I hope everyone enjoyed a great Thanksgiving holiday. We were resigned to just having 3 guests. We were trying to be fine with it. But our youngest daughter, her husband, and their two children were supposed to be with us all week. Their va…
I am hanging out with four of my grandsons, age 6 down to 1. They live about 7.5 hours’ drive from us. Got here last night and will be driving home Sunday AM. I don’t see the boys often, so I wanted to make and bring them something a little…
I have spent bits and bobbles of time lately organizing my fabric. I saw a few ideas and morphed them into something that would work for me. I measured my shelves and then bought the biggest stackable plastic boxes with lids that would fit
Well, I was going to write a post about making a hot pad, potholder, or trivet from trimmed block slivers. But I see that I did that back in March. I keep forgetting to put labels on the posts. If you want to see the tutorial, search my blo…
I am making one more patriotic item for my booth. I finished up 3 small quilts yesterday. One is a quilt I want to keep. Just need to find the perfect place for it. Here it is, still on my quilt frame. I quilted it with a light blue thread
I have become best friends with my cutting mat and sewing machine again. I have been making masks nearly all my free time (and then some). That seems to be slowing down. I also made a twin-bed-sized quilt (customer) for a childhood friend S…
The way I keep track of what’s happening in my life is through my pictures. That seems odd, but when I start to write a blog post, I look at the last pictures I posted, then start from there. It has been odd to be staying at home so much, b…
So, probably due to the recent pumpkin overload, I am obsessed with crafts. But I have enough self-control to redirect that, because I NEED to be obsessed with laundry, meals, and other parts of life!! I had seen a tutorial for making cards…
{Click on any picture to enlarge it}. So here we are with dad’s wide poplar. It was still rough, which means it did not look like you see it at Lowe’s. Dad has a custom-built-by-him wood shop that is super simple, but deluxe. He has a power…
After I complete a quilt top, the greatest challenge faces me. What quilting design should I use, and what color thread? I purchased two different orange threads for quilting, one solid, and one variegated. I have some pumpkin quilts in the…
My MIL is living in a log cabin she just had built. My husband and his brother are doing projects for her there when they can to cut down on construction costs. They installed a light in the loft bathroom on Independence Day. Then my BIL we…
Why is STARTING a new quilt so much more appealing to me than applying that time to a UFO or WIP?? I have started 3 new projects this WEEK so far! Someone stop me!! I added a few more blocks to my Geese on a String. There are 24 in each row…