Over the weekend, I got the flying zebra baby quilt and one of the child-sized quilts hand basted. Dave’s away on a contract for a few days, which means that it won’t matter if I have a larger quilt taking up residence on the dining room table for a day or two, so I decided to baste my scrappy nine…
Today I’m working on sewing the quilt back for this scrappy nine patch quilt top: A larger photo of the quilt top can be seen here. I’m using a thrifted white cotton sheet for the back but it wasn’t quite long enough so I added a row of blocks made from the leftovers fabrics from the front. When I was…
Originally I had only cut enough of the flying zebra fabric to make a baby quilt. But when I realized I had enough left to turn the rest of it into two more child-sized quilts if I added a couple of horizontal strips in a coordinating fabric between the repeating print sections, I decided to go ahead and a make…
My entry into the Bloggers Quilt Festival would certainly not qualify as the most beautiful or most intricately pieced or the most original. Its design is a simple one; flannel blocks from a bear print that I fussy cut alternating with a coordinating yellow flannel. Those blocks are framed with a single border cut from that same yellow flannel with…
Where we live in northwest Georgia, our winters are usually fairly mild and over-wintering vegetables can be a challenge. Our rental house has a cement slab foundation, so we don’t have a basement where we could build even a temporary cold room for storing them. But over the past few years of living here, we’ve experimented and come up…
Since I started quilting, I’ve seen many quilt appeals to help the victims of natural disasters and I’ve donated to a few of them in one way or another. Yesterday, I went searching to see if there were any quilt appeals to help the victims of the recent tornadoes that swept through the South last week. This is what I’ve…
Dave was in the Canadian Army for 25 years before he retired in August of 2000 to take a job on Maui and thus ended our Army adventure and began our living in the USA adventure. Those 25 years were good years, but I won’t lie and say they were easy years. Dave did two NATO tours, one peacemaking (to…
This morning, from this little strawberry patch… I picked our first strawberries of the season. Strawberries and cream for dessert tonight!