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Shameless Baby Bragging

November 10, 2012 18 Comments

Shameless Baby Bragging

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 […]

Filed Under: Life, The Twins, Treasures

More Scrappies To Love!

June 12, 2012 Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Treasures Tagged With: boy nursery, crazy patchwork, patchwork, scrap quilt, string quilt, thrift quilt, vintage quilt, vintage quilt top, vintage string quilt

Quilters Give The Best Gifts

April 16, 2012 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Books I Love, Gifts, Quilt Guild, Treasures Tagged With: 1930s quilts, colonial quilts, free motion quilting, gifts, mason jar, modern quilt guild, pin cushion, quilt history, quilt inspiration, swap, zip pouch

The Most Important Quilt I’ve Ever Made

March 23, 2012 8 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Finished Quilts, Gifts, Life, Treasures Tagged With: in memorium, memorial, memory quilt, quilt history

Sometimes The Smallest Projects Mean The Most

August 10, 2011 Leave a Comment

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, […]

Filed Under: Clothing, Mini Quilts, Swaps, Treasures Tagged With: anna maria horner, doll quilt, heather bailey, museum tunic, sewing with children, square dance, vintage doll crib

2 Quilts this Week!

July 2, 2011 Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Finished Quilts, Treasures Tagged With: crazy patchwork, heirloom, modern quilt, string quilt, stripe quilt, sugar pop, vintage quilt, wedding quilt

Gifts from The Guild Gods

June 14, 2011 Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Books I Love, Desserts, Quilt Blocks, Quilt Guild, Treasures Tagged With: columbine quilt guild, online quilting, traditional quilt guild, traditional vs. modern quilting, vintage iron-on applique, vintage patterns

Garage Sale Jack Pot!!!

June 11, 2011 1 Comment

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- […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Treasures Tagged With: 1950s, garage sale, Montgomery Ward, sewing machine, Signature, vintage sewing machine

A Quilt for Life

June 8, 2011 2 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Finished Quilts, Treasures Tagged With: auction, breakfast at tiffany's, children's hospital, donated quilt, donation, quilt

No Batteries Required

May 20, 2011 Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Treasures Tagged With: classics, Fisher Price, toys, vintage

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