Mama Llama Love

While in Houston last fall, I ran across this pattern and simply couldn’t resist! The expressions on the faces are just delightful, so the pattern came home with me. I pretty much followed the colors as given on the pattern, since I wasn’t really sure what colors llamas really are, […]

Mortally wounded

I’ve been MIA for a bit longer than I’d realized! I’ve been working on a new quilt (what else is new?), and that leads me to today’s post. No, not the new quilt, but related …. A few months ago, I showed you a new pin cushion I’d hand embroidered. […]

Sleep masks

Sometimes it’s very difficult to fall asleep on an airplane. Actually, it’s almost always difficult to fall asleep on an airplane! I decided to try using a sleep mask the next time I take a long flight, but it seemed like very little extra work to make similar ones for all of […]

A biscornu pin cushion

I don’t know why I’m so intrigued by the biscornu construction, and I also don’t know why I like pin cushions so much. At the moment, I have at least nine pin cushions, and that’s not counting the ones I’ve made and given away!   At any rate, my local […]

Dresden Neighborhood

I’ve just finished this quilt, called Dresden Neighborhood, but I think it should probably be called “Cursed”! 😉 I’d bought some lovely scraps of Cherrywood fabrics to use for the houses, but the scraps were so small that I didn’t want to wash them and risk ending up with a […]

More holiday blocks

The fifth and sixth blocks from the newest San Francisco Stitch Company series were issued a few days ago, and I was at a good stopping point in my current project, so I went ahead and embroidered them. I think there are only six more to go of each size, […]