A Rainee Quilt
While visiting Loose Threads Quilt Shop in Milton, WI I found a pattern that intrigued me. I don’t buy patterns very often, because I like to come up with my own designs, but this pattern really tickled me. My granddaughter Rainee was approaching her 10th birthday and it was time to make her a new…
My New Favorite Notion
While visiting a vendor booth in Paducah, Cathy and I came upon a small plastic device that I just had to try! My favorite scissors to have near the machine while sewing is the Fiskar’s Spring Action Scissors… and there’s a story that goes with this photo: A few years ago I was having some…
Rosemary Makes a Quilt
My niece Kaitlin is an amazing artist. Her business is entitled: Lyon Road Art – the Intersection of Art and Anatomy. In college she took a combination of fine art and med school courses and earned a graduate degree in Biomedical Visualization. Her story is fascinating and you can read all about it by clicking…
Are You a Digitabulist?
I bought a book at the barn sale in Jefferson, WI last year. I blogged about this amazing barn sale at the time and you can click here to read that post. The Spangler sisters have opened the barn again with new merchandise arriving regularly. The address and other information is available in the link…
Quilting Up North
From the image above some of you Wisconsinites might be able to guess where I was teaching a few weeks ago. Yup! I had a wonderful adventure speaking to a guild in Hayward, WI ~ and staying with my friend Cathy in her log home on the Chippewa Flowage. She, and her husband Tom, are…
Uncovered in Peoria
A few weeks ago I was skimming through FaceBook and found a fascinating video about the quilt collection of filmmaker Ken Burns being exhibited through the International Quilt Study Center in Lincoln, NE (click here to watch the video). It was so interesting I shared it on my page. I then discovered that the video…
Confetti Landscape
Last week I posted photos of the confetti landscape class I took with Sally Manke. By the end of class I was quite pleased with my project. It began with this photo, a layer of backing fabric, thin cotton batt, confetti, and fabric strips. After three hours it looked like this: The problem was that…
Learning New Things and Making New Friends
Last week there was just too much to share about our trip to Paducah for one post, so I hope you’ll indulge me a bit longer. I did mention that you’d be able to see all the winners online and, if you haven’t yet, simply click here. Bonnie Browning recently posted this drone photograph of…
