And the winner is…..           The fish fabric!  I’ll post a picture of the pattern later this week, after I change the colors to match the fish fabric and  make a final pattern deci

I didn’t forget about this project.  Honest!  It did go through a bit of a transformation though.  After talking to a quilting friend and twisting her arm a little, we decided to each make a quilt pattern outside our comfort zone

The days grow shorter.  Today we have balmy weather and tomorrow frost.  My body craves sleep in response to sunless gray skies.  I look at my paints.  I unfold a finished quilt top.  I open a box and touch all the UFOs insid

I made what I think is the last of these for now.           I’ve had a few comments from readers interested in making one.  The book is called It’s a Wrap:  Sewing Fabric Purses, Bask

Do you use the same style of fabric in most your quilts?  I know I do.  I favor tone on tone fabrics and subtle prints that read as solids.  Sometimes I use novelty prints in baby quilts or theme prints in holiday quilts, but you&rsquo

I have enough done to give the general idea of the center of the quilt.              The top four rows are sewn together, and the blocks are sewn in the last three rows.  The sashi

Judy asked us to show our stash, so I combined it with my stash report to save time.  My stash isn’t that big – really!  It just seems like it, at least to me.  I have no plans to tidy my stash.  A year from now I expe

Remember the Woodland Bloom charm pack?  The one that encouraged me to fall off the stash-busting wagon because I needed more fabric to sew my EQ6 design?  Here are the four units that make up a block.      &nb

I have abandoned the journal cover because life is too short to waste time on things I don’t enjoy.  The stenciled butterfly will find a home in another project.  Look what came in the mail today!       &

Let’s start with the good news.  I finished my son’s quilt top, using 5 1/8 yards.  I won’t count the backing as busted until I take the top to the long arm quilter.  Pictures will post on the Design Wall Monday repor

Sometimes I feel like talking about quilting and sometimes I just feel like quilting.  This past week I’ve just felt like quilting.  Sooner or later I’ll feel like talking again and I will share pictures of all the projects in t

I bought fabric for planned and ongoing projects yesterday at my local quilt shop’s Superbowl sale.  They had many items marked 20% off, but not everything.  I think half of what I bought was on sale.  I’m setting asid

Look what came in the mail yesterday!  This is the challenge fabric from the NQA.  In early December I sent in money to purchase a fat quarter and enter the challenge.  About a week later I got an email saying all the fabric had sold o

I finished quilting the sashing on my sister’s quilt and I’m ready to start quilting the blocks.  Once I get a few done I’ll try again to post a picture of the quilt that refuses to photograph well.  I may have to break do

Do you ever buy quilt kits?  I have never bought one in my life.  I have the gene that prevents me from following pattern instructions.  I always have to change something.  This gene shows no mercy.  I can’t even follow

Last year I won these blocks at one of my quilt group meetings.  You can read the original post here.  Last week I pulled out three of them with similar fabrics, made one more block (the one on the lower right), and set them together. 

I can’t believe this is the last report for 2008.  It went so fast.  Some projects planned for this year will have to carry over into next year.  My totals didn’t change this week.  The picture shows what 16 2/3 yards

I had a reader ask me to explain how someone can add or bust hundreds of yards of fabric in one year.  That's Santa, not the reader, on the left.  I’ll do my best to summarize what I’ve seen other quilters do.    I

Judy at Patchwork Times invited us to continue our stashbusting efforts into next year.  I didn’t use as much fabric this year as I would have liked, but the challenge made me more conscious of what I had and what I bought.  When choo

I had mixed results in the fourth week of getting up early to sew.  I started out strong, but life got the better of me later in the week.  I continued getting up early but used the time for household tasks and blog updates.  I ended u

The third week of getting up early to sew went better than last week.  I ended up adding 4 extra hours of time over six days, for a 40 minute per day average.    I made some progress on an old UFO that I first posted about here. 

The second week of getting up early to fit in more sewing/creative time did not go as smooth as the first week.  I had difficulty waking up the first half of the week, but I did better after the holiday.  I ended up adding about 3.5 extra h

I picked up the QOV quilt last Tuesday, attached the binding and started stitching it down by hand.  I’m half way around, but I’ll wait until I finish to post a picture.  The longarmer did a wonderful job of quilting it.  &

Yesterday I went to a small quilt show at a local church.  They had some nice antique quilts and embroidered pieces displayed.  I took this picture because I’d never seen this pattern before.  The quilt owner had bought the block

Yesterday I came across a mention of making yarn from t-shirts.  Out of curiosity I googled it and reviewed a handful of tutorials.  I thought this tutorial did the best job of explaining the process.  I love this idea!  Not only