I’m ready to start my son’s quilt.  Almost 15 years of quilting and I’ve never made my husband or son one.  I’ve made plenty to give away, four so far this year.  I think the time has come.   &nbs

Beth (no blog) asked what changes I made to carve out more sewing time in my day.  The biggest changes were mental.  I realized that doing what I enjoy should be my first priority, and I had to stop letting other things distract me.  T

If you tried to view the blog over the weekend and couldn’t, the cause was Blog-City system maintenance.  Unfortunately, it took a day and a half before I could upload both posts and pictures.  Everything runs fine now.  Once I g

I finished the second premie quilt for one yard out.  I also bought this half yard of fabric for the May Applewood Farms BOM.  Every time I look at these numbers I can’t believe how far in the hole I am.  No regrets, just surpris

Next week I’m starting a series of posts on how to paint fabric.  The first post will list the supplies needed, and the following posts will describe and demonstrate various painting techniques.  I will space each lesson a week or two

Most the salt stayed in the stripes where I put it.              What little salt migrated to the silver metallic section did not cause dark spots like it did with the gold metallic paint.&n

I visited the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild yesterday to hear Sue Beevers talk about her fabric design inspirations and how she translates those ideas to cloth.  She projected slides of her photos onto a large screen then showed the fabric the p

The first attempt to salt specific areas gave some unexpected results.                Small scale did not work.  I need more room to spread the salt and more space betwee

With a few twists and deletions, this border pattern from the pattern pack purchased in Chicago turned into this continuous line quilting design. Quilting has never been my favorite part of the process.  At one point I had eight tops stacke

              Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers and everyone that has been like a mother to someone.  Do something nice for yourself today.  I have a few projects I&rsqu

Odd shaped fabric painted to go in odd shaped piecing.  Indecision leads to rainbow colors.         The salt erased the stamped images, leaving only the memory of mice and roses.    &nb

          Warm weather brought the need to try salt again.  The first piece showed some promise,           the second even more.  My mind sees bloom o

No more after this – I promise!  We had a chance to chat with Pat Sloan about her Death by Quilting game when she had a break in foot traffic at the APQS booth.  Since then a winner has emerged!  If you’re interested in pla

I brought home some interesting ideas from the Chicago quilt show.  For all the quilts I’ll mention here, the show prohibited photos.  Nancy Erickson had some animal pieces hanging in one exhibit.  If you haven’t seen her w