Blog Index

  • Checkerboard Border

    Been one of those weeks when I’ve felt more wobbly than usual for some reason, so everything’s been on Slo-Mo.  That’s slow-motion.  But today I woke up without a headache and headed to Free-Mo. …

  • FSF–Oddities and Endities

    Okay, gettin’ creative here at 9:37 at night.  Does it count for a Friday finish, if you finish it at the end of a Friday? Hope so. What I finished today: Grading 23 MLA…

  • WIP–New Projects

    Lee!  The ever fabulous Lee! has hosted us all, once again, on her blog Freshly Pieced.  Many thanks! I always seem to have billions of things I want to quilt, to sew, but somehow…

  • Don’t Just Do Something. . .Stand There

    The title of this post is taken from an LA Times article of the same name, and it extols the idea of “down time,” or “space time,” or “staring at the wall and watching…

  • FSF–Shopping Bag/Tote

    Finally!!  Something to show for Finishing School Friday.  I was despairing of ever having something to show again, as school has started and I’ve been slammed with busyness.  Today was the first day I’ve…

  • WIP–Red/White Table Runner

    Even though my week was somewhat stalled, due to Lack of Personal Energy (that even chocolate and caffeine couldn’t fix), I did force myself to some progress on the Red/White Challenge blocks.  I wanted…

  • Springville Quilt Show, Part II

    Again, so sorry not to have lots of interesting information for the quilters.  Our dead desktop computer has gone to the shop (cue: violins) and we’ll find out if our fancy back-up external hard…

  • Springville Quilt Show, Part I

    When I was in Utah last week, I slipped down to the Springville Art Museum for their annual quilt show.  They have quite a reputation, and for those who are juried in, the honor…

  • Slow Saturday

    I felt like I’d spent the week inside a front-loading washer, going round and round, getting soggier and more wrung out by the minute.  And this was a pretty okay week, really.  Good visits…

  • WIP–Details, Details

    Thanks to Lee, of Freshly Pieced for hosting this forum. Coming home from vacation is such an interesting feeling.  I read your blogs and your comments on Facebook and you seem to slide from…

  • Squiggles, AKA, Stipples

    It all started with this video, which I saw on Boing Boing: It reminded me of quilting.  Of our famous all-over squiggle quilting, AKA, “The Stipple.”  But the gal in the video goes on…

  • Summer To-Do List

    Make Quilts–check My parents, Dave and I, our children and our grandchildren My parents and most of their posterity Family Reunion–check Yellowstone National Park–check More family days–check Quilt Show–check Now I need to work…

  • Lyon Carolings

    The mad summer of sewing quilts has come to an end.  I found the list of quilts I’d made at the beginning of my time away from the classroom, and “French Quilt” was on…

  • Family Tree

    I really shouldn’t let this quilt show its face in the quilt world.  Really, it has that many problems.  But sometimes these quilts are fun to look and to remind myself of how far…

  • National Park/Anniversary Quilt

    The first time I went camping as an adult was with my intended husband, my Dave.  His brother and sister and their children, and Dave and I and my four children all packed up…

  • Southern Brights–FSF

    This is my son Matthew and his wife, Kim.  Sometimes she likes to be called Kimberly.  Other times it’s just Kim.  She’s a bright and sunny personality of a gal, and easily matches my…

  • Cowgirls Write Letters

    My husband and I lived for a year in Washington, D.C. while he did his sabbatical at the Department of State.  (That’s what they call it.  Most of the rest of us just call…

  • Doing Nothing But Making A Mess

    This is WIP Wednesday, hosted by Lee of Freshly Pieced Quilts, who is fabulous and writes us all a thank-you note for posting.  My mother and grandmother salute you, Lee!  (As do I.) Let’s…

  • Come A-Round: Finishing School Friday

    Come A-Round is finished.  This has lived in our house under many names: Crop Circles, Dotty Quilt, Elizabeth’s Masterpiece, That Quilt.  But its real name is Come A-Round. *This* is how I came up…

  • RedWhite–AUSTRALIA

    How fun is this?  The mail lady rang my doorbell and gave me this lovely package all the way from Australia.  I practically grabbed it out of her hands. And look what was inside–these…

  • WIP–Lyon Carolings

    Welcome to WIP Wednesday, hosted by Lee of Freshly Pieced Quilts. Lyon, what? you are saying?  Lyon Carolings.  That’s my work in progress for today.The title comes from the name of the church–Carolingian–in Lyon,…

  • All Is Safely Gathered In–FSF

    Okay, before the large picture of the quilt, get a load of this quote: “Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge,…

  • Sew Modern Quilt Shop

    Yesterday my friend and I went to LA to see the fabric district, and also went to the far side of LA to visit a new shop in town: Sew Modern Quilt Shop. It…

  • WIP–What About That Quilting?

    Thanks, Lee! and here we go again.  To return to Freshly Pieced, click *here.* Q: What do you call a quilt that is pieced, quilted, bound–but no label? A: Work In Progress, I guess. …

  • Mailbox Suprise

    Look what came to my mailbox today–all the way from Canada! Sue’s Red/White Challenge Square! She wrote about this on her blog (scroll down).  Only two more squares to go.  Thank you to all…

  • Ironing Board Cover

    Okay, it was time. So I Googled “ironing board cover” because I wanted to have the glorious experience of making my own cover.  I’m not a fan of the silvery metallic covers.  I don’t…

  • FSF–Quilts Galore

    Finishing School Friday, and I’m beat! This week I finished the quilting on the Still-To-Be-Named Quilt (I have some ideas, though), put the binding on that one in a straight bind, not a running…