Since this blog was intended to be about me as well as my hobbies I guess I should write something about myself. Shortly after midnight, I looked at the date on my computer and saw that it is August 30th and exactly a year since I had probably the most horrible night of my life [...]
I had planned to do stitching with red thread on the black velvet seam but when I saw this trim I knew it was just the thing for I wanted some sparkle on the black. Red, black and white is my favorite color combination and I was finally getting to use it on a block. I checked [...]
I have always loved crazy quilts but until I joined the CQForNewbies online group I had never even made a CQ block. This block is my very first ever CQ block and was made for another first, my first round robin. As you can see from the picture below, I love bright colors and of course that is what I used. [...]
As I said in an earlier post, I do not care for the Dresden Plate quilt pattern. So how did I happen to make another one over fifty years after I made the first one? In 1997 my mother-in-law died and left nine quilts unfinished, and since I was the only one in the family that quilts, I [...]
In a previous post I mentioned that I have been sewing and embroidering for over sixty years. I did my first quilt when I was about fifteen and I cannot believe that the pattern I chose was the Dresden Plate. These days I do not even like that pattern. And I made the quilt back [...]