Yikes, I have cabin fever *B*A*D*! Do you get this? How do you deal with it? This is one of the worst years ever! Can the “hormonal” issues of being age 50 have something to do with it? (yes, the “M” word). I am going to go clean up my stash (again). When I am [...] Read more »
New Fabric!
Oh what a great trip to Anchorage! To visit my favorite quilt shop (Seams Like Home Quilt Shoppe) and see the familiar faces and the new, gorgeous fabrics. Heaven!! Then Sarah arrived with granddaughter Audrey and the *real* fun began Confession: I do not shop for fabric. I have asked (that being the polite way [...] Read more »
Going shopping for fabric – yay!
I’ll be in Anchorage for a short period over the weekend and I get to go to my quilt shop! I *love* it there! I always bump into someone I know and I get to look at all the great new fabrics and get inspired by the projects on the walls. Since it is a [...] Read more »
Updated demo video
I updated the video that shows the Crazy Shortcut Quilts demo. I finally got Sarah to film some footage (talk about pulling teeth!) and so I re-did the whole thing. Originally, all the videos were supposed to be “just for fun” and I had planned on taking a few comments and then re-doing them. Well, [...] Read more »
Quilting for a Very Good Cause
My daughter Sarah and I love to donate quilts to the CASA program for their Quilt Auction each November. We also use the auction to see and visit with quilters that we only see once a year – -at the auction! I look forward to seeing my pals Kathy Harte and Judy Wedemeyer and Ruth [...] Read more »
Getting ready for Quilt Market
This is what happens when I am working on quilts…..hehehehe….and I’m not even apologetic about it! Every load of washing (at least I’m washing the dirty clothes!) gets brought up to the living room and then left there. That’s why I have about 7 laundry baskets…this is a lifelong habit and it makes me laugh. [...] Read more »
Quilt Art
Check out these gorgeous quilts by Diana Bracy! Her blog or Her Flickr….. Read more »
Stitch Envy
Whenever Sarah does a demonstration of our Crazy Shortcut Quilt techniques she mentions “stitch envy”. It happens during class when the students are quilting their squares using the decorative stitches of their sewing machines. They look at the quilters next to them and the stitches they have on their machines, and well, you get the [...] Read more »
Funky Fuzzy Shortcut Quilt
This baby is my favorite – by far! I wanted to couch down some yarn instead of quilting my squares, and I dug through my stash and found this chunky funky fuzzy yarn – -isn’t it delicious? I’ve been using a narrow zigzag stitch to couch it down and it’s going slower than I thought [...] Read more »
Funky Shortcut Quilt
I thought of a name for my new quilt…”Funky Shortcut”. I’ve wanted to try this harlequin type of cutting arrangement for a while, and I really, really love it with these fabrics! Read more »
