And the mystery quilt continues.......

In week #2 I was able to begin the actual stitching of the quilt top. My first task was to pair the 2 1/2” strips with one light fabric and one dark fabric and stitch them together along the longest edge into a strip set. I then cu...

So I have embarked on a new quilting adventure by taking part in constructing a mystery quilt that is being sponsored by Quilt Stitches in Beatrice. Normally the quilt shop will release each step of the quilt making process once a month and participants must then come...

Just Google it. Check out YouTube. How many times have you wanted to know how to do something and those phrases popped into your head? I admit that it has taken me awhile to jump on that bandwagon but it has been a game changer ever since I took that leap. I have used...

At the end of June I posted a blog about an English Paper Piecing (EPP) project that I had been working on for the last five years and - thanks to COVID-19 - I was finally able to finish. In that blog I wrote about why I started this project in the first place, why it...

Two weeks ago I wrote about some of the projects that I worked on during April, May, and June. Because I - just like everybody else - have been spending a lot of time at home, I have been able to accomplish quite a bit and there were too many projects to talk about in...

We have made it through the first half of 2020 - and an interesting first half it has been! When the whole pandemic thing began in March I remember thinking that it would last for about two weeks - four at the most - and we would be back to our normal lives. As we all...

I started this English Paper-Piecing (EPP) quilt over five years ago when we decided to remodel our store room into my quilting studio. Since I thought that I would be without my sewing room for about six months I chose an EPP project since it uses a hand-stitching tec...

A few weeks ago I did a blog on some of the most meaningful things that I have in my sewing room. Some of them are functional while others are simply great memories of past experiences. As I was taking pictures of the items for that blog I noticed so many more fun thin...

I have been taking advantage of the extra time that I have had lately to try out some helpful tricks and make use of a couple of handy tools. I had seen a couple of these ideas on blogs and YouTube videos but up until recently had not taken the time to try them out to...

It is no secret that the sewing room in our basement is my happy place. It has everything I need to get my creative juices flowing - my sewing machines, cutting table, rulers, cutters, fabric, quilting books and magazines, thread - and the list goes on and on. And it h...