For my sister’s Christmas gift, I made her a set of placemats. I made six of ‘em but there were only four of us for Christmas dinner so here’s the table at the beginnings of being set. I’d show it to you all set, but then you can’t see the placemats! I have to say, [...]
This will be the last quilt that I finish in 2009. How do I know? I have zero going right now. I’ll need to remedy that soon. Been too busy with the holidays to get anything started recently. Meanwhile, the quilt! It was my Christmas present for my father. All Kona solids this time around [...]
Very little Christmas decorating going on around here. We celebrate at my sister’s house and I’ve been busy with other sewing, so it got left behind this year. Just a photo of festive fabrics for you today! That and a wish that you all have wonderful holidays this year! I’ll be back in a couple [...]
Crocheting! I have never been able to tackle crocheting. I’ve knit a ton, but somehow couldn’t get my head around crocheting on my own. But I took a great class with Cheryl Cambras at Home Ec. the other night and for the first time, it clicked! I might be hooked. (Oh what a bad crocheting [...]
I’m finally all caught up on my virtual quilting bees this weekend. Good thing as I’ve joined two more than start in January. For Nov. of 12 Squared, three little houses! Megan’s going to be adding the muslin to the top and bottom of them to square them up. Then Oct. of Sew Connected 2. [...]
That’s what it’s going to be around here until after Christmas… You know what happens when you’re working on a book and you also are sewing Christmas presents? You have nothing you can blog about! I will show you the Christmas sewing once gifts have been given, but for today, just a picture of some [...]
That’s some of what we did at Monday’s LA Modern Quilt Guild meeting. Here’s the two that I made for the swap: And check out the one that I got: Two sided and so cute! You all know that I love me some Lush!! So much fun to put together really quick projects and then [...]
Wow! 872 comments! Thanks so much for all of your kind words. Since so many of you commented I decided to pick two winners… here goes….random number generator says: SparklePetal Says: What a nice idea for a giveaway! I’d choose turquoise, lime and chocolate – I’ve got my eye on that nice piece of Katy [...]
Today is Sew, Mama, Sew!‘s Giveaway Day so I thought I’d take part! These are some of my scraps. Some are big and some are small. Drop me a comment with your two or three favorite colors (I would advise you stay clear of purple as I have no purple scraps!) and if you’re the [...]
