Stitches Gone Awry

| April 10, 2008

Tuesday I attended one of my FAVORITE ongoing classes at the Quilter’s Corner in Midlothian, VA – THE BIRTH OF A SAMPLER taught by Sherry Whitford.  In NINE months (nine steps) we will have a beautiful quilt designed by Sherry Whitford herself – and part of the fun is that we have OPTIONS at some […]

Wakefield Quilt Retreat – April 3-6, 2008

| April 6, 2008

The WAKEFIELD QUILT RETREAT was an adventure… ….a lot of fun…. and it was a great learning experience!  I REALLY learned SO MUCH. The first thing that I learned is that these women are A LOT OF FUN TO BE WITH! We laughed a lot – and we even found an additional NANCY (#3 – […]

Make Mine a PINEAPPLE CRUSH

| March 28, 2008

Bonnie K. Hunter of quiltville.com announced that our next mystery quilt was to be named the ORANGE CRUSH MYSTERY and since then  many of us have been craving an orange crush, a dreamsicle, an orange crush cake – or even dreamsicle ice cream (some members of our chat group have even found recipes!)   I imagine […]

Beach Retreat Quilt

| March 25, 2008

Susan asked me to test this pattern for a quilt that she just designed – and I happily said YES! So Friday, March 21, I went home from the QUILTER’S CORNER (Midlothian, VA) with the instructions for making this BEACH RETREAT QUILT. It is made from 15  different 1/2 yard fabrics from the SUNSHINE line by April Cornell for MODA, […]

The Flu + Zangies = ONE Zangy Chiclet Block

| March 19, 2008

 This was a GOOD NEWS – BAD NEWS DAY.  The BAD news is that I have the flu.  The GOOD  news is that I do not like to stay in bed when I am sick.  I like to distract myself and try to PRETEND that I feel great (and sometimes this even works.)   I can […]