QuiltCon would not have been nearly as much fun without my friend and roommate Nikki, The Girl Who Quilts.  Without her, I would have been a solitary soul, indeed, and wouldn’t have had nearly as many interesting conversations or good laughs.  Her February Challenge also got me thinking about what goals I had for the […]

So consider that your warning.  There is profanity.  It’s rap.  It’s also an ode to thrifting and for anyone who has made that a practice in their lives, that is *awesome*. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis “Thrift Shop Feat”.

About once every 2 months, I finally sit down and sort through the thousands of posts I have in my reader.  It’s not that I don’t like reading blogs–on the contrary, I love it–but, like Pinterest, I find that I spend more time browsing and poking around and that takes away from my productivity.  Since […]

Don’t put your embroidery snips in your back pocket.  You’ll either stab yourself in the butt, or shove the tip under a fingernail.  Or both. Just sayin’.

        …no.

Or, more truly, a commuter prop plane followed by a jet plane.  QuiltCon starts on Thursday! One of my favorite things ever is the part of the book where the preparations take place: the organizing of lists, the packing of all the useful bits, and the anticipation of departure.  Or, in my own life, the […]

I’m off to the funeral of a quilting friend today, Karen K.  She was one of those ladies who, even in the few times I had the pleasure of hanging out with her in our quilting group, always had an answer for how to do something or where to look to find out more information. […]