Early or late? Hard to say…
I finished the holiday table runner above for our coffee table. It wasn’t technically on my holiday 2022 project list, more of a last-minute inspiration after making holiday coasters. So…
Pixel pumpkin
I worked on a fun project for the Halloween season: a pixelated pumpkin using this pattern from Missouri Star Quilt Company and fabrics by Riley Blake. It was my first project using…
Monet’s village
I had a small piece of this fabric which I call Monet’s village. I carefully cut the fabric to maximize its use and was able to get backings for one…
Canyon smalls and Canyon #2
I liked the colors of last month’s canyon quilt so much that it deserved a reprise in Canyon #2 and Canyon smalls. The small versions were a special request. I…
Manatee #1
I acquired a piece of manatee fabric some time ago. Just a quarter yard, 18 inches by 22 inches. The print is large, so it didn’t lend itself to strips.…
Paper hearts
I recently finished my first paper piecing project using this heart pattern from Carol Doak. With paper piecing, the block is printed on paper and you sew on the lines paper…
Canyon quilt
After last month’s misadventures in quilting, I wanted my next project to be a sure thing: a small strip quilt using canyon-themed fabric for the back. I selected most of…
When the scraps become the quilt
Robert shared Eula Biss’s book Having and Being Had with me, not as a book recommendation but just to show me the cover. (I did read the book.) The cover art on…
Making a (Back)Splash
Photo by Robert Anderson on Unsplash I think after a week of living in our current home, we decided that the plastic “tin tile”-style backsplash had to go. About four years later we…
Excess pillow problem – solved
Photo by Every Angle on Unsplash We went from five beds to three over the past few years and we had more pillows than we knew what to do with. I didn’t want…