My son-in-law has been “gently” hinting for a few years that he needed a new Christmas stocking. My daughter has one I made for her when she was quite young, and each of their three children also has one specially made for them, but my son-in-law has been using one […]
It seems as though I’ve been working — on and off — on this quilt forever, but it’s finally done. 🙂 It’s my Swap Baskets quilt that began as a swap (October, 2010) of signature blocks among the members of my local group. I had no idea what I was […]
Yesterday I attended an “event” at my local quilt shop, which is also my Bernina dealer. It’s Quiltique, and it’s a great shop. 🙂 They hosted a sort of workshop where we could get a little hands-on practice with the new Bernina 500-series machines. The practice resulted in a journal […]
A very good friend of mine invited me to go to Disneyland with her — just two adults sort of living a second childhood. 😉 Naturally, I jumped at the chance! We stayed at the Disneyland Hotel, and this is the view we had from our suite. Everything — and […]
I’m still quilting my basket quilt. It’s taking me a long time, mainly because I’m not doing any really fun quilting on it. I’ve already done some feathers in the plain strips, but the basket blocks are getting simple outline quilting, and that’s just plain boring. :S Still, it will […]
I haven’t had much to show anyone in the past week or so, but today I finished knitting a little pullover. I used baby alpaca yarn in a very pale pink, and it’s so soft! I probably need to steam the seams a little to get the little ridge out, […]