Very excited to announce that our Quilt Club at G-Street fabrics is returning for another year! I'm really looking forward to a new year of quilting and sharing with friends. Click here to see our full schedule of upcoming meetings. It was wonderful to see everyone returning for our first meeting on January 20th. Joan… Continue reading Quilt Club 2024
I has been over two years since my dad unexpectedly passed away. It was and still is truly shocking and I just cannot believe that he is gone. Every time I go into a room at my parents' house I expect to see him or to hear him talk about some new adventure he is… Continue reading In Loving Memory of my Dad
Despite mostly staying at home, it was a busy summer, and I was finally able to write up the post for my Flying Geese quilt that was started over two years ago. It seemed like a great project to practice making FG blocks, and there were a bunch leftover from another quilt that I made… Continue reading My oldest WIP is done!
If you love to quilt, you are bound to have lots of scraps! I've been sorting and organizing mine. I'm currently working on three small scrap projects and trying to finish a long-term Flying Geese quilt - I will add more info about it my next post. When I found a small stack of 1.5"… Continue reading Scraps and Mini Quilts
I'm very sorry to say that our monthly Quilt Club meetings have been postponed until it's safe to gather in groups again. I really miss seeing all of my fellow quilters and friends! But don't despair, I will continue posting new blocks every month, or more frequently as the time permits! Working at home, while… Continue reading Sheltering in place, 5 weeks and counting…
About a year ago, I finished a quilt for a dear friend who lives in Florida. I don’t see her very often, and I wanted to give her a quilt as a token of my friendship. I was excited to be able to gift it to her in person, and it was so worth it!… Continue reading Friendship Stars and when not to fix mistakes
Last week I received an unexpected and delightful gift from someone I don't know but who learned about my love of quilting through one of my co-workers. It was a book about an exhibit called Piecing it all Together: Quilts of the Eastern Shore, presenting a sampling of Delmarva quilts and their stories at the Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History… Continue reading Piecing it all together
I was filling out a survey for Superior Threads yesterday, and one of the questions was about UFO's. Was I willing to count them and reveal that number? I did - and I have 11! Far more than I thought. Some quilts just needs to be quilted, and I also didn't count the ones that… Continue reading Making Plans for 2019
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