Blog Index

  • Quilt Ideas

    Over at Stitched in Color, Rachel has declared a scrap manifesto: Use Them! I think that’s a brilliant idea; she’s culled a lot of ideas using scraps to make quilts and has a challenge…

  • I Am A Work in Progress

    I hardly know how to pick up a rotary cutter, let alone sew a seam, and find the new thing that I am capable of creating. I am a work in progress this year.…

  • Happy New Year 2012: List of Plans

    I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions.  I figure if January was the only time I turned over a new leaf, I’d be in trouble.  I like to think about things in a new way…

  • Crazy Quilt, Crazy Life

    “Crazy Quilt,” by Tess Taylor (picture of antique crazy quilt by Carolyn Aune) Our grandma taught her nine-patch, strip-piecing,how to measure, how a fabric falls. My sister heard her and came out a maker.She…

  • Merry Christmas 2011

    Merry Christmas to all!  

  • Quilting Organically

    Not quilting with organic fabric.  I was thinking more along the lines of a quilt that just sort of evolves from one stage to the next, getting stalled, then moving forward again.  But Quilting…

  • Sewing Machines as Decoration

    Out at the outlet shops, gathering Christmas gifts, I spy this window display of antique sewing machines.  Covet.  Covet them all. If your friend quilted on this machine, you could give truth to the…

  • City Quilter–New York City

    I feel like I’ve been gone a long time, in a galaxy far, far away–and I have: I’ve been in the grading galaxy.  Two sets of papers, with one super-duper plagiarizing student which caused…

  • Magic Fairies, Please Stop Here

    MAGIC FAIRIES!! Please stop here.  I need your fairy dust to make these blocks morph into a quilt top.  Hurry.  Time’s in short supply!

  • Christmas Is Coming!

    Christmas has come to the bedroom. I think that’s one of the enjoyable things about the holidays: reacquainting yourself with packed-away treasures.  This quilt took me about half a year to make, but I…

  • Season of Hope

    A little treasure of hope to start off your Christmas season, from a poem by Sarah Kay.

  • Quilt Frolic is Almost to Her Party

    Okay.  As I bemoaned mentioned to Cindy, my Quilting Mojo has been in short supply lately, whether it be the rejection from Road or post-trip let-down or the stacks and stacks of grading that…

  • Purl Soho

    In New York City, everything is at they say it is.  If they say it’s grand and wonderful and amazing, it is. (It is.)  If they say to pronounce Houston, as in Houston Street,…

  • No use wondering anymore

    This was in my email box when I got home from New York City.  In triplicate. Dear Elizabeth, Thank you for submitting your entry, Come A-Round, to be considered by the jury for the…

  • A Little Reading, A Little Traveling

    I ordered several books off of Amazon, and have been enjoying them a little each night.  Here’s my latest two.  I’m still paying homage to them for my Come A-Round quilt, which was their…

  • FSF–Autumn Quilt

    I just finished sewing this together, and smoothed back up on the wall to do the next step: audition borders.  Those blocks have been orphaned on my wall for nearly a month now, so…

  • Quilt Night for November 2011

    Quilt Night was over at Jean’s house this month.  And guess what?  It was just Jean and I there–we chatted and visited, talked about how we met our husbands (we’re both in second marriages),…

  • WIP–Wonky Log Cabin Christmas Blocks

    After a week of home improvement and grading, I just had to break out and slice up some fabric. Turned out to be some Christmas fabrics I’d stashed in the Christmas Fabrics drawer (how…

  • FSF–Halloween House

    At long last.  After the holiday.  In time for next year: Binding on and stitched down.  Label is coming. . . later. . .as are most things in my life right now.  We’re in…

  • Just Painting

    I’ve not been quilting, because we’ve been painting the house.  Back soon. Read more *here,* especially the wearying story of Choosing the Colors.  Right now I’m working on the front door color and am…

  • Flourish of Inspiration

    I recently started reading blogs again after an interruption of our trip to Montreal, and enjoyed looking at everyone’s projects and writing.  But I often wonder if by “enclosing” myself in this online community…

  • Bloggers Quilt Festival-Fall 2011

    All is Safely Gathered In Original Design When I was a young mother I moaned to MY mother about how I never got anything done.  The laundry always piled up;  sometimes as quickly I…

  • FSF–Halloween House Quilt Top

    I’m sliding this in here on a Friday night just so I could say I finished something quilty. Yep, it’s the Halloween House, all pinned up and ready for quilting, where I: 1) learned…

  • Pins and Needles

    I couldn’t stand it anymore.  I had to look up my entries on Road’s entry page to see what was going on, and this was AFTER they’d extended the deadline by 10 days because…

  • Halloween House Quilt Block

    Finally getting back to these little houses, after being gone to Montreal for a few days, then stuck in the Grading Galaxy when I returned.  I could make lists of the things I’m working…

  • Light in the Crook of Shadows

    Fall’s come to the bedroom. I like to change up the quilt at the bottom of my bed every once in a while away from the standard blue one-patch that usually resides there.  And…

  • Orvieto, Austria and Quilting Designs

    I’ve been working on posting to our travel blog (The TraveledMind.com) some photos from a trip we took to Italy in 2007 (I know, I know).  And given that my last post was about…