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It’s been such a long while since I was last able to meet with my wonderful friends in the Cotton Quilters’ Guild. Precisely July of 2022! I really missed them all and, apparently, they also missed me. Not surprisingly, I definitely felt the love! Everyone, it seemed, had a Show and Tell item. Including me …
Today I finished my latest quilt, Citrus Sherbert. Luckily, I took photos along the way. I’ve been wanting to write about my process. It’s time to document it, afterall. I generally pull fabrics based on the colors I’ve decided on. For this quilt, I thought I’d work with yellows and oranges. Of course, I am …
Imagine that! I actually loaded a quilt onto the longarm, quilted it, and have removed it. All that’s left are the binding and label. YooHoo! It’s really exciting for me because I haven’t really quilted since I started this sweet job at the local Catholic school. I’ve enjoyed my time here, but I promised one …
Since my last post here, I’ve been trying to get myself moving again. I can’t let these middle schoolers beat me. They are just kids, afterall, and I’m a young 62. Where do they get the energy? A couple of grandkids running around is nothing in comparison to a roomful. Anyway, I started this top …
Our neice recently had a baby. She and her husband knew early into the pregnancy that the baby had little chance of surviving to full term. Though they saw doctor after doctor, no one was able to help them. They lost little Asher only an hour after he was born. A few days later she …
Perhaps you remember that my sister, Cookie, is in the nursing home about 20 minutes drive from my house. She suffers from dementia, perhaps Alzhemiers but we’re not certain. Since I have been visiting for the last year or so, I’ve gotten to know some of the staff, especially Connie who answers questions, checks in …
Welcome to PIW, the week of red and white quilts! I have over 60 quilts on the “red and white” section of my “heart, quilts” board. This is just a small taste. Apologies, I was not able to find information on these last two, but they are too pretty to not include. Of course, choosing …
Making HSTs is really quite easy. I can’t begin to count how many I’ve made over the years, and I always use this process. It’s just too simple to consider changing. These directions will give you one HST block. I wrote this tutorial in 2012 when I made this quilt for a student who was …
An entire herd of unicorns came through my living room this past week. I discovered a unicorn pattern online and in less than a minute decided that I had to make one for Milly. She loves unicorns and insists on a unicorn story every time I offer to tell one. Ryder is into big trucks …
I joined in a round robin with the Baton Rouge MQG guild. This quilt is titled “The Four Seasons of Improv.” Since everyone before me used improv and a bit of black for definition, I took that and ran. Haha, I ran with the idea. I crawled with the execution. I learned many “what not …
