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  • Christmas Treat Wallhanging

    So, out here on the old sewing ranch-a-roo, I finished up Christmas Treat (name is courtesy of my husband) and took it outside to pose for pictures.  The front. The back is an old…

  • And the Razzy Award Goes To. . .

    First, congratulations to Beth Baird, on winning the Practical Bag Pattern with this comment: “I would totally love this kind of a bag. Our grocery stores no longer give us plastic bags, so this…

  • Christmas Lollypop Tree Wallhanging

    I finally was able to stitch down the petals, dots and branches of my Christmas Lollypop Tree Wallhanging, figure out the borders (I referred to the antique Lollypop Quilt for ideas) and get it…

  • Finish-A-Long • Quarter Two • 2013

  • Hat Trick, version #1

    Okay, this is version one.  I wanted to use my Dear Stella Va Bene Italian fabrics and you can see the problem in the “mushy” effect it has.  The reds pop out and you…

  • The Winners and Other Musings

    Congratulations to Mary of Mary on Lake Pulaski who won the Hot Stuff bundle, and Nita of NitaDances won the boy fabric and the Power Tool button. I’ve had fun going around to people’s…

  • I’m Featured on the Name Game!

    Today Cindy of Live a Colorful Life is featuring this blog on her series titled, The Name Game, where she highlights a blog whose name she likes.  I’m more than happy to be one…

  • Cranking out those Lollies!

    Cranking is probably the wrong word.  It takes me the better part of a day to get one of these pinned, just because I have to leave time for pulling out all of the…

  • 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…