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ADD Quilting: A Usual for January
January I get nuts. I want to do everything. I want to make everything. So my wise sister said "Focus." This is my attempt to focus. A year ago the Canadian Quilters Association began a block a week....
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Sew Powerful
My work for Sew Powerful for 2020 has begun with this pretty six pink purses. The goal of Sew Powerful this year is to have 2,020 purses ready for the November 1, 2020 deadline. I'm thinking 6 purses...
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Three in Process and One Actual Finish!
These peppered shot cottons are so gorgeous. They will be a special quilt for my little Cristina. I am finally deciding - I think - to do 12" clams. This project won't be a quick one...Cristina's...
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Baby Quilts: Get Happy! and Two Little Koalas and Bright and Sunny
Baby quilts are one of my favorite things to do. They are small, fairly easy to quilt, and - most importantly - keep me focused on possibilities of the future. My nephew Chris and his wife are having...
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A Finished UFO: A Deconstruction
In trying to make room in my cabinets for piles on the floor, I found this sort of completed quilt. It's from my Jinny Beyer/batik period, probably 2012-ish. Jinny Beyer is a genius with texture,...
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What Happened?
Seriously. How can it be almost the end of May? I was shoveling snow February 13 and broke my distal radius. A three-hour plus operation on February 18 fixed it with a place, screws, and internal...
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Missing Quilt Con
The only ones who felt worse that I did about missing QuiltCon were my Chicago Modern Quilt Guild buddies. a some of them came to visit after QuiltCon and bought me some goodies. That rolled-up set...
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Happy and Cheery!
I know I'm getting better. I am in love with my current project. Since it requires minimal cutting and simple sewing, I can do it. Throughout the years I've seen various posts/projects using the...
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Sewing Disconnect
I define myself, especially since my retirement from teaching in 2005, as a quilter, a sewist, a sewer. Sewing is what I do. Sewing is why we used the entire upstairs space as my studio. This is...
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An Unmetered Ode to PreCuts
I love PreCuts. I LOVE them. Buying fabric is expensive. Finding a fabric line by a designer might mean hundreds of dollars. But what if you really love the designer and the fabric line? Then...
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Mask-Making Guilt and Mother's Day
Just as I was getting into my whole one-handed, broken-waisted rhythm of physical therapy and figuring out what sewing tasks I could do, the Covid-19 virus hit. "Lockdown" started March 21. And...
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Those All-So Useful Sew-a-Longs
Look at the hashtag #100dayproject. Or #100blocks100days. Or in the case of this quilt #52blocks52weeks. A quilter who has lost her mojo finds these useful - just something every day or every week to...
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A Plan for some Fat Quarters
Remember when Melissa, Holly, and Sarah returned from QuiltCon and brought me presents? (as if anything at that point would cheer me...) There was an additional set of fat quarters, some terrific...
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Gratitude
In no particular order, I am very thankful for 1. my design wall2. John3. my sewing machine with the knee lift and automatic scissors4. my Vietnamese friends and their cooking know-how5. drugs 6....
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The Quest for the Perfect Mask
We're now three months into Covid-19 and all that comes along with it. Mask-making and mask-wearing is now just as important as it was in late March, There are a zillion free masks patterns...
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Celebrating - Social Distancing Style
It's been difficult to shelter in place. Not seeing family and friends has been hard. For the first two months we exchanged food with 2 of the grandsons at the base of the driveway. Then last month...
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The Luckiest ot the Unlucky
Saturday June 20 was such a good day. I was in the studio finishing this lovely 90 x 99 shot cotton quilt top. I vacuumed, rejoicing in how easy this task is with 2 hands. I even set out the fabrics...
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It’s Always Something....
My elastic came. The elastic I was going to use to make a mask a day throughout July. So now I have elastic but am back to being one-handed. My sister sent flowers. So nice. I saw my wrist surgeon...
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Thinking my way through every stitch I sew...
Two weeks after my fall, and I am still so sore and bruised. I’m still taking opioids. With them my pain is less and I can do the prescribed movements/motions. But I still have to think my way...
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Masks! More Masks!
One thing is clear to me. We are going to be wearing masks for a long time. As my shattered humerus heals, I’ve discovered I can do minor cutting. Like for masks. And I can sew. Only not in reverse...
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