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This and That • April 2022
Yes, actually, I did have a March and I made these Gridster Bee blocks for Bren Moore. She had a hand-drawn sketch for us to use, and although I looked for it, couldn’t find…
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Bystander, Bifurcated: Home Again
Like my life recently, this is a bifurcated post. It has forked, diverged, split, branched, split, zig-zagged and divaricated. First a visual reminder: Notice anything on this Index in the Year 2022? Nope, me…
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The Tale of the Chess Bag
It all began when summer weather came early, and summer weather always calls for a summer purse. The Chess Bag was a kit I picked up at Road to California from a booth run…
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Confessions of a former FPP Hater
Newly arrived in a bee in 2013, this was my first attempt at foundation paper-piecing, or FPP for short. The Queen Bee had sent the fabric in graduated-sizes of strips; the cloth was finite…
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Writing Poetry
The famous and prolific writer Joyce Carol Oates was once asked, “What do you do when you finish a novel?” “I’m spent,” she said. “Can’t write another word of fiction. So I turn to…
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Teeny Quilt for St. Patrick’s Day
May your pockets be heavy, and your heart be light;May good luck pursue you each morning and night. And may you have a few a minutes to stitch yourself up a little Teeny Quilt…
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Heart’s Garden • Mystery QAL Part 3
This month is what I call a supporting month in the Heart’s Garden Mystery QAL. Of course you can figure out that flowers will be planted here next go-round, and so you’ll keep that…
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Appliqué
I just made a little video about machine appliqué that you can find on YouTube (click above image to watch). It’s not glamorous, I’m not an expert, but most of the important technique about…
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Adding To Do Items onto a To Do List
So many organizational systems do not account for a trip to the fabric store, where immediately I have to reshuffle, re-prioritize not only my To Do List, but also my sewing room. I have…
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Tannenbaum Top Finished!
Quilt Bio: Not Yet Named or Quilted or given a number in the Quilt IndexCurrent size is roughly 84″ x 95″Top only is completed; taking it to my quilter this week Anguish Level–Center: The…
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Heart’s Garden • Mystery QAL Part 2
Here we go again, this time for Part 2 of Heart’s Garden. How did I arrive at this design? I thought I was going to go for a whole quilt of EPP circles, yes…
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This and That • February 2022 • Sticky Issues
It’s February, so I’m leading with hearts…quilted hearts. My first finish for February, and it seems, like the whole of 2022. The sludge I’m walking through these days seems to be rather marshy and…
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Road to California • Part III (final)
Do I start with the stellar and then move to the sort of interesting? Or, do I lead with the one that everyone breezed through, and finish with the exhibit where everyone lingered? I’ll…
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Road to California 2022 • Part II
Road Two of Road to California Quilts. You may want to do this in two bites, but we still have Part III coming, focusing on some specialty exhibits (it’s shorter). Click on any image…
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Road to California 2022 • Part I
My friend Laurel and I headed up to Road to California 2022 Tuesday afternoon, one hour earlier than the “VIP” admissions. We know this show often has slow check-ins and we wanted to get…
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Heart’s Garden Sew-A-Long
I received a stack of fat eighths as a gift from my friend Sherri last fall, from her new line of Sincerely Yours, and the question of what to do with this yummy range…
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The History of Bees
Well, my bees, at least. I recently stepped down from leadership of the Gridsters Bee, but Melanie and Patti (listed alpha order) are the new leaders, and they let me tag along and help…
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Happy Old Year Ending 2021
All the smartie pants people who Know Stuff say we’ll be shuffling through covid for quite some time, and that we just need to practice keeping going. So my usual at this time of…
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Merry Christmas 2021
There’s a great line that’s been rattling around in my head lately: “You know, I believe we have two lives. The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.” It’s…
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Pieced Quilter Ladies: Twelve Ladies Dancing
Aren’t these fun?? Here are my Lady Quilter Blocks, wonky, funny, off-kilter. My early quilter-self would have been aghast, but I love them all. One more is coming. I love the differences, the similarities,…
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Tannenbaum, in construction
Many years ago, my mother stayed up all night on the 24th of December, worried that the child she was carrying would actually come on the due date of Christmas Eve. Who would help…
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Autumn Leaves • PatternLite
Confession: I got caught up in Fall Color. A few particular trees in Southern California and even the leaves on my wisteria arbor are turning yellow, getting ready to drop. In addition, we put…
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Decorating Tannenbaum
In December 2019, in the Before Times, my friend Laurel and I got together and in two days of mad sewing finished this top . I hung it on a hanger, hoping to make…
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A Tiny Spritz of Elements • Quilt Finish • This and That: Nov 2021
A Tiny Spritz of Elements • Quilt #259 in my Quilt Index21″ square So my husband asked me if this was another pillow. He has a point, as that seems the size I can…
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Crossed Lillies, Riverside Sawtooth, and Halloween
Although the title has three subjects and in a particular order, I’m going to reverse them, starting now. We need a Halloween quilt and this one, made by Tracy Cox using my Sun and…
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Pumpkins • Quilt Finish
My first memory of a Halloween party was the time my brothers and sisters, parents and I all lived in an old home out in Sudbury, Massachusetts. It was rented to us by Longfellow’s…
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Mister Pumpkin
Sometimes I really don’t like our season-less world. I walked through Target last week, looking for some orange Halloween lights. Okay, I know some of you are laughing hysterically out there. Halloween Lights? They…
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