Month: March 2015

  • A Finish, A Cake & Some Doodling

    Happy Friday! We made it!! This week I finished up the dreidel quilt that will be the second of two mini quilts in a new pattern for Hanukkah. This dreidel mini quilt along with the menorah mini quilt will be offered as a pattern in a few weeks. I just have to type it and […]

  • Monday Progress & Screen Time

    Last night and this morning I made some progress on my hour glass quilt that will be the raffle quilt for the music school in June. I got all the rows sewn together. In the next few weeks I’ll be basting, quilting and binding this one. I didn’t enjoy making this as much as I […]

  • Leaving The Orchard

    I’ve left the orchard. The Apple iPhone orchard that is! I took the leap over to a new Galaxy…the Samsung Galaxy Note 4! And it’s quite different in many ways. The phone itself is really a phablet which is the larger style that is in between a cell phone size and a table size. I […]

  • The Value Question

    The following article was posted by Morna McEver on her blog. Morna is the founder and CEO of the International Association of Creative Arts Professionals. I follow her blog and occasionally dial in to some of her free conference calls on running a craft business. I think she’s highly insightful and I would love someday […]

  • And She’s Done! A Finish.

    The Lindsey Project was started last year after I read about Susan Carlson’s method of painting a quilt not with paint but with fabric. It seemed like a fun way to explore a new technique and a great way to capture one of my favorite Lindsey moments when she was young and we were in […]

  • Counting Hexies

    Yesterday I spent two hours in the waiting room of the dentist while Amanda had her appointment. I brought along my Earlene Fowler book and my little box of hexagon English paper piecing. The waiting room was very quiet, a bit too warm, a bit dim and quietly playing on the TV was Caribbean House […]

  • Stitching Away

    I’m making some progress on the quilting of The Lindsey Project! Still have a ways to go but it feels good to be progressing!

  • Over Dye Trial

    Last week I saw information on over dyeing commercial black and white fabrics in a few places. I thought it was really neat that you could take some black and white fabric and turn it into something completely brand new with some time and some dyes. Yesterday I set out to give it a try. […]

  • A Wee Bit Of Progress

    I made some progress on my art quilt that I call The Lindsey Project. I finished up the gluing of the little pieces and got the whole thing off the design wall and basted. So it went from this… to basically this… Once I finished gluing the background, I took it off the wall and […]