Blog Index

  • 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…

  • Machine Quilting: WIP

    I’m still quilting along on this one, a quilt that seems to go on forever.  Perhaps it’s because I decided to quilt it all very close together.  Generally I don’t like this for a…

  • Funnies

    I spent most of yesterday–the Fourth of July quilting.  Pedal-to-the-metal type quilting.  Red-Pepper-Quilts-type quilting.  But first, I put in two tomato plants, some basil and some herbs.  That’s pretty funny to do it on…

  • Happy Fourth of July!

    More on this quilt, *here*. I’m adding this to my 100 Quilts list (above).

  • Half the Sky

    I mentioned at the end of the last post, that I’d listened to this book while working on my Red/White Quilt Squares. This is a difficult, yet sobering book, to listen to or to…

  • FSF–Red/White Blocks, plus a few thoughts

    You know how it is at the beginning of summer?  It’s like I face an unmarked calendar, and I make plans galore.  I want to sew this, design that, finish this, quilt that, and…

  • WIP–Red/White Blocks, Etc.

    It’s Work In Progress Wednesday! Nothing fancy today–just the red/white squares for my mini-challenge.  Three are in, and I need to get these made and sent off to those who have already finished.  Thanks,…

  • Traveling

    I’ve been in Washington, DC this past week, visiting friends.  My sister joined me for one day (one MUGGY day) so we stayed in the National Gallery of Art for the most part, taking…

  • Munich’s Garden Gate

    Because the experts always say to have a better chance of accomplishing a goal, I have started thinking each week what I want to finish.  I realized that this week, because my red fabric…

  • First Quilt Ever

    Sometimes it’s wise to pause in the headlong rush to completion and busyness and take stock of where you are before you jump off the cliff again, and summer is often a good time…

  • Churn Dash

    The first block is finished from the Red/White Challenge! Sara finished up her Churn Dash block and sent it to me, and she was very happy to have completed her square (she’s a beginning…

  • Lollypop Tree Block Three

    Yep–I made it to Friday!  Here’s Lollypop Tree Block Three, on a yellow check.  I’m discovering that the more I do these, and am familiar with the different swoops and swirls of the fabric…

  • Quilter’s Coop, Temecula California

    Last week I went for a little field trip and visited this shop in downtown Temecula California.  It’s Quilter’s Coop, and I had a great time there. Joann, shown here helping a customer, is…

  • Quilt Label

    What am I working on today? Quilt Labels! I used to be very diligent about getting labels on all my quilts, but somewhere between the last child getting off to college and grad school…

  • Quilt Sleeve

    Notice no computer on the computer desk, although my father’s painting of a valley in Utah is still there.  I’m computer-dependent.  I like the web–it’s my friend and occasionally my enemy (Time-Sucking Enemy) but…

  • Sun, Falling Into Sea

    A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I happened on a book of Chinese Window Screen Designs. A fan of anything repetitive or gridded, I was hooked. But I wanted to…

  • Finishing School Friday

    No, not THAT kind of finishing school, but the kind where you get something done–something that won’t be UN-done, and say “Yay!  I finished something!” I told my husband that I needed to go…

  • Red & White Challenge

    Yesterday I wrote about Temecula Quilt Co and how the owner has a Red and White Challenge going on. {Details are •here•}  Bring your Red and White Quilt into the shop by September 15th,…

  • Temecula Quilt Company, California

    Note: if you are looking for the Red/White Challenge, it is the next post! Monday.  A very pretty Monday at that, just the thing for a little field trip. Intrigued by their Red/White Quilter’s…

  • Cross and X Quilt Block

    In my last post I talked about Zombie Quilt Night.  Well, at least that’s how I felt. So, in exploring my really overwhelming list of blogs in my Google Reader, I began to see…

  • SewDay with Judy

    Last week we had Quilt Night at our house, and yesterday (since all the tables and ironing stations were still set up), a friend came over to quilt since she couldn’t make Quilt Night. …

  • Lollypop Trees Block Two

    Before. After! Thoughts so far: My block number one is Kim McClean’s block number two , as numbered in her pattern. My block number two is her number three. It took me about a…

  • Lollypop Tree–Block One

    One down!  Who Knows How Many to go! How I did the machine applique: You saw the earlier post on preparing the pieces: freezer paper lightly glued to the back of the fabric with…

  • Red, White & Blue Quilt

    On Memorial Day, I put on the earrings I’d purchased in Washington, DC ages and ages ago on the 4th of July. And we walk over to our main boulevard, about half a mile…