Weekend fun

My very good quilting buddy, Phyl, invited me to go with her to attend an event hosted by the Bernina Connection in Phoenix. Coincidentally, one of the owners of that shop, Val, used to be my neighbor when I lived in Arizona, and our children were in school together. As […]

What good is a bathtub?

I know that we’ve all bathed children and maybe pets in bathtubs, but really! After the children get to a certain age, I’d guess that most of us use the shower much more often than the bathtub, right? Why am I pondering this? Because a decent-sized black cloud was hovering […]

Progress on two fronts

I’ve said before that I have a Mac computer. I’ve had Macs almost from the time they were introduced, and I haven’t done a clean installation of a new operating system in at least ten years. As a result, there’s lots of extra “stuff” hiding in various places on my […]

Back from Houston

Gosh! It’s been a month since I’ve written a post — time really does fly sometimes. I returned home last night from a wonderful trip to the Houston Quilt Festival, which was celebrating its 40th anniversary. I know there are photos all over the web of the glorious quilts; I […]

Parcel Pullover Sweater

This design by Carol Feller caught my eye some time ago, and I found some yarn I liked for it and went to work. 🙂 The yarn is Malabrigo Rios, in the Solis color. It’s a gorgeous yarn!  I’d only done cables once before, and those were on some rather small […]

Storm!

The sun behind the clouds We’re under a flash flood watch right now as a huge storm rolls in. It hasn’t hit our area quite yet, but we have some spectacular skies while we wait. We really need the water, but getting it all at once is always a bit […]