Her first quilt! Last week I posted that my six-year-old granddaughter had come over to begin working on a doll quilt. Today she came back to finish it. 🙂 It’s pretty hot here right now (we’re hitting record high temperatures!), so G’s patience and attention span weren’t quite as unlimited […]
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Several weeks ago, my granddaughter asked me to teach her how to make a quilt, and I told her we’d better wait until school was over for the summer, since she and her family are always pretty busy. Today was the day! I got out graph paper for her to […]
Outer bag This is a pattern I’ve been meaning to make for some time, but I kept procrastinating. Then my LQS advertised a class to make the very same bag, so I signed up in order to force myself to make it. LOL! The class lasted six hours, and it’s […]
Some time ago I looked around for a yarn shop and couldn’t find one all that conveniently located for my area. The only one I did find was disappointingly unfriendly. 🙁 However, last week I had a very happy surprise when the local newspaper wrote an article profiling a yarn […]
Not too long ago, I showed you some fabrics that are to be in my next quilt. Yesterday I began making the blocks and continued today. I’m pretty happy with the way they’re turning out, though there’s one at the lower left in the photo that looks pretty wonky. However, […]
When I recently began using the embroidery module on my Bernina to create labels, I had no intention at all of using it for other embroidered projects. Yup. So much for that idea! 😉 Since then, I’ve done a few small free-standing lace embroideries, and I did those little gift […]