End of June Checklist
Make a Farewell Purse for Dorothy - check. She's on her way to Florida. I found this Zippy Purse pattern by Jen Fox Studios. I'm sure I will make this one again. Play with the roll of Kraft-Tex...
View ArticleSew Powerful
July is my Sew Powerful month. This purse initiative and the menstrual hygiene education program is just one aspect of Esther's Farm, which also includes Zambian seamstresses, a soap co-op, farming,...
View ArticleDoing the Math
There are 4 Sunset purses. And there are 4 Navy-Yellow Purses. The Design Wall now has 24 purses. 7 are from this Winter. And 17 have been made this month. I still have 3 more...
View ArticleGOAL!!!
How lucky am I to have a block of time that I can devote to charity sewing? My goal was 20 for July, and I did 21 SewPowerful purses to add to the 7 that I did during the winter. These purses are for a...
View ArticleAugust So Far...
A Sloan Travel bag in process for a friend's mid-August birthdayThe Sloan is my favorite travel bag. Here is mine - well-used and holding up very well.These 5" charms will also be a Sloan travel bag....
View ArticleMid-August Pictures
This Sloan Travel Bag is for Jenny - she has had an Aeroplane bag of this fabric, and she was pretty thrilled that I was able to locate some more of this fabric to upgrade her 5-year old Aeroplane bag....
View ArticleLayers on the Design Wall
What does one do with only one design wall? This quilter just layers quilt over quilt over quilt. This top quilt? It's my current hand project - a UFO I started at Glampalot in 2015. It's my merging of...
View ArticleA Gifted Quilt Finally Received
***with sincere apologies to all who are photo-proficient***Do you know how hard it is to get good shots of full-size quilts? Trust me - it's hard. This full-size quilt - 94" by 108" - is for my...
View ArticleThe Beauty of a Scrap Quilt
I love this quilt. (Don't worry if you don't ...) And I want to tell you why I love it so much. A lot of it has to do with how it feels. Trust me - it's going to be a great quilt for a chilly day....
View ArticleReversible Quilting: A Process Post
***If you're looking for pretty pictures, skip this post which is a tutorial***This is pretty, right? But here's the problem... None of these blocks are connected to one another. They are lovely -...
View ArticleDesign Decisions
My collection of black and white fabrics has been growing, and I have been looking for projects. One for sure is going to be a log cabin, using 2" logs and creating 14" blocks. I've also been eyeing...
View ArticleAdventures? You Betcha!
I think about the title of this blog. While what I do may not be daringly adventuresome, my adventure certainly has longevity. And it's highly focused on quilts, bags, and purses. Quilty buddy Mimi...
View ArticleProjects: Past, Present, and Future
Back in 2007 I was teaching a Quilt-As-You-Go technique by Sharon Pederson, which she calls Reversible Quilting. Each one of these hexagons was hand-pieced, worked on while sitting with my college...
View ArticleThe Only Post for November!
November was a month of constant sewing, most of which I haven't been able to blog about without ruining surprises. I travelled to New Mexico with a quilty and made three of these bags, The Hampton...
View ArticleGift Bags for Quilties
Every holiday my quilty friends do such clever things for one another. I tell myself that I'm not a fitsy-fartsy sewer - with the exception being the Sew Powerful period purse project I'm so engaged...
View ArticleA Surprise and Two Trips Around the World
What a great feeling to pull off a surprise that delights the recipient. One of the quilties is turning 40 on the last day of 2018. To honor her end of her old age of youth and her entry into the...
View ArticleWrapping Up the Christmas Projects
Grandson Sam Mo gets a quilt this year. He's is Marquette MI at Northern Michigan State. I thought this quilt was finished last January, but then I started to add some hand-quilting to it and...
View ArticleFirst Quilt Finish of 2019
It's a good thing that projects started don't have an expiration date. This quilt was begun exactly a year ago with leftovers from a quilt I did for Cristina. Here's the quilt. And here are the...
View ArticleThree Projects in Process
By in process I mean the ones that are actually started and not just ones that are in fabric piles on the studio floor - more on those in the next post. You know I'm a sucker for jelly rolls and layer...
View ArticleYoshiko nji* and Carolyn Friedlander* Walk Into a Bar and Meet Marcia Derse*...
Several Chicago Modern Quilt Guild buddies and I went to Camp Stitchalot in November 2016. Carolyn Friedlander, quilter/fabric designer/architect taught a workshop in needle-turn applique. I brought...
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