Happy 2024 to you! Today I celebrate 31 wonderful years of quilting. Onward and upward!
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One of my oldest UFOs is ready for gifting!
I mentioned to someone recently that I am a great starter, but finishing this quilt makes me feel like I can tackle all those projects waiting in The Bins.
I talked about this quilt in a post a year ago. I got the top assembled, pieced the backing, and packed it up in anticipation of The Move.
More about the quilt—when I owned a quilt shop, we were contacted by Rhonda Dieker, the author of and designer of the quilts in the book “Wacky Rails.” She was doing a book ...
read moreIn August I had the privilege of two Girlfriends volunteering to get my studios in shape. Katrina and Cindy came over and weeded through the studio paraphernalia and got me to a state of Nirvana. I don’t have much in the way of before photos, but here are a few from the first 4 months in our new home:
Front Studio |
Front Studio |
Back Studio |
Front Studio |
Back Studio |
We had no plan of attack other than to get it done. Katrina arrived that Friday afternoon and we started emptying all of ...
read more…and I made it!
And HI THERE! I know it’s been a while. Life, and all that. There’s a lot to catch up on and I will be making a few posts here and there. Yes, we have moved into our new home and we are still getting settled. I promise I’ll get you all caught up. But first, I want to talk about patterns:
I have purchased many patterns during my quilting life. I have sold or re-homed many patterns, too. I’m trying my best to not purchase patterns on impulse—and that’s hard ...
read moreJust a bit more progress.
I played with the placement of blocks around the center panel. Once I was happy, I left it all on the design wall to marinate.
A couple of weeks later I thought, “what if the center panel wasn ...
There are many reasons why I only had 3 blog posts last year. I posted a few times on Instagram, but not much more than here.
Even without the pandemic, life took some crazy turns for us in 2020. Hubs and I made decisions regarding our future, and I had to make some decisions regarding my work life.
Due to work life, school took a back seat. I dropped the classes I had enrolled in that would have started mid-January 2020; the workload ramped up that same week. Over a year later, I’m working from home 11-12 hours per ...
read moreI call them Christmas makes, but they're more like "just because" makes...
...because I didn't start them until after Christmas.
Not to run on about how much I wasn't able to make last year, but I didn't make anyone a thing for Christmas. I made a hot pad in early December and took absolutely no joy in it. So now we have a new hot pad (well, I still have to sew down the loop), and while I would normally feel a tremendous amount of guilt for NOT making Christmas gifts (for my kids), this past ... read more
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