Let’s not beat around the bush- there’s nothing even remotely fabric-related here today. This is a shameless brag session with new photos of my adorable angelic children, smiling for the camera while the photographer and I danced around, made goofy faces, and promised more candy than any child could consume in a year. Awwwww, they […]
More Scrappies To Love!
Several new beauties joined our gang this weekend…and despite our little house, we never seem to run out of room for more quilts. Just discovered I inherited this one from my grandmother, and I couldn’t be more thrilled at the colors! I bought this navy rocker for the nursery, and I want to use accents […]
Quilters Give The Best Gifts
Seriously, they do. Between guild swaps, my birthday, and thank-you’s, this week I received 3 of the most delightful gifts! I’m awed (and humbled!!!) by the talent and generosity of my sweet friends! First up- Front Range Modern Quilt Guild pin cushion swap! I could hardly believe my eyes when I tore away the tissue […]
The Most Important Quilt I’ve Ever Made
What an amazing reminder I had this week about the undeniable link between quilts, and our life’s journey. Truly, from the secret quilt codes of the Underground Railroad, to the proud, patriotic Victory quilts of the 1940s, they not only mark our nation’s history, but they also mark milestones and turning points in our everyday […]
Sometimes The Smallest Projects Mean The Most
Small, yes, as in quick and little, but so essential. Today we made a doll quilt to go with our new vintage doll crib (I, I mean she had to have it). She’s so proud of the quilt, and can’t stop tucking her dollies in with it…and untucking them, putting diapers on them, feeding them, […]
2 Quilts this Week!
What a week! I finished piecing a custom 68 X 90 Fruit By The Foot quilt for an Etsy customer in NYC- quilting it this weekend and shipping it off as soon as the Post Office is open (holiday weekend = Eek! I need to get it out!). Also, this heirloom quilt was passed to […]
Gifts from The Guild Gods
I visited the Columbine Quilt Guild potluck & stash sale this week, thanks to a sweet invite from a friend. Wowzers! It was old school sewing circle to the max. Dozens of adorable ladies, most at least twice my age, with so much knowledge (and stash!) to share. When I first walked in, bearing gifts […]
Garage Sale Jack Pot!!!
Was casually browsing a neighborhood garage sale today…not much of interest, other than perhaps some tattered vintage copies of Huck Finn & Heidi, and some decoupaged 1970s wall art (all of which I purchased for $1)…when I looked down at my feet and spotted THIS! A 1950s Montgomery Ward Signature sewing machine! What a beast- […]
A Quilt for Life
I’ve become fairly emotionally attached to this quilt that I made last fall, even though it doesn’t really match any of the colors in my home. It was my first really solid attempt at free motion quilting, which, miraculously, I achieved on an old crappy Brother machine in my dark cold basement. I really am […]
No Batteries Required
On a quick trip to Target this afternoon to snag the last clearanced vintage wooden kitchen set, thanks to a heads up from a friend, I was delighted, elated, overjoyed when THIS little blast from the past caught my eye. Holy McMemories- I loved the heck outta this little record player in 1982 like you […]
