Category: Quilting

As you know, Darlene of Quilting Daze and Dawn of Quilts and Pieces and I have been working on a Spring Fatquarter Challenge, each of us using the same fabric line "Celebrate Spring" designed by Sandy Gervais for Moda.  We began the challenge on May 1, posting a little clue about our work in progress […]

My goodness.  What a surprise to me that so many blogging friends were interested in adopting my orphan Christmas quilt blocks!  I printed out all the entries and placed them in my favorite green hat.  I tossed them around for a while, then, closing my eyes and holding my breath….. I pulled out this slip […]

It’s pink and green and burgundy and it’s DONE.  I have been working on this thing for over a year off and on, and was determined to finally complete it as part of my recent Banish the UFO’s pledge.  The pattern is Six Degrees by Miss Rosie’s Quilt Company, and the fabric is Anna’s Starry […]

Ever since I finished my Provence Baskets quilt top, I can’t stop yearning to use those bright primary colors again in another quilt.  When I see Darlene’s Cherries Jubilee blocks, it turns this yearning feeling into a complete obsession.  I don’t have the entire Cherries Jubilee bundle (boy, was that ever short sighted of me), […]

Sticking with my goal to finish one "almost done" project per weekend, I got the borders sewn on to my Provence Baskets quilt.  You may recall that when I was piecing these blocks, I felt that they were very far removed from my usual palette, and had quite a few doubts that this quilt was […]

Another one finished!  You have to imagine me doing my friend Darlene‘s victory dance {"another one bites the dust, another one’s done and another one’s done and another one bites the dust (boom boom)"}.  My current goal is to complete an unfinished project each weekend until most of my project boxes are empty.  No starting […]

istockphoto I’m off again this weekend, on every quilter’s favorite sojourn.  The Quilting Retreat!  My friends and I have been planning this since last summer, and the excitement is high!  Eight of us leave today for a serene monastery, tucked away in the East Bay hills.  The monks will be doing all the cooking and […]

All quiltmakers have a fantasy that one of the quilts that they create and give away may someday become a most cherished, best beloved object.  That fantasy came true for me.  In the late 1970’s when I was just starting to make quilts, I chose a simple baby quilt to practice on.  No baby in […]

Here you see one of my favorite quilting books, 40 Fabulous Quick Cut Quilts by Evelyn Sloppy (gotta love her name).  I have used this book for a couple of quilt projects and have marked pages with little Post-It flags for about a dozen more projects I would love to do in the future.  This […]

Since I didn’t get much of a chance to sew this past weekend, my posts this week will mostly be about future projects I have been contemplating, or completed projects I would like to share with you. The quilt pictured above is one that I gave to my sister a few years ago.  The pattern […]