I am not usually the kind of quilter who joins any quilting project around. In fact, I rarely participate in these kinds of things. Mostly, it is because I have so many ideas in my own head that I want to explore, I can't figure...
I am lucky to belong to three sewing groups. One of them gets together every other week, one every month and the other probably six or seven times a year.Last night was a meeting of the one we call our UFO Club. You...
A brief detour from quilts:For many years, I have made my girls' Halloween costumes and had a great time doing it. We had a ritual. Every year, in early September I would start asking them what they wanted to be. They would always go through...
As mentioned in yesterday's post, I love to see the same design in different colors. I first designed and made this quilt pattern in Spring 2008. I hand appliqued and hand quilted it. I love the serene, soft spring day feeling it gives me....
I had probably been quilting about three years when I stumbled across The Modern Quilt Workshop by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr of Fun Quilts. I was in the process of trying to figure out what kinds of quilts I wanted to make. I...
I am lucky that I have a room in my house dedicated to sewing. One of my favorite things in my sewing room is my design wall! I can't emphasize how much it helps me to be able to spread my quilts out and look...
Just a quick shot of what I have been working on this weekend.A friend GAVE me her EQ5 program earlier this year when she bought a Mac. She asked me to design some quilts for her church group to make as prayer quilts. It has...
On Tuesday I went with a group of quilting friends to Shipshewana, IN. For those of you not from this area, Shipshewana is a small town in northern Indiana with a large Amish population. They have two OUTSTANDING places to buy fabric.I use this phrase...
There is so much exciting and interesting activity going on out there in blogland, I decided I had to give it a try! I am an obsessed quilter!! So this blog will be about quilts - mostly the quilts I make, but also about...