Veronika is my quilter. …

The Sewing Ministry at church has been busy!  We are making a yo-yo quilt to donate as a surprise auction item.  During the last of the winter weather, I was busy stitching together about 1/3 of the 1,400+ needed yo-yos!  The section in the photo has been folder into…

Ok so there are a few things going on with my quilt.  I bought my longarm because of my bad shoulder.  Well after finishing the quilt (posting a better picture below) I realized it would look better quilted by hand. Problem #2 I discovered my quilt frame that my mom and dad made for me years ago was left outside.  Sanding and refinishing them.  While working on the frames I discovered that my mom had stamped her initials and the year she made the frame for me.  That hit me kind of hard.  So…

Made it to Vintage Stitchers on Thursday, in spite of our blizzard.…

After seeing pics of the jelly roll rugs that have become the rage around the country, I decided to sign up for a class at one of my LQS to make one.  It was such a fun class although part of the project is very tedious.  Rather than use a jelly roll I decided to cut up my own scraps in to 2-1/2" strips.  Plus I had lots of left over cotton batting so I cut my own strips of that as well.  Of course I have enough 2-1/2" strips to make 10 more rugs if I so choose, but at least I made some dent…

I finished another quilt that has been lingering for way too long.  The blocks were machine embroidered by members of the Machine Embroidery Buddies group as part of an exchange.  I had the teapot fabric for many years & this was the perfect quilt to use it for.…

We don't have a lot of wall space in this house.…