a long long long time ago, when i was a few days past my due date for the hazelnut, and she didn’t have a stocking to match the rest of the family, and i happened to find myself at a sewing event with my quilt guild, i decided to make her a patchwork stocking, even […]
making stuff with needles and thread
a fast fall foliage finish.
after spending a zillion hours on my scrappy halloween spooky village quilt, i wanted my next quilt to be a quick and easy finish. i bought all the fabrics from a new fall-ish line we have at the shop, selected a relatively simple pattern, and immediately got to work. of course, because i can’t just […]
go bills. pillow version.
a few years back, i decided to try my hand at foundation paper piecing pattern drafting. of course, since it was in the middle of a successful football season, trying to create a fabric version of the bills logo was the only logical choice. except that it wasn’t. at least maybe not for my first […]
a very haunted halloween spooky village quilt.
i recently completed construction on my spooky village neighborhood and all thirty dwellings are inhabited by a myriad of various halloween citizens. i absolutely could not be more pleased with how this one turned out, from the bright happy colors, to the quilting, to the scrappiness, and mostly to all of the fussy cuts. now […]
a bear baby quilt for my baby’s bro’s baby bear.
my baby brother jake and his lovely wife erika are expecting their second baby boy in november, so of course the kid needs a quilt from his future favorite aunt. once erika and jake settled on the name barrett, complete with all the bear related nicknames imaginable (bear, little bear, brother bear, baby bear, bearbear….), […]
fanny pack attack.
one evening, while mindlessly scrolling instagram, i happened upon a post for the emerson crossbody bag by the blanket statement, and i knew i had to have it. and let’s be clear, we all know this is a fanny pack, riding the wave of the current trend of crossbody bags. either way, i have been […]
brubaker’s bison class gift.
suddenly, it was the end of hazel’s first year in public school. she had a lovely experience in mrs. brubaker’s third grade class. and it just so happened that her class mascot was a bison (mrs. brubaker is a national park enthusiast). so, it seemed like a good opportunity to make a cool geometric bison […]
forays into sample sewing.
at my little part time job at my local quilt shop there’s an occasional need/opportunity for quilts to be made to display in the shop. i took them up on a couple such opportunities, and here’s the details. the first quilt was a christmas/winter block sampler type quilt, to be made from a kit that […]
national park quilt number one.arches for isaac.
a few weeks (or more) ago, i finished up this wall hanging for isaac. i am sure i told the background story in a previous blog post, but the short version is: when we first came off the road, derek bought me a zillion national park panels and coordinating fabrics. i wasn’t sure how to […]
the goldie quilt. (a finished quilt!)
in a previous post, i discussed my recent trend of starting quilt projects but never finishing them. as i was cruising along on the most recent quilt, i got really excited about it, and decided it was high time to break that streak and saw it through to the very end. it all started when […]