Stormy Seas Block 25

I was surprised when I realized I now have 25 blocks finished. Only 17 more to go. Maybe this weekend I’ll put the 25 up on the design wall just to get a feel for how they look so far. …

Happy Thanksgiving!

It’s our Thanksgiving in Canada and is feeling more and more like fall with cold nights and leaves changing colour. It definitely looks and feels like Thanksgiving.

Another Trio of Pickled Ladies

Once again, a dark Pickled Lady. A medium one. And a light one. There is one more light one left to make. Then some batting gets taped to the wall so I can sort out the placement and work begins …

Another Group of Fabrics

This group of fabrics intrigues me. Some of them could easily go into the New York Beauty blocks while two of the others would go well with the first group of fabrics shown on Monday. Or I could keep them …

Fabric Flying and Cat Flying

As usual around here, there were fabric bits scattered about last night. Could I play with them? Oh, no! They were for sunflowers, she said, or pickles or … wait a minute. Pickles? Since when is she sewing pickles? I …

Summer Picnic Dish … Again

One of the many things that I’ve been working on, on and off, over the past week or so has been making more of the units for the Summer Picnic Dish quilt.  I love putting together these pieced melon/arc units …

Fabric Spaghetti

Well, that’s what I think this looks like — a huge pile of fabric spaghetti. What on earth possessed me? I watched this video from Gene Black’s blog post “Cutting Bias Binding“. Actually, I had watched it quite a while …

Baxter Takes Up Art

Baxter: “What am I supposed to do when faced with a box full of little bits of fabric like this? Walk away? Not going to happen. I have to get a paw in there and see what I can manage …

A Cat’s View of Some Quilting Terminology

Seems Baxter may have been visiting some of Cathi’s favourite online quilt shops, thinking he was getting kitty food and toys. Imagine his chagrin if he had been shopping and then received a box marked fabric and fat quarters, instead …

Adventures with the Sewing Machine

Making the little quilt of spool blocks is something I want to get done quickly. Yesterday I sat down and pieced one. By machine. I’m still astounded. Not once did I have to rip out a line of stitching. Everything …