Angle or Not
My sister is trying to decide whether she wants to make her table topper with the angles cut off or not. I made one of each style so I hope this helps her.
Do You Hear That?
It is the sound of the quilting angels singing HALLELUJAH!!! My sister put together the blocks for a quilt she started approximately 2 years ago. Isn’t it pretty?
Quiltcreators Will Make Your Quilt
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Quiltcreator. All opinions are 100% mine. I love to make quilts. I love the process of picking out fabric, finding a pattern that excites me and cutting the fabric. Those are only the beginning processes of making a quilt. It takes me many days [...]
Woman Banned from Fabric Store
I wish that were the case. When I last visited a casino, I noticed a sign that noted a policy for gamblers. It stated that if you wanted to be banned from a casino, to help with your addiction, you could sign a paper stating you did not want to be allowed to enter the [...]
Loose Change
Have you seen all the packaged 5″, 10″ and fat quarters! The language of the quilter. But exactly what can you do with these size pieces of fabric? With the book LOOSE CHANGE and some time, you can make GREAT quilts. Beginning with an explanation of how many pieces in nickel (5″) or dime (10″) [...]
The Quilter's Homecoming
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 [...]
Quilters Are Great People
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 [...]
Lights and Darks
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 [...]
She Likes It! She Really Likes It!
My friend, Corrin, commissioned me to make a mini laptop bag for her. I just happened to be working on this blog and saw in my dashboard that she had a link to Winding Threads. She made a video, thanking me for the bag, which you can see in my post here. Thanks for the [...]
Hand Quilting is Tough Stuff
My fingers are so sore because I have been hand quilting. Watch the technique of hand quilting. Her left hand is under the hoop and she uses her fingers to push the needle back up to the top of the fabric. Doing the pushing has turned my index and middle fingers into a calloused mess.
