Category: Quilting

Last night after work I drove 20 miles in the pouring rain to an open sewing class at my favorite quiltshop Prairie Queens.   Why on earth would I do that, instead of going home to a nice dinner, a fire in the fireplace, and a lovely glass of chardonnay?  Simply because the shop is welcoming, […]

Be afraid.  Be VERY afraid.  I am about to reveal more about myself than you may want to know.  The photo above depicts my "stash closet" in all its untidy disorganization.  When we moved into this house, I had the double closet in my sewing room customized to be mostly shelving for my fabric bundles, […]

I made a baby quilt this weekend.  Want to know why? When I was a little girl, people would ask me, as adults are apt to do with children, "So, Nicki, what do you want to be when you grow up?"  I always gave the same answer, to everyone’s amusement.  Forget about ballerinas, nurses, teachers, […]

I adore a scrappy quilt.  No sense in using four or five fabrics when forty or fifty are so much more interesting.  Oh, I have made my share of planned quilts that involve specific amounts of yardage using just a few different fabrics, but those quilts tend to bore me.   In my mind, the main […]

Some quilts are just made to be owned by certain people.  This quilt is one I made five or six years ago.  I used silky beautiful Robin Pandolph Moda fabrics and recall how I loved the feel of the fabric and how much fun it was to combine different combinations of the fat quarters.  It […]