The Objects of Design

The blue mouse did fancy the pink one after all, and now I have a mouse explosion in my sewing room. I should have read the fine print abo...

Look who showed up out of the blue! Tommy, however, doesn't like how blue mouse is looking at pink mouse.  He thinks we may be heading...

After the unexpected demise of the blue cranes, Tommy suggested I switch to mice. According to him, mice are a lot faster and don't ju...

A bow-tie quilt top from the 1980's. I'm trying to figure if I should keep it small and finish it off simply, or grow it by adding...

Here's another old quilt I made in 1986, called "New Wave Bow-tie." It's my thirteenth finished quilt. I think this was ...

Here are the cranes I made for today's rainbow challenge at So Scrappy . Yesterday, I mentioned that I am making these in an attempt t...

I was planning on just watching everyone jump into the new year with the scrappy challenge at SoScrappy . My mind was a blank. Until I saw...

Here is the Placid Curves QOV post-rinse and wash. In my January 3 post , I was worried because one of the fabrics in the quilt proved to ...

This is going to get a little embarrassing. When I began quilting, I only used solid fabrics and all the quilts were hand quilted. And mos...

The MASSIVE cleanup that began with the sewing room has moved to the room where I store flat folds of fabric, weaving fiber and finished q...

I finally got in a sewing groove and got all the blocks put together for the quilt of valor. And this one will get a soak BEFORE it'...

  Here is the finished fractured quilt. I didn't get the binding on until this afternoon, hence the fractured shadows across t...

The Placid Curves QOV is quilted and bound. I'm off to make the presentation case so I can send it to Alycia next week.

Here is my Quilt of Valor for January. I obviously have a new found fascination with trees that stand upright.  Here is the back with l...

A 64X72 inch post-stamp charm quilt. Postage stamp refers to one-inch finished squares, and charm quilt means no repeat fabrics. So this i...