Small bag in lavender cork fabric and with a long strap.

Payday bag

I’ve made quite a few bags from patterns at Annie Unrein’s site, and this is my latest.  The strap adjusts to make the bag go from shoulder bag to cross-body bag to fanny pack — very useful! The pattern was introduced at the Houston quilt show, where I made sure […]

Split circles (red/white) are set into off-white and black background, the resulting blocks forming an on-point black square surrounded by large off-white triangles. Fabric is poppies and Paris-themed.

The curves are done!

I put the finishing touches on a quilt I’d been working on — or on and off! — for a couple of months. Of course, the holidays were in there, so I’ll blame the slow progress on that. 😉 This was something I made to practice a technique (Pieceliqué) I’d […]

Small mostly-white terrier mix standing on her back legs on a dark couch while showering the man next to her with kisses.

One exhausted pup

She’s not really a puppy now, as she’s four years old and has lived with us for a year and a half. This year I bought Chouchou (pronounced shoe-shoe) a sweater that looks like she’s a Christmas gift — so cute!  Unfortunately, you can’t really see the design from the […]

A set of twelve identical embroidered ornaments, each with red/black/gold motifs in a firefighter theme: helmet, hatchet, hose, etc.

Ornaments

A few days ago, I had an email from Thelander Designs — a perfectly ordinary email to advertise a sale on some of their embroidery designs. A quick glance and I’ll trash it, right? Oops. There was a design for an ornament for firefighters, and I just had to get […]

Exterior of bag for portable charger. Fabric is green leaves/ferns with chartreuse binding and front decoration with "Podfeet" logo.

A new bag

A couple of weeks ago, a good friend of mine, Allison Sheridan, posted on her blog that she’d bought a new travel charger for her devices. The only problem was that the bag it came with was too small to hold the cord as well, and it was made of […]

Red, black and white or cream fabrics made into circular blocks for a quilt.

Curves, curves and more curves

When I was at our local guild’s retreat last summer a cute little pattern, Mini Moons, caught my eye. It reminded me of a class I’d taken years ago from Sharon Schamber, who is the most amazing quilter and who came up with a technique called Pieceliqué — kind of […]