Blog Index

  • Quilt Night–June version

    So why did we have June’s Quilt Night in May?  Next Friday is the last day of school for most of the teachers in our group, so we thought by jumping it ahead we…

  • Gone Fishin’

    Not really, but I just returned from a family reunion in Zion National Park in Southern Utah.  This was just after the rainstorm, and the Watchman Mountain was reflected in a puddle.  It is…

  • Lollypop, Lollypop

    I have struggled to find time to work on this quilt this week.  It wasn’t that there weren’t the hours, but that it was a struggle.  I just was a bit mentally worn out…

  • Quilt Festival Entry 2011

    Welcome to those who clicked over from the Blogger’s Quilt Festival! Heart’s-ease I made began this quilt in a class from Ruth McDowell.  For those who have taken her classes, you know you only…

  • Sewing ADHD

    I’m convinced I have sewing ADHD.  Yes–in all likelihood I could easily be diagnosed with this myself, or so say some of my relatives.  But I’m so easily distracted now by all the possible…

  • Spring/Life’s Alive–Finished!

    I received my quilt back from the quilter and stitched on the binding.  Foyle’s War, Season Three, was my visual entertainment while I stitched it down.  I’ve been using it on my bed at…

  • Lollypop Trees

    While some think it takes courage to climb Mt. Everest (and yes, I agree), it also takes courage to finally open the Lollypop Trees pattern by Kim McLean and admit that yes, it’s time…

  • Going Coastal Fabric Collection

    Emily Herrick of Little Old Ladies fame, has designed a new collection of fabric.  Usually I’m a scrappy, find a piece-here-and-there sort of quilter, but I am quite taken with this line.  She has…

  • Spring Is Sprung

    Spring’s here, and in Southern California that means hot weather has arrived–like in the 80s and 90s.  So it’s  perfect day to get a call from my quilter. . . . . . telling…

  • This Quilt Is A Mess

    Whooey!  Another tempest in a quilting teapot! (And this quilting disaster–explained at the very end!) I love all this controversy.  I love that we are talking about quilt issues, digging our hands deep in…

  • RedWhite–Painting

    I’ve been gone to see my mother and father (he had an art show of his paintings) in Utah.  While I was there, I took the chance to download the recent red and white…

  • Visual Snapshots

    Are you like me?  Do you see something and either take a snap with your cell phone, or madly sketch out the idea on the back of a gas station receipt?  It’s like we’re…

  • Red/White Quilt Inspirations

    I recently wrote to a new friend: This evening I was looking at the red/white quilt exhibit in that was recently put on in NYC.  My mother has an iPad, so I downloaded the…

  • Text on Textiles

    Just voted on Spoonflower again!  There were a lot of fabrics that I liked, so there are more in my square of votes today. Sometimes I see these fabrics and I wish I had…

  • Blog Strolling

    I had a few minutes this morning to do some blog strolling–looking around, clicking on links, letting my browsing take me where it will. (Oh, yeah, and I changed the look of the blog…

  • Naming Quilts

    I like the idea of naming my quilts–call it the Eve in me–but I don’t name everything. I read a blog post about someone who named their electronics and I like the idea, but…

  • Spoonflower Fabrics

    I just voted over at Spoonflower for my favorite fabrics in this week’s contest: rain.  I also had fun looking at their Project Selvage contestants.  For those of you who haven’t known about Spoonflower,…

  • Come A-Round, top complete

    A happy day!

  • Spring Quilt

    After working on the bold colors and patterns of Come A-Round, I have to say that this was a big change, fabric-wise.  As I mentioned, I’m using the line Sunkissed, and it is predominantly…

  • Whose Design Is It Anyway?

    I wrote yesterday about my Spring Quilt, but in the writing, I realized I had another post about how we come up with our designs, and the tangled strands of the World Wide Web. …

  • Spring Quilt

    So I was just minding my business when my car turned into the local quilt shop’s parking lot on the way home from school (Calico Horse, in Redlands, California).  It had been a bad…

  • American Folk Art: Red & White Quilts

    Apparently there is an incredible exhibit of red and white quilts.  Judging from this photo it might give the viewer a sense of having tumbled down the rabbit hole and is now gazing upon…

  • Recent Acquisitions to the Elizabeth Stash

    I’ve made some recent acquisitions from Fabricworm. This caught my eye, and I bought it not really understanding that it was printed on a heavier cotton–almost a twill.  But I think the theme of…

  • Quilting World Shake-Up

    Okay, so I’ve been absent from the blogosphere for a while, minding my own business, just stitching along doing my applique for this crazy project I got myself into.  And it’s going along very…

  • Looky! Part II

    Yep, it’s Looky! Part II.  Applique is all done (obviously by the gap between posts, it’s evident that I’m not a quick appliquer), and I’m ready to attach the two side borders.  One of…

  • Deep in the Trenches & Twined Thread

    Or rows of flowers, as the case may be. It’s winter, so that means some sort of flu bug or sickness will find its way to me.  So, I sat on the sofa and…

  • Looky!

    One side pinned down. Sort of.  There’s always changes. (I can already see a couple I want to make.) This after I complained to my mother that I hadn’t had any time to work…