finished

With two unfinished quilts, of course I took the supplies to begin an entirely new quilt with me on vacation! Pattern:  Made in Cherry, resized to be 60×60 Fabrics:  Hodgepodge of all pink and orange fabrics in my stash, with solid Kona magenta and Denyse Schmidt prints for the back My lovely niece requested an [...]

school’s out!

I feel like I’m the one on summer vacation!  Except for the whole going to work thing.  But no more checking homework assignments on-line!  No more hounding the boy to work on projects!  And he passed chemistry and geometry!  Ah…bliss! I’ve started a new quilt for my mother’s birthday in August, using Laura Gunn’s Poppy [...]

FOs

Seems a finishing frenzy has struck at my house! First I finished the upcoming birthday boy quilt: and the back: I quilted this before I got all brave with free motion quilting, so it’s meandering wavy lines using my walking foot. Then I finished the quilt mountain! Again, I quilted the main section of the [...]

quilting season

As the weather gets warmer, my sewing machine starts calling.  I’m still knitting and spinning (and have piles of yarn and several FOs to photograph), but lately my daydreams have been all about fabric and patterns.  Yesterday, I finished my first quilt of the year!   The pattern is Bob from the Fat Quarterly Solids [...]

Happy Christmas!

I finished a long-languishing Christmas present! When I started quilting last summer, my family immediately put in requests for quilts of their own.  I made a quilt for my daughter in November but didn’t really have a timetable for quilts for my husband and son.  Then one day I was browsing the clearance section at [...]

step by step, inch by inch

I am slowly getting some things done! First up – another pair of gift socks! Lynn asked me how I magically knew what size to knit gift box socks, which is a good question.  When I start a pair of gift socks, I have in mind the recipient, but I don’t blog names in case [...]

sustainable sewing

I’ve been waiting all week to see if I had a tale of joy or a tale of woe to share. Last Friday, I bought a 1951 Singer 15-91 from a guy off Craigslist.  Brought it home, read the manual thoroughly, gave it a good oiling and sewed happily for about two hours.  Then the [...]

can you guess where I’ve been?

Yep, the annual family beach trip to Cape San Blas, Florida!  Which, I’m happy to report, is oil free. We had lovely sunsets, beach bonfires (boys and their poking sticks!) and fireworks! It only rained one day, which was the perfect time for me to do this: Yeah, you can pretty much throw out everything [...]