The Celebration
With this batch of sashing, attached to three other batches in the bottom left, I’ve now completed eight of the nine “nonants” (the nine sections in the center of this […]
The Puzzling Connection
I’ve just returned from our guild’s quilting retreat, and I’m still in that “not quite ready to unpack and return to reality” phase. I spent a lot of the retreat […]
The Low Bar
Nothing fit together right on this bout of sashing. Blocks K1 and K2 were the worst. I’m giving myself a pass on K2 (bottom right), since it was made so […]
The Decision Fatigue
Social media algorithms have recently decided that I’m neurodivergent. I don’t know that this is actually true, but the posts aimed at neurodivergent people do speak to me, and it’s […]
The Backing Candidates
I’m getting towards the end of the piecing phase of this project. There are less than 10 blocks left to stitch, and I’ve made great strides on the sashing too. […]
The Photographic Evidence
This was another one of those blocks where I felt uninspired by the fabric I’d chosen, and wanted to find something new to use instead. And this was the color […]
The Place for Everything
Until two or three months ago, all my frequently-used quilting tools were piled into both halves of an old school box, which was in turn balanced on top of a […]
The Odds and Ends
I’m down to single digits of Dear Jane blocks left to do – all the odds and ends – and this block itself feels like a collection of odds and […]
The Pauletta Stone
When I first got this “kit” for the Dear Jane quilt, it came with a piece of the background fabric that had a 13×13 grid of 1″ squares basted to […]
The Power of Just Starting
I’m nearing the end of my Dear Jane journey (or at least the piecing leg of my journey), but I still sometimes get stuck in that same old trap. And […]
The Sportsball Sashing Sessions
I’ve discovered that sashing is a great way to self-soothe during particularly intense sportsball games, so I’ve taken to coordinating my sashing sessions with sporting events on TV. This sashing […]
The Nesting Nine-Patches
I took this block on a weekend getaway … I definitely needed something simple, to get away from the ghosts of quilt blocks past in my last sashing segment. This […]