Jennifer Chiaverini is one of my favorite authors. She writes books about women who quilt. These books are not necessarily about quilts, rather they are about women and their relationship to a quilter or a quilt or both! Quilts are a wonderful connection. I have had The Quilter’s Homecoming book sitting on my nightstand for [...]
I was looking through some old picture albums and ran across this picture. I made this quilt for my daughter in 2006. She liked it because the colors are green and purple and the dog block is a Boston Terrier. My dogs seemed to like it too!
See those shoes? Those are my niece’s and great niece’s shoes. They looked so pretty attending their cousin’s wedding. The wedding was beautiful and fun. I’ll be back with pictures and stories.
Homes4Good, a Non-Profit organization, has partnered with the Bags of Love program. The program was started to give a boost to foster children, many of whom carry their worldly belongings in a bag. Finding their things reduced to being carried in a garbage bag seemed to sum up the way the children felt about their [...]
In honor of the fourth of July celebrations that will taking place this weekend, I present Etsy in red, white and blue! Click on the picture to see each shop.
Have you noticed that much of the fabric we creat our projects with is not made in the USA? That is changing. Connecting Threads has just announced that the cotton for all their new fabric collections is being grown in the USA. It is being woven and manufactured in North America. Look for that Cotton [...]
