In Houston last fall, I took another class from one of my favorite teachers, Philippa Naylor. This one was on techniques to use in curved piecing. I only finished the very center portion of the piece in class, and then — as these things so often happen — it was […]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
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That’s bits of bad luck, of course. 😉 It all started with the plumbing in our home, which had been built with the wrong plumbing fittings. As a result, we had to have the entire house re-plumbed: three days of noise, mess, and stress — all followed by massive cleaning […]
Friday was our younger daughter’s birthday. I won’t say how old she is, because it’s a complete shock to me that I could possibly have a “child” older than 20. 😉 You can imagine what *30* did to me! Anyway, her favorite birthday dessert is a specific cheesecake she’s been […]
This post has nothing to do with quilting, food, or anything else I’ve ever written about here. Yesterday my credit card was hacked. Someone did some fun online shopping at what they hoped was my expense — to the tune of over $400. I’m lucky. I discovered it the same […]
My son-in-law has been “gently” hinting for a few years that he needed a new Christmas stocking. My daughter has one I made for her when she was quite young, and each of their three children also has one specially made for them, but my son-in-law has been using one […]
It seems as though I’ve been working — on and off — on this quilt forever, but it’s finally done. 🙂 It’s my Swap Baskets quilt that began as a swap (October, 2010) of signature blocks among the members of my local group. I had no idea what I was […]