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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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