I met Susan through a Yahoo group that I belong to (Stashbusters) and I liked her from the first few lines of her post: “I just wanted to share what I’ve been doing with some of the scraps members have been sending me. This Quilt of Valor has scraps from New York, Louisiana, Montana, Indiana [...] Read more »
Imaginary Friends
I just about peed my pants when I saw this! I need some imaginary friends – doesn’t everyone? Friend Feed is the “new” place to be, and if I can create imaginary friends there, well, why write another novel? I find some interesting stuff on this internet – and I *love* the stuff that makes [...] Read more »
Applique Quilt Book Winners!
Sarah Vanderburgh and Delys are the two lucky winners of Kay’s Book Easy Applique Blocks. Don’t give up if you didn’t win, just hop over to Kay’s blog and follow her Book Tour because today she’s with quilter extraordinaire Gina Halliday and Gina is giving away a book too! Thank you for signing up for [...] Read more »
Spring Cleaning!
We are at it again! This is part of the ongoing saga of a small (poorly insulated) house in Alaska and my never ending love of changing things. It is only slightly quilting related because I *may* be moving my quilting stuff to another part of the house soon (as in: out of the living [...] Read more »
Book Giveaway for Easy Applique Blocks
My pal Kay Mackenzie asked if I would like to be included in her internet Book Tour and I jumped at the chance! What is so cool about going to Quilt Market and meeting other designers and authors is learning that they are just nice quilters, like every other quilter Kay sent me a peek [...] Read more »
You. Can. Do. It.
You. You know who you are! Can. Able, capable, willing, knowledgeable. Do. Accomplish, achieve, attain, succeed. It. Everything, anything, exactly what you want. Read more »
Spring in Seward, Alaska
Yes, this is spring in Alaska. See the pretty flowers; the sunshine? Me neither! LOL Someone please remind me why I live here? If you look closely you can see Tan Bunny just to the right of the feeder that Tom built. It sits across the alley from his house, on Barb’s property. She loves [...] Read more »
Machine Quilting – How to Stitch in the Ditch
Here they are! I went with the two-part format because I felt that there was just too much information that I had to cut in order to meet the 10 minute limit for YouTube (not criticizing, just explaining) so: Part One – - -[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiJllrOdrZ4&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0] I would love to know what you think!! So far I [...] Read more »
Funky Fuzzy Shortcut Quilt is DONE !
I just love that word – DONE! Whoooo Hoooo! This will be another donation quilt, even though I love it with all my heart, the thought that it might make a person happy and benefit a child is also one of the reasons I love it. BUT, until the CASA auction it is going to [...] Read more »
Great Stash Quilt and Tutorial
I want to make this quilt! Made by Liz Harvatine, she calls it “Confetti” and I *love* it! Here’s her tutorial, which I found very understandable and I have TONS of scraps. This is right up my alley! Thank you Liz for my next project Today I am putting the sashing on my funky, fuzzy [...] Read more »
