Here is the baby quilt I made for Thomas almost 3 years ago. For some reason, this quilt really appeals to me. I like the fact that I used about a hundred different colors in the blocks and sashing, and I enjoyed making the crooked
I just found out that my good friend Lyric Kinard was recently named 2011 Teacher of the Year by the International Association of Professional Quilters! What a great honor! And to think I knew her when. She and I were in a quilt bee together
Thanks to Wayne’s Aunt Carol who sent me this link. This woman is an inspiration. http://www.tvkim.com/watch/697/kims-picks-the-amazing-quilter?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=totd&utm_content=2011-01-21-fifl&utm_campaign=u
Notice what time we got up on Christmas morning to open our presents. Its really sad. I tried to make a bunch of home-sewn gifts this year. “June Cleaver” kitchen aprons, crayon aprons, and a tablerunner.
The Durham-Orange Quilt Show will be held this weekend at the American Tobacco Campus in Durham. I have 3 quilts in the show. And I will be giving two free demos at the show on Saturday: 11:00 on Yoyos, 11:30 on Crooked Log Cabins. http://www.durhamorangequilters.com/quiltshow2010.html
I wrote about a lady with a whole basement of fabric that I met around 2007 (I posted about it on 1/3/2009). I said that after seeing her over-abundance of fabric I made a vow not to buy any fabric for a year. I wanted
I met a woman the other day who had made this purse. She gave me permission to put the picture and her name on my blog.To make it, she had laid strips of torn fabric on top of some fusible web (overlapped on one edge
I really really hate painting. I painted some bathrooms in March, but I didn’t get 2 of them done. In the powder room, I couldn’t reach the very top of the wall, so the top 4 inches has been unpainted for 3 months. Very stupid
I have 4 sewing machines. One old top-of-the-line Bernina from 1977, one NEW top-of-the-line Bernina from 2004, one $7 Singer from a yard sale, and one $400 Singer Featherweight which was built in 1952 and only weighs 7 pounds, and which I bought specifically to