floral mug rugs for March and April

Mug rugs

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 […]

long tube to make purple wrist rest

Here’s hoping …

I’ve been trying to deal with some issues in my hands  — and especially in my fingers — for some time now. I have Reynaud’s, meaning that the circulation in my hands and feet is poor. Lately, though, my fingers are especially affected, even without very cold temperatures. At times […]

tea cozy with bird and tea cup design

A very quick tea cozy

I love tea and drink a small pot of it almost every morning while reading my email. The tea cozy I use for the holiday season is over ten years old, and the one I use the rest of the year is even older, so I decided that it was […]

Ribbon Weave quilt

Another finish :)

At 85″ x 85″, this Ribbon Weave quilt is much larger than I usually make. Thank goodness for the suspension system I purchased last spring! Wrestling something of this size through my Bernina 790+ would have been exhausting otherwise! If I’d thought through what I was doing, I think I’d […]

quilt spread out on cabinet

Slow progress

I’m still working — slowly — on the same quilt as I showed you previously. It’s slow going, since there are always (of course!) interruptions. It’s also quite a bit larger than my usual quilts, due to a lack of forethought before I started it. Thank goodness I have that […]

Bisou (cocker spaniel) smiling

Sad news

It’s taken me a little while to be able to post this, but it’s time. Back in 2008, we adopted a little cocker spaniel, whom we named Bisou (= “kiss”). She’s been a delight, once she outgrew her overwhelming desire to chew the leather couches we had at the time. […]