Sunday I spent the afternoon with friends working on our individual sewing/quilting projects.  One of the ladies brought the star blocks each of us made her as part of the membership block swap in one of my quilt groups.    She had all

Some weeks pass by like the wait in a doctor’s office when they’re overbooked and others pass like a summer cloudburst.  This was definitely a cloudburst kind of week.   I didn’t buy any fabric this week even though I had

Last night my Art Quilt Group discussed taking time to experiment and try new techniques.  Everyone lives such busy lives it creates a stigma about “me” time.  “Me” time shouldn’t cause guilty feelings.  A

Last Friday night I met with three of the four ladies that participated in the round robin to have dinner and return the quilts to their owners.  I started with this  and got this back.  Didn’t they do a great job?  The squa

I played with the silly putty stamp this weekend as promised.  I tried a few different techniques, with one working better than the other.For the first attempt, I coated the stamp with paint using a foam brush then pressed it into the fabric lik

In the summer, hummingbirds come and live at our house.  We fill feeders for them, and their calls and the hum of their wings become part of the daily background noise.  Sometimes they hover at the screens and watch us.  We recognize t

The Quilting Arts website has added a page to search for Quilting Arts TV in your area.  I’ve searched but my local PBS stations don’t broadcast the program.  You can search the listings here or sign up for the newsletter and ex

I’ve continued developing my ideas for Sharon’s January TIF challenge by spending time looking at the Andy Warhol book.  Most of his works were either black on vivid colors, vivid colors on black or tone on tone.  I decided to w

I’m not buying fabric, so I came home with this instead. Hard to believe two packages of silly putty and one silk leaf stem are quilt related, but they are.  More on how I plan to use these items later this week.I had a little pout ye

A new Yahoo group formed this week to explore using Electric Quilt (EQ) software to design art quilts.  The idea originated in the Info-EQ list hosted by Planet Patchwork.  The moderator is Sheila Williams, a computer consultant and long-ti

I sewed the border on this quilt at retreat last October but never got around to posting a picture.  I designed this quilt in EQ5 years ago (I use EQ6 now).  When the guys were out one night, I took a bunch of strips left from another proje

I signed up for Sharon B’s “Take it Further“ challenge in December.  Each month she posts two different themes for us to work into a fiber design.  The themes for January are “admiration” or a green and purple

I went to my quilt group meeting Thursday night for the first time since September.  I don’t know what it is about Thursdays, but I can’t seem to get out of the house once I get home from work.  I didn’t realize how much I

I started quilting the tree branch top yesterday using the McTavishing method.  I’ve decided not to post pictures yet because there isn’t much to see, but I will post some interim pictures later.  Karen McTavish designed this te

First I’d like to wish health and happiness to you and yours throughout the New Year.Many people start the year with resolutions, but I identify habits I want to either learn or change.  I reevaluate every six months to ensure these habits