For the past week I’ve found myself in the kind of funk that makes walking into the sewing room a struggle, and creating anything an impossible task.  I have no idea what brought it on, but it had to go.  I think the best way to get r

One block finished.         Another block started.         I’m on a roll!

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 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

I’ve been thinking………  Sometimes when I’m looking at quilts in books or magazines, I’ll see one that has me thinking, “That is one ugly quilt”.  Then a few weeks later I’ll see the sa

My son and I dropped off six more quilts for the Children’s Hospital yesterday.  That makes 31 quilts total.              A few ladies still have quilts to turn in, but for the most pa

Now and then the planets move into perfect alignment and I get what we call in our house “Princess Time”.  On Friday, my husband left for an overnight fishing trip with his buddy, and my son went to a birthday party sleepover. 

I finished piecing my son’s quilt.  I can’t wait to drop it off at the quilter’s and get it off the design bed.                 Now the design bed also

I picked up a couple books at the library last weekend because they contained some attention grabbing ideas.  The first book is Portraits From Nature by Jean Wells.  She developed a technique of mounting small nature quilts on larger backgr

The quilt on the design bed hasn’t changed much since last week.  I have about 75% of it sewn together.  Once I get the top pieced and the borders on I’ll show another picture.  I started working on the design for my friend

At quilt group Monday night, everyone brought in their happy blocks to trade.  Imagine my surprise when I walked in and saw three tables covered with blocks and another three tables covered with quilt tops.  The ladies outdid themselves aga

I’m back on the road today to take mom to a couple doctor appointments.  I didn’t want to make the trip twice in one week, but the appointments came together so easily I couldn’t pass them up.  I don’t have to leave

I didn’t post a stash report last week because I had no activity to report.  This week I sewed all the happy blocks together using a quilt as you go technique.  I can see how the technique would work on some quilts, but I swear it too

I’m so glad to be done with this quilt so I don’t have to take pictures of it ever again.  Are you reading sis?  The speckled fabric worked perfect for the binding and going borderless was the right choice too.  I’ll

I’ve heard a lot about happy blocks around the web lately, so I did a search and found directions on MaryQuilts.  I thought my quilt group would have fun with these on workday so I made a few to try out the pattern.These may not be the hap

I reviewed Creating With Paint by Sherrill Kahn yesterday for help with the salting technique.  After reading what she included in the book, I think I need to use even more water and I’m going to try multiple kinds of salt.  Watch for

I sewed the borders on this morning and called it a finished top.  I felt like I could have added more pieced blocks and turned it into a medallion quilt, but I don’t have enough Thimbleberries style fabric to do it.  I like it more t

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. 

Last night I had a quilt group meeting, but I couldn’t get myself organized enough to go.  We all had a touch of something germy this week that made staying awake a struggle.  Yesterday I felt normal for the first time in days and I d

I returned from retreat early Sunday afternoon and spent the rest of the day unpacking and putting the house in order after the guys had at it.  Since I did lots of housework before I left, most of the cleanup involved laundry and food.  I

We had a three-day weekend in the U. S. for the Labor Day holiday, giving me an extra day to play in the sewing room.  So what did I do?  I prepared another Dresden plate block for appliqué.  I dyed two runs of fabric, blue/blac

I finished appliquéing the Dresden plate block today, in just under three weeks!!  That beats my time on the last block by over eight months.  I use this quilt as a filler project, so I can laugh all I want at how long it takes. 

I finished the quilting on the fall round robin last night.  Today I’m working on the sleeve and the binding.  I’ll wait until next week when I finish the quilt to change the totals and post a picture.  I have to figur

I went to the QOV meeting last night for the first time since May.  In June I had a conflict and in July I couldn’t find the energy to haul my sewing machine and all my supplies out for the night.  Some nights a girl has to just sit i

Another Dresden plate block goes into the finished pile.  You gotta love it when a week’s worth of appliqué takes nine months to finish.  After declaring August “finish some quilts” month, I’ll take any progre