I’m still very new at doing machine embroidery, but some months ago I bought a pattern for an adorable gingerbread house. It took me a while to begin working on it, but it’s finally finished. It’s anything but perfect, but I still think it’s cute. The various pieces started out […]
We’ve had a visitor for the past few days. The boxer-mix puppy that belongs to one of our daughters and her two sons — our grandsons, of course — was visiting from Friday until this afternoon. He’s still quite young and very playful, which intimidated our little Bisou a bit, but — on the whole — they got […]
Several years ago my husband and I took our first cruise, going to several islands in the Eastern Caribbean. Just over a year ago, I took another cruise to the same area, this time a quilting cruise with several friends. During that cruise I bought three small pieces of fabric […]
You may — or may not 😉 — remember this post. At the time that my quilting buddy, Phyl, bought her kit, I also bought one, and I put it away to work on at some point; the kits were laser cut by Stacy Michell. That was about three years ago. Time does fly! LOL! […]
In my previous post I showed you the beginnings of a new quilt, which is now finished. I’ve had a lot of fun with this one, but I’ve also had a serious problem, caused entirely by user error. 😉 The pattern was designed by Susan Cleveland, and it went together […]
A few years ago I bought a tool and a pattern at Susan Cleveland’s booth at the Houston show. As happens all too often, both ended up in a drawer with a promise of using them “someday”. Then last year I came across a little bundle of linen rectangles, each a […]