Every time I’ve worked on these quilts lately, I’ve joked that they’re five years in the making. Today, I looked back at the past posts I’ve shared of their progress, and…
postage stamp
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About a zillion years ago, I roped myself into a postage stamp quilt project. It was when our littlest was really little; in about two months, she turns three, and there…
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I’m in Austin for QuiltCon the rest of this week, so it seems appropriate that I share the progress I’ve been making on the matching postage stamp quilts I’m putting together…
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I love these little fabric buckets. They have, I know, been done a dozens times over, but somehow the revelation that they’d be a perfect way to organize my scrap projects…
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I agreed to be part of the Oakshott Ruby Mini-Quilt Challenge with Sew, Mama, Sew mostly because I didn’t really know anything about Oakshott cottons. I think I had a vague…
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All finished! I have been steadily working my way through my pile of incomplete projects, and wanted to get both this and the triangle quilt all done–and here it is. Jubilee!…
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It’s finished! I think the idea to make an all-yellow quilt took root about three years ago, and at last my quilt top is complete. It’s twin-sized, measuring 6 blocks by…
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Currently, this is our girls’ room. Our six-year-old and three-year-old share this space, and we’ve only recently moved out the crib and made way for a bigger bed. It was the…
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In the fall of 2011, my husband and I bought a new house. Well, new to us: it’s a 1968 ranch on an acre lot. And the previous owner wasn’t really…
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Good heavens. That Instagram. It’s a breeding ground for quilt viruses. And this one was a treasure to suffer through. Thanks to Katy, Rita and Brenda, the #scrappytripalong sprang up between…
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When I was working on Stitch Savvy, there were a few hairy moments. The book has 25 projects, and I had one week to shoot ALL the step-by-step photos for the…
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Well, we’re making progress on Tony Danza, but it is slooooooow. And I’m a little worried about his eyes. The biggest issue is that postage stamp quilts, by their nature, are…
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I have been malingering over my Tony Danza quilt for quilt a while now. The ladies at the shop never did fully believe that it would ever see the light of…
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Two things going on here: One, I’m finally sewing in the lining on the Little Black Dress I made with my Fall Wardrobe e-course class back in…what, September? October? It was…
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We’re still unpacking from our move, and then re-packing for our family vacation (an unfortunate fluke of scheduling that they fell right on top of one another, but one does not…