En Provence: Tweaked Bonnie Hunter is a favorite of mine. I love her books, her blog, and when her En Provence quilt along came aro...

Four Borders This picture is turned on its side so you can get a good idea of the colors in all the border pieces. Nothing was sewn...

 "Tutti Frutti" The monthly sewing group gathers late this month so I've allowed the studio to fall into chaos before ...

Last Week's Layouts  A First for Me: All Solids Something that brings me great pleasure is working in the quilt room laying out...

It's been nearly one week since my last post. I've made 2 quilts from scratch, and finished 3 or more UFO's. 

Vintage Inspired Nine Patch Laying out a one patch design such as this with 5" squares is greatly aided by knowing where the ...

Queen's Cross I never board an airplane without my trusty composition books, and sharp pencils. While dear husband snoozes away, ...

The Best of Three Navy Nine Patch Most people will tell you there is no such thing as an ugly quilt. Let me bite my lip and rephra...

Blocks Are Together Design Process seems to be my theme this week. I like hearing how other people make design decisions, and it ac...

The Quilting Room at the Connections Thrift Store In Kidron, Ohio I travel about an hour each way to volunteer at a MCC thrift st...

New Quilt Underway Working hard at clearing out the studio of too much stash, I pulled all my wildest fabrics to make a bucket list...

Bargello : a needlework stitch in high and low relief that produces a variety of zigzag or flame effects. If that is true, then na...

The Process Is the Prize You may not believe the above statement, but I do. I find more joy in working out problems than finishing ...

Moda's Moxi by Studio M A few months ago I picked up a mini charm pack of these pretty-little-things at my LQS. I wanted t...

"You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club."--Jack London I have low energy right now....

Before I explain my exodus from the  house, let me show you my QST progress. This was taken in my new space with only a flash. No...

Effy came out to help me show off the new bag I made today. I used some heavy gingham someone had given me, and some uber retro,  ...

We were home just long enough to unpack our few things Sunday afternoon, and I hit the ground running. The end of the week was geari...