The UFO Challenge
Other quilters I know are always doing UFO challenges, but I always thought they were not for me. The idea is that you pick twelve quilt projects that are languishing […]
Side Projects
The Pandemic Life
Quilting is sure different during a pandemic, sometimes in unexpected ways. For example, I’m embarrassed that I can’t remember what day I finished this block. I’m pretty sure it was […]
The Whirlwind
My faithful readers (all 17 of them!) may remember that I switched around the fabrics I planned to use for certain blocks earlier this year, in order to accommodate a […]
The Tribe
I always enjoy going to quilting retreat (except for that one disastrous day where I was trying to make my first triangle block), but this time I felt like I […]
The Professor
I taught a hand quilting class at my quilt guild’s day camp yesterday. Not only had I never taught a class at day camp before, I’d never taught a class […]
The Holiday
Today is National Quilting Day, and I have been celebrating in earnest. I have been working on my latest block for the Dear Paulette quilt – you can see a […]
The Sixth Project
I’ve been procrastinating for a week on blogging about this block, because, frankly, it’s a pretty boring block. There’s just not that much to say about it. It’s got a […]
The Reverse Polarity
I couldn’t resist the title for this blog post, since the block prominently features a plus sign, and I’d been feeling a little negative about this project when I began this […]
The Sashiko
It’s not in a quilter’s nature to have only one project going at a time. So last weekend, I went to my very first quilt guild workshop (I figured since […]