I am SO close to finished with the pillow:I think it looks great! (and I don’t often say that about my stuff) but the lace I’m using for the edge is TOO SHORT! ARRRRGH! So, I guess I’ll run up and get a length and piece it in. It’s WAY
The big news this Monday morning is my house is clean! 🙂 If any of you have kids, you know the feeling of NEVER seeming to stay on top of the mess. We cleaned the house yesterday and except for a short tidy this morning I can say that the
I’ve talked about the International Quilt Study Center’s quilt of the month, but this month I gasped when I opened this one by M. Joan Lintault – gorgeous! (there’s a close up on the site by the way) This is what really got me: “In her pieces Lintault employs an
With the kids home this week, we’ve been busily trying to work and keep them happy (entertained?) so I haven’t had a lot of time for blogging.However, we had a fantastic trip out to a suburban mall: My daughter cracked me up by asking “Mommy, why do all the houses
The end of this month marks the launch of our first few classes at Helping Handmade. If you haven’t read about it here on my blog, it’s my pet project (totally labor of love right now) to get people crafting so they will reuse and recycle rather than buying new!
Yesterday was our monthly Rocky Mountain Crazy Quilters meeting (http://www.rmcq.org/) and we had some fun! We swapped our Round Robin blocks. Here are mine! I only added a few embellishments to this, but I had to put the whole block up…aren’t the colors gorgeous? The embellishments and fabrics all go
FREE!!! A friend of mine passed on these potentially scrumptious knitting books but I’ve vowed to never EVER knit, so I’m passing them onto you. I seem to get a few comments here on my blog, but never enough for my self involved personality, so I’m giving them to the
Woo hoo! (extra hoo). I was totally productive this weekend. In anticipation of the Rocky Mountain Crazy Quilters meeting I did two round robins. This one is for a gal who’s making a quilt for her daughter out of her Dad’s flannel shirts. This one is a butterfly: I tried
I’ve updated my sidebar with my projects for 2008 – the one that’s almost done and been sitting there for years is my Australian Landscape…featuring a gum tree and a million individually stitched leaves. I have done a few hundered of them! Many many more to go: I’m planning on
I have been trying to organizing my blogging – all attempts at which seem to fail. However, I’m going to try to record some of my favorite sites that I visit regularly on the net. Of course these sites range from parenting sites (oooo, found a new one at Geek