Dust Off a Book Blog Hop
I buy a lot of books in auction lots, which means I don’t even look at each one before taking them home. So I was glad to sign up for the Dust Off… Continue reading
Category Archive: Quilting
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The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day — Mosaic
Every quarter, our online group, The Endeavourers, posts the small art quilts that resulted from the quarterly challenge, and today is the day! This time the theme was “Mosaic.” Initially, I thought this… Continue reading
Wrapping Up 2024 and Phrase for 2025
This year I started off with a focus on weaving. Next, I finished hand-quilting on this vintage top. I tied this, the world’s heaviest quilt, that I had string-pieced from pieces of men’s… Continue reading
The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day — Spices
I am part of an online art quilt group that creates small pieces for quarterly themes. This time the theme was Spices. When we gathered up theme suggestions a few years ago, I… Continue reading
ScrapHappy October 2024 — A Quick and Easy Group Quilt Project
This past weekend our little town had a Quilt Walk, and I volunteered to run a table to create a group art quilt. In preparation, I fused very simple face shapes to background… Continue reading
A Passel of Kids’ Quilts and A Cautionary Tale
I have been on a roll and I have finished four baby/kid quilts in the past few weeks. Most of these materials were donated to me already cut up — the challenge is… Continue reading
Puppy Cuteness
In an ongoing effort to use up pre-cut fabrics I’ve been given, I pulled out all the puppy fabrics, intending to make a twin-size quilt. I found a quilt on Pinterest that I… Continue reading
The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day: Vintage
It’s time for the reveal of the quarterly challenge of the online art quilt group, The Endeavourers. This time the theme was “Vintage”. I love using vintage textiles, and I have already done… Continue reading
A Finished Quilt and a Bucket List
Here is a string quilt I started in 2016, using pieces of old shirts from thrift stores. Back then, I had fun placing the fabrics to make the blocks, but later, I realized… Continue reading
Family Quilt Mystery Solved
Back in 2017, my mother-in-law downsized, and passed four quilts on to me. Since they were in an old family trunk from Ohio, I justifiably assumed that they had come from family in… Continue reading