Sleeping, Setting Up, and Playing with Fabric
For the next month, a friend from Cincinnati is going to stay with me. She's in town for a summer course. I've given her the master bedroom: It's a lovely place to sleep and I will miss it, but I've…
Lotta Work to Do
When I moved into this two-bedroom apartment, I thought that having the spare room for crafts and guests was going to work out splendidly. I thrive on having separate spaces for separate activities...I'm one of those people who cannot work…
A Very Long Conversation
I've been picking away on this little quilt since A2MQG's retreat so many months ago. This project is a wedding present (there have been many weddings amongst my friends lately!) I do tend to make wedding presents AFTER the wedding,…
Next!
I got out of work early today and I've been pulling fabric from my stash for a new quilt... It's a quilt to feature this Civil Rights Toile which I recently purchased (because I'm MADLY IN LOVE with it). This…
The Kelp Quilt
It's finished! It took a sew-in to get my binding butt in gear. I cut the binding and machine-stitched on the front and hand-stitched some of the back during February's sew-in. (I'm second-from-the-right) The quilt then hung out in my…
sometimes…
Sometimes, I don't make it to my computer. And I don't blog. But I do make it to my sewing machine. And I sew. And I go to Brenda's house and play in her shop (Pink Castle Fabrics). I was…
Rebooting
I went on a retreat this weekend with the Ann Arbor Modern Quilt Guild. I had such a good time and knocked out and kick-started a few projects. My friend Ace got married in October. And I had promised him…
Pirate Ship Chic (Ikea Hack)
I don't, in general, like dressers, but I needed a dresser. In August, I spotted this dresser on Pinterest and thought it quite lovely: Shortly thereafter, I saw this dresser in an Ikea catalog and I thought to myself,…
Home Goods
I was giving myself a hard time about not finishing up any quilting project lately and then happened upon this to do list on my fridge: I realized that I have been getting things done...just not quilting things. So, today…
oh my gourd
A month or so ago I saw a picture of a little pumpkin with vampire teeth on Pinterest (feel free to follow me over there!) I immediately sent the image to my friend Lurky with the comment "teeeeeeeth!!!" To which…