Quilting

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Mats

Tea mats Yesterday was the day for the regular meeting of my local quilt group, which is always fun. 🙂 One of the members usually gives a “mini-class” for us to make something new, or we can simply work on our own projects and visit with each other. This time […]

Cupcake Bag

Today is our granddaughter’s fifth birthday! I can hardly believe she’s five already, and she’s the youngest of our five grandchildren. Yikes! Naturally, we bought her a toy that she wants, but then last night I decided I ought to make up this pattern for a Little Cupcake Tote I’d bought last January. […]

Curvy Star

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 […]

Christmas in April?

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 […]

Macaroni!

No, this isn’t a post about food. 😉 Remember that retreat I blogged about in January? One of the classes I had there was from Susan Cleveland and dealt with using her corded piping in curves within blocks. Prior to this, I’d only used the piping next to the binding […]