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Richard and I are Catholic, so we celebrate All Saints Day (November 2nd) by cleaning the graves of family members and placing new flowers on each one. We’ve helped his mom to do this for the last several years. I promised her we will continue this tradition as long as we are physically able. Ironically, […]
Flowers Are New but Cheating with Greenery Read More »
It’s been fun and educational and sometimes a little wild, but I am officially finished with the Block of the Month event. Both of my quilts are complete. They even have labels! Not that this is the last I’ll write about it: I still want to write about the quilting on each quilt. This first
And the Improv BoM is a Wrap! Read More »
It’s the first Monday! That almost always means a Cotton Quilters Meeting. Whew! What a workout! Sure, I’m president, so there’s that, but today Pam and I were in charge of lunch. She decided to have her husband, Derek, make a pot of spaghetti. Now, for most of us that means enough for perhaps ten
Cotton Quilters Raise the Bar Read More »
It’s been 3 weeks since Richard’s hip replacement surgery. I haven’t been in the sewing room much, but I have been quite the movie buff, a physical therapist tech, a chauffeur, chief cook and bottle-washer, and worn a few other hats, though I can’t remember them now. My poor fella has been in lots of
And the Days Go On… Read More »
Yay! Despite not having an opportunity to work on my quilt top last week, I’ve managed to finish it up this week. I’ll load it on the longarm tomorrow (hopefully) and get started with the quilting. I’m excited to get going on this one. I’ve decided to quilt using feathers all over the quilt. It’s
Second Improv BoM Quilt Top Complete Read More »
I know, I know. All the details get a blog post. Well, yeah, because while I’m awfully busy, there’s not much to write about. I did spend the morning downloading photos of the quilts on Pinterest, then uploading them to a post so that eventually I’ll have a portfolio on this blog. But an hour
And the quilting is done on one improv BOM top Read More »
I taught my first class for the new “Grow Your Garden” workshop. We had a full day for playing, learning, and quilting. And we did it all! We started class talking about improv and applique and looking at class samples. Then we chose background fabrics and moved on to finding favorite patterns from my pattern
And you thought you wanted this class Read More »
That’s right. One is finished! And it’s the difficult one. Here’s the thing: we weren’t talking, the quilt and I. For a while, it seemed that we wouldn’t be able to even chat. Take a look at our conversation: At first I had this disaster above. A big jumble of big blocks that I didn’t
One BOM Quilt Top Finish! Read More »
Hello Again! Thank you for visiting! I’m super excited about the August block. I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed designing it. You’ll see that I had to work through a few ideas. I’ll show you photos and tell you why I didn’t make more of that particular block. In the “kitchen
Improv Block of the Month — August’s Box in a Box Read More »
Live has been a little busy. Summer is always busy with the kids out of school. There are many activities and a couple of quilt shows to attend. It’s finally that time of summer to begin thinking of going back. Most of our grands are just about ready. The moms shopped with and without the
Hairbands and Quilt Shows and a Bit of Sewing Read More »
