Each week, I look forward to Friday. Fridays are special because I have fun participating in Four Foods on Friday. Each week, Val asks us to answer questions pertaining to food. Here are this weeks questions. #1. Anele’s question. Do you have a natural ability to cook or do you feel you just “get by?” [...]
This was a productive Memorial Day weekend! I weeded, sewed, ate and exercised! I made two laptop bags for a customer. I hope she approves.
A few posts back, I told how I searched to find the meaning behind the Log Cabin quilt pattern. I had given up until Maf left a comment explaining the significance of the lights and darks of fabric choices and why the square in the middle of the block is usually red in color. Thank [...]
I cannot believe that we will soon be moving our son to his apartment in St. Louis. Our kids are getting older and we have not done all the things we planned to do while they lived at home. I feel so bad that we never took Greg to Disney World. Enough of that! We [...]
Quilt Barns and Quilt Trail projects are becoming more and more popular throughout the United States. Quilt patterns are painted on the side of barns, businesses, public buildings and homes. I noticed many quilt patterns on barns on my trip to Pigeon Forge last spring. This barn is located in Ohio:
Join Dana, the Old Red Barn Co. blog author, as she begins a 6 week quilt along. During the six weeks, she will be giving away wonderful prizes and at the end of it all she is going to give away a Janome 6600 sewing machine!!!
I am in love with fabric design. It amazes me how when, just as you think they cannot come up with another new fabric idea, they come up with new and beautiful winners. “I Love Lucy” is in. Makes cute aprons or a quilt for a lover of the comedienne. “Ellie Fun” is also here. [...]
This purse was so much fun to make. I picked the blue batiks and went to town! I’ll be listing this purse on Etsy this afternoon so if you want to buy it let me know right away. It has 5 pockets and is the perfect size to carry. Height 11″ Width 14″ front to [...]
Today at Heads or Tails, we were given the chance to go back and choose one of our favorite topics, “any past theme,” for today’s meme. This gave me the chance to choose the topic “flower.” I must have missed that week! This is not an actual picture of my flowers but are very close. [...]
Thinking of quilts and their names led me to a wonderful article by Laurette Carroll called Quilt Pattern Names. Her research led to frustration as she said, Research done on the earliest quilt pattern names and where they originated, has not been overly successful. There are quilt names mentioned in old diaries or journals kept [...]
