Quilting

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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 […]

Quilters are the nicest people!

I belong to a great group of quilters here where I live; we’re the Green Valley Quilters. When I first joined the group after moving here in 1999, we had a telephone “tree” to inform each one of what we needed to bring to the next meeting. It was a […]