Hello, Everyone! This is my monthly stray from quilting- another month, another tree! Please glance back to the posts from each previous month this year to see my other trees. This month I went Patriotic. We have Memorial Day at the end of the month and I wanted to remember our Vets and honor the meaning of the holiday. Have a wonderful May, enjoy the warmer weather and have a nice Memorial Day. Is anyone going camping? Until Next time, find some time to sew ..read more

Hello, Everyone! I’m happy to share this with you, another special quilt has been finished. I’m excited to share it with you because it’s my original design. This quilt has been a year-long journey and I’m so glad Paulette and Fred now have their quilt. Please go to my 7-10-20 blog about Paulette’s quilt. That post gives you all the background on this design and its journey to become a quilt top. Today I will share the second half of this journey- the quilting. As I make a quilt top I like to ponder the quilting design. When I’m done with a top I always take a black and white picture of it and ..read more

Hello, Everyone! It’s my monthly stray from quilting- another month, another tree! Please glance back to the posts from March and February, to see my other trees. I wanted to change my tree a little early but that wasn’t the case, I apologize. Oh, I’m so glad to have color back on my tree this month! I have felt eggs, bunnies and silk flowers this month. Once again, I think it’s cute and fun. Happy Spring! Happy Easter! Oh, I must comment on the giant egg at the top of my tree. I saw a YouTube tutorial from the Ornament Girl . It’s a quilted Easter Egg, made with pieces of fabric and pins. It ..read more

Hello, Everyone! Today I want to show you my new toy. Isn’t it fun when we get something new to play with! Last month I purchased a Pantograph for my longarm. It is a laser light mounted to the sewing head. A paper pattern is utilized; it is unrolled and laid on the table (that’s part of the frame). A second set of handlebars is assembled on the back side of the sewing head; I work from that side of the table. Basically, you move across the quilt, tracing the pattern on the paper with the laser light, sewing as you go. At the left you can see the laser light attached to the machine head- it l ..read more

Hello, Everyone! Today I’m straying from quilting! It’s March first! Do you remember the post a month ago- I decided to do something a little cra-cra for 2021? If you didn’t see it, go back and read it, that’s how this ball got rolling! So without further ado, voila! so much green! It’s SO CUTE! I get to smile at my tree and be joyful of my Irish heritage this month. And I got some ideas cooking for next month… Until next month, find some time to sew ..read more

Hello, Everyone! Today I’d like to share a special quilt, one I made for a friend (with a famous past on my website ). This quilt was a gift for her sister and the really great thing about it- she did the long-arming. If you look back to my May 3, 2020 blog- Custom Made Friends Quilt- you will meet Miss Alyssa. This past September Alyssa asked me if we could make a quilt for her younger sister. Alyssa had a theme idea of Lilo and Stitch; Stitch is her sister’s favorite Disney character. The quilt will live in a room with beach/ ocean decor so the Hawaiian aspect of the characters was perfect ..read more

Hello, Everyone! Today I’m straying from quilting! The Christmas holidays for the past 15 years have been a little bit of a journey for me. I lost my Mom in late 2005 and then lost my Dad in May 2006. For (probably) the next 5 years I didn’t feel like celebrating Christmas and didn’t decorate my home. For at least 5 years after that decorating and celebrating were done at a very minor level. Then the 9’ tall tree I had (for my wonderful 10’ ceilings) became a pain in the butt to put together (as I got older, haha) so the last couple years it didn’t come out again! A year ago I bought a 6’ tree ..read more

Hello, Everyone! Today I’m happy to share month eight of my First Ladies Quilt. If you are new to this series, I’ve been taking a Block of the Month class and making a quilt; the blocks are named after First Ladies. Please see past posts for all the blocks. A picture of the entire quilt is in the first post on 11-19-2019. This was the last month we made blocks. Starting next month we will start putting the quilt together and building the borders. I’m also behind with my posts; we are now finished with class sessions. I’m currently working month 11, the second to last set of borders. For our la ..read more

Hello, Everyone- WOW, what a whirlwind day 2 was! We sewed for the 5 hours during Zoom class, then I sewed until 9pm. My eyes gave up at that point! I sewed a little more than an hour on Sunday morning so I was “caught up” starting this morning’s (Sunday) session. Let’s back up to yesterday, day 2. We started with 40 squares, 3 1/2″. We laid those out and started building upon them. Now it made sense why we made four of each- they formed the center quadrant for the block. We kept building on layers, at one point it got kind of crazy- We finished with 10 blocks, 11 1/2″ square. Mine wer ..read more

Hello, Everyone! Happy New Year! I hope you are all well and hopeful, as I, for a better 2021. This weekend my local quilt shop, Windy Moon Quilts, is having a ZOOM class for a Mystery Quilt. A couple weeks ago when I received the email announcing this class this news was what finally got me excited about the holidays! I registered for the class and picked up my kit on New Years Eve. The kit has 10 fat quarters, and three other fabrics that are 1/3, ½ and 1 yard cuts. The fabrics are below. We “arrived” at class at 10am. Just before we began we were emailed 5 clues. These were cutting clue ..read more