Blog Index

  • 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…

  • Good to Be At This Place

    I finally decided on the blue inner border and a glorious blossoming orange and yellow mum border.  My husband calls this the red dot phase and so it is–trying to figure out where to…

  • Choices

    Concentrate on those outer borders: the ones separated by the thin dark green strip. Now, what have you learned?  That watching someone trying to figure out a quilt is more boring than watching paint…

  • Research

    Okay, so I did what any self-respecting woman with a computer and fast internet connection would do: I searched the web for other variations of this quilt.  First up: Google with 217 pages (about…

  • Quilt. Not. Working

    In any quilter’s life, there is a point where the quilt is not working.  You can zip along in your creative automobile at a fabulous pace, then it’s like someone reached over, turned off…