It's a quilt! Waiting for binding! (And after this picture, it got it's binding....now to hand-finish) And to make pillowcases! And to help the recipient's Mom cover a lampshade with the star fabric! I'll post close-ups of the quilting tomorrow -- it was too late and dark to get good photos. ... VIEW POST
Workin’ on a UFO
After spending part of the day working on an altered book (I'm so far behind in my round robin project, oy....), I decided to spend this evening resurrecting an old UFO. I don't even really remember when I started this. Or why. Well, I know why: it was for a baby, but I got this far and decided ... VIEW POST
WIP Wednesday — Auditioning Borders
My sister and her family headed home yesterday but got stuck in Chicago due to weather delays at their destination. They ended up spending about 5 hours on the plane for a flight that only takes about 1.5 hours. With a not-quite-2 year old. Ugh. I know how antsy and crabby *I* would have been, I ... VIEW POST
If you don’t like the weather….
It's often a joke about Iowa weather (or other places I'm told) that if you don't like the weather, you should just wait 5 minutes. This evening: it was literally true. We went from an absolute downpour 1 minute to a blue, blue sky the next minute. It happened while we were eating supper -- and ... VIEW POST
Another song for you
I always seem to have SOME song running in my head -- and I'm so happy to be able to share these with you, so that I'm not the only one suffering. For a lot of this weekend it was Frosty the Snowman. This particular quilt top has been put together for....a long time....(i.e. YEARS). Each ... VIEW POST
Crossing things off a list
A week or so ago Vicki posted a list of the things she was going to do over the weekend. And then she proceeded to do them, and showed off her crossed off list on her blog. I e-mailed her and asked if it was legal to make a list of the things I'd been doing and then crossing them off, just for the ... VIEW POST
