My quilt buddy, Phyl, and I met up in Houston again this year, along with a few more of her Phoenix friends. As always, it was a fantastic time! The only downside was the very wet weather, which saw Phyl and me almost swimming to the convention center one day […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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What’s Fiori di Cuore, you ask? I don’t know what it actually means, but it’s the name of a sweater pattern that I began making last fall and finally finished this week. LOL! Actually, fiori are flowers, and cuore is a heart — but does someone out there know what they […]
I’ve been away for almost a week and haven’t been able to do any quilting, embroidery or knitting while I was gone. However, today was different! 🙂 A very kind person, whose name I don’t want to reveal without permission, loaned me a Westalee ruler foot to play with and […]
Last night I had a very nasty surprise when I wanted to check something on this blog. The whole blog was gone!! Gulp! All that remained was some text that indicated a problem with the coding in the “theme” I use here. Ack! Of course I did the wrong thing right away — it figures. I […]
Last summer, the San Francisco Stitch Company posted weekly machine embroidery blocks. I downloaded each one and made it, thinking that the blocks would be good practice for me. Who knew the blocks would also be so cute? 🙂 I had to put the finished top aside for a time while […]
I’ve had four of my five grandchildren over to work on quilty projects at one time or another, but the youngest boy somehow never made it. There were several reasons, but they’re not important now, since he and I finally found a mutually agreeable time this past Sunday! Yay! Most […]