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  Flash back to May 2008.  I had just recovered my patio set with this snazzy red and cream fabric.  Doesn't it look fresh and new?  Well, after leaving it out in the elements for the better part of two years, the cushions now look like this:  Soiled, faded, and tired. This wrought iron set […]

Today was blind installation day.  A very nice Blind Guy came to the house and spent several hours putting in new blinds in my living room, dining room and master bedroom.  Check.  One more thing off the list. While he was here, I asked him to help me move some of my furniture back into […]

Isn't she gorgeous?  This is Madeline, all grown up.  All 25 blocks of her.  I am so pleased with this quilt top!  It ranks right up there with my all time favorites.  And it may be number one in terms of color combination. I think there will be a narrow light containment border, then an […]

Cough, cough, ack, ack.   My goodness, these men are creating a lot of dust!  Take two men with jack hammer like tools and let them at my tile master bathroom floor, and the air is swirling with dust.  Woo.  Hope the worst of it is over.  Today they lay the new tile. In other news, […]

I am so proud of myself!  I recovered my grody table top ironing board this weekend. The first step was to put on two layers of batting, then a piece of pretty fabric.  I flipped the board over, positioning everything just so, then got out the staple gun to secure the fabric and batting in […]

Not a secret anymore!  I was honored beyond belief to have been asked to make a quilt for Carrie Nelson, of Miss Rosie fame, months and months ago.  She was coming out with a long awaited new book called Schnibbles Times Two and needed some assistance getting the quilts made for the book's publishing deadline.  […]

Since Ozzie is up in Palo Alto during the week, I haven't been spending as much time with him lately.  He does come home on the weekends with my husband, and we catch up on all the affection we have missed during the week (not just Ozzie but my husband too of course!).  I spent the […]

So this is what 200 4 1/2" blocks looks like.  It represents a lot of sewing.  I wish I could show you the blocks, which are super cute, but I can't.  This is a stunt sewing project I am doing for a well known quilt pattern designer, and I am sworn to secrecy until the […]

Ever since the quilt historian/fabric designer Barbara Brackman came out with her two William Morris inspired fabric collections, I have been unable to come up with a good idea as to how to use them.  I know, how pathetic.  But no matter how I toyed with ideas in my mind, nothing seemed to grab me.  […]

I hope you all had a lovely long weekend!  Wow, both Valentine's Day and Presidents' Day–will riches never cease? Thank you all so much for your good wishes on my speedy recovery from sinus surgery.  I was pretty miserable the first two days, but after that I was on the mend.  My husband kept referring […]