The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day — Portrait Two-for-one

The quarterly challenge for this online art quilt group was “Portrait.” As usual, I had lots of ideas, but as the deadline approached, I chose the least complicated of them. I had taken… Continue reading

ScrapHappy January 2023

The spark for this baby quilt came from a big tub of donated fabrics. There were four Mickey Mouse 6-inch squares, two Dr. Seuss 6-inch squares, and a whole lot of Dr. Seuss… Continue reading

Phrase for the Year 2023

  When I re-read my yearly posts on goal setting, I have to admit my goals stay the same from year to year, but that doesn’t stop me from trying.  🙂 For my… Continue reading

Wrapping Up 2022

Early this year my parents had health issues that made them decide they could no longer live independently, and they asked me to find them a retirement home.  They had lived in Dallas… Continue reading

ScrapHappy Adjacent, December 2022

These items are not made totally from scraps, but they could be!  And in case you still need ideas for the up-coming holidays, I wanted to share them. Three years ago, I saw… Continue reading

Rummage Sale Find

Yesterday I went to a huge rummage sale at a local church, and found these cute vintage dish towels.

The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day – Quilt Quest

It’s time once again for the quarterly reveal day for the online art quilt group, The Endeavourers. This time the theme was “Boustrophedon,” and I had an idea what that word means. It… Continue reading

The Good-enough Family Archivist

When you are interested in textiles, people assume you are interested in history and the old way of doing things.  And quite often that leads to you becoming the family historian. So quite… Continue reading

Some New Tops

Since I actually finished two kids’ quilts, I rewarded myself with putting together some new tops. I made a second version of a safari quilt, this time adding a cheetah on the left.… Continue reading

One Quilt Three Ways

In 2020, I was given bags of pre-cut squares, and I used some of them to make four I Spy quilt tops. I placed the fabrics in pretty much the same position on… Continue reading