Blog Index

  • 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…

  • One Black Leaf

      This is our second round of our art group, self-titled Four-in-Art.  Our theme was “tree” or “trees,” however the artist wanted to think about it.  I call this “One Black Leaf.”  And as…

  • January’s Three Finishes–FAL

    I’ve always wanted to say that I’ve had three finishes in one month.  Well, in my mind, I’ve had FIVE, but two of the tops (the wonky Christmas stars and the wonky Christmas log…

  • Fat Quarter Shop Dreaming

    My fabulous sisters sent me a Fat Quarter Shop gift certificate for my recent birthday and I’ve had the most fun dreaming about what to buy.  I think I’ve clicked on every category in…

  • Four-in-Art, quilt 2

    This little pathetic, collapsed piece of dangly bits is where I found myself at the end of a day of invention as I worked on my second entry in our Four-in-Art art quilts group. …

  • Still Plugging Along

    Well?  The name of this linky party is Wednesday Works in Progress, right?  I’ve made great progress, for I’ve gotten some projects off the pin wall and other blocks out of the box. This…

  • More Quilt Shops near Corvallis, Oregon

    After we visited Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest in Salem, we headed south to Independence, where we’d visit a quilt shop and have lunch at the Pink House.  First up–the shop! Ladies of Liberty is a…

  • Greenbaum’s Quilted Forest–Salem, Oregon

    My friend in Oregon, Beth, picked me up at my hotel bright and early and we headed up to Salem, to the first shop of our day-long shop hop.  Beth really knows how to…

  • Four-in-Art Dead Space

    Okay, is it horrible to mention that I just now am starting to distill my ideas about this project? I usually like to have some trimming and editing of my thought, but for today,…

  • Into the Woods!

    Into the Woods is finished–my first finish in the FAL hosted by Leanne.  I blogged about how bogged down I was in my entry FAL, so it’s nice to be able to go out…

  • Finish-A-Long — First Quarter

    The basic idea here is to confess to the world at large all the projects you have on your To Do list.  I think this is a great idea because I love embarrassing myself…