Category: Quilting

This happy lady pictured above is Mary Wood from Australia.  Some of you may remember that she won my leftover blocks from the Return to Sender quilt I made awhile ago.  A few people have emailed me to ask what Mary ever did with those blocks, and I am happy to share the finished project […]

It isn’t like me to be in a quandry about what project to work on, but that is just where I found myself last week.  Do you ever find that you can spend a day deep in thought about quilting projects, and at the end of the day, have accomplished exactly nothing except making a […]

Happy Valentine’s Day friends!  I hope your day is full of sweet surprises. The eye candy pictured above is the focus fabric and pattern for the next quilting project I am planning.  The fabric and the pattern are called A Morris Garden by Timeless Treasures (yes, I do occasionally fall for fabric made by a […]

I was busy last week and didn’t get to post quite as often as I would like to.  My sister who lives in Wisconsin was out for a visit, staying with our dad in Palo Alto.  I combined all sorts of productive activities into my trip up there (which lasted a couple of days).  The […]

I think I mentioned a few posts ago that I have been invited to teach Miss Rosie quilt patterns at my favorite local quilt shop.  I had two quilts in mind for this spring calendar session, with the idea that I would teach one class in March and the second one in May.  I received […]

  Since Thanksgiving is over, I figured it was time to get out some Christmas decorations, including Christmas quilts of course.  The quilt pictured above is one I got back from the quilter just before last Christmas.  I put it out, but in all the holiday hub bub, didn’t get a chance to really study […]

Several of my blogging friends have told me that "Drumbeat" has been published in the past couple of weeks, so I no longer am reserved about not showing my "Cupcake" version of the new Miss Rosie’s Quilt Company pattern.  The piecing was quite simple–just quarter square triangles and nine patches.  I had the most fun […]

I recently got a couple of quilts back from my quilter and thought you might like to see the pretty all over quilt patterns they used.  Here is my Retro Halloween Quilt (the back of it).  Isn’t that fabric adorable?  My quilt was quilted at Prairiequeens, my favorite quilt shop.  I just love that place, […]

My UFO (Unfinished Objects) group meets three times each month.  We have been meeting for years and have gotten to be such good friends.  We just work on whatever projects we choose to bring to the meeting and spend as much time (or more) chit chatting than we do sewing.  It is relaxing and fun […]

I am doing my Happy Dance because I finally finished the quilt top I call Jelly Bellies, after the pattern of the same name by Carrie Nelson of Miss Rosie’s Quilt Company.  The pattern is an old one, but is still available.  The fabrics I used were various prints from several Kansas Troubles groups (by […]