Calistoga

Last weekend my husband and I flew to San Francisco to meet our younger daughter and her fiancé for a weekend of wine tasting in Calistoga. We’d never done that before, and we loved it! The scenery was gorgeous, the weather was beautiful, the company was great, and the wine delicious. […]

French macarons

No — not macaroons, those coconut cookies we all know. These are macarons, a meringue-like cookie made sandwich-style with a yummy filling in between the halves. A friend and I took a class at a local place last night, and I think everyone there had a wonderful time making various […]

Bloc-Loc Rulers

Rulers — can we quilters ever have enough of them? Naturally, we could all probably get along with a minimal number, but sometimes a ruler or set of rulers comes along that just makes life nicer and easier. The ones I’m talking about today are sort of comparable to Susan […]

Fiesta progress

Remember this post? Since then, I made the painful decision to redo that border, so I bought more red  fabric for the narrow strips and more white for the background. This time everything seems to have gone much better, as the fabric didn’t bleed as I spritzed out the blue […]

New stove

Don’t you just love it when you have big plans for a project, and something interferes and ruins it all? About a week ago, I decided to bake some bar cookies for a friend, and all went very well at first. Before taking the pan out of our oven, I […]

Yum!

How do you make a choice??? A couple of days ago an old friend came to town to attend a convention. She is the reason I began going to Houston each year for the big quilt show. Sadly, we hadn’t seen each other in several years, as she lives in […]