What’s on my Design Wall July 11, 2011

| July 11, 2011

Today I have BINDING ON MY MIND…….yes……my Hidden Pinwheels Quilt is begging to be bound……so I guess I will put it on my design wall! This is one of Augusta Cole’s patterns that she gave us at her Cutting Bee.  It is made with 4 1/2 HST and 2 1/2 inch SQUARES.  I believe that […]

SOMETHING NEW – TIE DYE

| July 10, 2011

This weekend I was helping my grandangels tie dye t-shirts (remember the hippie days of yesteryear?  THEY ARE BACK!)  It was messy but ever so liberating.  I like the tie dye that comes in the little bottles in kits (we got ours at JoAnn’s.)   I got inspired to tie dye some muslin – I […]

Camp Loopy

| July 9, 2011

I have been at CAMP LOOPY for the past few weeks!   YES FOR REAL.   ME …. at CAMP LOOPY!  It is a VIRTUAL CAMP (no snakes, mosquitoes or moths) but a camp nonetheless! The first assignment for phase one of  Camp Loopy was to be a knitted shawl, cape or scarf using two different […]

Another SEW SEW DAY July 7, 2011!

| July 8, 2011

What a lot of fun……a whole day of creativity and sewing!!  A SEW SEW DAY IN POWHATAN WITH CATHERINE. I finished another mini-quilt which I named “ENJOY YOURSELF.”  The little stamp on the front says “enjoy yourself, it is later than you think.”  I made this top during a VCQ class on EMBELLISHMENT taught by […]

Quilting is good for you

| July 8, 2011

Doing something that is creative, fun, and social is GOOD FOR YOU! In fact, when I was doing research a few years ago, over and over again we found that social support was one of the NUMBER ONE PREDICTORS of life satisfaction and well-being in older adulthood.  A few other predictors of good assessment of […]