This week’s humpday blog love goes to my friend Adria, who ironically thinks I’m mad at her because I haven’t had a chance to talk to her for a couple weeks. But no, I am not! And I realized my blog love post was about her blog this week (I schedule them all in [...]
Yay! I finally finished it.
A while back my grandpa had given me a bunch of quilt blocks that my granny (my great grandma) had made some time ago before she died in 2002. She was kind of the queen of WIP, so I’m still collecting some random crafty things she’d started and going through [...]
Yay … I broke down and ordered more fabric. I probably shouldn’t have because my stash is kind of ridiculous, but I needed some new stuff. I had a custom request come through Market Day last week for a black and white wallet. I didn’t have any wallet-worthy black and white fabric. [...]
… a growing pile of new camera cases I’ve been crafting. Look at all those fun fabrics. Lots of my favorites in there … and a lot of them are the last bits of some of my favorites. I’m looking forward to making things from the leftover scraps.
Huh huh huh, you said butt.
A friend of mine is having a baby soon and she had a shower last weekend. I made her a cute blanket but wanted something else to put with it. I had made some applique onsies in the past, but wasn’t in the mood to [...]
Adria lent me her Denyse Schmidt Quilts book a while back and I’ve been slowly working on a few projects in it.
A while back I made a quilted heating pad cover and I’ve been meaning to work on some of the scrappy projects to get through my [...]
I’ve been reading the Denyse Schmidt Quilts book that Adria let me borrow and saw the heating pad project and just HAD to do it. I hardly make anything for myself, but it annoys me that I have my heating pad out in the middle of my living room [...]
My grandpa had given me a bunch of things that my granny (great grandmother) had left behind when she passed in 2002. I’ve been using some of her materials (embroidery thread, fabric, pins, etc.) to create some of the things I’ve been making. I’ve had 10 quilt blocks that I’ve been hoarding that she had [...]
I took today off since I had to take my mancandy to the airport at an obscenely early time and wanted to sleep/clean/catch up on crafting the rest of the day.
Needless to say, I didn’t get a whole lot of cleaning done (I did put the dishes away!), but I got a little sleeping [...]
I blogged earlier today about the 2nd hardcore quilt top that I made.
Well, I took the plunge ladies and gentlemen. I officially quilted a full-size quilt.
I took photos of the process. One thing I learned — I desperately need a walking foot. I couldn’t find one for my machine (they were sold out [...]

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