The year that Dave’s granddaughter was born… for Christmas that year I made her a stocking that was slightly different but in the same fabrics as the ones I had made for her mom, dad and older brother. I looked everywhere for a pattern for a doll to make that was small enough to pop into the top of her…
As adults, our children are way past the age of Easter baskets and egg hunts but I do still like to give them a little something on the occasions when we’re together for Easter. So yesterday afternoon I searched through my fabric dresser and found a pretty fat quarter with Easter eggs on it and a coordinating fat quarter. I…
For the past few days, I’ve been busy free motion quilting (fmqing) and binding the second set of placemats that were part of my 2015 Finish Along Q1 Goals.  They were also my March Goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes. One of the quilts I intend to finish over the next couple of months is this one: I ordered…
Back when I posted about our middle daughter’s handmade Christmas gifts, I showed you the chatelaine I made for her with a thimble pip, scissor keep and pincushion. One of the first things she said when she was holding the thimble pip and squeezing it open and shut was, “You should make a frog pip.” She has reminded me of…
My little Christmas Mouse wall hanging has been framed with teeny, tiny half square triangles (hst.) Each hst finishes at just 1 ¼” square. When finished the wall hanging will be 13” square. The plan for the frame changed slightly since I posted the graph paper sketch on Saturday. When I was originally designing it, I was going to use…
Has spring come to your area of the world yet? If not we know it can’t be far away and maybe you can get some of that spring time feeling by putting all the Tulip patterns that I’ve posted over the past four weeks along with today’s section to create a beautiful Tulip Luncheon Cloth. The original Workbasket pattern was…
With today being National Quilting Day, I wanted to work on something quilty when I joined the ladies from around the world last night for the virtual sewing bee, Friday Night Sew In; currently being hosted by Wendy from Sugarlane Quilts. I already have quite a few large quilt projects in various stages of completion, the most recent of which…
I came by my love of birds in quite a bit different way than I would say most people do. You see, when I was growing up my Dad raised exotic birds. At various times we had Golden Pheasants, Ring Neck Pheasants, Peacocks, Egyptian Geese and Bobwhite Quail… just to name a few. Here are a couple of photos that…
Only 4 more days until the first day of spring!! If the tulips haven’t poked their heads out in your area yet, here’s the second last section for the Vintage Workbasket Tulip Luncheon Cloth. This pattern is available as a pdf here.
March is going to be a very busy sewing and quilting month for me as I work away on my secret Tree Bird Blog Hop project. I can’t show you the actual bird fabric that I ended up choosing but I can give you a sneak peek at the other fabrics that I’m using in the project. Aren’t those luscious! …