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I’ve been missing for the past few days, I know. It’s been a busy week.  I’ve been writing quilt patterns… which is not for the faint of heart.  My goal is always to be clear and to keep my instructions…

I just finished putting the binding on my newest quilt. I played with the idea of using half square triangles to make kite string ties over a year ago, but I couldn’t decide how I wanted to make the strings.…

I decided that before I was allowed to work on any new projects, I needed to wrap up a few old projects.  I just finished piecing my half squares on point quilt. Now for the big decision, do I want…

It was a lovely, good, long weekend with lots of time to relax and enjoy. While we watched Masterpiece Theater’s Sense and Sensibility and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, I helped my girls sew new dolls from Alicia Paulson’s wonderfully sweet book,…

My New Year’s Resolution:  Don’t buy fabric unless I KNOW what I’m using for and how much I’ll need.  It hasn’t taken long, and I’ve kind of broken that resolution already. I stole a piece of this floral fabric (Karen…

It’s a wonderful thing about mothers, sometimes they teach you how to do something… and then they teach something infinitely even more important by their example. Yesterday I spent the day with my Mom working on a quilt.  We almost…

After school yesterday I invited my friend’s daughters over to stitch with my girls. I let the girls pick through scraps of wool to find colors they liked. We traced the little bird template onto freezer paper, pressed the freezer…

I’ve hardly gotten out of bed this past week thanks to my bad cold.  I’m still a little loopy today, but I finally got my traced template scanned to share with anyone interested in making a Christmas garland. My traced…