What Bird?
What bird is this?
Sometimes an unusual angle gives you a whole new outlook.
The answer — tomorrow!
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Wrapping up 2025 and Planning for 2026
In 2025, for the first time, I used the services of a long-arm quilter. This enabled me to finish eight quilts, a high number for me. Here are two I haven’t posted yet; both are intended as donation quilts for Sleep in Heavenly Peace, an organization that builds beds for kids that don’t have one. […]
Containers Made of Fabric
In my last post, I wrote about trying to use up the fabric from containers — I have also been making containers from fabric, trying out different techniques I have seen on YouTube. First, for myself — I bought this double wedding ring quilt in the 1980s; it was labeled as a cutter quilt even […]
ScrapHappy December 2025 — Christmas Blocks
Recently I did an inventory of all my containers of fabrics, and I have 88! Ranging in size from a shoebox to a suitcase. My aim is to reduce that by a fourth in the coming year, and there was no better place to start than with my tub of Christmas scraps. The highlighted fabric […]
The Endeavourers’ Reveal Day, November 2025 — Sashiko
It is time once again for our online group to reveal projects in response to a quarterly theme. This time it was “Sashiko,” which is a traditional Japanese craft, often done with white stitching on indigo cloth. I had never done any, so I went through all the books I got in a Blockbuster Book […]
Another String Theory Quilt
This is another quilt based on Sharon Tucker’s String Theory pattern, which was in the April 2017 issue of American Patchwork and Quilting. The original pattern had nine big blocks. Each block started with a central square, and then built out with alternating rows of scraps and solids for a total of five go-rounds, and […]