Yearly Archives: 2011

61 posts

Visitors in our garden

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 […]

New blocks

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. […]

Latest project

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 […]

Camera case

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 […]

Do you remember …

… 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 […]

Dinner!

Let’s get one thing out of the way from the start: I love ratatouille! It takes a little while to make, though using a pressure cooker does cut that time down a bit. But summer in the desert is no time to be really excited about standing over a hot stove, […]