Threads!! I finished piecing the All Minnesota Shop Hop quilt yesterday, so my design wall is empty. Except for the sample blocks, two finished tablerunners, one waiting to be quilted, and binding for three quilts. I had been waiting for fabric missing from the original shipment. USPS decided that my fabric needed to take a […]
And so it begins…
The fabric for my quilt in the All Minnesota Shop Hop magazine arrived on Saturday. I worked at the Creamery so I didn’t have much time to play with the fabric, all I did was measure it. I like to know exactly, down to the quarter inch, how much fabric I start with, to make […]
The All Minnesota Shop Hop
There is a new shop hop coming next spring, April and May 2022. There is a line of fabric, of course! You can read all about it and see the fabric here. There will be a magazine, which will have several quilt patterns. I submitted several designs and they picked one! There are six other […]
Christmas is coming
A customer called the Creamery asking if we could make a tree skirt for her. She and her husband came in to pick out the fabric. She had a pattern for a gnome that she wanted to be incorporated into the tree skirt. We had a tree skirt kit with printed interfacing, a template for […]
Just a Sunday afternoon
I did something today that I haven’t done in a long time. Years ago I belonged to a Mission Circle group. Among other things, we made rosaries, some to donate, some to sell. One of the kinds of rosaries we made were Irish rosaries. It has a ring to move from finger to finger through […]
Fall
Here we are, almost the middle of October. It’s still warm, I’m still wearing sandals (my feet sweat just thinking about socks and shoes), windows are open. We’ve had no frost, let alone a killing frost. I love it! My flowers are still blooming, I need to bring more in today and redo the vases. […]
Retirement
Someone on the Quilt Designers facebook group asked an interesting question yesterday. She will soon be 65, what are others around her age doing? Are they retiring? I can only answer for myself. If I don’t sew, what do I do?? I’m not a fan of housework (which is obvious!). Besides, that wouldn’t fill up […]
Baker’s Dozen Squared
This cute little tablerunner is in the Connecting Threads October 2021 catalog on page 6. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the link to the catalog. It’s a beautiful line of fabric, and some beautiful quilts to showcase it. This was my very first pattern, and it’s fun to see it in […]
Introducing Just Goose-ing Around
The fabric is from Benartex. The panel is a Terry Redlin panel, the blues are Washed Wood, the rest is Burlap. We got the panel in at the Creamery and I knew I had to do something with it. I played around in EQ and this is what I came up with. This is 37″x50″. […]
A new pattern in the works
I’ve been playing around with this design for at least 5 years (the poor thing is getting gray hair waiting to be finished). I’ve submitted it to several fabric manufacturers in the past, but until now, no one has wanted it. I dug out the fabric I had set aside for it, it’s an Island […]