I’ve been working on my basket quilt today and have made some progress. 🙂 All of the baskets were already put together into strips with black setting triangles, and today I cut what felt like miles of an off-white fabric with black pin dots; these strips will be the first […]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
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We had guests this morning — completely unexpected ones. Actually, they visited our next-door neighbors first, but then they decided to head our way. Can you see them? It’s a family of quail, complete with a baby or two. There were several more that disappeared before I could grab my […]
Last spring I posted a little tutorial on how to make some signature blocks. Our quilt circle had its exchange, and I tucked my share of those signed blocks away for a time. Fast forward to last week, when our circle had another exchange, this time of half-square triangle blocks. […]
I’ve been AWOL for a time, but I have a good excuse. 😉 My twin sister and her husband were visiting us from France! We’ve had such a good time, but of course blogging went by the wayside. They’ve left now, though, and it just so happens that my local […]
Have I mentioned lately that I really like Annie Unrein‘s patterns? 😉 I’ve shown you her MiPad Case and her Name Tag Bag, and now I’ve made her camera case. It’s a bit fiddly to do, since the curves are small (what camera case isn’t?), but it came out pretty […]
… this post from just over a month ago? I said then that I was hoping to find buttons to decorate my gingerbread house tea cozy, and I did! I went to the Long Beach Festival last week, and there they were! Yay! So I’ve spent part of today putting them […]