April 2025 – Quilting and more …

Two colorful birds sitting on branches: bullfinch, sitting in a grey nest, and house finch.

And the final five …

What can I say? I was on a roll and just couldn’t wait to see how each of these little birds would turn out. So here are the final five birds, all ready to be combined into a quilt top! My Bernina has really had a workout in the past […]

Four multicolored birds sitting on brown branches: toucan, cockatoo, parrot, pine grosbeak. Most have a leaf in two shades of green.

Four more!

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I’ve been having so much fun making the various different paper-pieced bird blocks designed by WonderFil last year that I haven’t been able to stop. I’d originally planned to work on them *only* at the monthly (more or less) sewing days sponsored by the local guild, but I keep making […]

Two paper-pieced blocks of a robin with orange head and white and grey body. Each is sitting on a brown branch with a blue background. One block is larger than the other.

How does this happen?

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My “bird project” is supposed to be something I’ll work on during sewing days sponsored by my guild. Somehow, though, I just couldn’t resist making the third in the series at home a few days ago — and it’s a very good thing I did! The designs are paper pieced, […]

Small purple zippered case with white top handle and multicolored zipper with matching dog zipper pulls.

Oops!

I’ve been looking for a way to pack jewelry when I go away, but everything I’d seen just didn’t quite work. However, I noticed a pattern on the By Annie site that I thought might do the trick; the pattern is called Treasures and Trinkets. Since it can be made […]