So, the Finish-A-Long is where you write down what quilts you want to finish in the next 3 months and for each project that you finis...

I signed up for a pillow swap on Instagram.  It has been forever since I was in a swap and it has been lots of fun.  I had an idea (ba...

Slowly but surely my La Passacaglia quilt is coming along.    Very slowly. Linking up with WIP Wednesday.

Last December I cut up all of my small scraps and started making this hexagon quilt.  I had seen pictures of the La Passacaglia quilt...

Tomorrow our Modern Quilt Group in Des Moines is having a meeting and the theme is "Christmas Ideas".  We are all suppose to b...

This week I have been working on making some 8" quilt blocks.  I decided to make them in two different colorways.  I am li...

Yesterday I trimmed up the blocks for my challenge quilt.   Leaving the size and piece # pinned on them really helped.  It would have me...

Well, I sewed the 10 extra blocks onto the main quilt this morning.  It went really fast.  Yea!  Unfortunately I used more white Eiffel ...

Yesterday At the Heart of Quilting , a local long arm quilting store, needed someone to pretend to be a customer while Channel 5 made a...

Last week I made the backing for my star quilt.  I used up the leftover challenge fabric that I knew I wouldn't really use anywhere ...

I finally finished appliqueing on all the little stars and pinwheels onto the background fabric of this quilt.  In retrospect I don'...

 I know I said I was going to focus on my summer sewing on these four projects but I needed some handwork to take with me on vacation ...

  Summer has hit and I am finding it hard to find time to sew.  I have vowed to get all of the saplings out of our numerous flower beds...

 So, this summer the Des Moines Modern Quilt Guild  is having a Finish-It-Up quilting challenge.  Basically, everyone picks four projects t...

There has been a lot of red happening around here.  A garden full of tomatoes means more canning and drying than I care to do right now....