If I’m making a quilt for a friend, I will write a label out and sew it on with a little note, but what do you do for a quilt I sell?  I’ve made a few on my embroidery machine (which needs a big-time service, yikes), but I’ve been looking at alternatives that woudl also […]

I’ve been making little aprons for friends and family for a while now, and was always dissatisfied with the whole apron-tie-and-toddler bit.  I had gotten a bunch of KAM snaps for other projects, and realized I could use them to fasten at the waist and neck rather than the traditional ties: I used snaps all […]

I had posted earlier that I was working on a fabric challenge for Angela Walters, and now you can, too, with the Make It Right Challenge (hurry, there’s a giveaway for the fabric on her blog!) Well, today I finished up my project.  It’s a version of the free kimono robe pattern by Susan Terpin over on […]

It’s funny how old is new is old is new, right?  Recently, I’ve been seeing a great many patterns using triangles to make hexies, and it reminded me of something I had made in late 2004 or early  2005.  It’s not a set of quilts I share very often because I think they’re cursed. I can’t […]

I got something today that I’ve been really excited for, in an otherwise kind of gross day (snow on the ground?  check.  Missed appointment with the dermatologist who takes months to get into?  check.  Little girl possibly ill?  check.  House in shambles?  You betcha.).  I have long been a fan of Ann Wood and her […]