Our oldest daughter’s former college roommate asked me to make a memory quilt from her mother’s tee shirt collection. Of course, I agreed. How could I not, she is like another daughter to us. I didn’t want the typical memory … Continue reading
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I finished the book. I won't go into details if someone is going to read it. While I found it depressing, it was a depressing time with the war, the Halifax explosion, and the Spanish flu! So I get it, and I'm glad I read the book to the end.
However, as I said, the next book would be funny! Oh my!!! It's called Nobody Wants Your Sh*t by Messie Condo. Oh my --- there is a LOT of swearing in the book, particularly the F-bomb, but if you look past that, this author touches on EVERY ...
read moreOK—so what do you do when the book you're listening to is depressing? The book is "When the World Fell Silent," by Donna Jones Alward, and it is about the Halifax explosion (1917) when they were in the midst of a war. I totally get that times were tough. Many people died in the war, the explosion, and the Spanish flu. It just seemed that the two women in the book were saddled with EVERY possible calamity. Even the prologue foreshadowed terrible things.
I hate abandoning a book, so I persevered. I'm now down to one hour ...
read moreThanks for the tips on magazines! And yes, while I love them, I rarely make anything from them. Not that I don't want to, but in the quilting circle of life, I do NOT need another project on my plate. I'll leave those for the newbies!
So, I downloaded the most recent Quick + Easy Quilts issue onto my iPad (through the Libby app) and browsed. OK—so I did NOT browse. If I'm going to read a magazine, I like to read it cover to cover. Don't ask me why, don't ask me to change ...
read moreI finished listening to that supernatural audiobook this morning. OK, so it's a bit farfetched, but it's supernatural, so of course that's going to happen. I'm done, and I will choose the next book wisely!
I also finished the physical book I was reading, and although I vowed NOT to pick up another book, I have another audiobook due in several days, so while I putter in Studio B, I'll listen to that. And I picked from my shelves a Nonfiction book, which slows me down! So all is good! I NEED to have a ...
read moreOh my --- I may have "wasted" some free time last week, and today will be a scramble to get all the stuff prepped for tomorrow morning!
Yesterday was super productive, but I can't share anything yet with you. It was a good day, though, and I learned a ton.
Let's chat about the UFO club. Despite the three-month hiatus since our last meeting, everyone stayed pretty productive, and lots and lots were accomplished. Few unhappy faces were handed out!
I want to share this photo of one of the attendees' quilts with you. It was made by Linda ...
read moreThis quilt was inspired by my Guilty Pleasures t-shirt quilt that I made for myself, and the Star Wars t-shirt quilt, but this one is for my oldest.
I quilted this in 40wt Glide thread in an all-over sort of waves and Supernatural Logo inspired wavy star that he just loved when he saw it. I ...
A Few More Blocks
FMQ both the sashing and the t-shirts |
FMQ feathers in the sashing and loops on the sweatshirt |
Quilt top finished
Making a runner
Nine months out of the year I am an intervention RTI teacher but in the summer months I am a full time quilter. I sew as much as I can in between being a wife and a mother/grandmother. I haven't shown my summertime finishes in a while and I wanted to share some of the things I have made. Not everyone would like for me to share their t-shirt/memory quilts so I will just tell you how many I made since June 1st.
I've made 12 T-shirt quilts! (If you'd like more info on getting ...
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School is back in session, so I've lost all my excuses for not finishing things! Here are two of my three grandkids (Lilli is WAY too grown up to stand still for "first day of school" pics) this morning as they got ready to go...
From Courtney, our video editor:
In November 2022, my dad died. In the following months, I found myself in need of a project to process the anger, sadness, and loss I was feeling.
While going through his possessions, I realized how many T-shirts my dad had collected during his life. He had shirts dating back to the 1970s and my family and I had clear memories of them.
It became clear to me what I needed to do. I was not a quilter. I had pieced one-and-a-half quilt tops, but had not completed the process from beginning to end all ...
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