The family is growing …

My little quail family, that is! 🙂 I showed you the first of the baby chicks in my last post, but progress has been made since then. I’ve temporarily put aside the free-motion quilting I was doing, since I didn’t want to lose the train of thought on this little […]

Back from a fun weekend

Several friends and I have just returned from a weekend in Lake Havasu City, AZ, where a quilt retreat was held last week. Most of our “group” took a class together from Linda Hibbert, who had designed a new pattern for the occasion: a covey of quail! When I saw […]

String Art

We had a lovely Christmas here — it was so busy that I never even had time to post to my blog! But that’s a good thing, right? Besides, I was also occupied in moving to this new location and learning how to use WordPress — which I’m still doing — so posting had to suffer. However, […]

You found me …

… and I’m so glad! I’d been thinking of moving my blog for some time. I wasn’t unhappy with Blogspot, of course, but I do have a private domain, and it supports WordPress. It just seemed logical to take advantage of that, so here I am, along with all of my […]

Busy time of year

I hadn’t realized that my most recent post dated from almost a month ago! But I know most of us are in the same situation: fully engulfed in preparations for the coming holidays. Some are dealing with unexpected complications, too, as I have been for the past couple of weeks â€” nothing […]

Happy Thanksgiving!

There are so many things to be thankful for, beginning with family and friends and going right down the list. I hope everyone out there has a wonderful holiday weekend! I’ve been baking today, using my own grandmother’s recipe for pumpkin pie, which always makes more filling than will fit […]