Have I mentioned that I really like working with cork? In case I haven’t yet, I do! I recently saw a YouTube tutorial on how to make a passport case from cork, and it occurred to me that I had some cork on hand and that my husband didn’t have […]
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Last spring I decided to hang a hummingbird feeder in the tree outside the window in my sewing room. All summer long I’ve had visitors, and one of them has become quite brave. He (she?) drinks a bit, then rests in the tree and grooms a bit, then drinks some […]
I’m still working on the same quilt I showed you a couple of weeks ago. There’s progress, but it’s been slowed because of another project I had to get done — and it has a deadline. This project isn’t a quilt, but it’s related. You see, about twenty-five years ago […]
When my husband and I were newlyweds, decorating our first Christmas tree was a problem, since we didn’t have any ornaments. When our daughters came along, I began buying them an ornament each year so that they’d have a collection when the time came for them to have their own […]
The ladies at my local quilt group really liked the biscornu cushion that I made some time back, so they asked me to teach them the biscornu technique. To get ready for yesterday’s session for that, I made another pin cushion, and then I also made another “shell” of one, but […]
If you’ve seen many of the quilts I’ve posted here, you may have noticed that I love to use corded piping next to the binding. Now, though, I may be “kicking it up a notch.” I learned of a class online offered by Bethanne Nemesh, whose work I’ve long admired, […]