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Snapshots!
A couple of things on this post. First–a gallery of ginghams from our Project Gingham. I liked how Sherri did this on her blog and I guess I just wanted a record of all…
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Milestone–100 Completed Quilts
I want to make a hold-in-the-hand book–full of clippings and writings and photos–about my quilts, following the example of my friend Lisa, and my father’s art journals (which we children all covet) and in…
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Project Gingham!!
A long time ago, in a galaxy garage sale faraway, Elizabeth found a whole lotta’ gingham. She shared with Krista, who really likes vintage fabrics. Then we hatched the idea to share with a…
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On Blogging, Part 3 (final)
Now about this wonderful monstrous hydra we’ve created: blogging. If not conquered, or at least managed, it will sink us all. First some thoughts from others. Rachel of Stitched in Color writes a fine…
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On Blogging, Part 2
Recently on Creature Comforts, Ez wrote “Things I’m Afraid to Tell You,” a discussion about life behind the blogging curtain. Leave yourself some time, if you want to hop over there and read. One…
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On Blogging
Do you like to blog? The previous post discussed audience, and how we find our audience for our quilting and our art through some linky parties. But this one is more about the blogging–the…
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Grandchildren Visit!
My grandchildren are visiting and I’m graced with renditions by lovely Keagan, my nine-year old grandchild. She saw my Lollypop Tree and made her own version. We went to the beach and collected shells,…
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Linky Party for Quilting, or Link-Ups
Linky Parties, or Link-Ups seem to be everywhere. I’ve seen them oriented to crafting, to quilting, to cooking, to thrifting, as as the above image illustrates, fonts, teachery things and One Tough Mother. The…
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Stacks of Fabric–WIP
I’m still working on my Lollypop Trees. Now that’s a Work in Progress. I also have two Bee blocks to think about: Krista’s wonky houses. I have an idea or two for those, but…
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Quilting Resource–Judy Martin
With all the modern quilts flooding the blogosphere, it’s good to remember some of the more traditional quilters that have been around for a long time. Judy Martin is one of those. I’ve frequented…
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First Far Flung Bee Blocks
I mailed off my first Far Flung Bee block to Australia, and she’s received it! Essie wanted Bear’s Paw blocks, and she posted a great tutorial on her blog. Here’s my first one. And…
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Back Among the Lollypop Forest: Blocks 5 and 9
I like this part of the Lollypop Tree blocks the best: laying out the color scheme in those great big petals. The part I like the least, in the cutting and choosing category, is…
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Becky Goldsmith/Quilt Class
I had asked to be put on the waiting list of Becky Goldsmith’s class, hosted and organized by Orange Grove Quilters Guild, and by some incredible stroke of luck, I was in!. I arose at…
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Early Summer WIP Check-in
Many thanks to Lee for hosting us on WIP Wednesday. Click here to return to her blog and see other projects begun this early summer day (even though Summer Solstice hasn’t arrive officially). Summer’s…
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June Flowers/Tulip Tutorial
Every June the jacaranda trees put on their bluey-purple-periwinkle display of flowers, and we all wander around wondering how we got to be lucky. And like clockwork, every June they dominate my photos —…
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Project Gingham Underway
I had a whole list of winners. You all shared such lovely memories with me, and I enjoyed going back in time to your childhood summers, popping popcorn to sell, learning to sew at…
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Gingham Giveaway!!
Today’s the day for our Gingham Giveaway. Krista, of KristaStitched, and Cindy, of Live A Colorful Life, will also be doing a giveaway on their blogs, too. We’ve put together three packs of gingham…
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Laying out the Week/Transit of Venus
One of the advantages of summer is a sense that there is All Possibility. Because the children are sprung from their desks for their summer break, there’s an exhalation of free-dom! We look forward…
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Gingham Quilt Top All Done!
I sewed steadily while listening to The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafron, a worldwide bestseller when it was released in 2001, and finished my gingham quilt top. At an especially gripping…
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WIP-Gingham Quilt
I spent the better part of the evening last night researching potential blocks for my gingham quilt–got to get that done so I can move on to other summer projects. Here’s a slideshow of…
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Summer Treat Block Tutorial
This is an OPQuilt Quick Quilt, as the block (even with unpicking my mistake) took me about 1 hour. But I sew quickly. Your actual time may vary. (Aren’t I supposed to say this…
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Cleaning Up the Study/Happy Memorial Day!
What my sewing study looked like at the end of the semester, after I’d posted grades. Way leads on to way. . . getting worse. Ahhhhh. Before I exploded the room, I was working…
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Finally, a Wednesday
Finally? Doesn’t Wednesday come around each week? Well, yes, but today was the day I gave my final, and I came right home and graded the essays. Then it’s stew over the grades, which…
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Bloggers’ Quilt Festival
A long long time ago, back when little girls wore Mary Jane shoes and babies wore white high-top leather lace-ups, and Easter hats were required when wearing dotted swiss voile dresses, there were four…
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Gingham Dresses
A few years ago, my granddaughter wore this Dorothy blue-gingham dress for trick-or-treating, a gift from her grandmother on the other side of the family (and a hand-me-down from her older sister). A classic.…
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WIP-Gone All Ginghamy
Many thanks to Lee, of Freshly Pieced, for hosting us on WIP Wednesdays. At least I HOPE she’s hosting us today, as I know she had plans to head to market. Be sure to…
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