I started the hand-quilting on the spaceship quilt and managed two finishes last week. The first is a Schoolhouse tabletopper. It was the first project of 2015 with my quilting partner, ShaRee. She has a book with a zillion table topper patterns and … [Continue reading] about Latest quilting adventures & accidents
Look what arrived in the mail yesterday from Canada! I am the winner of the Riedel Fascination Gentle Spectrums Reading Challenge that ran Feb 2014-Feb 2015! Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner! So my cyber-friend, Carolyn, sent me these books in UK … [Continue reading] about A prize in the mail
I've been busy so far this year working on my One Little Word, EMBRACE. I spent all of February focusing on re-lighting my love of scrapbooking by participating in an annual event I've wanted to do for several years called LOAD. The purpose is to … [Continue reading] about First quarter 2015
Remember how I said we were considering skipping around on the blocks in order to leave all the applique blocks to the end but decided to just be brave and go in order? Well, that brought us to block #4 and the first of the applique blocks. I had … [Continue reading] about Ode to the 1930’s-blocks #4 & 5
After our first block, we were a teensy bit aggravated at the pattern. It's awesome, but the designer mostly cuts squares into triangles and sews them together. This causes stretching on the bias and wonky squares, and doesn't utilize all the quick … [Continue reading] about Ode to the 1930’s-blocks #2 & 3