of course, with those curves, it’s evident this quilt is feminine. And just like Betty and…