Quilting the Paper Pinwheel quilts is coming along nicely after the free motion quilting practice I did on the placemats. By Wednesday night I had the four 12” blocks on the lap quilt finished before I ran out of thread. A quick trip to the fabric store fixed that but not my sore, aching shoulders. You see, I’m still learning…
I woke up to this text message from our oldest daughter who is teaching in Shanghai: Xin nian kuai le! Gong xi fa cai! Happy Chinese New Year! So I’m passing those wishes on to all of you. Let’s hope that The Year of the Wooden Goat is as prosperous for us all as it is predicted to be! …
Today we’ve come to the last of the Colonial Kitchen Set Days of the Week patterns. As I sit here, I’m imagining the quiet of a house pre-electricity sitting quietly having a cup of tea and the only sound being the tick tock, tick tock of the kitchen clock. Perhaps also Saturday was the day of the week when the…
I had hoped to finish my two Paper Pinwheel quilts this week but I’ve spent the past two days unpicking a block of fmqing on the lap quilt that I was less than pleased with. I had no idea it would take me this long to unpick all those stitches and I’m still not finished. That’s today’s goal… finish unpicking…
The other day I came across this saying….. Thank you Dave for making each and every day of the last 32 years… a story worth telling! If readers would like to share in the story of our 20th Wedding Anniversary back in 2003, I invite you to click here.
With the 14th fast approaching, I decided to spend some evening TV watching time making a couple of Valentine’s Pips. They turned out so cute that yesterday with the sun shining in and providing great lighting, I held a little photo shoot and experimented with different ways to show them off. I’ve been looking for an excuse to add that…
In this Days of the Week pattern set, Friday must be bake day as indicated by this flour sifter and scoop. It’s interesting to note that flour sifters today look pretty much like they did in Colonial times. This pattern is available as a pdf to download here.
Do you remember those Choose Your Own Adventure books we used to read when we were kids? Well that was kind of how the making of this purse went. Each step of the way, I was asking myself, “What next?” or “Now what do I do with it?” It all started last week when I won a giveaway that Julie…
It’s such a cold and gloomy day today after the bright sunshine we had yesterday that I’m tempted to choose another bright, colorful UFO/WIP for A Year of Lovely Finishes goal like I did last month when I completed my Flying Zebra Quilt. But I’ve already started the quilting on my Paper Pinwheel baby quilt so I’ve decided that it…
Today’s kitchen item would have been essential in order to grind the coffee beans to make the coffee in the pot that I shared on the 12th of January. Since buying our new electric peculator, we’ve started grinding our own coffee beans in order to have a courser grind of coffee than is available already ground. Luckily we’ve got an…