I’ve been home from the big Houston Quilt Festival for just hours short of a week now, and I think I’ve finally recuperated and caught up enough to get my blog caught up, too. 😉 A friend and I flew to Houston on Wednesday (11/2/2011), arriving in time to dump […]
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I’ve been working on my basket quilt today and have made some progress. 🙂 All of the baskets were already put together into strips with black setting triangles, and today I cut what felt like miles of an off-white fabric with black pin dots; these strips will be the first […]
Last night and the night before, my husband pointed out Bisou soundly sleeping on our couch. She spends quite a bit of each evening dozing, then comes to find me when she decides it’s really bedtime. Then she settles herself on the foot of the bed, where she remains until […]
I do like curves! Not on me so much, but on my quilts. 😉 I’ve been making some Drunkard’s Path blocks in two sizes, and this is what they looked like on my cool design wall this morning. Since then, I’ve rearranged them a little to distribute the colors a […]
I’ve always liked curved blocks: Drunkard’s Path, New York Beauty, Winding Ways, etc. In fact, I’ve already made two projects from the Drunkard’s Path block, I’ve done some NY Beauties, and I recently finished my Winding Ways quilt (photo coming soon, I hope!). When I saw my sister’s recent work, […]
I’m not completely ready for Christmas, but today I took a bit of a break from that hustle and bustle to work on the miniature I now have in progress. While I was in Houston in November, I bought a kit — something I never do — for a Storm […]