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Are you a fabric tearer?  As in, ripping your fabric instead of cutting it? In the past I have visited a terrific quilt shop when I traveled to Wisconsin.  The women who work at that shop never cut your length of fabric, they rip it!  The first time I experienced that I just gasped in […]

Well, right off the bat, I need to tell you Crop Circles is not a beginner pattern.  Carrie Nelson's pattern instructions are terrific, and full of detail.  if you like appliqué you will love it.  The only problem for me is the directions say "use your favorite method of appliqué".  That always throws me for […]

Sometimes we truly have the best of intentions.  Tuesday at work we were interviewing a man and his wife who were being considered to team teach some cooking classes our shop offers.  They did a demo for us, just as if we were a proper class. They were terrific and certainly made everything they made […]

Yup, we had to go again.  We only have one grandchild, and the way time is flying by, we just had to get season's passes to Disneyland and have another visit there.  As you can see by her little face, she is quite thrilled to be having this conversation with Snow White.  Childhood is such […]

Several readers have inquired about this particular block that I am working on.  The pattern is from a book by Kim Brackett, called Scrap Basket Surprises, and is called Past and Present.  Kim's books are terrific.  I believe she has three of them out, and each is full of wonderful easy to cut and sew […]

     Just a quickie post today.  Here is Scrappy Trips all sewn together, minus borders.  I think I will do a narrow confinement border in black, followed by a wider red border in one of American Jane's prints.  Fun quilt to make, and I highly recommend it, especially if you have a couple of jelly […]

I am farther along with this project than I realized.  My Scrappy Trips Around the World quilt now is occupying the prime space on the large design wall.  I couldn't leave things alone to be completely random.  I decided to use red in each block for the longest diagonal line of squares.  My reds vary […]

Woo hoo, I've made some progress with these Flowering Snowball blocks.  I've decided to do one more row of six blocks, since I have the fabric to spare, and what's not to like about a longer quilt?  Don't you love the secondary circular pattern these blocks make?  I do enjoy the effects of curved piecing. […]

I am continuing to crank out Sawtooth Stars for the Barbara Brackman Sew Along.  I have always loved Reproduction fabrics, as they work so well in my more traditional decorating style.  However, in the past couple of years, I have been so attracted to the brighter colors that so many quilters are using.  Supposedly that […]

Eva has been talking about her "daddy's birthday" since October.  SInce his birthday is January 24, we have been hearing all about what she will wear, what foods will be served, what present she will give him and who else will be at the party. I had been working with a collection of fabric called […]