Middle daughter and I popped in to our favorite local quilt shop on Saturday just before closing and we couldn’t believe how busy it was. While chatting with the owner we discovered that they’d been run off their feet for the last two weeks with quilters from all over stopping in to pick up their pattern in the Row by…
There’s been a new addition to my Under the Sea crazy quilt block since I last shared a photo of it. When I was trying to draw the sea star on the sea bottom I couldn’t get it looking the way I wanted, so our middle daughter drew it for me so that the arms look like it’s crawling over…
I didn’t have a lot of time to sew this week because we spent more time over at the garden than we’d originally planned. (I hope to have a garden update ready to post over the weekend.) But I did get some sewing in last night and can happily check another item off my 2015 Finish Along Q2 Goals list.…
Sometimes we decide to embroider a pattern simply because we love it and then it sits in a box or wherever we keep our finished embroidery pieces because we don’t know what to do with them. Yesterday while shopping for the black background fabric for my Spring Bloom project, Ye Olde Fabric Shoppe was having a Mother’s Day Special. For…
It’s going to be fun to see what flowers make their appearance in the various little gardens of the house that we’re renting. I’ve been checking daily and there are a few tulips making buds but any other bits of green poking through are still too small to tell what they might be. Maybe they’re waiting to be sure that…