My Day with Bonnie K. Hunter and the Colonial Piecemakers

| August 2, 2008

COLONIAL PIECEMAKERS QUILT GUILD August 2, 2008   I joined the Colonial Piecemakers Quilt Guild in Williamsburg, VA and today I attended my first meeting!  Actually, I had one of those “PERFECT DAYS.”  I didn’t get lost (thanks to my GPS – LOVE LOVE LOVE IT) – the quilters were SO NICE – and surprisingly […]

EGG MONEY QUILT CLASS – SINGER FEATHERWEIGHT – PINEAPPLE CRUSH – AND TTFN

| July 20, 2008

SINGER  221 FEATHERWEIGHT I GOT MY SINGER 221 FEATHERWEIGHT TODAY….YEAH…..it is just TOO CUTE. I will give her a name – but I haven’t decided what it will be yet.  I do know that I am retiring my “COOPER” – my first WAL-MART Brother sewing machine that I have totally worn out – it makes an extremely […]

Dear Jane – Turkey Tracks – OC – and LOST NO MORE

| July 17, 2008

Dear Jane Quilt (Progress Report) I am really having fun making these Dear Jane blocks and I love the names that have been given to them.  Here is my A8  Florence Nightingale – one more done and 50,000 more to go.  🙂  Not really, it just seems like it! First – my red and white […]

QUILTY HAPPENINGS

| July 16, 2008

DEAR JANE So far I have made six blocks for my Dear Jane Quilt…..but when you consider that I am making TWO DEAR JANE QUILTS at once I have made twelve blocks.  The RED AND WHITE Dear Jane represents my PRACTICE blocks.  I make the red and white blocks first before I make the REAL blocks […]

FABRIC STASHBUSTERS, and QUILTY SHOW AND TELL

| July 11, 2008

FABRIC STASHBUSTERS Some of us have accumulated a wealth of fabric – known in the quilty world as our stash.  STASHBUSTER GROUPS are abundant in the online world of quilters trying to control their artistic impulses (aka buying fabric habit.)  Here is a new way to use up that collection…..invite in three wannabe fashion designers and […]