I finally finished the May Take it Further challenge  piece.  The theme for May was “what do you call yourself and why”.  When I started the challenge I posted about not calling myself anything except creative because label

Do any of you subscribe to American Patchwork and Quilting?  I bought my subscription during the school magazine sale last year.  I received the newest issue in the mail Friday and immediately pulled out this door sign.  The small prin

Yesterday a friend and I went to the Greater Ann Arbor Quilt Guild show at Washtenaw College.  Most years I forget the date and don’t realize I missed it until I hear other people talk about it.  I’m so thankful my friend mentio

So many projects hanging in the breeze, wishing I would finish one of them.  I’m maintaining my backlog and working two months behind on the Take It Further challenge pieces.  Every time I decide to skip a month, an idea sneaks into m

Lori asked for instructions on how to make fabric beads like the one in the last blog post.  I found this wonderful tutorial that shows step by step what the lady at the guild show taught me.  You can view the tutorial here.  While loo

It was bound to happen sooner or later with all the running around I did this week.  Yesterday I met four friends and we drove to Port Clinton, Ohio for the Ohio Star Quilters Guild quilt show.  For a small show they had some interesting de

Judy L. had another quiltathon yesterday and today.  I thought I’d sew like crazy, but I ended up doing related tasks instead.  Yesterday I pieced the backing, then layered and pin basted the fall round robin quilt.  As soon as I

Progress on the May TIF challenge continues.  Flowers bloom across a grid of green.  A few more blossoms, some beads, and an edge treatment will complete the piece.  Sketches and notes pile up for the June TIF challenge.  As one d

I’m on vacation this week.  We decided to stay home and take day trips to nearby attractions we’ve always wanted to visit.  We tried this a couple years ago with poor results.  This time I’m determined we’ll lea

I finished the star quilt last night.  I love this technique!  The openings may or may not appear in future quilts, depending on whether or not it adds to the design.  I don’t plan to put an opening in a quilt just because I can.

I have lots of book summaries to catch up on.  Here’s some of what I’ve read.  Knitting Bones by Monica Ferris – Ferris gets better with every book she writes in the Needlecraft Mystery series.  In book eleven, Betsy

 I’m done quilting the piece from Vikki Pignatelli’s class.  Practice has improved my machine quilting, but it’s still a little jerky.  I used variegated thread to add interest to the hand-dyed fabrics.    I

I’m putting the stash report first so you can skip the rest if you’re not a big reader.  I bought half a yard of fabric to use in the border of this quilt.  My totals are inching in the wrong direction, but I’m working on

I worked on the fall quilt all through June but didn’t write about it much.  Like most of my quilts, it didn’t end up looking like the EQ version.  Here’s the original plan as drafted in EQ6.  Here’s the finishe

As soon as I started writing this last night, the tornado siren went off.  My son and I looked at each other confused.  We looked out the window.  The sky looked gray but not black, and a light rain fell.  The winds had not increa