My daughter is messy. I mean MESSY as in can’t-stand-to-see-a-clear-surface messy. She’s been that way since she was a baby. This summer she was in full mess-making mode with sewing projects, scrapbooking, painting, photography, etc., etc., etc. And that’s not…
Moving Day
Yesterday Jim and I went down to Madison with Jen to move her into a new apartment for school this fall. Madison is always an adventure on “Moving Day” and we lucked out a little bit this year. Nearly all…
An Old UFO Finished
This quilt started as a sample for a demo I did on mitered borders. This quilt is finished now, but it has a secret! About a third of the quilting was finished when I ran out of thread and found…
DWM: Double Nine Patch
I love nine patch quilts and have been wanting to make a double nine patch for quite awhile. My original plan was to make a scrappy one, but then I saw this fabric and decided to just do a simple…
Week 32, 2013 Stash Report and Weekly Recap
Another week, another finished quilt! Woo hoo! August is proving to be much more productive than the rest of the summer. It really helps when I have tops all prepped for quilting: pressed, backing pieced and pressed and batting cut. …
National Book Lover’s Day-Quilting Style
For National Book Lover’s Day, Moda invited bloggers to share their first quilting books and books that still inspire them. I love quilting books and have accumulated quite a library over the years. It was fun to look through them…