I admit the house and, in particular, my sewing room has gotten away from me lately. I could give you all the excuses but you probably know them. My job, my kids, this endless cold that just will NOT let go, the fact things always get worse before they get better – ARGH!! The most…
This month’s blog hop theme is a colorful array of bloggers, who have been working away getting ready to share their “Colors” with us all. I couldn’t help but remember a quilt I designed called Color Me Creative that was chosen as a local shop hop quilt in 2010. Each shop chose a color and…
I decided to go into my stash of antique quilts and blocks to show you a temperance quilt block. I haven’t found one yet, but give me time! Meanwhile, here are some others to share with you. Before I tell you about the Temperance Movement, I have to give you a very generalized view of…
Give your fabric scraps a new life! This Super Simple Scrappy block will make a cute little Spring wallhanging or table topper. Make as many blocks as your heart desires! This is a free pattern for subscribers. The form is at the bottom of the tutorial. If you don’t want to subscribe, just click on…
When Carol of Just Let Me Quilt announced this blog hop, I couldn’t help but think of the song by Jim Croce: If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I’d like to do Is to save every day ’til eternity passes away Just to spend them with you I was…
Blast from the Past! I admit that when the #QuiltBlockMania was postponed last week, it threw me for a loop. I had something Mardi Gras related ready to go for March 1, so I couldn’t exactly postpone that post! My only choice was to turn that into a regular post called Mardi Gras Geese and…
