Let me get this out of the way from the start: I love my Bernina 790+ sewing machine. I often say that someone would have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. However, it does have one disadvantage: it’s really heavy! In the past, I’ve opted not to participate […]
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First of all, I have to eat my words. Referring back to October and the whim that led me to enter a quilt into the Road to California show, a few days after I’d sent in that entry, I also was notified that the AQS show in Paducah was also […]
Yesterday our local quilt guild had a bus trip to the wonderful Road to California show — over and back all in one day. We all had a great time, with lots of laughter and chatter all the way. We had done a similar thing ten years ago, when I […]
Last week our local quilt guild, Desert Quilters of Nevada, hosted award-winning quilter MJ Kinman for a wonderful lecture at our quarterly meeting, followed by two days of classes. I took one of the classes, Bite-Size Gems, where we learned how to “translate” a picture of a gemstone into a […]
The San Francisco Stitch Company has lots of wonderful designs available, and I’ve made some of them in the past — all with no problems at all, as was the case here. They recently released the beginning of a monthly series of designs for mug rugs, though the designs could […]
It’s been a little while, hasn’t it? Sorry about that! We’ve been dealing with some serious health issues concerning our dog these days. She’s 14.5 years old now, so I guess she’s entitled to a few glitches. Still, she seems to be holding her own at the moment, so that’s […]