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Happy June
Hello!Back from a little blog break with a new finished quilt top~Friendship Medallion -Â 40" squareIt has a little twist - can you find it?Why the name?Three churn dashes were gifts from the 2018...
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Blogger Bummer
Hello! Â Hello?? Â Anyone there?? Â See the end of the post for my rant about Blogger.Friendship Medallion - 35" x 35"I finally used my paint by numbers fabric. Â I love this fabric. Â You can see all the...
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Summer! BLOGGER FIX
Happy Summer! Thank you all who left nice comments on my last post and for your encouragement to continue blogging.Here is another early peek at my new Liberated Piecing Project.I have plans for a...
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Simply Splendid!
Happy Wednesday! Popping into to share photos from our trip to Vermont.Hotel Glamping is the BEST if you're driving and have the space.I like to bring my own bar and order pizza in. To lay around and...
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Summer Spread Sew Along
Good Friday Morning to you! Summer Spread Sew Along!Last Friday I announced on Instagram that I'll be having a little casual sew along this summer. I am making a summer spread. A quilt without...
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Quilter in the Garden
Balipop Garden - My new Workshop Quilt.  **Take a workshop not for what you make....but for what you learn then make what you want** In the workshop I teach finished edge machine applique', how to...
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What's Up Buttercup?
Hope you're having a great summer! Here's my Summer Spread as of this morning.here are some of my favorite blocks. in this one I have some pre-pieced logs I will surround the top with 11" fabric...
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Sweet Dreams!
My Summer Spread is a top - Sweet Dreams 99" x 99"Here are my guys trying to hold it. These are guys who can sail a boat 333 miles in horrible conditions, but complain about holding a quilt up. ha ha...
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Dog Daze
woof! that's how I feel about the recent hot and sticky weather.This is a random post with some of what I've been up to the last 2 weeks.I started tying my Sweet Dreams quilt last Sunday. I had hope...
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Sleeping With George Washington
Sweet Dreams is on my bed. Hooray! I just have to say, this quilt has been a delight to make from start to finish. I love how old fashioned it is.I'm not usually a quilt counter, but there are about...
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Kats, Kwilts & Kitchen Hacks
I haven't made a matching little mini in a long time. What fun it was! When Randy D sent me some great low volume strips after I had I finished my top, I knew just what to do with them. Thank you...
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Word Challenge
My sewing group is taking on a new challenge. Here is our first reveal:The Challenge is to pick a word and make a little quilts or blocks using that word. We were inspired by two quilts at the...
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Hey Ya'll!
What a whirlwind couple of weeks! Here's what I've been up to:Drove 940 miles to get here, Pioneer Farm, our family farm in Illinois for a family visit and farm business meeting.View of the Main House...
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Bloggers Quilt Festival Fall 2018
Hello and Welcome!I am happy to be participating in Amy's Creative Side Bloggers Quilt Festival.  Click here to see all the entries and enter a quilt.Snow Flower and The Secret FanThis was my first...
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Finally Fall
Happy Official Autumn! (in the North)One of my favorite quilts for fall "Harvest Baskets" ala Gwen Marston inspiration.It was so cool that we made a fire and sat out. Marvelous! My boys look like...
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Meet me at the Fair
the Durham Fair! My favorite day of Fall.I had two quilts in the Court of Honor this year:Snow Flower won Best Machine Pieced and Machine Quilted.Jubilee Won for Best all Sewn by Hand.  I will get my...
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AQSG 2018
Howdy! I'm just back from Bethesda and the American Quilt Study Group Seminar. Congratulations to all the organizers.Maryland Quilt which was on the cover of the seminar booklet. A modern version of...
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AQSG 2018 part 2
Hello!Here are the rest of the photos from the ASQG 2018 Seminar in Bethesda. Congratulations again to the ladies who put on the seminar this year.First: The Quilt Study is a bi-annual opportunity to...
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Catch Up Post
Finished Swap Quilt!Maureen brought her quilt to a presentation I was giving in Warwick NY. It is hand appliqued and hand quilted. I Love it! What wonderful borders.Lin McQ sent me this photo of her...
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Hallo- weeeee!
New Halloween Quilts!  after teaching EPP for several years and making random blocks - My Runner is complete this year. Yay!Here are some of my favorite blocks. I quilted it with black, green and...
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